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YouTube created the GoPro boom, and GoPro created the drone boom.” But the one thing it can’t do is put a camera on a crane, like a film director, that’s where our drones come in. GoPros have really revolutionized the experience of telling your life. As UAV enthusiast Chris Anderson noted in a recent interview:

Last but not least, I'll leave you, dear reader, with my choice for best startup name on display last night: Fizzics, whose machine promises to turn any can of store-bought beer into a ' draft-quality experience.Over the past few years, GoPro has become the “go-to” HD/personal camera across the sporting world and has most recently emerged as the darling of the commercial drone industry. Mcilvain said that's above the average price of $1,000 for a drone, but the company is marking it down to $1,350 for pre-orders.

The device will be arriving in coming weeks for about $1,500. Just like the drone, it all was a bit over my head. VP of marketing Patrick Mcilvain answered my question, Why is this hard to do? by going into some references about GPS signals and barometric pressure and the like. You can be the one-person star and director and cameraman of your own personal adventure movie. The drone will follow your phone, filming your exploits. What that means is that when your skiing down the slopes, you don't have to have a buddy pilot the drone with a remote control. The blue beast can follow the signal from your smartphone. Moving away from wearables, Hexo Plus was showing off the first completely autonomous drone. But he hopes that Thalmic will interact with things such as wearable tech in time. Easier to whip out the smartphone, he thinks. 'It's not a one-handed device,' he observed, mimicking the awkward nature of trying to manipulate the watch while driving. Looking at my Apple Watch, he expressed disapproval.

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Co-founder Aaron Grant, who has received $10 million from Intel's ( INTC) venture arm, along with Spark Capital, tells me he'd like to see the company's software and sensors be able to control other things over time aside from just the PC. There's a strategy to make the product available in due course through bricks and mortar retail. Some are still available for purchase online. The company has already been selling the thing, for $199, for about a year now and is about to deliver its second batch of preorders.

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On the more exotic end of the wearables spectrum, startup Thalmic Labs has developed a chunky bracelet, called “ Myo,” that lets you control your PC from a distance simply by making hand gestures, and converting the changes in your forearm muscles into signals. More details are available on What?’s Web site. But with its handsome leather strap and pretty analog face, the What? has turned some heads in the few days I've been wearing it. Most people never ask me about my Apple ( AAPL) Apple Watch. The small team of engineers hails from a wide variety of geographic backgrounds including Finnish and Italian. The watch assemblies are made by a firm in Switzerland with a long history in the business. I imagine that can be fine tuned over time.įor Igor Basargin, who is Russian, What? is a nice change of pace from his prior life as a lawyer. It's a bit of a gimmick, and the software seems to involve too many steps to save a moment. On the watch face itself, the little dots of e-ink turn from grey to black to indicate you've got a moment in the month of September.

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When you press the red button on the side of the watch, it uses Bluetooth wireless to tell the app on your smartphone to create a 'moment.' Basically, it's just a time stamp that opens a round window in the app for your to take a picture or a selfie commemorating that moment in time. The watch is a solid-feeling metal piece, with an elegant white or black face that is mostly traditional analog except for a layer of e-ink underneath the surface. I had attended their unveiling on Sunday at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn, where the company had rented out the rooftop for a view of the lunar eclipse. The docents are always dressed in some kind of interesting garb, and this season seemed to be vaguely spooky Elizabethan gowns.Īmong wearables, the Austrian firm What? was showing off a smartwatch that is getting lots of looks. Wednesday night's show was well attended, with guests noshing on hors d'ouevres, sipping wine, and kicking the tires. The startups have novel inventions that work with your smartphone across a range of product categories from smart lighting to wearables to drones to toys.

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