HAXLR8R: First International Incubator Program for Hardware Startups

HAXLR8R: First International Incubator Program for Hardware Startups:

Cyril Ebersweiler says:

HAXLR8R is a 111-day accelerator program providing hardware-focused startups from all over the world with the appropriate support to deliver their concept into a competitive reality.

The program will help teams transform into functional companies by providing mentorship, seed funding, office space, hardware-related services and tooling, plus immersion into an intense startup community of like-minded entrepreneurs in China and the US.

HAXLR8R will run from March through June 2012, with a first stop in Shenzhen, where startups will either start building their first prototype, iterate on it, or work on scaling their businesses if they have a working unit. Each week, startups will meet mentors with experience in inventing, product design, sourcing, manufacturing, supply chain, packaging, distribution, financing, marketing or fund raising.

The final week of the program will be spent on getting startup pitches awesome, as they will be heading to the Bay Area for a big show: the HAXLR8R Day.

The program boasts an impressive roster of mentors including Brad Feld (Foundry Group), Mitch Altman (TV-B-Gone), Bill Liao (Xing/SOSventures) and Bill Warner (AVID/Warner Research) and has been created by Cyril Ebersweiler (Chinaccelerator), Eric Pan (SeeedStudio) and Sean O’Sullivan (Mapinfo/Avego).

10 startups will be selected and applications are open until the end of January!

HAXLR8R: First International Incubator Program for Hardware Startups

Red Cross confirms that it won't prosecute gamers for war crimes

Red Cross confirms that it won't prosecute gamers for war crimes:

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a statement it probably didn't think it would ever need to: you can't be prosecuted as a war criminal for playing video games. A bold statement, for sure, but one the ICRC decided to make in the wake of a discussion held during the 31st International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent last week.

A write-up on the ICRC's website said that the group "discussed our role and responsibility to take action against violations of international humanitarian law in video games," which led many in the media to believe that the ICRC would actually prosecute video gamers. Fortunately, the ICRC really just wants to use games as a potential opportunity to spread knowledge about...

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Smiles:

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In a parallel universe

In a parallel universe:

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Google dévoile une infographie détaillée sur les statistiques globales de l’Android Market

Google dévoile une infographie détaillée sur les statistiques globales de l’Android Market:

A l’occasion des 10 milliards de téléchargements sur la plateforme de l’Android Market, Google a publié une infographie détaillée relatant les statistiques globales du market.

Depuis 3 jours (pratiquement 4 maintenant), Google a rendu public son partenariat établi avec plusieurs grands développeurs, visant à pousser chaque jour, 10 applications à 10 centimes d’euros l’unité. Il y a eu le jour 1, le jour 2, le jour 3, et aujourd’hui le jour 4 qui arrive à grand pas. Cependant, un petit problème persiste, et ce, pour certains utilisateurs qui retrouvent une application à 12 ou 13 centimes, au lieu des 10 centimes annoncés (cause : la TVA). Le problème semble pas touché la globalité des utilisateurs, mais quand même une bonne majorité d’entre eux.

L’infographie publiée par Google révèle que..

• les téléchargements sont le plus actifs le dimanche soir à 9h00 (San Francisco, CA)


• les téléchargements sont le moins actifs le lundi matin à 4h00 (San Francisco, CA)


• les gens téléchargent des applications depuis 190 pays dans le monde


• les habitants sud-coréens sont les plus actifs en téléchargement


• les applications les plus téléchargées sont des jeux avec 25.6%


• le divertissement se place en seconde tête avec 12.2%

..mais aussi que..

• plus de 100 millions de mots sont traduits chaque semaine dans Google Translate


• 12 milliards de miles ont été parcourues dans Google Maps


• 20 milliards de frappes ont été enregistrées en utilisant Swiftkey X Keyboard


• 4054 années passées à jouer avec Talking Tom …au cours desquelles le pauvre chat a été battu 10,6 millions de fois…

Impressionnant n’est-ce pas ! Retrouvez la suite en image :

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Effects of Coffee!

Effects of Coffee!:

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Periodically

Periodically:

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Just Legendary Cpt. Price

Just Legendary Cpt. Price:

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Continents [Fixed]

Continents [Fixed]:

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Voyager 1 Exits Our Solar System

Voyager 1 Exits Our Solar System:

eldavojohn writes "The first man-made craft to do so is now entering a 'cosmic purgatory' between solar systems and entering an interstellar space of the Milky Way Galaxy. With much anticipation, Voyager 1 is now 'in a stagnation region in the outermost layer of the bubble around our solar system. Voyager is showing that what is outside is pushing back.' After three decades the spacecraft is still operating and apparently has enough power and fuel to continue to do so until 2020. The first big piece of news? 'We've been using the flow of energetic charged particles at Voyager 1 as a kind of wind sock to estimate the solar wind velocity. We've found that the wind speeds are low in this region and gust erratically. For the first time, the wind even blows back at us. We are evidently traveling in completely new territory. Scientists had suggested previously that there might be a stagnation layer, but we weren't sure it existed until now.' This process could take months to years to completely leave the outer shell but already scientists are receiving valuable information."

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