Update, March 28, 9:30 a.m. PT: Moment met its Kickstarter goal of $50,000 in just 41 minutes on Tuesday. Offering a new line of products related to capturing video on… Read More
PITTSBURGH — AlphaLab Gear’s Hardware Cup event on Tuesday evening served as a reminder of this city’s robotics chops and growing startup ecosystem. Six hardware startups pitched their ideas to… Read More
Pardon the folks at PicoBrew this week if they pause to toast a number of different offerings and accomplishments. The Seattle-based makers of home brewing appliances kicked off the celebration… Read More
You can never have too many inventions worth loving. And in Seattle’s bustling tech scene, startups continue to wow us with their geeky gadgets. On Tuesday during the annual GeekWire… Read More
There’s a lot to love about technology in 2017, including one of our favorite segments of the GeekWire Summit: Inventions We Love. This year we split the crop of contending… Read More
Throughout his 20-year career developing and launching products for professional sound systems, Costa Lakoumentas constantly found himself impeded by a simple technical problem. “I have made hundreds of presentations all over the… Read More
Raise another glass to the folks at PicoBrew as they continue to make advances in their quest to bring simplified home brewing machines to the masses. The Seattle-based startup launched… Read More
Darin Stanchfield believes the future of bitcoin depends on security. The crypto-currency has a lot of potential, he says, but only if it can be reliably protected from cyber attacks.… Read More
San Francisco-based hardware startup accelerator Highway1, part of custom hardware company PCH, announced today that Brady Forrest will be leaving his position there. Forrest has led Highway1 since co-founding it in 2013. Forrest is a well-known… Read More
Amid widespread speculation about a possible Surface PC unveiling, Microsoft this morning sent out media invites to “see what’s next for Windows 10” during an Oct. 26 event in New… Read More
A safe way to listen to music while cycling, a clip to make life easier, breakthrough nano-metal technology, a precision cooking device, and a deterrent for package pirates: Our inventions… Read More
Google is poised to launch its Amazon Echo challenger at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, according to reports from The New York Times, Mashable, and others. Google Home, a… Read More
Amazon unveiled a new version of its Fire HD 8 tablet this morning, with more memory and additional storage, and dropped the price to $89.99 — a 40 percent decrease from the $149.99… Read More
When Mark Zuckerberg revealed his personal challenge for the new year back in January, he said he wanted to build an AI to run his home and help with his work. He… Read More
In 2014, when former Boeing engineers Daniel Daoura and Nick Pearson-Franks launched Pebblebee, they marketed their flagship product as the most “secure and feature rich bluetooth personal motion tracking device… Read More
Synapse, a Seattle-based product development firm that makes devices for companies including Nike, Valve, Microsoft, Samsung and others, has been acquired by Cambridge Consultants, a UK-based product development and consultancy,… Read More
The initial headlines were enough to take one’s breath away: “Internal Revenue Service reports computer troubles,” or “IRS computers crash.” It’s this kind of headline that sets one to fantasizing. We… Read More
Measuring just 11 inches tall and 1.85 inches in diameter, with no digital display of its own, the cylindrical white device may not look revolutionary. But its developers — drawing from their experience in top… Read More
Windows 10 has been out for 2 and a half months now, but the hardware race around Microsoft’s operating system is just heating up. Less than a week after Microsoft announced… Read More
NEW YORK — Microsoft just threw an epic geek party in New York City to celebrate its latest hardware launch. The event wasn’t announced ahead of time and was only… Read More
NEW YORK — The stage is set, Windows 10 signs are illuminated and Microsoft appears ready to pull the curtain off its next generation of hardware at a press event in… Read More
Microsoft is about to unveil its next generation of gadgets at a blowout press event in New York City on Tuesday. While the company hasn’t exactly done the best job of… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon announced a sweeping update to its hardware lineup on Thursday, but there was one device noticeably left out: the ill-fated Fire Phone. The company unveiled a… Read More
Microsoft sent out cryptic invitations on Monday for an October 6 press event in New York that will be all about Windows 10 hardware. The event was already stirring up… Read More
Like many entrepreneurs and inventors, Mina Yoo was inspired to launch her current venture, Lulabop, to solve a problem that she experienced herself. As a mom who summited Mt. Rainier only months after… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promised in July that we would have the “widest range of Windows hardware ever available” later this year. But the holiday shopping season is quickly approaching, and so… Read More
Crowd Supply is raising more cash for its “highly-curated” crowdfunding site. The Portland-based startup added an additional $350,000 to its second seed round that totaled $585,000 in April. New investors include MIT… Read More
When Amazon opened up the Kindle Store to self-published authors, the company touched off a massive change in the book publishing industry. Now, it’s looking to do the same for… Read More
Seattle startup veteran Dan Shapiro vowed after college that he’d never go into the software business, even though his dad was a computer science professor. Instead, Shapiro — who put… Read More
TableSafe is looking to transform how you pay restaurant bills. The Seattle company — maker of the RAIL bill paying device — just raised $2 million in fresh funding, part… Read More