Babyation’s breast pump brings stealth and dignity to mothers

“Dairy cows don’t put up with what women put up with,” sighs Samantha Rudolph, CEO at Babyation, a St. Louis, Missouri-based company that is today launching a brand new solution for breast-pumping mothers. The company is taking a more holistic approach than most, with an all-in-on

Jack in the Box is piloting Miso's hamburger-cooking robot

You've got to hand it to Miso — the company knows how to sell the sizzle, as they say in the meat-cooking business. The robotics firm has been striking high-profile deals with some of the U.S.'s biggest fast food chains, from White Castle to Panera Bread. Today it adds Jack in the Box

Google's Pixel Watch may finally be on its way

Everything old is new again. Someone leaves a prototype in a bar, prototype makes its way into some blogger's hands, chaos ensues. It's hard to imagine another device coming along soon that's shrouded in the same layer of security as the iPhone 4. Both gadgets and tech journalism have e

Pinhole Pro Max is a $400 tax on stupid photographers

I don’t cover Kickstarter campaigns much, but when Thingify rolls up and is trying to sell a $430 pinhole lens, I’ll bite and take a closer look. There are a couple of things you need to understand about photography to understand how absolutely bonkers this is. For one thing, there̵

Sennheiser cancels your own wheezing, grunting and panting

You know what it’s like; you’ve painstakingly strapped on some running shoes, and you’re plodding your way up an endless hill of abject misery, lactic acid and self-loathing. You’re listening to the sweet, dulcet tones of Alex whispering sweet nothings about Andreessen and H

Review: The DJI Mic is too expensive to be this meh

I got really excited about the DJI Mic announcement a couple of weeks ago, and concluded that, at least on paper, it’s the perfect companion for vloggers and on-the-go media creators. As is often the case, once we look beyond the hype things are a tiny bit more complicated than that. Overall,

Amper is providing a plug-and-play-solution to digitize manufacturing

It took a pivot for Amper to find its footing. Founded in 2016 with hopes of building a smart circuit breaker for the home, the company had to take a long look at the their place in the market — or lack thereof. “We got into HAX with that idea, and then completely invalidated it,” co-founder

Any port in a storm

We've got a big event coming up on July 22nd. That means, among other things, that we've been hard at work on programming for a few months now. Honestly, the most difficult part of the process for me so far is not being able to come right out and tell you about all of the people we've l

Musk says robot, aimed for 2023, will be worth more than Tesla’s car business

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company’s robot, named Optimus, will be “worth more than the car business, worth more than FSD.” FSD, or “full self-driving,” is Tesla’s advanced driver assistance system that relies on cameras and computer vision technology to perfor

MEPs vote to expand scope of common charger rules

European Union lawmakers have taken a step closer to agreeing on rules to standardize how a range of mobile gadgetry is charged. Today MEPs in the European Parliament’s internal market and consumer protection (IMCO) committee adopted their position on a Commission proposal announced last fall

Tulu makes the sharing economy extremely local (to just your apartment building)

If sharing is caring, Tulu has a giant rack of care for you. The company takes the sharing economy to its next logical stop along its journey toward “who even owns stuff anymore?”, giving 50,000 people across a handful of countries access to items that make apartment and dorm living jus

Neptune raises $17.25M to clean ship hulls with robots

Here's a wd fact I'd never heard: Biofouling on ship hulls increases fuel consumption around 15% on average. The term specifically refers to a bud-up of microorganisms and other life. That includes a wide range of different creatures, like algae and barnacles. It's one of those problems

A camera battery with a built-in USB-C charger wins today’s ‘I didn’t know I needed this’ prize

I have 600 hundred USB-C chargers everywhere; in my car, next to my bed, in my bathroom, in the garage, in my camera bag. Do you know what I never remember to pack? The battery charger for my camera. Yes, you can charge the battery with the camera itself for most of Sony’s Alpha line of camer

Samsung is making a Pokémon phone because why not

Are you looking to buy a folding smartphone? Do you want it to be Pokémon-themed? And do you live in South Korea? If all those stars are aligned just right, do we have some good news for you: Samsung is making a Pokémon Edition of the Galaxy Z Flip 3. They somehow decided to not m