Magnetic – Paper that sticks to any surface

As much as technology has advanced over the period of time; it still remains flawed when it comes to certain things, which it won’t be able to over-power for a while, certain things which have the human touch or creativity, certain things such as, a black / white board, a planner or a diary, pens or pencils, paper or for that matter post-it / quick notes!

Now when it comes to jotting down short & quick notes, paper notes with adhesives is our best friend. And quite literally; we use them for almost everything from reminders, to-do lists, notes, and everything in between, which gets stuck onto our walls, desks, doors, fridges, computers, etc!

But unfortunately, as much as effective these post-it notes are; just like everything else, they die out over time.

Solving exactly this problem of its nature; a group of designers called Tesla Amazing have come up with a game changing product – Magnetic!

As explained, Magnetic is a “reinvented paper that one can stick to any surface without any pins, glue, buttons, or thumb tacks.”

While at Kickstarter; one can either opt to pledge $9 & receive a trial kit of Magnetic Notes [1 S-size, 1 M-size, and 1 L-size Notes of 100 sheets each], pledge $27 and receive a kit of Magnetic Notes [3 S-size, 3 M-size, and 3 L-size Notes of 100 sheets each] or lastly one can pledge $29 & receive Magnetic Boards & Sheets [15 erasable board sized Notes in a tube which is best suited for office equipment or for sticking on the walls]. Irrelevant of your purchase the delivery time is estimated to be in the month of May 2015.

MAGNETIC

The most successful products are those, which involve finding a solution or for that matter a better solution to an ongoing everyday issue – and quite frankly Magnetic, has nailed it!

Very rightly put; Magnetic, in simple terms is the latest and the only revolution to post-it notes, to suffice our modern day demands. Post-it notes have over the period of time become an essential part of our lives; be it writing reminders to ourselves, messages for co-workers or tasks for your children, it covers all the aspects.

This latest invention of Tesla Amazing is a product that can stick to ANY surface without using glue, pins, buttons, thumb tacks, etc. The beauty of it is that, keeping the environment in mind it is also designed to be reusable and adding on; once done with using Magnetic one can easily recycle them as well.

Now all these products are based on stable static charge, which helps them stick to any dry surface. Magnetic has absolutely no glue, or any adhesive applied to it and is completely movable, replaceable & reusable!

Tesla Amazing has made sure that strict quality standards have been adhered to! And to provide the best quality, literally hundreds of experiments have been conducted which has finally given rise to the best product possible.

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Let’s introduce you to the Magnetic Family;

  • First we have the youngest and the most used brother – Magnetic Notes, they come in 3 different sizes & 9 different colours which includes transparent and black for white markers.
  • Next we have the mid-aged brother – Magnetic Pads, they usually are larger options for painting, classifieds, and many other office and home uses.
  • And lastly we have the elder brothers – Magnetic Boards or Magnetic Sheets; the boards are similar to the ones where you can stick and write on with markers, erase, and write again and the sheets can used in any ordinary printer. To sum it; these are mostly used for larger visuals!

Now Magnetic Notes, pretty obviously are similar to the small post-it notes which have been using so far, but what’s the difference between the Magnetic A4 Pad and Magnetic Sheets?

Simply put; Magnetic sheets are kind of sandwich-looking which have a printable front side and relatively hard back cover. The sheets have a back cover because they make it possible to use Magnetic Sheets in a printer. The back cover should be separated from the front after printing, to stick the front one to a wall. Also, only the front side is charged with static. On the other hand; Magnetic Pads have no back cover, so they are not compatible with printers.

These Magnetic Notes, Magnetic Pads or the Boards & the Sheets come in 9 different colours. While ordering you can choose your preferences and the same shall be sent to you!

Any & all these Magnetic Notes hold the potential to stick to absolutely any dry surface, including leather, plastic, metal, wood, glass, paper, textile, and a lot more, that to without the help of any glue, means no traces! Don’t believe us; try sticking it to a ceiling!

Confused?

Don’t be! Magnetic is not actually made of paper, as a matter of fact, it is far better than paper itself.

Due to Magnetic’s smooth surface, it gives anyone the ideal handwriting they desire, in fact you will be amazed to see that a doctor’s handwriting can also look beautiful than ever, that to regardless of whether you use a pen, a pencil, or a marker!

Honestly, that’s because Magnetic was primarily built with the idea to give you the sense of enjoyment and content while writing on it.

But it doesn’t end there; unlike sticky notes Magnetic has a reusable back, which can help you save a lot of money too. Oh, and did we mention that you can erase your writings on both the sides once the purpose is fulfilled and re-write on it multiple times? It’s like a movable & compact White Board!

The static charge of these Magnetic notes depends on the size of product and smoothness of the surface (preferably not too dusty). According to one test; the A3 Pads sheets were moved and replaced every day and even after half a year they held quite fine. Other than that; Magnetic Boards can keep the static charge for many years whereas the S-sized Magnetic Notes can hang for around 4 to 5 days.

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Magnetic, quite frankly is an amazing product which definitely has the potential to change the face of the use of paper. And going by the popularity it has gained on Kickstarter; it wouldn’t come off as a surprise to see Magnetic becoming the Next – “In Thing”!

Pebble Time – The SmartWatch

Since the launch of Apple’s Smart Watches; the market has literally been bombarded with different companies trying to follow the trend! Now although, it is actually good for the common man (because Apple still remains a luxury item), but with so many options becoming available, it is also becoming hard–as–hell for a person to make a choice!

Competing in the same bracket; we have a company called Pebble!

Now don’t be mistaken; Pebble is no similar to the “crowd”! If anything, Pebble has a track record of developing one of the best smart watches with unmatchable performance and works with both – iOS 8 and Android.

Pebble, as a company; began in the year 2012 with a primary goal of “being a watch first and then being smart!” Since then & till date; the original Pebble remains the third most-funded project in Kick starter’s history.

In addition to that; Pebble has released yet another version – Pebble Time, which again “is not similar to the premium Apple Watch,” and is just a better-looking, better-functioning version of the original Pebble!

 

Shockingly, since Pebble’s announcement of the new ‘Pebble Time’; the watch has managed to raise a Whooping $16M+ in Kickstarter sales from 65,743 backers within just a week and still has 20 more days to go.

And as far as the stats go, below is the latest list of the highest funded projects via Kickstarter: (source: theverge)

  1. Pebble Time $16,636,703
  2. Coolest Cooler $13,285,226
  3. Original Pebble $10,266,845
  4. Exploding Kittens card game $8,782,571
  5. Ouya $8,596,474
  6. Pono high-fidelity music player $6,225,354
  7. The Veronica Mars movie project $5,702,153
  8. Reading Rainbow $5,408,916
  9. Torment: Tides of Numenera (video game) $4,188,927
  10. Project Eternity (video game) $3,986,929

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About Pebble Time

Pebble Time at heart, is the new colour e-paper display watch, which has an easy to read, always-on, an extremely user friendly display for incoming notifications and blissful watch face.

Launched on Kickstarter; Pebble Time is currently available for $179 which will later increase to $199 otherwise and should be delivered by the month of May 2015!

Now the company has been in the market for almost 7 years now and has primarily catered to one ultimate goal – of making Pebble an indispensable tool in everyone’s daily life by helping one accomplish more each day.

While at it; pebble has come across many problems as well such as; during the development of the software for the original Pebble, the company figured that apps were an unproductive way to interact with a smart watch and as more apps were added to increase the functionality, everything got jammed. And it became even harder to find the solution to it.

The only solution was to make Pebble infinitely more useful by adding an expandable system for organizing information and interactions. And this gave birth to ‘Pebble Time’.

Pebble Time comes with a display technology that is far better than the most, with a minimal amount of power consumption the watch leads a battery life of up to 7 days. The watch is fully compatible with all 6,500+ existing Pebble apps and watch faces.

The company has also added a new microphone to the device that lets its users send voice replies to incoming notifications or for that matter can be used for taking short voice notes. These voice replies function well with all the major Android apps such as SMS, Hangouts, Gmail, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and many more. But for iOS operating systems, sending voice replies is currently limited to only Gmail notifications and should be enabled for many other apps in the near future.

Pebble Time has been made out of the latest technology which allows it to be water resistant and can be used while swimming, etc. although, it is not recommended that you use it for talking while underwater!

pebble time watch

Features

Pebble Time is the next best smart watch after Apple for the common man and holds literally multiple features attached to it, some of them being: –

  • CNC-finished 316L stainless steel casing
  • Premium leather and stainless steel strap
  • Battery Life of up to 7 days
  • At 9.5mm; Pebble Time is 20% thinner than the original Pebble
  • Has an ergonomic, curved design that fits comfortably on either wrist and slides easily under dress shirts too!
  • It comes in two different types – Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel
  • Both are stylish and durable and come along with lenses that are crafted from scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass and a bezel made of stainless steel.
  • Just like earlier, this edition too is water resistant
  • This edition has a more personalized touch to it which includes:
    • A soft silicone band with each Pebble Time
    • A fine leather band for Pebble Time Steel, but any standard 22mm watch band can also be used.
    • All the new Pebble watch bands include a quick-release pin. Using this pin one can swap bands in less than 10 seconds.
  • As mentioned on Kickstarter; the new watch is offered in three different colours:
    • Black watch case and silicone band with black PVD stainless steel bezel
    • White watch case and silicone band with silver PVD stainless steel bezel
    • Red watch case and silicone band with black PVD stainless steel bezel
  • Whereas Pebble Time Steel is available in three stainless-steel finishes, i.e.:
    • Silver coloured head with a stone leather band
    • Gunmetal black coloured head with a black leather band
    • Gold coloured head with red leather band
    • And all Pebble Time Steels come with both a leather and matching metal band.
  • Pebble is organized on a principle wherein the notifications, news, reminders and events are laid out chronologically depending on your schedule, instead of being trapped inside separate apps.
  • The timeline connects to calendars, alarms, apps, etc. which can help in organizing all the necessary information along with quick actions.
  • You can also recall the past history by scrolling back in time to see what you may have missed
  • Other than that; the timeline has also been instilled with a system that dynamically loads and caches all the apps as & when needed.
  • And because all the Pebble software is built on an open platform, where you can allow apps and developers to add ‘pins’ to your timeline, to keep a track of upcoming events, sports, weather, traffic, travel plans, etc.
  • And lastly, some of its other features include; a daylight readable screen with a great backlight, Silent vibrating alarms, Step tracking with Misfit and Jawbone, Language and international character support, etc!

Image Credit: www.kickstarter.com

Tweet Live Videos with Meerkat App

It remains a proven fact that anything that can be seen Live or while it is happening, has far more potential of selling than a recorded one!

And it makes sense too; I mean, wouldn’t a joke be funnier while it is being said than you or me repeating it later, wouldn’t a fight taking place in front of your naked eyes be more interesting than to watch a video of it?

Well, Actions always speak louder than words”!

Now there are many real-time / live streaming apps or sites available to capitalize on this aspect but quite frankly, none of them have managed to catch the eye of the masses.

On the other hand; Meerkat – a tiny new start-up that quietly launched on the 27th of February 2015, has effectively used twitter as a platform to gain immense popularity over the weekend itself.

It has taken the concept of broadcasting live videos, altogether to a new level!

What Is Meerkat?

To begin with; Meerkat is the prodigy of Ben Rubin – CEO & Co-Founder of Air which is a live-stream Start-up with a team of just 10 people.

Named after the midget, carnivorous member of the mongoose family – Meerkat is a live streaming video app that has become famous by standing on Twitter’s shoulders and using its identity, distribution, and communication systems.

Using Meerkat, one can start a live broadcast at any given point of time. This will trigger a tweet of the link to the stream and will also send a notification to any of the Twitter followers who use the app.

Otherwise, absolutely anyone can tune in on the web or through the app itself, and can put comments that are sent as Twitter @ replies. And, once the streaming is done, the video disappears unless you save it to your phone!

Yeah, that’s it!

And streaming a video is pretty simple too! All you got to do is: –

  • Download the Meerkat app & open it
  • Sync it with Twitter
  • You’ll see a box that says “Write what’s happening …”
  • That is when the application taps into Twitter’s API, so one can stream a video from their Smartphones on to twitter in real time.
  • Just type a name for the broadcast and tap “Stream”
  • And it will generate a tweet from your account along with a prompt to watch live.

Those who click on the link will be able to watch the Live Streaming, either from their Meerkat desktop or iOS app, and will also be able to interact with the host and other viewers.

Also, as people start to watch the stream, their Twitter profile pictures appear on the screen. So you can see who all are viewing or probably just say hi, and if your viewers send a tweet, that message appears on the screen itself.

What is even more interesting is that, those profile images continue to remain on the screen, even after they have shut the broadcast down.

Other than that; as posted on their website; there also are certain rules that need to be abided, it’s called; “THE RULES OF MEERKAT

  • Everything that happens on Meerkat happens on Twitter.
  • Streams will be pushed to followers in real time via push notifications.
  • People can only watch it live. No reruns.
  • Watchers can re-stream any stream to their followers in real time.
  • Scheduled streams will be distributed in the community by their subscribers.
  • Your own streams can be kept locally on your phone, but never on the cloud.
  • Everyone can watch on web.
  • Be kind.

In about just a week or so, more than 8,000 users have tried out Meerkat and shared some 3,000 video streams with their followers. Also, the start-up that is backing Meerkat has raised more than $3.5 million, so far!

How Did Meerkat Begin?

“The real vision behind the formation of Meerkat was ‘spontaneous togetherness,’ or better put across as: “Can two people be together in the moment?”

And thanks to “Product Hunt” – the influential tech community, the now heavily popular “Meerkat” got the desired push, which turned Twitter into a live streaming platform!

Otherwise; the idea for Meerkat was primarily born out of Yevvo which was again a live broadcasting app that had launched somewhere in the mid of 2013. What appealed to Rubin was that Yevvo surprisingly had achieved more than 300,000 to 400,000 users.

Now although, it got cramped by lack of focus but it did motivate the founders to try harder and uniquely. This eventually led to rebranding of the same to “Air” which focused solely around broadcasting to friends. Its branch – Meerkat, by contrast, is based on a simple formula of broadcasting “one to many”!

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Now it is pretty evident, that many other companies have tried and tested such a model; namely, Khosla Ventures-based one-to-one video streaming Sup, Betaworks Upclose, Snapchat, etc., but more or less none of them have got that desired hype or for that matter a decent amount of traction.

Whereas on the other end; surprisingly Meerkat is not doing anything different than the rest but still manages to get the “love”! Wondering why?

One word – Twitter!!!

Twitter is one such platform that has out-beaten everyone in terms of popularity for broadcasting live videos!

And Meerkat has very smartly, jumped on the back of twitter and has used its user base for the benefit of theirs! To add to that; they have kept it pretty simple too. So if you happen to follow anyone on twitter, you will automatically be able to see them on Meerkat as well.

Because of such a simplified business model; all what Meerkat gets left to do is, solely focus on its quality – dead simple broadcasting, period! No complicated set-up, No extra-plugins required to be installed, No extra promotion because Meerkat auto-tweets, just add value to their content.

And the fact that; it has a real-time aspect attached to it makes it even more dramatic, which any 500 or 1000-word article would not be able to make!

This is one of the biggest reasons why Twitter itself is so interested in Meerkat; because this model of theirs one-ups Twitter on its platform & mission of “To give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers!”

Now at large; only time will tell if, Meerkat will become yet another addition to our already long list of tools of self-obsession or will it become a powerful tool for sharing intimate or newsworthy live events that happen across the world.

Your Choice!!!

Pantelligent – The tech savvy frying pan

Do you remember those days when your dish turned out to be, “What the hell is this” like; yeah, well we all have been there!

Today we live in the age of technology which let me tell you is at its peak. And still when we enter the kitchen to cook, we are no better than Stone Age people, and why is that??

Surprisingly, that’s because technology never entered the kitchen doors!!

Well, the imperfection ends here!!! Presenting – Pantelligent!!!

What’s Pantelligent?

The name itself says it all; Pan + Intelligent = Pantelligent, the prodigy of Humberto Evans is a 12-inch frying pan that will teach you, show you and guide you how to cook!

In other words, Pantelligent is a frying pan that uses bluetooth, and inbuilt temperature sensors to communicate with the Smartphone app to help you cook awesome dishes.

Ain’t that just cool?

It all began a year ago when the makers felt the pinch of overcooked, undercooked, or burned food. That’s when they realized that frying pans (the most important tool for cooking) have barely changed since their inception.

That’s when they decided to bring about the much desired change and thus after a year of rigorous hard work, Pantelligent was born!

Pantelligent being the near-to-perfect frying pan gives you the ease while cooking and monitors every step of yours and lets you know exactly when the pan is at the right temperature, when it’s time to flip or stir, or for that matter when your food is perfectly ready.

The cooking surface is encrusted in a PTFE non-stick coating which is referred to as Teflon. PTFE is one of the best non-sticking coating that makes cooking and cleaning effortless. This coating holds a rough durability of 3-5 years which depends on the kind of usage you have.

Using the app, you can easily receive notifications within 30 to 50 feet of your pan and if you happen to leave the range then it will notify you to move closer.

Pantelligent uses 2 AAA batteries which have a life of approximately 9 months and again, you shall be notified when they require replacement.

With Pantelligent you can cook absolutely any dish you can think of.

Features

pantelligent-appImage credit: www.kickstarter.com

The best part with Pantelligent is that, it makes cooking really effortless and super easy to understand the two most important factors of cooking: time and temperature!

The frying pan already comes with dozens of recipes that are carefully mentioned by the in-house chefs. These recipes include time and temperature profiles that the Smartphone app uses to help you get the exact results. Some of these dishes include: Mushroom Risotto, Chicken Piccata, Bhindi Masala, Buttermilk Pancakes, Asparagus, Pasta Carbonara, and the list just goes on…

All you need to do is download the app (which is already available) and view the complete list of recipes available.

Pantelligent gives you a completely different experience while cooking; it acts as an extra hand and helps you in almost every way.

With this frying pan, it is never a gamble and you get exactly the same result every time you make the dish, unless of course you make some mistake.

Pantelligent provides you with hands-free monitoring with the help of visual alerts and uses text-to-speech, similar to GPS while driving.

Due to Pantelligent you can easily multi-task and at the same time keep a check on the dish.

The Smartphone app has a ‘Record Recipe’ mode with the help of which you can easily record any recipe and can refer to at any given point of time in the future.

Also, the record mode can be used to record a recipe you come across and wish to make in the future and if you see that some recipe is missing then you can also add the same.

Exited to know how it works, read on..!!

To begin with, Pantelligent connects to your Smartphone wirelessly with the help of Bluetooth Low Energy and from there onwards the app takes care of the rest.

So, all you need to do is first open the app and pick the dish you wish to cook!

Then follow the steps for preparations of the ingredients and once you’re done with everything, just hit start cooking!

The app will show you how hot the pan is and how hot it should be. It will also keep updating you when it’s time to add the ingredients, stir or flip!!

All you gotta do is follow the alerts and make sure to keep the actual temperature i.e. the red line near the target temperature i.e. the green line.

Rest, Pantelligent will monitor the dish and will let you know when it is ready.

And, if you already know the recipe of the dish & just require the temperature control then all you gotta do is choose the “Freestyle Mode”

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Looking at this frying pan, the idea and its technology, there is no question of doubting its sustainability or durability and leaves us with only one thing to say – Go for it!!!