Long before the stock market ups and downs and the global economic uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s ever-changing tariff policies, Seattle-based laser engraver maker Glowforge made a decision to… Read More
Conduit Venture Labs, a Seattle startup lab founded in 2022 to help incubate and launch hardware-focused companies, has expanded its reach with Conduit Beacon, a service offered to outside founders,… Read More
The Portland Trail Blazers will offer technology from a Seattle startup to help blind and low-vision fans better follow the action on the basketball court. The Trail Blazers are the… Read More
Seattle-area smart-home device maker Wyze Labs and Amazon-owned Ring, among others, could be set to face new competition in the home security camera market from Apple. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo… Read More
A friend might have your back, or always be by your side. Avi Schiffmann’s Friend is around his neck. Schiffmann, the former Mercer Island High School student who wowed the… Read More
Glowforge, the Seattle-based maker of 3D laser printers/engravers, wants to bring crafting to a wider audience of consumers with a new lower-priced machine called Aura. Priced at $1,200, the Aura… Read More
A new startup lab founded by a pair of tech veterans aims to help incubate and launch hardware-focused companies. Amish Patel and Susan Paley last year launched Conduit Venture Labs,… Read More
Community. It felt good to say it and hear it, and it felt even better to see it in action on Thursday in Seattle as the tech community gathered for… Read More
Software gets a lot of attention in the Seattle area, but how about a hand for hardware and gadgets that you can actually touch, with your hands? The Hardware/Gadget of… Read More
Heroclip, a unique gear-holding gadget invented by Seattle entrepreneur Mina Yoo, has been acquired by Gear Aid of Bellingham, Wash. Yoo, a Ph.D. former professor of entrepreneurship at the University of… Read More
Surfing is not the easiest sport to learn. But getting financial backing, securing land and actually building a man-made, deep-water wave to surf in the Seattle area is definitely harder.… Read More
It’s been a tough year for people everywhere. But Thursday proved to be an inspiring day, as the 2021 GeekWire Awards returned to honor some of the leading innovators and… Read More
Watching stacks of shipping containers come and go from Seattle’s waterfront, you might wonder what’s in them, where they came from and where they’re headed. One Seattle startup isn’t filling… Read More
New product: The spotlight is once again shining on Seattle-based smart home products maker Wyze Labs, which announced Tuesday that it’s taking preorders for a new Wyze Floor Lamp. Priced… Read More
New funding: Bottomless, the small Seattle startup with big e-commerce dreams, has raised $4.5 million in a new Series A funding round to help with the continued growth of its… Read More
Chris Young took the temperature on current kitchen innovation and decided the time was right to get back to the business of inventing devices to make home cooks smarter and… Read More
On a rainy, foggy night in Seattle, an incident in a crosswalk changed the path that Janie Bube was on. A University of Washington student at the time, Bube was… Read More
A week after launching a smart vacuum to clean up around the house, Seattle-based Wyze Labs is unveiling another new product, to help keep the grass green outside. The Wyze… Read More
Wyze Labs’ vision of a smarter home, full of its cameras and other products, is also going to be a cleaner place. The Seattle-based company announced a new Wyze Robot… Read More
A small Seattle startup that created a product to help people replenish their fresh coffee supply feels validated by a new Amazon product intended to help people stock up on… Read More
Moment, the Seattle-based maker of cases and lens attachments for smartphones, is introducing a new line of products intended to take advantage of MagSafe technology in the new iPhone 12.… Read More
Editor’s note: The GeekWire Awards are now virtual on July 23. Watch live below. This post has also been updated to reflect the five finalists in the category. A rock… Read More
PicoBrew, the Seattle startup that has sought to revolutionize the way people brew beer and more at home, is looking for a buyer for its business built around high-tech appliances.… Read More
Microsoft’s Surface hardware business reached an all-time high of nearly $2 billion in revenue for the December quarter, but the company indicated that the result would have been higher if… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Anup Chathoth is CEO of Seattle startup Ubi Interactive, maker of virtual interactive whiteboard technology and a graduate of the Kinect Techstars Seattle accelerator. In this guest post,… Read More
Microsoft’s place in the battle of wireless earbud makers is going to be delayed a bit as the tech giant’s chief product officer announced Thursday that more time is needed… Read More
After it faced public backlash against the practice of using people to review voice recordings from Alexa devices, Amazon gave users increased privacy controls and came clean about how those… Read More
Attention, users of the Finder tracking device made by Bellevue, Wash.-based Pebblebee: If you’ve ever complained about a dead battery on that gadget designed to help you locate missing keys… Read More
As we’ve become more and more dependent on smartphones, keeping our devices charged up has become increasingly important. “Low-battery anxiety” is a thing now, and according to some surveys, most… Read More
Microsoft was at a crossroads, and Surface was at risk of becoming roadkill. RELATED: Microsoft Surface product roadmap revealed in new book The year was 2013, just five years ago.… Read More
