15 Hot Startups Exploring The Hardware Niche


#11 Olloclip - Funding: Personal funding and $68,201 from Kickstarter

Is a tiny iPhone camera accessory that lets users take dynamic photos.

Founder: Patrick O'Neil

Olloclip enhances photography experience on Smartphones. The venture develops special lenses that clop onto your Smartphone to create amazing effects. The device is light and simple to use.

#10 littleBits - Funding: $4.5 million

Are small, simple, intuitive, blocks similar to LEGOs. They make creative  things with sophisticated electronics as easy as snapping small magnets together.

Founders: Ayah Bdeir

littleBits offers a variety of electronic starter kits, to customize and develop your own gadgets. It promotes creativity by allowing the customer to create their own devices.

#9 Lapka - Funding: Unknown

Empowers its users to use science to discover more about their environment.

Founders: Vadik Marmeladov and Sergey Philippov

Lapka comes with a set of sensor modules that plug into your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Its sensors track the quality of the environment around you. It provides information such as the background radiation levels, humidity, electromagnetic field strength and the nitrate levels in organic matter.

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