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One Coin for All Your Cards

Entrepreneur Kanish Parashar has an ambitious goal: He wants to replace every credit card, gift card and loyalty card in your wallet.

To do that, Parashar has founded a company called Coin. Unlike other companies like Square and PayPal that are trying to do the same thing with mobile apps and proprietary services, Parashar plans to use something quite different -- something that looks like a credit card.

Coin is a Bluetooth card that can be used in the place of the cards in your wallet. Any card with a magnetic strip can be added to Coin, and a button on the front allows you to easily swap between cards. With each button press, the magnetic strip on the card essentially becomes your card of choice, giving you the ability to carry around your whole wallet in just a single piece of plastic. A tiny LED screen displays the last four digits of the card you're using along with its expiration date.

The final version on Coin will also allow you to give each card a four-character nickname such as "Bank" or "Work" to keep them straight.

Parashar got the idea for Coin after another payment startup of his, Smartmarket, failed.

Smartmarket was a mobile payment solution that used "geofencing" to allow customers to pay for goods when they were physically near a store. While Smartmarket got quite a few downloads, it wasn't actually being used for payments. "Turns out we had a chicken and the egg problem," says Parashar. "Customers couldn't find merchants who adopted it, and merchants didn't see customers use the app, so they didn't have a reason to adopt it."

With Coin, Parashar hopes the process will be intuitive. "A card is something that we're used to using," he says. "We have a habit [of using a card], and we trust it."

Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229937#ixzz2ke7xa6b9

(Source: Only Coin, Kanish Parashar)

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Technology

Volkswagan Smile Drive. Powered by Google

Americans love their cars. And millennials love to share. Now Volkswagen and Google are hoping to combine the two passions with the goal of making your commute more social.

Source courtesy of Volkswagen

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Technology

MacBook Air 2013 Fully Stocked, New MacBook Pro and Mac Pro in Limbo

Photo and source courtesy of Stabley Times

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Business

Network Marketing

A hilarious cartoon on the misconceptions between network marketing and pyramid scheme.

Source courtesy of Pat Petrini

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Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

- Jim Rohn

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Technology

3D Printed Glasses | Protos Eyewear

It began in studio class at California College of the Arts. Four friends gathered together to change the face of manufacturing. Doug designed algorithms to make rapid changes to CAD models, Marc worked in 3D printing and working with alternative materials, John was involved with front-end design, and Richart specialized in online marketing and finance to help make Protos known. Later, celebrity stylist and designer eyewear consultant James Peo joined the team to help us make designs that are beautiful and fashionably current.

Photo and source courtesy of Protos Eyewear

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Media

Marissa Mayer on Success Magazine

She is one of the most influential people in the tech world today. At the age 38 years old she is one of the youngest-ever Fortune 500 CEO at the same time of having her first child. When she jump in Yahoo was very messy with around $15 per share since late 2008, and yet Mayer was 6 month pregnant.

This was a different challenge from Google. She had simlar offers but was never that interested till Yahoo gave her a call. Mayer was very used to their products and used them before they were even called Yahoo.

Photo courtesy of Success Magazine

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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

- Bill Gates

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You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

- Alfred A. Montapert

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The Washington Post, one of our country’s greatest newspapers, just sold for 1/4 the price of Tumblr.

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Apps and Software

Feedly Pro RSS Reader

RSS reader Feedly will plan to launch a paid pro version. It will cost $5 per month for new services like article search, Evernote features, premium support and more secure browsing.

Photo courtesy of Feedly

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Technology

How Does Your iPhone Work?

Have you ever stop and wonder how your iPhone or Camera works? Or how is the best cup of coffee made? Here are some semi made up infographics explaining how things are made. Perhaps some elves inside working it out for us.

Photo courtesy of Jing Zhang

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Gadgets

A Boom Box for the Outdoors

Turtle Shell created by Outdoor Technology, is now available to purchase for $129 after a very successful Kickstarter campaign.

This wireless boom box is mountable to nearly anything created and built with the outdoors-man in mind, it is water-resistant, dust-proof and shock-proof. It also features built-in speakerphone and microphone for hands-free calls.

Photo courtesy of Outdoors Technology

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