Spor is a portable solar-powered battery charger that wants to shake things up with its fuss-free, compact form factor that’s still capable of delivering a power punch. It’s also aiming to look a lot less boring than the generic competition — with a shell that can be customised via home 3D printing, if that’s your bag Read More
Motorola Mobility’s US Moto X Assembly Plant To Close By End Of Year
Part of the sales pitch for Motorola Mobility’s (then Google-owned) Moto X smartphone was that it was partly U.S.-made; an assembly plant to put together the Moto X opened in Fort Worth, Texas in May 2013. That plant will close by the end of this year, Motorola confirms to TechCrunch, however, as sales of the smartphone and operational costs have made continuing operations there… Read More
Swivl CEO Brian Lamb Talks About Life After Crowdfunding
Brian Lamb started Swivl with a vision: he wanted to make it easier for videographers and presenters to film themselves live. Using a clever little dock that panned around to follow a Bluetooth remote control, the Swivl raised $ 157,000 on Kickstarter and was released in 2012. Read More
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Apple/Beats, LG, And A $200 3D Printer
Apple bought Beats, for $ 3 billion. LG released the next generation of the G2, which is aptly named the G3. Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel had a few old emails leak that don’t paint him in the best light, and we stumbled across a new 3D printer that is available at the low, low price of $ 200. Read More
Google Said To Be Planning Android TV Launch At I/O In June
Google has long been rumored to replace Google TV with Android TV, a new crack at the home media market with more roots in its mobile OS and less of a separate focus, but a new report from GigaOM today suggests we’ll see it very soon; in fact, it’s apparently set to make its debut at the I/O developer conference taking place at the end of this month. The Android TV platform… Read More