Nike selects ten companies to participate in Accelerator program

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">  <span></span><img alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/10/nikefuelband-original-white-ice-black-ice.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span>A couple of months after Nike opened its Accelerator startup program for registration, the sportswear giant has deemed just ten companies out of hundreds of applicants to be worthy enough to </span><span>jump on board the Nike+ API train: FitDeck, GoRecess, Chroma.io, CoachBase, GoFitCause, HighFive, Sprout At Work, GeoPalz, Incomparable Things and RecBob. Selected ideas range from </span><span>a deck of fitness cards to interactive gaming rewards. </span><span>As a reminder, the TechStars-run program was designed to encourage companies to use Nike-collected data from devices like the Fuelband and the Sportswatch. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <span>As a reward for getting picked, the winners will undergo a three-month retreat in Portland, Oregon, where they'll develop and bring those solutions to fruition. Each company gets $20,000 to use to their advantage, along with expert advice from Nike-selected mentors. At the end of it all, they'll get to pitch their ideas to industry leaders and angel investors in the hopes of taking it to the next level. To find out what each selected participant offers, have a peek at the Nike source link below.</span></div></div>

Nike selects ten companies to participate in Accelerator program

  A couple of months after Nike opened its Accelerator startup program for registration, the sportswear giant has deemed just ten companies ...

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CASIS and the MassChallenge startup accelerator want to help you conduct research... in space!

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="CASIS and the MassChallenge startup accelerator want to help you conduct research IN SPACE" data-src-height="370" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/casis-2-1362868546.png" /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Most folks are familiar with the International Space Station (ISS). However, what you may not know is that the national lab on board the ISS is available to anyone to conduct research, provided that research is deemed worthy enough to make the trip into orbit. The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) is a non-profit tasked by NASA to find and promote those worthy proposals, and it's teamed up with the MassChallenge startup accelerator to find the next great entrepreneurial space research project -- and they want YOU, dear readers to hit them with your ideas. Want to know more? Join us after the break to find out what it takes to get your research in orbit.</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uCCr7CSDDy0?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe> Project proposals can be in the life sciences or materials science fields, related to remote earth observation, or any other field that benefits from the extreme temperature range and microgravity environment only available in space. Should your project fit the bill, you'll get to work with the MassChallenge start-up accelerator, which provides everything a would-be company needs: mentorship from business and relevant industry folks, office space, access to funding and awards grants. MassChallenge will be doling out $1 million in grant money to a host of start-ups in $50,000 and $100,000 increments, and CASIS is putting up an additional $100,000 for the finest space-related project that makes it through the program. But that's not even the best part. CASIS also covers -- using taxpayer money, mind you -- both the cost of transporting your payload to and from the ISS and in-orbit operations costs like astronaut time to actually, you know, perform the research. To recap: you submit a research project, it gets chosen, then CASIS gives you $100K to bring it to fruition and shoots it into space on a SpaceX rocket or one of CASIS's other launch partners. It costs $199 to apply to the MassChallenge Accelerator, but we'll be giving out $100 dollar discount codes for applicants later this week, so stay tuned for that and more info on the process. In the meantime, feel free to peruse the MassChallenge and CASIS websites and get those research ideas percolating.</div></div>

CASIS and the MassChallenge startup accelerator want to help you conduct research... in space!

  Most folks are familiar with the International Space Station (ISS). However, what you may not know is that the national lab on board the...

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Matterport 3D camera aims to map your interior world, display it from the cloud

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Matterport 3D camera aims to map your interior world, display it from the cloud" data-src-height="422" data-src-width="650" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/matteport.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Startup<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7080182682816192337"> Matterport's just closed a round of investor funding to bring its 3D mapping camera and "interactive viewing platform" one step closer to commercial production. The company, founded in 2011 and backed by the likes of Qualcomm Ventures, aims to let consumers build virtual, cloud-based maps of their homes, offices or other sites of interest -- using a special camera rig -- for eventual viewing on laptops or tablets. It's an ambitious project that's managed to raise nearly $6 million in funding so far. But despite that investment, details on the specifics of the system, as well as a visual of the actual hardware used are scarce. So this could all very well smack of vaporware. For now, though, Matterport's site is selling the dream -- literally, as you can sign-up to pre-order now. So if you want to take a gander at what those 3D indoor maps <em>may</em> look like, hit up the source below.</a> </div><div dir="ltr" id="pr_box_button" style="text-align: left;">Hide Press Release</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> March 07, 2013 08:00 AM Eastern Time<br /> Matterport Unveils $5.6 Million Funding to 3D Capture Everything, Even the Kitchen Sink</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Matterport, the leader in rapid 3D scanning of spaces and objects, announced today that it raised a $5.6 million Series A financing round to create immersive experiences with interior spaces, starting with your home. Lux Capital led this latest investment round, with participation from Felicis Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, Greylock, Qualcomm Ventures, as well as a number of prominent Silicon Valley angels.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> "We welcome the participation of these investors," said Matt Bell, inventor of the camera and Matterport co-founder. "Together we are transcending limitations of the physical world by allowing people to communicate in 3D."</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> "Matterport makes the extraordinary look easy," said Peter Hebert, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lux Capital. "Using advanced hardware and algorithms, Matterport helps consumers and businesses create accurate, photo-realistic 3D models – quickly, easily and automatically. Beyond initial markets in housing and interiors, the range of end applications is bounded only by the creativity of the Matterport community."</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Matterport will soon launch the first-ever 3D camera and interactive viewing platform – allowing its community to create virtual models of any indoor space and access the resulting 3D image from a web browser or iPad – anytime, anywhere.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Matterport's cloud engine changes the way we understand and view spaces by allowing users to post and share them with the world. Users can freely navigate, measure, tag objects, and pin notes to anything in the 3D image, unlike conventional static photographs. Anyone will be able to explore homes, vacation rentals, or local restaurants remotely, as well as plan and visualize remodels.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Founded in 2011, the Silicon Valley company launched out of Y Combinator, and raised a $1.6 million Seed financing in 2012 to develop initial versions of the camera hardware and software. The Series A will enable Matterport to scale production to meet market demand.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Matterport has begun taking pre-orders for their 3D camera. For more </div></div>

Matterport 3D camera aims to map your interior world, display it from the cloud

  Startup Matterport's just closed a round of investor funding to bring its 3D mapping camera and "interactive viewing platform&q...

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