Keeping up with technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. Fusion Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Agency Fusion.
Flatstrap
Flatstrap is a version of Twitter Bootstrap with no rounded corners, no gradients, and no drop shadows – because sometimes a project just doesn’t need those. It’s perfect for developers who want to use Bootstrap for Metro-like designs.
Anki
Anki is a free, open source program that proclaims it can help you remember and learn new subjects. It improves on traditional study methods by synchronizing all your devices so you can study anywhere and creating flash cards that remind you in increasing time intervals (a day, a week, a month, etc.) what you’ve already learned.
Throwww
This minimalistic website fills a bit of a gap in the blogging world. Have something to say that’s longer than 140 characters, but not long enough to be a proper blog post? Just start writing on Throwww’s site, it generates a unique url, and you can share the link to your post on any forum you choose.
Are You a Human
If you’re like us – actually, if you’re a human being who has used the internet sometime in the last decade, it’s likely that Captcha is a bane of your existence. Luckily, the developers from Are You a Human have an interactive (and entertaining) solution.
Evrythng
Simply put, Evrythng makes anything a “smart” object. With smart tags or embedded chips and smartphones, they create an Active Digital Identity on the web for anything you can think of – pens, guitars, bikes, watches, shoes, whatever. Everything becomes shareable, everything has a web presence, and everything is trackable.
Outgrow.me
Kickstarter and Indiegogo are useful tools for anyone trying to fund ideas or inventions; but for the rest of us, who simply want to profit from these ideas, there’s Outgrow.me. It’s the first (and only) marketplace that hosts successful projects and ideas from fundraiser sites.
Ubuntu for Phones
If anyone reading this uses Ubuntu (and we assume some of you do, since you’re reading this), they’ve now come out with their “superphone.” It’s a sleek-looking machine that has some unique ideas about the homepage, apps, and search functions.
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone
BeetBox
And now for something completely different; BeetBox is an instrument, powered by Raspberry Pi, that uses a capacitive touch sensor and an audio amplifier to play the drums. On actual beets. It’s hard to capture how truly bizarre and truly awesome this concept is; you’ll have to check it out.
http://scott.j38.net/interactive/beetbox/
Gamestick
Gamestick is an extremely portable gaming device. The controller is fairly standard, but the console is a flash drive that fits inside the controller and plugs into any laptop and many TVs. At $79, it’s an affordable, adorable, forward-thinking gaming device that’s worth looking at.
Pebble
We write about a lot of cool gadgets on here, and Pebble is no exception. It is, however, a cool gadget that basically anyone can use. It’s a watch with an e-paper display and various downloadable watchfaces. It’s also Bluetooth-capable, so it can do things like control your music, sync with your computer, and show messages, notifications, or emails.
Inventables
This is a hardware store for designers, and as such, it comes with standard materials like acrylic sheets, coatings, and magnets. However, it also has things like soft gel magnets, suction cup tape, heat-shielding gel, and light diffusers, for any unconventional projects you happen to be working on.
TrakDot
This one is for anyone who’s ever been frustrated with an airline for losing their luggage. And unless you’ve only been on a plane once or twice in your life, you’re in this category with the rest of us. TrakDot is a palm-sized device you slip into your luggage that uses a GSM chip and triangulation to update you on its location via an app, text messages, or email.