Tag Archives: Disrupt
Connected Kitchen Scale From Chef Sleeve Tracks Your Nutrition Bite-By-Bite
Chef Sleeve has been selling its iPad-protecting plastic sleeves since 2011 to keep kitchen gunk off the iPad you're using while you cook. They also make a chopping board with a built in iPad stand. But Chef Sleeve's grand plan is to create a range of connected devices for the kitchen that link up with an iPad app to let people track their nutrition in a highly granular yet low hassle way.
Connected Kitchen Scale From Chef Sleeve Tracks Your Nutrition Bite-By-Bite
Chef Sleeve has been selling its iPad-protecting plastic sleeves since 2011 to keep kitchen gunk off the iPad you're using while you cook. They also make a chopping board with a built in iPad stand. But Chef Sleeve's grand plan is to create a range of connected devices for the kitchen that link up with an iPad app to let people track their nutrition in a highly granular yet low hassle way.
Lumu Is A Digital Light Meter For Photographers That Plugs Into Your iPhone & Tells You What Camera Settings To Use
Meet Lumu: a digital light meter for photographers that plugs into the iPhone's headphone jack as a smaller and smarter replacement for traditional analogue light meters. It's used in conjunction with Lumu's app -- being demoed in prototype here at hardware alley at Disrupt NY -- to help photographers figure out the best camera settings for their current location.
The FitBark Pet Activity Monitor Is A Reasonable Device For Pet Owners
I don’t want to awaken the ire of any committed pet owners but I would be lying if I said I didn’t cringe a little bit when I hear about extreme pet products and services like doggie treadmills, pet psychiatrists or pet fitness centers.
Still, I came across FitBark on the floor at TechCrunch Disrupt and while it could, at first, seem “extreme” I found that after hearing the creators' explanation, their device actually seems pretty reasonable.
The FitBark Pet Activity Monitor Is A Reasonable Device For Pet Owners
I don’t want to awaken the ire of any committed pet owners but I would be lying if I said I didn’t cringe a little bit when I hear about extreme pet products and services like doggie treadmills, pet psychiatrists or pet fitness centers.
Still, I came across FitBark on the floor at TechCrunch Disrupt and while it could, at first, seem “extreme” I found that after hearing the creators' explanation, their device actually seems pretty reasonable.
Snapzoom Gives You A Smartphone Camera Mount That Turns Binoculars Into A Super Zoom Lens
A lot of people don't carry cameras anymore, now that they have smartphones. But that means that you could miss opportunities to capture great moments, especially when you're missing out on the great optical zoom available on some more expensive or specialized dedicated camera devices. That's what Snapzoom hopes to fix with its binocular mount for smartphone cameras, and the best part is that it's completely universal, meaning it fits a wide variety of both phones and binoculars.
A Walk Through Hardware Alley At TC Disrupt
Dogs, drones, and digital controllers, oh my! This year's Disrupt conference in New York was full of amazing webs services and software, but Hardware Alley brought out the best in hardware startups and showed the world that hardware is finally serious business.
Bitponics Offers A Cloud-Managed Hydroponic Grow Op Anyone Can Operate
Kickstarter-funded Bitponics was showing off its finished product at TechCrunch Disrupt NY's Hardware Alley today in New York, which is shipping out to backers in the next few weeks according to company cofounder Michael Zick Doherty. The Bitponics system is a cloud-based hydroponic garden manager, complete with a web-based dashboard that's accessible anywhere and can control every aspect crucial to the process, like the pH of the soil, temperature, light and moisture level.
Bitponics Offers A Cloud-Managed Hydroponic Grow Op Anyone Can Operate
Kickstarter-funded Bitponics was showing off its finished product at TechCrunch Disrupt NY's Hardware Alley today in New York, which is shipping out to backers in the next few weeks according to company cofounder Michael Zick Doherty. The Bitponics system is a cloud-based hydroponic garden manager, complete with a web-based dashboard that's accessible anywhere and can control every aspect crucial to the process, like the pH of the soil, temperature, light and moisture level.
Adafruit’s Limor Fried Wants To Make People Comfortable With Their Electronics, Inside And Out
Recently consumer electronics have tended to be more about closing things down then opening them up, but New York-based Adafruit is working to help reverse that trend, and to make it so that people aren't afraid of what's inside their devices, and instead become more comfortable with electronics components and the concepts behind how gadgets actually work. Adafruit founder and CEO Limor Fried was on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY today, and talked about how her company is going about achieving that goal.