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Just thought it's funny that my startup's name and color scheme are so similar, despite the fact that the products are not even remotely related: http://www.survly.com/

Native Chinese speaker here. I just tried the same sentences from the video on Google Translate on my Android tablet and Bing Translator on my Windows Phone. The video has almost a…

One problem with Passbook right now is lack of content. A dedicated website for Passbook coupons I think makes a lot of sense, but the challenge is to educate businesses about the …

Score! Posted mine. http://www.reddit.com/r/hwstartups/comments/x3axm/heres_my_s...

I think people tend to generalize things. I, for example, have the mentality that if I understand\learn something with little effort, then others can do the same. The truth is, the…

The part about pivoting is interesting. For a musician, changing the genre of the band has to be quite difficult, because an style is likely developed and the soul to the art will …

There's an old Chinese idiom that says "事到万难须放胆，宜于两可莫粗心" which roughly translates to "A difficult decision for an important matter requires bold action, but it's worth it to consid…

Looking forward to the new gestures and voice control. It's really fun to use!

As a Windows Phone user and developer, I've noticed frequent updates help promote app usage tremendously, which is confirmed by the analysis. With so many apps installed on my phon…

You are only a couch and some beer away from being the next Diggnation :P Seriously though, have you thought about instead of having a few guests talking about stories, make it ope…

I know there are a lot of you, just like me, will graduate in a month. May we never have to work.

Inspiring. I wonder how helpful YC was to them for being largely a hardware company. Mass production and distribution must be some of the biggest challenges... maybe they can be th…

Thanks! If you think this looks ugly, you should've seen our very first version. Let's just say they don't teach tailoring in an engineering curriculum :P We actually outsourced th…

With Google's Project Glass, we are even more inspired to finish Gauntlet. One problem I see with Project Glass is complex input such as typing when voice is not an option. That's …

Since our design uses really inexpensive parts (resistor arrays) to solve a relatively complex problem, we don't need that much funding, so I'm not sure if Kickstarter would be nec…

We literally finished the prototype yesterday, so I can't give you a figure as to how fast we can type on it. We laid the keys out so the most used letters in the English alphabet …

The way it works is actually really simple. The thumb pad is powered, and when it touches the other points, closed circuits are formed. And depending on which pad is touched, a dif…

Haven't seen a bunch of hardware hacks on HN, so I figured I would share our project!