Strategic Sharing: Zipcar Leads $13.7M Investment In Campus Car-Sharing Startup Wheelz
February 22, 2012 – 8:25 am | No Comment

Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar . Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion . It’s since fallen back, and with collaborative consumption and the market for car-sharing heating up, the big players have to make moves. Zipcar has since forged a partnership with Ford, making it the largest provider of cars for Zipcar’s University program , and, in December, the company took a controlling stake in Spain’s largest car-sharing network, Avancar . Today finds Zipcar making another strategic move to get its mitts in fellow car-sharing companies, again with a focus on universities, whose students are among the most eager adopters of car-sharing models. What do I mean? The company today announced that it is a lead investor in the $13.7 million series A financing of Wheelz , a junior, university-focused version of itself. The Detroit-based Fontinalis…

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Dragon Grip handheld toy delivers kung fu fighting sound effects
May 10, 2012 – 9:55 pm | No Comment
Dragon Grip handheld toy delivers kung fu fighting sound effects Have you ever watched those gripping kung fu movies, with screen legends like Bruce Lee, Donnie Yen, Jet Li and Jackie Chan moving swiftly and agilely, don’t you wish that you too, could be a Johnny Cage? Enter the Dragon Grip handheld toy which is said to deliver kung fu fighting sound effects to go alongside your imagination. This is yet another crowdfunding project on Kickstarter, so assuming enough dough is collected to get the project started, it ought to be ...
iCade Core and iCade Mobile Hitting U.K. in June, Roughly Priced at $81
April 24, 2012 – 4:22 pm | No Comment
iCade Core and iCade Mobile Hitting U.K. in June, Roughly Priced at $81 ION Audio, the brilliant makers of the iCade arcade cabinet, announced early this year at the CES that it will be launching a new set of flagship gizmos for the year 2012. One of them is the iCade Core, which is a cool iPad dock with a set of buttons and an arcade stick. Contrary to ION’s previous accessory, the arcade cabinet, the iCade Core has a better feel as far as gameplay is concerned. (more…) By ...
Ridiculously priced Neo Geo X makes a PS Vita look cheap as hell
March 17, 2012 – 5:46 am | No Comment
Ridiculously priced Neo Geo X makes a PS Vita look cheap as hell The Neo Geo is back. Originally rumored to be making a return back in January, it's now been confirmed that the "Neo Geo X" portable gaming handheld is not the photoshopped concept of some bored fan. But to go old school, it'll cost ya.
Synaptics announces ClearPad 2200 touchscreen controller for smartphones
February 22, 2012 – 8:22 am | No Comment
Synaptics announces ClearPad 2200 touchscreen controller for smartphones That's smartphones, guys. Not superphones, and certainly not phablets (sorry, we hate that word too). After showing off its slate-friendly ClearPad 7300 multitouch display at CES, Synaptics is back with a smaller 2200 series controller designed for phones. Specifically, modest little handsets with screens measuring four inches or less. And, it'll be among the company's first capacitive panels to make use of the outfit's SignalClarity technology, which promises to boost the signal-to-noise ratio for improved ...
PlayStation Vita gets updated 3G data plan, offers an extra gigabyte for a Lincoln
January 22, 2012 – 7:07 pm | No Comment
PlayStation Vita gets updated 3G data plan, offers an extra gigabyte for a Lincoln We can't say we were overly concerned about busting through the Vita's 2GB monthly data threshold when the handheld's 3G variant hits AT&T next month, but the network, it seems, isn't taking any chances. According to the Vita's AT&T page, Ma Bell's making sure you'll never be blocked from nabbing those download-capped PlayStation Minis by upping the previously announced 2GB for $25 plan to 3GB for $30. Surprised? Don't be -- this change just ...
Sony racks up over 6.5 million in PlayStation sales over holiday season
January 10, 2012 – 4:04 am | No Comment
Sony racks up over 6.5 million in PlayStation sales over holiday season Looks like Sony is reaping the benefits of strong holiday sales for its range of consoles coming under the PlayStation umbrella. After introducing the PS Vita early in December, the company managed to shift about 500,000 units in its own backyard, while ageing predecessor, the PSP, continued to sell 1.6 million units worldwide. Not to be outdone, the PS3 nearly broached the 4 million mark, bringing Sony closer to its fiscal year-end ...
Gallery: PlayStation Vita ripped wide open for all to see
December 19, 2011 – 8:45 am | No Comment
Gallery: PlayStation Vita ripped wide open for all to see We've already given you a visual tour of the PS Vita stacked up against a bunch of other gadgets, but what does the inside of Sony's newly launched handheld (in Japan) look like? As you'd expect, like a lot of green circuit boards.
Handheld projector looks at portable gaming next
October 17, 2011 – 9:50 am | No Comment
Handheld projector looks at portable gaming next We’ve seen our fair share of pico projectors that work decently enough for what they were created to do, but somehow they never really took off and entered mainstream consciousness since it never had a “killer app” or a “killer purpose” apart from being a novelty. Hopefully this handheld projector system that was developed by Karl Willis and colleagues at the Disney Research labs in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania will fare differently. Their multiplayer gaming system is known as SideBySide, where it relies ...
Daily Crunch: Believe
September 27, 2011 – 3:33 am | No Comment
Daily Crunch: Believe Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Japan Gets 8 New Cell Phones: KDDI’s Entire Winter Line-Up Amazon, Fox Streaming Deal Brings 11k Movies And TV Shows To Prime Instant Video Bose Announces Two Soundbar Systems Handheld Console Compresses Super Mario Brothers Down To 64 Pixels TC Gadgets Webcast Episode 3: Phones, TVs, and Muscles Read more crunchgear
Sony announces bucketload of PlayStation Vita launch games, teases PSP downloads for UMD lovers
September 14, 2011 – 12:49 am | No Comment
Sony announces bucketload of PlayStation Vita launch games, teases PSP downloads for UMD lovers Wondering how many games the PlayStation Vita will be launched with on December 17th? 26 is the answer, with 100 games in total to be released. Launch titles include Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Power Smash 4, Fish On, Project N.O.E.L.S and more in the photo above. These will be followed by Metal Gear Solid HD Edition, Rayman Origins, FIFA, etc. If new titles aren't enough to whet your appetite, Sony announced that as many as 500 to 600 PSP titles will ...