A new Indiegogo campaign for a Taiwanese company called 42ARK came up with an idea to have facial recognition technology on a cat feeder to dispense a predetermined amount of food for each cat. You can set up live streaming feeding sessions to, be like a crazy cat lady, and watch your animals eat while you're at work. This is totally genius. Its also a social network, you can use the device to create a profile of your cat, where a feeding history and photos can be posted.







How about this little robot that looks kinda like a one eyed lamp? He is Jibo, and he is here to interact with you and be a part of your family. Created by Cynthia Breazeal, a social robotics pioneer, this guy wants to help humanize technology, which could end up being the first family robot. Jibo can scan all of you with facial recognition, he can take orders by voice, take a photo, read you a text, play you a voicemail,hes pretty intuitive. Out of the box he comes with educational, photography, entertainment, and communications apps







The keyboardless keyboard: an invention that keeps my skepticism going. Dont we have enough annoyance having to type as it is? An Austin based startup is designing Airtype, a prototype that has you wear two bands on your palms, and use nothing as your space to type on. The trick is the software inside that tracks your finger moments to detect which keys you’re striking, or would strike.