I recently reconnected with Peter Kaempf, a member of the innovative creator community on the HWTrek platform, who I had met at SXSW in Austin last year and who my co-workers ran into at the Intel Partner Summit at Embedded World in Nuremberg. Peter is Head of Special Product Development at STABILO International GmbH. Fortunately for [...]
I touched base with a member of HWTrek's community of creators, Steven Zhang, who is the lead engineer for CALM., to learn more about the project and its development. CALM. is currently available for pre-order via Indiegogo, where the team has successfully raised about $39,000 (390% of its goal) and has been certified by Arrow [...]
We’d love to meet you at Embedded World 2017 in Nuremberg, Germany 14-16 March to learn more about the IoT projects you are working on, the technology or solutions you offer, and the challenges you face. Jessie Chung and Changtsong Lin will be there and are looking forward to chatting with you. We’re in Booth [...]
Masayoshi Son, founder, chairman, and CEO of SoftBank, unveiled a robot called Pepper at a press conference near Tokyo, Japan in June 2014. SoftBank began selling the home companion robot for about US$2,000 the following year in Japan and other markets followed in the subsequent years. The robots are being manufactured by Taiwan’s giant electronics manufacturer, [...]
Through a mutual connection among the wonderful community of IoT hardware innovators on the HWTrek platform, I recently caught up with Lisa Kikuchi, Manager at Tokyo-based SenSprout Inc., to learn more about the company and the low-cost smart agriculture sensor that they’ve developed. SenSprout successfully raised $169,931 for its Indiegogo campaign on a goal of $10,000. [...]
VR headsets, such as Facebook’s Oculus Rift, HTC’s Vive or Sony’s PlayStation VR are probably the first things to come to mind when thinking about gaming wearables. Despite the literally game-changing immersive experience they offer, VR headsets lack important features of truly wearable devices, such as portability, usability, and a fashionable design, which create additional [...]
I recently connected with Brandon Huang at SILITECH Technology to learn more about the company’s technology, solutions, and how they work with IoT hardware device innovators to get their products designed and manufactured. Please introduce yourself. I am Brandon Huang, Director of Technology Application and Support at SILITECH Technology Corporation. I am responsible for forecasting needs, requirements, [...]
HWTrek recently sponsored the eny Hackathon held January 21st at Galvanize San Francisco - Soma. The event was organized by Quantum and co-organized by Panasonic. In addition to HWTrek, the other sponsors of the event were Neura and Draper University. IDEO and SAP were event partners. “Through the promotion and event support from HWTrek, we had the privilege [...]
Industry-Leading Brands Enable Accelerated Go-to-Market Strategy for Entering the Largest, Fastest Growing Markets for Smart, Connected Devices Taipei, Taiwan—February 15, 2017— HWTrek (Hardware Trek), the global open innovation and collaboration platform for hardware innovation, today announces expanded resources aimed at providing access to a wide network of global markets for smart hardware SMBs and startups [...]
Today, we are announcing expanded resources aimed at providing access to a wide network of global markets for smart hardware SMBs and startups with products ready for mass production. The distribution network now features the most mature, high-value markets for consumer IoT devices and the exciting, fast-growing ones, including China, India, Japan, Germany, France, the [...]