Imation Corporation has announced a new line of USB 3.0 flash drives, the IronKey Workspace W500. Coming in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB sizes, these ultra high-speed flash drives feature a metal housing with waterproof and dustproof function, a USB 3.0 connection interface, a built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption, Windows To Go support and can deliver read and write speeds of up to 400MB/s and 316MB/s, respectively. The 32GB, 64GB and 128GB models are priced around $176, $255 and $442, respectively. [Product Page]
Epson is set to ship their newest home theater projector, the EH-TW5200. Adopting the 3LCD display technology, this 3D-ready projector provides 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 2000 ANSI lumens brightness, 15000:1 contrast ratio and up to 6,000 hours of lamp life. It also comes with a built-in 2W mono speaker and a number of connectivity ports including 2x HDMI, D-Sub, Composite, 2x RCA and USB Type A. The EH-TW5200 will begin shipping from mid-October in Singapore for about $1204. [CNET]
According to Reuters, Blackberry is asking Google, Samsung, LG, Cisco, basically anybody with money
Posted in: Today's ChiliAccording to Reuters, Blackberry is asking Google, Samsung, LG, Cisco, basically anybody with money to buy BlackBerry entirely or at the very least, certain parts of the company. This is seen as an alternative in case the finances don’t work out in going private
The annual World Architecture Festival is about more than just awards: attendees can check out a pretty packed line-up of talks and crits, browse galleries and installations, and hob-nob with fellow folks in the biz from students to bold-named stars.
BlackBerry may have a failsafe in the event that its deal with Fairfax Financial doesn’t pan out. Reuters claims that the smartphone maker is now holding early, just-in-case sale discussions with multiple large technology firms that include Cisco, Google, Intel, LG, Samsung and SAP. It’s not clear …
Filing Says Sleep- And Health-Tracking Startup Lark Is Raising Another $3.6M
Posted in: Today's ChiliLark, which launched a wearable silent alarm onstage at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference back in 2010, has raised $3.1 million of an intended $3.6 million round of funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
I’ve emailed the company and its CEO Julia Hu for confirmation, and I’ll update this post if I hear back. The filing doesn’t specify the investors in the new round, but intriguingly, it does identify Weili Dai, president and co-founder of Marvell, as member of its board of directors.
Although Lark started out with a silent alarm, it expanded its product lineup to include a sleep coach product called Lark Pro and a more general device and app called Larklife. The company announced Larklife in October of 2012, and Hu described it to me as a way for folks who aren’t as serious about fitness or weight loss to track and get actionable recommendations about their diet, exercise, sleep, and more. Like Lark’s other devices, Larklife was sold in Apple’s retail stores (and elsewhere).
I actually tried the service out for a few months late last year and early this year. During that time, everyone kept asking me about the blue wristband (the look definitely wasn’t as subtle as, say, the Nike+ Fuel Band). I thought it had potential, but eventually I decided that it wasn’t providing enough value to justify the (minor) inconvenience — and, perhaps more damningly, the ridicule that it prompted from my roommate. In the months since, while I’ve seen an increasing number of people around San Francisco wearing some sort of fitness device, it usually isn’t the Larklife wristband.
Lark previously raised $1 million in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, CrunchFund (which, like TechCrunch, was founded by Michael Arrington), and others.
SimCity was plagued with server issues for a fair bit of time, something that eventually also affected Mac users upon the Mac version launch. An offline mode has been requested for many months, and though at one point it seemed that such was not going to be a reality, SimCity developer Maxis has stated that […]
Daily Roundup: Honda and Toyota’s human transporters, Valve’s Steam Machine specs, Siri’s voice actress and more!
Posted in: Today's Chili You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on …