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MIT and Microsoft Research made a ‘smart’ tattoo that remotely controls your phone

A group of PhD students from the MIT Media Lab and researchers from Microsoft Research have come up with the ultimate wearable: a temporary tattoo that can turn into a touchpad, remotely control your smartphone, or share data using NFC.

The technology, which is described on MIT’s websiteand will be presented in full at a wearables symposium next month, is called DuoSkin. The researchers say you…

NASSCOM 10000 StartUps along with IvyCamp, an initiative of IvyCap Ventures has announced a strategic alliance to connect startups, investors, mentors and industry bodies to converge and explore ways of working together to make the right kind of impact and come up with solutions that change the way people live and industries work. The alliance will look at developing strategies and initiatives to…

Meet OpenBike – An “Operating System For Bicycles”

We’re almost halfway through the year 2016, and what could be seen as a positive sign for the tech industry, the inventions this year are just getting better and better by the day. The current addition to this year’s long list of invention marvels is OpenBike, or “bicycle of the future”, as it being helmed by its makers.

Described as an “Operating System For Bicycles”, OpenBike is the labour of…

This entrepreneur sold an app to Snapchat for $54M and is now traveling the world

Entrepreneur Garrett Gee decided to ditch the regular lifestyle and travel the world after selling Scan, a mobile scanning app he co-founded, to Snapchat in 2014. The deal for Gee and his co-founders was valued at $54 million at the time — $30 million in cash and the rest in equity in Snapchat. Gee declined to disclose how much he personally made from the deal.

But here’s the surprise: the…

Oracle Selects First Group of Startups for Accelerator Programme in India

With an aim to help India’s startup ecosystem and to support to the Digital India initiative, Oracle announced an accelerator program for startups in India in April and now the company has selected first group of startups. The selected startups will get mentorship from Oracle and industry experts, 24×7 access to a co-working space within Oracle’s premises, and access to Oracle’s vast ecosystem of…

Elite Daily takes a stab at explaining Bitcoin (Source: Elite Daily)