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You can buy Tovala’s $399 smart oven starting today

 Tovala, a $399 smart oven out of Y Combinator promising to perfectly cook ready-made meals in under 30 minutes is finally available for purchase. It can bake, boil and steam meals at up to 550 degrees Fahrenheit in 10 to 30 minutes and works with either prepackaged Tovala meals or your own food. However, the real money maker for the startup will be in the meal delivery service. It’s a… Read More from TechCrunch via January 19, 2018 at 01:00PM

Gastric bypass surgery in a pill startup Allurion gets $27 million as it pursues FDA approval

 Allurion, a Boston-based startup offering a non-invasive gastric balloon by swallowing a pill, has gained $27 million in Series C funding from previous investor Romulus Capital, with new participation from Cogepa Investments and IDO Investments, an innovation firm based in Oman. Read More from TechCrunch via January 13, 2018 at 01:01PM

Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda

 George Hotz, aka geohot, is fidgeting in his living room, wearing dark shades and a giant comma on his t-shirt as he shows me his company’s latest product, an $88 universal car interface called Panda. Hotz both lives and works in a residential San Francisco neighborhood with a team of 20-somethings who are helping him build Comma.ai, the self-driving car startup Hotz founded to take… Read More from TechCrunch via October 16, 2017 at 01:00PM

MIT researchers used a $150 Microsoft Kinect to 3D scan a giant T. rex skull

 MIT’s Camera Culture group has been able to successfully capture a high-resolution 3D scan of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull using about $150 worth of equipment and some free software. The skull, which belongs to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, was discovered in 1990 and is the largest and most complete T. rex skull yet found. However, it has some strange holes in the… Read More from TechCrunch via October 06, 2017 at 01:00PM

Make Hollywood-quality animations at low-budget prices with this motion capture suit

 Rokoko is a new startup helping indie film and game makers make high-quality content with a new type of lower-cost motion capture suit. You might be familiar with the industry-standard green man MoCap suit many Hollywood studios use to capture the movement of objects or people for movies and games. Rokoko’s new Smartsuit Pro produces the same quality animations but sells for a fraction… Read More from TechCrunch via August 13, 2017 at 01:00PM