JD.com, a notable rival to Chinese ecommerce behemoth Alibaba, launched a funding site last week called JD Equity Crowdfunding. JDโs first experiment in crowdfunding, Coufenzi is like Kickstarter in that it lets individuals fund products; JD Equity is instead aimed at entrepreneurs looking for early investors, with the goal of creating a โcomplete ecosystem for […]
Just weeks after releasing preliminary rules for drone regulation, the FAA is facing a lawsuit. The Electronic Privacy Information Centerโs lawsuit asks the Washington, DC federal appeals court to declare the regulations unlawful due to the lack of privacy protections, and alleges that the proposal is not comprehensive enough to allow for the safe use […]
Facebook joined the ranks of large companies betting on the Internet of the Things by launching an SDK for the internet of things under the banner of Parse,ย aย mobile development platform it acquired in 2013. “We believe that connecting more hardware devices with the cloud has the potential to change the world for the better,” wrote […]
Previous prototypes entered in the Pitch Your Prototype challengeย have included an inexpensive medical device, educational kitsย and even an agricultural robot that plucks individual weeds out of the ground. A new entry, Bloomiere, takes the contest in another direction with a conceptual prototype that bridges elements of lighting design,ย city planningย andย art. The prototype, called Bloomiere, responds to […]
Modeling For Surgery Doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital printed an exact replica of a little girl’s skull based on multiple MRI scans. The replica enabled a practice run through the first of many complex surgeries to treat the toddler’s Tessier cleft. The actual surgery was a success. Futurist: Look To Spiders Autodesk’s technology futurist […]
Hardware is hard. But crowdfunding and rapidย prototyping technologies are making it a little easier, sayย MakeUseOf alums Erez Zuckerman and Yaara Lancet, the duo behind the ErgoDox EZ keyboard. “The ErgoDox EZ simply wouldnโt have happened in 2005,” Zuckerman toldย Matthew Hughesย inย a worthwhileย MakeUseOf profile. “The tools designed to prototype the kit simply didnโt exist. Neither did 3D […]
It turns out that even former Amazon and Pinterest engineers canโt take a new product to market without spending years prototyping and testing. And thatโs as it should be, say the pair behind Meld, a clever gadget that replaces the existing knob on a standard stovetop to connect to a smartphone and precisely regulate temperature. […]
