30 Apr 2014

Send Your Selfie To Mars for 59p

A time capsule contain a 2 terebyte hard drive with selfies on it is do be blasted off to Mars.
Students at Duke University need to raise $30m to fire this hard drive to Mars. To achieve this target anyone can donate $1 (59p) and will have there selfie loaded on to their hard drive.
Emily Briere who is running this fundraising effort says the plane is launch within the next three years. If they do blast it off to mars they will become the first private team to send an object to mars.
The hard drive is to be loaded onto a micro satellite on top a larger satellite which will be launched into space.

21 Apr 2014

Pebble Sold 400,000 Smartwatches in 2013

Pebble have snagged somewhere in around $60 million in revenue from selling their Smartwatches. They sold 400,000 devices last year. In 2014 Pebble is on track to double that revenue figure. Thats $120 Million!
Pebble are still very confident in their place in the Smartwatch market. Their is a growing amount of competition and earlier this week Google unveiled the Android Wear SDK and Apples iWatch is expected to released later this year.
“When we started working on wearables six years ago, there were few players in the space and a lot of skeptics,” says Pebbles CEO, Eric Migicovsky. “It’s exciting to see this market grow so quickly — enabling more interesting use cases and keeping all of us laser-focused on creating the very best user experiences we can.”
So far 2014 has been a big year for Pebble, after introducing the Pebble Steel watch back in CES. They have also released a major update to their iOS app back in February. It brought Pebbles own “AppStore” with more that 1,000 different apps and watchfaces.