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3d print a drone

3D-Printed Electronics Have Arrived

Section 1: The Drone Printer “ You can’t print an iPhone (yet).” I wrote that in my e-book on 3D printingjust six months ago. It was part of an entire section dedicated to what 3D printers couldn’t do. That section gets more and more out-of-date every day, and yesterday that was especially true. Yesterday Voxel8, a company founded and run by several Harvard and...

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He Built A Satellite in his garage. Now He’s Using It To Photograph Earth Like Never Before

This is a part of our ongoing “Startup Of The Month” Award Series. To nominate a startup. Tweet your nomination to @Msitver. Space. Why is it the final frontier? Mostly because it’s so costly to explore. We pay $70 million per astronaut to fly them up to the ISS on a Russian Spacecraft, and a typical satellite can cost $50-400 million to send up...

final credit card app

This Startup Fixed The Credit Card | Startup Of The Month

Target, Home Depot, Staples. Every retailer appears to be susceptible to credit card breaches these days, which is why this month’s startup offers a particularly useful, insightful product. October’s Startup Of The Month is Final, short for ‘your final credit card’. Rather than assigning you a single static credit card number, Final gives a different credit card number to each place you buy something....

midnight scooper ice cream scooper painful

Someone Finally Fixed The Ice-cream Scooper – Startup Of The Month

Midnight Scooper is the September winner of our “Startup Of The Month” prize. See past winners here. Anyone who has ever scooped ice cream straight out of the freezer, knows the pain of jabbing the scooper in as deeply as you can, chiseling off bits and pieces like a stone-mason. Finally an engineering student from UCSD, Michael Chou, has solved the scooper problem. By adjusting...

postmates and foursquare

Inside source: Foursquare May Buy Postmates

A source, which I’m unable to verify, claims that Foursquare, the ubiquitous location-based social network is about to buy Postmates, a food-delivery service, similar to Caviar, which was bought by Square this week. It would mark a smart expansion of revenue streams for Foursquare, from directory/social network. Adding a service with real value is an interesting way to retain users, and earn some money...