The world’s first car tire pressure monitor that detects slow leaks is currently killing the funding game on Indiegogo. The…
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With sci-fi staples like reanimation, hoverboards, and 3D ovaries already reality, space may truly be the final frontier. Near-Earth asteroid…
If anyone should have access to the latest greatest technology, it’s the people in the military; or at least people…
In a world where parking space and time are precious commodities, valets provide a valuable service. But for those of us…
Despite all their recent controversy Uber continues growing and broadening their brand. The company just launched Uber Freight, the service that necessitated the blog.…
Airplanes exist. Based on the many hours I spend in traffic every morning, cars definitely exist. So it’s only natural…
There are some very interesting things happening in the skies right now, and we’re not referring to the latest news…
Some know Piaggio as the company that still makes the Vespa 70 years later. Although our knowledge of the Piaggio…
Thought that paper swan you made was complex? Maybe it was, but your origami chops are not high-level enough until…
Everyone is familiar with the classic NASA launch and entry spacesuit. It’s big, its orange, and it makes astronauts look…
It is tough for a new entrant to drum up excitement in a niche as crowded as electric scooters. But GoTube has…
It’s interesting to see various major companies zero in on similar ideas. We previously talked about Arconic’s Jetsons plan, which listed…
If you were one of those folks gawking at the growing trend of AI-based wireless home assistants like Amazon Alexa, while simultaneously…
Straight up, 2016 was fucked. You know it, we know it, and Miss Cleo knew it before any of us. What…
Elon Musk is probably the human with the highest productive hours to waking hours ratio on the planet. Heck, he…
When it comes to cycling, whether you have a high-end ride or cheap beater, bike tires are most often the…
File this one under, “It’s about bloody time” (and then file that comment under “As if we just criticized a…
As traffic continues to worsen across the globe, many municipalities are turning to high occupancy vehicle and high occupancy toll…
Last week, BMW unveiled its latest concept at the BMW Group Future Experience event in Los Angeles. It was a…
Well this might change everything forever (leave it to an eccentric engineer worth $11.7 billion to make that sort of…
Ever watched a Photoshop tutorial online? Cooked a recipe from Pinterest? Learned guitar through an app? Downloaded a MOOC with…
Remember the days of the Tamagotchi, where children were introduced to companionship and parenting in the form of a handheld digital gadget? Now,…
At this point, humanity’s colonization of Mars (or at least attempting it) has become an eventuality. That’s right; that fabled…
There are a kinds of get-around gadgets on the market today, from basic (flammable?) hoverboards to skateboards that want you to feel…
It has been called many things; universal basic income, guaranteed minimum income, guaranteed basic income, etc. It all means the…
Until recently, I believed that there were only three things that everyone who drinks alcohol, casually or excessively, should own;…
This has been a big month for transportation. We saw a solar car, an electric bus, and now, a detailed article from Lyft…
Thanks to advances in battery technology there’s at least one company building a “solar-powered car that will be available “for everyone.”…
The engines are revving and the RPMs are raging as the testosterone-pumped drivers wait at a red light, prepared to pop into…
—– IMPORTANT NOTE: These are not real police reports. Yet. —— Date: 08/23/16 08:46 AM Case: HW723482135P Location: El Camino…
Dude, where’s my truck? Even if you don’t need one right now, you’re likely going to need one in the near…
The Tesla autopilot function may have been called into question due to two high-profile summer accidents but, here’s one story about a self-driving vehicle saving a life.
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
A solar powered airplane has just circumnavigated the earth. Bertrand Piccard & André Borschberg, with the Solar Impulse 2, became the first people to circumnavigate the globe by .
The space race was first spurred by Cold War hostilities and the jostling for bragging rights. Today, innovation in space…
This week we chat with Kevin Halsall, the founder of Ogo Technology and the inventor of a hands-free self-balancing wheelchair inspired by a Segway. The Ogo is taking crowfunding by storm and could be life-changing for people with disabilities. Plus, it’s just fun.
As a cyclist, you often don’t (safely) have the luxury of turn by turn directions at a glance. While there are GPS…
In case you missed it, the U.S. Department of Transportation launched the Smart City Challenge at the end of 2015,…
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
In 2013, more than five ministries and agencies in South Korea started investing $3 billion on startup competitions to support…
Detroit Startup Week wrapped up last Friday. Can startups and these kinds of events finally re-rev the city’s business engine? We provide the rundown on all the events from this Chase Bank-sponsored event in the motor city.
In a bid from Challenge.gov to reduce drunk driving, these four companies received awards from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for their non-invasive wearables that measure blood alcohol content.
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Anyone who has seen the show Parking Wars knows that getting a parking ticket or traffic ticket (or worse, getting booted)…
Robin Chase, co-founder of Zipcar, Buzzcar and Veniam – and obviously, a beacon of transportation technology – talks to us about who she is, why she is, and where everything is headed.
From the Hackathon and its winning tool – a CMS with voice recognition – to the Battlefield and its winning startup – Beam and its SDK to integrate with Twitch – to the most interesting keynotes, here are all the highlights from 2016’s TechCrunch Disrupt in New York.
Entrepreneurs are generally told not to reinvent the wheel. And you probably shouldn’t, unless the wheel you have in mind…
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
Luxe, the San Francisco-based valet parking app startup, recently closed a $50 million Series B round, a large part of which was a…
Ogo, now on Indiegogo, is a self-balancing wheelchair that lets users control its movements without having to use their hands. It’s not the only medical device hoping to improve accessibility and transportation for the disabled.
Boom’s supersonic plane will be capable of Mach 2.2 speeds (~1,451 mph), which means they’ll travel at more than double the speed of sound. And with 25 planes optioned, 10 of them by Virgin Group, and an upcoming graduation from Y Combinator, they are set to take off soon.
This electric bike with integrated solar panels comes from Leaos Solar, winner of a 2015 Red Dot Product Design Award. With a top speed of either 25 km/hr or 45 km/hr (depending on the model), automatic and manual transmission, and high performance design, this eBike is generating some buzz. The question is whether it will pay off with funding.
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
These six startups offer travel apps, airfare software, city guides, and more to help you cure your wanderlust and squash your travel bugs, if that’s even possible…
Hoverboards are pretty cool, but these misnomers on wheels have been running into trouble lately. Some have been spontaneously combusting…
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
Going to the gas station to fill up my car with gas is a chore. Yes, I realize that’s one of…
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
To businesses, it’s an opportunity to make their outdoor advertising campaigns smarter and easier to track. For the rest of…
As most of you know, last week was CES 2016 in Las Vegas; the world’s most prolific consumer electronics show.…
The Internet of Things revolution has been a long time coming, and we’re slowly but surely heading into a time…
In recent years there has been a heavy emphasis on the dangers of texting and driving. This is a good…
Innovation is tough. I have trouble just finding ideas for starting another article about startups, let alone finding ideas for…
In the last century, humanity has achieved incredible advancements from widespread adoption of the automobile, to splitting the atom, to…
Another carpooling app? *Yawn* Or maybe not… The team behind Zify, a carpooling application that intelligently matches work commuters with people…
As Uber made rapid headway in the taxi industry, it didn’t just leave conventional taxi services behind; it threatened their…
Virtual reality has a promising future today as it did 20 years ago. Like a boy band reject who overstays…
Inductive charging devices have been around for some time. We’ve seen them in electric toothbrushes, mobile phones and other household…
San Francisco startup, Getaround, embarked on its mission to relieve the world’s car overpopulation problem back in 2009 and it…
From companies like Eko raising $2 million for a smartphone-connected stethoscope to BugCrowd raising $6 million in Series A funding…
It has been yet another impressive week for entrepreneurs raising financial funding to back their endeavors. From mobile app startups…
From Skully Helmets raising an $11 millions Series A round for smart technology motorcycle helmets to InMoji raising $1 million…
Congrats, Mr. Musk – you’ve done it again. In fewer than 140 characters, you’ve sent the tech worlds’ rumor mill…