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CES Startup Preview - COBI Connects Smartphone to Your Bike

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CES Award winning COBI Provides Smartphone Interface For Your Bike If you are at CES this year, you have to check out COBI. COBI is a system that connects your smartphone with your bike in a modern, connected and safe manner. COBI is a somewhat new breed of system developed in Germany that uses the supercomputer in that smartphone of yours as your bicycle's dashboard. As Andreas Freitag discusses in the following interview, COBI hopes to integrate the standard accessories (rear light, front light) with modern technology (Auto-on light, turn signals, location base, hands free listening and communication, etc.). Being German they have high expectations for the product and you should too. Check it out!

State of the US Urban Bike Culture

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COBI's Andreas Freitag Talks About His View of US Urban Bike Culture Photo Courtesy of COBI We sat down with COBI America's Andreas Freitag where he discussed the changing urban bicycling culture. In general, the US is still car-first. Andreas comes from a culture where the bike is so utilitarian, just like Japan and other parts of the world. What is making the change in our urban environment - limited space and parking. In startup mecca, San Francisco, we have seen a steady pro-biking commuting culture being driven here driven by limited parking, younger healthy culture and safer routes. Below is a picture from the city's Bicycle Coalition of SF's Market Street bicycle route and counter near the Twitter building. Community is part of culture and the Bicycle Coalition is providing the community aspect of culture building here in San Francisco. Picture courtesy of Biking Coalition The question is how tech needs to work with bicycles and be safe. In the follo...

Watch Some Videos to Feed Your Star Wars Appetite As You Wait in Line

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WIRED and Conde Nast Entertainment Brings 4 Entertaining Star Wars Videos Finally, it’s almost here - today is the years-long anticipated premiere of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens' and people fighting for line position to the box office. We have some great Star Wars videos on the WIRED channel of Condé Nast Entertainment's   The Scene to help you wait out long waiting lines. Thanks to Conde Nast Entertainment for sharing the force with us.

A Fireside Chat on Japanese Mobile Gaming with gumi's Takeshi Sankawa

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gumi COO Takeshi Sankawa talks about Japanese mobile gaming market and expansion into international waters Foreign games in the US are not just about localization anymore. At a recent preview event at the Blackbird Bar in San Francisco, two Japanese companies - gumi and Colopl previewed some of their titles geared towards the western market. We sat down with gumi COO, Takeshi Sankawa, and talked about the world's #1 mobile game market - Japan, where mobile is bigger than console. Sankawa also gives a view of what the role of big Japanese game studios is for game developers(Japan & US) to enter new markets on both sides of the ocean. Give it a view.

10 Hot Consumer Trends for 2016

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Ericsson Shares Results of Consumer Trends Report The view of half of all smartphone users surveyed by  Ericsson ( ERIC )  as part of its  '10 Hot Consumer trends for 2016'  report says Smartphones will disappear in five (5) years time.  Ericsson surveyed 6,600 smartphone users aged 15-69 in 13 major cities around the world. We provided all the videos in one place below. Check it out.

The Nerd Stalker Gift Guide

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Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria share their Holiday Picks Adolfo and Greg rip off their top gift picks for 2015.

5 Tips for Creating a Quality Blog

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Ariana Pierce Shares Personal Tips on Creating a Quality Blog Today, people considers blogging as one of the most influential sources and one of the most trusted sources . Starting one isn't the formula for success, creating and sustaining a quality blog is the definition success.  Entrepreneur and Author Ariana Pierce  tells you why a quality blog is important and gives you five (5) tips for creating a quality blog with tips like Creating a Blog Name, Creating a Vision for the Blog, Do Research For Your Blog, and more. Check it out!

A unique dance performance between Humans and Industrial #Robots - Kawasaki Heavy Industries × NUMBERS

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This video showcases two Japanese’s passion for dancing, under the collaboration of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Robot Business, who is fully supporting  a society where human beings and robots coexist . It answers the question: what happens when you mix Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ high-end technology and people’s creativity? Brilliantly synchronizing people and robots’ moves,  this video beautifully and expressively illustrates a future where human beings and robots live in symbiosis.   The Kawasaki Heavy Industries Robot Business Center will keep taking challenges to further promote the coexistence between people and robots. The time being, you are invited to discover this special video. For more information on the project, please visit: http://global.kawasaki.com/en/ stories/robotics_challengeK? id1

The Nerd Stalker Techweek Update - Drone Racing, Words on Facebook & STEAM

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Greg & Special Guest Johnny Mota Talk About Trending Weekly Tech News Picks of the Week: Amazon suffers potential password leak , unknown number of accounts affected Unofficial app makes PlayStation 4 to PC streaming a reality Teens Can’t Differentiate Between Ads And Search Links " Drone Racing: The New Extreme Sport Why you should steer clear of the ' most used words ' Facebook quiz Speed Round : This futuristic-looking hoodie is designed to calm you down Kickstarter Unboxed: Beauty Science Kit Teaches Girls about STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art & Math) Our crazy-fun new visual search tool