JD+ and HWTrek have partnered together to launch Program Spice to assist hardware startups – as well as small and medium-sized enterprises (SME / SMB) – with the knowledge, expertise, and tools necessary to successfully enter the Chinese consumer market for smart, connected devices. You can think of Program Spice as your Gateway to China's market. The program [...]
We were excited to meet the wonderful hardware startup participants that joined us on Asia Tour 2015 in Taipei, Beijing, and Shenzhen (August 16-24) and to learn more about the cool smart, connected devices that they are creating. During the tour we visited factories, including tier one manufacturers, leading eCommerce and IT brands, incubators, and [...]
Intel® Edison is a development platform for IoT and wearable devices. It is designed to help hardware creators and entrepreneurs with rapid prototyping so that they can efficiently produce innovative IoT products that keep us connected and transform the ways in which we live. What do you get? The package includes an Intel® Edison Complete [...]
China's growing demand for smart hardware triggered the enthusiasm of foreign developers entering the competitive market here. JD Smart, a smart hardware eco-system provider backed by Chinese e-commerce behemoth JD.com, held an open house on Thursday for 20 overseas technology start-ups from seven countries to demonstrate their crowd-funded products at its Smart Milk Tea Café, [...]
SCMP staff reporters have sifted through the Taiwan start-up scene to find some of the most promising companies to come out of the island. Their inclusion is based on the new technology they offer, funding received and the market gap they fill. HWTrek is a cloud-based platform to connect hardware enthusiasts with experts who can [...]
Last year, HWTrek sponsored 30 hardware startups and creators to visit Taiwan and Beijing on the Asia Innovation Tour 2014. We’re doing it again this August. We reached out to Steven Stoddard (Director of Operations and Co-founder of CoolChip Technologies), a participant in the tour last year, to see what he’s been up to during the [...]
HWTrek sponsored 30 hardware creators and accelerators to visit Taiwan, Beijing, and Shenzhen on Asia Innovation Tour 2015 in August—and also in April 2014. We’re doing it again this spring. The next Asia Innovation Tour 2016 cohort is destined to meet manufacturing industry experts, see assembly lines, and gain insights about China’s market in April 2016. Raymond Lo participated in [...]
Last year, HWTrek sponsored 30 hardware startups and creators to visit Taiwan and Beijing on the Asia Innovation Tour 2014. We’re doing it again this August. We reached out to Tom Shrive (CEO and co-founder of Arc Wearables and Pop Stick), a participant in the tour last year, to see what he’s been up to [...]
The MediaTek LinkIt™ Assist 2502 development platform is the world’s smallest commercial System-on-Chip (SoC) for wearables and is based on the the MediaTek MT2502 (Aster) SoC. The platform is used to design and prototype IoT and wearable devices. The platform enables hardware creators the ability to rapidly develop innovative products that change the way we [...]
Last year, HWTrek sponsored 30 hardware startups and creators to visit Taiwan and Beijing on the Asia Innovation Tour 2014. We’re doing it again this August. We reached out to Adam Kell (Co-founder of Stower), a participant in the tour last year, to see what he’s been up to during the past year. Candle [...]