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With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Phones Collected, Device Recycler ecoATM Adds Tablets
Author: Tech Blogger
According to Strategy Analytics, about 1.6 billion mobile phones were shipped in 2012, with 700 million of those being smartphones. That doesn’t even take tablets into account. Compass Intelligence estimates that 18 million new tablets were sold during the fourth quarter of 2012. Naturally, as waves upon waves of new smartphones and tablets hit stores, people need a way of disposing of their old, used devices.
Enter ecoATM, the Coinstar for your has-been mobile devices. For those unfamiliar, the San Diego-based startup is the maker of nifty ATM-like kiosks that fully automate the buy-back of used consumer electronics, giving you cash for your old iPod. We first caught wind of this innovative concept when it debuted at DEMO Spring 2011, promising to bring its self-serve recycling kiosks to a mall near you.
Since then, the startup has found plenty of eager adopters at retail outlets and has paid out “millions of dollars to hundreds of thousands of customers.” And, in the process, ecoATM Chairman and CEO Tom Tullie says it has saved landfills from hundreds of thousands of potentially toxic devices. To date, the startup has been able to “find a second life” for 60 percent of the devices it has collected, recycling the rest.
However, until now, ecoATM has only addressed a portion of the used device market, as its kiosks have been limited to accepting your cell phones, smartphones and MP3 players. But, today, with the tablet market in full bloom, the startup has expanded its support in kind, announcing that its kiosks will now be accepting used tablets of all stripes. Cash for clunky tablets. [Want to find the location of the nearest ecoATM, GPS yo self here.]
Now that a year has passed since ecoATM took home the Best Clean Tech Startup award at the Crunchies, we decided to check in with Ryan Kuder, the company’s marketing director, to hear more about the progress the startup has made over the last 12 months. Not surprisingly, Kuder tells us that 2012 was a year of dramatic growth for ecoATM and its kiosks, and the validation of winning a Crunchie “right at the beginning of that” definitely helped. (Wink.)
Since winning the award, ecoATM has gone from 50 kiosks to about 300 in 20 states. This year, he’s hoping to add another 600 or 700 kiosks, bringing the total to 1,000. And although ecoATM has focused on placing machines in malls, Kuder said, “Eventually, we’re going to run out of malls.” That’s why it’s also testing kiosks in supermarkets and other locations. (To fund that growth, ecoATM raised a $ 17 million round in the spring.)
But are people actually using the machines? Well, Kuder said people used ecoATM to recycle “hundreds of thousands of phones” last year, and with the company’s expansion plans, that number should go into the millions this year.
As the tablet announcement suggests, ecoATM is also expanding beyond phones into other categories of portable electronics, but Kuder said the company will be proceeding carefully: “You know, it’s important to do the things we do well.”
By the way, the Crunchies are tomorrow night at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. You can buy tickets here.
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Met museum opens up hundreds of art books with online access and print on demand
Author: Randy Miller
New York’s Metropolitan Gallery of Art introduced a new portal earlier this month offering free of charge, full-text online variations of hundreds of art books. Dubbed MetPublications, the tool offers unmatched access to the output of the gallery’s publishing arm, opening up 643 titles extending back to 1964– current books feature Afghanistan: Forging Civilizations along the Silk Roadway and Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy, both released this year. Exactly what’s more, 140 out of print books are now readily available for purchase with a top quality print on need service administered by Yale University Press.
The initiative, supposedly funded by a donation from Hunt and Betsy Lawrence, is integrated with Google Books, enabling individuals to discover titles …
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NYT claims Apple has dallied with investing ‘hundreds of millions’ in Twitter
Author: Charity Woods
Apple has been on a social networking kick lately, exactly what with Twitter’s footings in iOS 5 and OS X Mountain Lion in addition to Facebook’s approaching presence in iOS 6. From exactly what the New York Times hears, that fascination can come to be more of a fixation. The business has actually supposedly chatted with Twitter in past months about the possibility of investing cash on the scale you ‘d typically anticipate from a later-stage endeavor capitalist: the paper is conversing “hundreds of millions” of dollars based on Twitter being valued at even more than $ 10 billion. Any such deal would be less about financing (Twitter purportedly has $ 600 million-plus in the bank) and more about getting cozy in a social globe where Apple still has some discovering to do. Apple may similarly wish to discourage opponents from getting any sort of ideas, we might add. Neither side will comment, and the discussions aren’t even expected to be active at present. Regardless, that Apple could have also toyed with a social networking financial investment might represent a significant modification in tack for a business that’s not consistently known for playing well with others.
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Dumb Buyer Beware: Chinese State Police Seize Hundreds Of Fake Apple iPhone… Gas Stoves
Author: Eric Moss
Today I learned a gas stove branded as an iPhone cannot take Instagram pics, make phone calls and probably isn’t a real iPhone. But some consumers might not be as educated. Good thing the Chinese state police is always ready to enforce trademark infringement and recently seized 681 so-called iPhone gas stoves.
These stoves, produced by “Apple China Limited”, would likely be a hot seller in the official Apple merchandise store, giving Apple engineers and fanboys a humorous party conversation piece. Or, for Foxconn workers, it could be a great space heater.
M.I.C.gadget notes that each of the gas stoves are adorned with green Apple logo and even have a compliance certification label. But don’t be fooled, these are not real Apple products. But they’re still better than those fake Android stoves. Right, fanboys?
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Photographer Spends Hundreds Of Thousands To Create 8×10 Digital Sensor
Author: Markus Smith
Mitchell Feinberg is a photographer who specializes in taking beautiful photographs of very expensive things. Cars, luxury goods, wristwatches, that sort of thing. He shoots on 8×10 film, which is expensive enough that you generally want to get it right the first time. So he shoots test shots on instant 8×10 Polaroid film to make sure the exposure and focus are right. At $ 15 a pop, 7 or 8 test shots per photo, and dwindling supplies of the Polaroid film itself (though the Impossible Project is looking to remake it), it became evident to Feinberg that he couldn’t continue doing things that way.
So what did he do? No, he didn’t buy a Leaf or Hasselblad. He decided he’d commission the world’s biggest color digital back. After some haggling and assurances that yes, he was serious, a prototype was put together in Februrary of 2010 and the production unit delivered in early 2011.
He calls it the Maxback. It’s fully 8×10″; for comparison, Hasselblad’s best digital back, the CFV-50, is 36.7×49.1mm. Feinberg says the largest available backs are about 4.5x6cm. Here’s a comparison to show you how that compares with the Maxback:
Yes, quite a difference. The interesting bit, though, is that the Maxback isn’t designed to produce many pixels. In fact, this whole enormous sensor only puts out a 16-bit 10-megapixel image. It’s a 10-megapixel image of the highest quality, of course, because of the quality of the lens and the size of the pixel wells, but still not big enough for high-fidelity printing on posters, magazines, and so on.
He takes a few shots with the digital back (which he had engineered to fit his large format setup exactly), then simply switches it out for the 8×10 film when he’s satisfied.
The cost was… well, I’ll let Feinberg explain: “The development and production of two backs (I wanted to have a spare) was equal to the cost of a good size house – before the housing crash.” So we’re probably talking half a million dollars.
The thing is, he was spending $ 50,000 on Polaroids every year. He hopes it’ll pay for itself, and now that the design and testing is done, the cost for making more should be “in the low six figures.” So he might be able to fast track breaking even by selling a couple to other large-format photographers with money to throw around.
An interesting, if expensive, solution to the problem, and the result is impressive to say the least. If you have a minute, check out some of Feinberg’s shots — you might recognize a few, but there were some beauties in there I hadn’t seen, especially in the Esquire wristwatch spread.
I love that floor, too.
[via PetaPixel]
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Capcom: PSN Outage “Costing Us Hundreds Of Thousands, If Not Millions”
Author: William Miller
While gamers around the world are pining for their online play and PSN store access, the companies that rely on the service to sell games are really feeling it. Capcom is one of many PSN-reliant companies that’s losing a ton of money in lost sales. VP Christian Svensson posts on their forums: “as an executive responsible for running a business, the resulting outage obviously costing us hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue that were planned for within our budget. These are funds we rely on to bring new games to market for our fans.”
With the end of the outage in sight but several weeks out (by the latest estimates), it looks like they’re going to lose a lot more.
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Cablevision Optimum for iPad app now available, streams hundreds of TV channels plus VOD
Author: Laura Clark
The new Cablevision iPad app is out, taking on broadcasters (Fox, Discovery, Viacom) attacking Time Warner’s live TV streaming TWCable TV app by offering subscribers the same channels as their iO TV package and video on demand. The Optimum for iPad app also includes the ability to set up DVR recordings, delete recorded shows and browse TV listings, although it doesn’t act as a direct remote for the cable box. The last time Fox and Cablevision squared off subscribers couldn’t watch their shows on Hulu or two games of the World Series which, along with a long battle over network DVRs, suggests the cable company is prepared to dig its heels in deep on this issue. Multichannel News points out subscribers need at least one cable box and internet service from Cablevision to make use of the new app and the TOS states it can only be used within the customer’s residence. Subscribers suitably equipped can grab the app at the iTunes link below, or just check out screens in the gallery.
[Thanks, jcdesimp & Michael]
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Hundreds at midnight launch of Kinect
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Comic-Con Report: Photographic Evidence
Author: Tech Blogger
It’s been two weeks since Comic-Con and the world has already moved on to the next thing (Gen Con, anyone?) but I’m still sorting through my photos from the trip. There’s such a tremendous amount going on for the four days that it’s impossible to encapsulate in just a few posts and tweets—I probably could have gotten enough material in those four days for a month’s worth of posts.
Instead, I’ll leave you with a collection of photos from Comic-Con, whittled down from the hundreds that I took. Not all of these are the best composition or even in the best focus, but in a crowded exhibit hall sometimes you take what you can get. Hope you enjoy this glimpse through my camera lens!
My first view of Comic-Con
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Comic-Con Report: Photographic Evidence
Author: Rahul Gabe
It’s been two weeks since Comic-Con and the world has already moved on to the next thing (Gen Con, anyone?) but I’m still sorting through my photos from the trip. There’s such a tremendous amount going on for the four days that it’s impossible to encapsulate in just a few posts and tweets—I probably could have gotten enough material in those four days for a month’s worth of posts.
Instead, I’ll leave you with a collection of photos from Comic-Con, whittled down from the hundreds that I took. Not all of these are the best composition or even in the best focus, but in a crowded exhibit hall sometimes you take what you can get. Hope you enjoy this glimpse through my camera lens!
My first view of Comic-Con
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Comic-Con Report: Photographic Evidence
