Data analytics provider Truviso takes $3M bridge, preps for third round of capital
Truviso, maker of data analytics software, has raised a $3 million bridge round of funding in hopes of getting itself in shape to raise a third round of capital next year. The financing came from Diamondhead Ventures, Onset Ventures and UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund, the same firms that previously provided Truviso with $10 million.
The Foster [...]
Orthodox Jewish Couple Imprisoned By Superstition, Blames Motion-Sensing Light Instead [Superstition]
Was that headline mean? I’m sorry, but the silliness of this story, which centers around one couple’s quest to annoy/sue the hell out of their entire apartment building, warranted it. The ridiculous story unfolds like this:
On Saturdays, Dr. Dena Coleman and her husband Gordon claim they are imprisoned in their condo because the landlord went [...]
Recycle Tin Cans into Garden Lanterns [DIY]
If the glass lanterns we featured yesterday just don’t seem fancy enough, you can always try your hand at recycling your tin cans into decorative votives, a similarly cheap, easy, but nice-looking decoration.
Fine Gardening magazine has a detailed tutorial on turning soup cans into outdoor votive holders. You’ll need some cans, sand, water, and a [...]
Analyst Sees StarCraft II Inevitably Delayed To 2010 [Blizzard]
Blizzard set its sights on one “front line release” for 2009, a title that we expected to be StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the first of three StarCraft II games. One analyst isn’t so sure Blizzard can make it.
The day after Activision pushed back sci-fi first person shooter Singularity, Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia believes [...]
Adobe Wave: Lets publishers “wave” hi to users directly from the desktop
Adobe announced a product today called Adobe Wave that lets publishers notify their users of updates directly on their desktop, in the latest effort by a large company to get in on the real-time notification craze.
Readers opt-in for the updates. For example, if you’re a reader of VentureBeat, and want VentureBeat article links to appear [...]
MIT researchers weave "flexible camera" out of fiber web
We’ve seen liquid camera lenses and cameras shaped like an eye, but a group of researchers from MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering are now taking things in yet another shape-shifting direction with a so-called “flexible camera” that uses a special fiber web instead of traditional lenses. Those fibers are each less than one [...]
Is This A Netbook Or A Nintendo Entertainment System? [Nes]
It’s a netbook. Well, a netbook inside a netbook cover. The NES was great, but never that cuddly.
This compact case is made to keep your small-scale laptop safe and secure, but as adorable as it is, we’re getting slightly sick of all the love for the NES pad. What’s wrong with a Master System netbook [...]
Netbook Cover Fashions Itself in the Likeness of an NES Controller [NetBooks]
Handcrafts made to look like old pieces of Nintendo hardware are great. Which is why this Netbook cover, received as a gift by Flickr user Mendicon, speaks for itself. But I think this could be even better.
How, you ask? Consider the shape of the NES controller, and think about which netbook best resembles it—yep, the [...]
