The time that Tony Fadell sold me a container of hummus.

On May 15th a critical Nest product will go…

What deep-tech startups today are doing right, and what they can learn from their predecessors.

Lessons from the previous generations of trailblazing tech companies

Hardware is not ‘software wrapped in plastic’

This past weekend I was going through a Board deck for a hardware consumer device company which aims to provide an amazing experience & UI/UX to its customers. Company still remains in stealth, but something popped out at me as I went through all the…

Hardware is not ‘software wrapped in plastic’

By Bilal Zuberi

This past weekend I was going through a Board deck for a hardware consumer device company which aims to provide an amazing experience & UI/UX to its customers. Company remains in stealth, but something popped…

Nest and the Internet of Broken Promises (and how to fix it)

To many of us, the Internet of Things is…

What’s the Deal: Thoughts on Investing in Early Stage Hardware

At the recent PCH education event for early-stage hardware investors, StrictlyVC’s and TechCrunch’s Connie Loizos interviewed Precursor VC’s Charles Hudson, Shasta Ventures’ Rob Coneybeer, Haystack’s Semil Shah, and angel investor Joshua Schachter on how they…

Automatic Teardown

To build any electronic device, you have to intimately understand how it’s made. That’s why we’re publishing a series of…

Steel & African Mahogany Media Shelf

Warm wood tones and steel come together in this project

A Playlist for Your Wall

This morning we released a new feature for Electric Objects. With Playlists, Electric Objects users can create lists of your favorite artworks from Art Club, or from the community, and set your EO1 to rotate through them every 30 minutes, every hour, every 12 hours or every 24 hours…