$10 million Pebble e-watch to ship January 23

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http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/09/technology/innovation/pebble-ship-date/

Pebble CEO and founder Eric Migicovsky announced the news Wednesday, during a media conference that was webcast to eager Kickstarter supporters at the Customer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Pebble is a simple watch that can connect through Bluetooth to an iPhone or Android smartphone. It shows texts and emails, and vibrates for each incoming call and able to controls music playlists, also it has sports and fitness apps as well. The founder Migicovsky committed himself to sending 85,000 Pebbles and about 69,000 peoples are financed in this project. The first group of watches will start sending to Kickstarter’s sponsors on January 23 and now Tens of thousands” people have signed up for pre-orders on Pebble’s website said Migicovsky. He also said that “It would be great to see Pebble in stores, but they haven’t made any kind of deals yet” for this. They are excited to see how it progresses.

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Why everybody wants a slice of Raspberry Pi

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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/21/tech/innovation/raspberry-pi-computer-upton/index.html

This is the most powerful and the smallest computer in the world called Respberry Pi (RPi). The RPi is only a credit-card sized computer that costs little more than a textbook. It has a full program that run a free, 3D graphics power. It can connect to the internet. It also has two USB ports, an SD card slot, an internet connection and microchip in the middle. Originally it designed to encourage school children to learn programming skill. This mini-PC is popular with DIY geehs, who have used it to power their own creations.