We’re all curious to see whether Light’s crazy 16-lens camera can live up to its own hype, but it looks like we’ll have to wait just a little bit longer for the already-delayed gadget. On the bright side, so to speak, the camera is getting a significant improvement to its many lenses’ apertures. Read MoreDaily Archives: December 7, 2016
We’re all curious to see whether Light’s crazy 16-lens camera can live up to its own hype, but it looks like we’ll have to wait just a little bit longer for the already-delayed gadget. On the bright side, so to speak, the camera is getting a significant improvement to its many lenses’ apertures. Read More
Smart contact lenses have been the stuff of science fiction for a long time, but as with jetpacks and faster-than-light travel, we’re still waiting on them. Research is ongoing, though, and a project at the University of Ghent shows promise not just in advancing the technology but providing some therapeutic value, as well. Read MoreThis ‘artificial iris’ is like a pair of programmable shades ...
Pebble has had a long, one might say rocky road. As one of the earliest and biggest crowdfunding successes, it showed the potential and perils of hardware startups that were increasingly having to scale from back-of-napkin idea to a global operat...
Pebble’s story, from Kickstarter sensation to Fitbit acquisition
Paving the way for friend-to-friend payments to come to Facebook Messenger in Europe (and after the functionality debuted in the U.S. all the way back in March last year), Facebook has quietly secured an e-money license from the Central Bank of I...
Facebook just secured an e-money license in Ireland, paving the ...
Can mobile app startups please stop building SMS invite systems into their apps already? The latest example of a venture-backed startup getting dinged by customers for having spammed their entire address book without permission is Sequoia portfolio company Tribe. The video chat app hit the App Store last year, and had been well-received until now. With a number of clever twists on standard… Read MoreSequoia-backed video chat app Tribe spammed its customers’ address books
T-Mobile’s pitch is simple, “We’re dragging the phone number into the internet age.” The actual functionality is a bit trickier, which is why the carrier looked to do a little bit of analyst handholding and a consumer Twitter Q&A (at 10:30AM PT today) ahead of launch. The underlying idea is to tie user identity to a single phone number, available across devices,… Read MoreT-Mobile’s Digits calling service is designed to make phone numbers ...
RIP Pebble… The wearable maker that pioneered wrist-based notifications before Apple and many others waded into the smartwatch space has confirmed it’s closing its doors as an independent entity. Read MorePebble confirms it’s shutting down, devs and software going to ...
From GE and Amazon comes the C Lamp, the first in a new line of futuristic lighting. The post This Funky New Lamp Looks Like Tron And Talks Like Alexa appeared first on WIRED.
This Funky New Lamp Looks Like Tron And Talks Like ...
Over the last couple of years, everyone's started trying to make out what comes after the smartphone The post Stop Trying to Kill Smartphones. You Can't Kill Smartphones appeared first on WIRED.
Stop Trying to Kill Smartphones. You Can’t Kill Smartphones
