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If you can’t be bothered with those wire clips that help keep your earphone cord from getting all tangled up, then maybe you’ll find the Cordli more convenient and maybe easier to use.

Cordli cases are made for the iPhone 4/4S and 5 and have deep grooves at the back where you’re supposed to push the wire in. It effectively shortens your headphone wires so you won’t have to twist them around your device when you’re using them to deal with the extra length.

The Cordli was designed by Aki Attawia. It’s up for funding on Kickstarter through October 9th, where a minimum pledge of $15(USD) will get you one of your very own.

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If you follow the Ouya console, you’ll remember that it started off as a Kickstarter product. It raised a huge amount of money and has graduated well beyond the fund-raising stage at this point. Ouya started a program called Free the Games in an attempt to get game developers to give exclusives to the console. […]

Apple may have just introduced a very cool new Slo-Mo video feature with the iPhone 5s, but it only scratches the surface in terms of what’s possible with high-speed video. A new Kickstarter project wants to take extreme slow motion more mainstream, with a camera design called the ‘edgertronic’ that’s both compact and capable of capturing video at extremely high frame rates.

High-speed cameras currently available are both expensive and relatively bulky. They can cost upwards of $10,000, and are often the size of fairly large camcorders at best. But the edgertronic prototype will cost backers just under $5K, and the design is remarkably small – not too much bigger than a GoPro in fact.

The camera can capture footage at a maximum of 17,791fps, but at that incredible speed resolution will be limited to 192×96. HD (720p) resolution requires shooting at the slower, but still massively impressive 701fps. Compare that to the 120fps that the iPhone 5s shoots 720p video at, and you start to get a sense of just how slowed down the edgertronic’s video can get.

Edgertronic’s production-ready design features an Ethernet and 2 USB ports for connections, has an audio input port, and supports Nikon F-mount lenses. If you back it on Kickstarter, you can get an accessory pack that includes an Ethernet cable, power adapter, a Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D lens and more.

The SF-based team behind Edgertronic includes founder Mike Matter, who has worked on a number of consumer electronic and commercial/industrial grade electronics over the years, including the Apple Powerbook 540c. Joining him and his decades of experience are Juan Pineda, his co-founder and the software architect for the project, along with a team that includes industrial design, power management and Linux expertise.

Edgertronic is confident its camera is production-ready, and the proof is in the pudding, which in this case means those slow-motion videos you see above. The projected ship date for its initial group of devices is December, 2013, with a follow-up batch planned for delivery in April, 2014. $5K is still a lot of dough, but if you’re a sucker for super slow-mo, this could be the best game in town.

3D is not only confined to the movies, but it has more or less made its way to mainstream consciousness on the home front as well with a rash of desktop 3D printers exploding in this fast growing niche market. Hmmm, having said that, there might just be an opportunity for the world of 3D scanning to mature even more. So far, we do know that Kinect from Microsoft has been edging closer to making such technology mainstream, while the Digitizer from MakerBot is about to be launched, so here we are with another small player in the market who has turned to Kickstarter for help so that it can ensure the Structure Sensor will be able to roll off production lines when the time comes.

Occipital’s Structure Sensor will require a cool $100,000 from backers to believe in the project, with the rather ambitious goal of delivering this mobile scanner to market before 2013 calls it quits. The Structure Sensor works by clipping itself onto a tablet using a bracket, which would then allow you to scan objects in addition to creating your very own 3D maps of indoor spaces, among others. Just what will a $349 pledge net you? The Structure Sensor itself, an iPad bracket and a Lightning cable, of course. [Kickstarter Page]

Occipital Structure Sensor Allows You To Capture The World In 3D original content from Ubergizmo.

3D scanning has been around for years, but it’s traditionally required the use of a clunky device. Today, a Bay Area startup has unveiled a tiny alternative: The Structure Scanner, a diminutive 3D scanner that hooks right into your iPad, allowing you to capture 3D information about the world around you.

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