We had an unexpectedly long and interesting conversation today with STMicroelectronics, a company you almost certainly have never heard of unless you're deep into digital componentry. They're a big ($8 billion 2013 revenue) chip maker, based in Switzerland, and their products are in -- among many other things -- the Pebble watch and Jawbone Up. As a tech demo, Marco … [Read more...]
Mind Rider Helmet: Best Idea of 2013 — Part 1
One of the joys and frustrations of following the wearables beat is seeing a lot of half-baked ideas that have a germ of something exciting but haven't quite been thought all the way through. You see a lot of them at Maker Faires -- projects that are thoughtful and intriguing but can't possibly scale to become more than science fair projects. But that doesn't mean they're … [Read more...]