At last week’s DEMOfall 09, TZ interviewed Waze. A free mobile navigation application which is crowdsourcing to build its maps. All you have to do to contribute is just keep the application running (make sure you have the car charger plugged in because it kills your battery life) and drive. while you’re driving Waze monitors
Potholes? Graffiti? Trash? Couch on the front yard? Have a problem within your community or in your city report it to your local government with CitySourced. Community watch has now gone 2.0. Beloved local LA start-up FreedomSpeaks became one of the TC50 darlings with their new CitySourced application. Practical, useful, and solving a problem is…continue reading.
RedBeacon, a new way to find local service providers similar to the OpenTable model, nabbed the $50,000 grand prize at the recent TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. If you find it a hassle to locate a dependable plumber or electrician, RedBeacon will do it for you. Once you request a service, local businesses can bid…continue reading.
TechZulu would like to present HQ.0! HQ.0 lets you get an up close and personal look inside the hottest offices of your favorite companies! You’ve got an all-access pass inside their offices—the ones you wish you had! Now if only your parents basement could transform into a 314,159 ft2 tricked out office, that would make life grand.
Whrrl has hints of Brightkyte, Twitter, and many other microblogging or location based social networks. The key as Jeff Holden (CEO of Pelago the Makers of Whrrl) explains, “is the organization of the content.” Whrrl V2.0 (Which has yet to be released to the public) threads everything and turns it into a story rather than…continue reading.
Last week, I spoke with Vangard Voice Systems Inc. CEO Bob Bova on controlling devices with your voice. We talk about new solutions out there from other big players and how voice is the best interface for a lot of activities. Finally, Bob mentioned how Vangard was started and gives good advice on your own…continue reading.
One of my favorite quotes by the late Arthur C. Clarke is “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In computers, the ultimate, magical input interface has always been voice recognition (i.e. “A keyboard? How quaint!”). Vangard Voice Systems recently released their Mobile Voice Platform (MVP) and I will be talking to Vangard CEO Bob Bova…continue reading.
David Robinson, senior producer of Afro Samurai at Namco Bandai is bringing Afro Samurai to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this fall. Based on the hit animated series starring Samuel L. Jackson, Afro Samurai brings a unique blend of music for the game soundtrack provided by Wu-Tang Clan member RZA. The music has a huge…continue reading.
We in the tech world are intimately familiar with business ventures that found their start in someone’s garage. Steve Fambro’s latest accomplishment began in much the same way, but with one big difference: he gets to drive his product back into the garage every night. Fambro is co-founder and CTO of Aptera, the company behind…continue reading.
Tesla Motors Senior Design Executive Franz Von Holzhausen takes some time out from showing off the Roadster at L.A. Tech Week to chat with TechZulu. Diving into what they have planned for the future and a few updates on Tesla’s sedan due to come out. Franz explains some of the design aspects of the Roadster…continue reading.
