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Five UCSC students present futuristic game at IndieCade Showcase
By Scott Rappaport UC Santa Cruz June 26, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA A group of five students from UC Santa Cruz presented their game, Meet Me in the Garden, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo […]
Futuristic Lights’ new product: Ion C2C
By Kevin Karplus Proud dad of one of the founders of Futuristic Lights and Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz August 23, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA The Kickstarter for fidget spinners didn’t succeed, so Futuristic […]
Futuristic Lights Launches Galaxy on Kickstarter
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat June 16, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA Galaxy LED Fidget Spinner puts a unique twist on the world of fidget spinners The backstory: A few […]
WSJ on Onewheel: The Futuristic Toy We Hoped For
By Cody Pickens Wall Street Journal November 16, 2016 — Santa Cruz, CA What is this unicycle-skateboard hybrid that appears to have been engineered by hackers on mushrooms at Burning Man? The hoverboard movement has […]
Futuristic Lights announces third major product
By Kevin Karplus Proud dad of one of the founders of Futuristic Lights and Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz November 3, 2016 — Santa Cruz, CA Announcing Atom, a smaller, lighter gloving light [Editor’s […]
Futuristic Lights Presents Æther
By Kevin Karplus Proud dad of one of the founders of Futuristic Lights and Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz December 16, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA [Editor’s note: Futuristic Lights is a home grown […]
Futuristic Lights: From Kickstarter to Shipping
By Paige Welsh Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat (Photo above: Working into the early hours of the morning, the team packaged and loaded up all the gloves for shipping. Source: Futuristic Lights Facebook Page.) […]
A Dad’s Perspective: Behind the Scenes at Futuristic Lights
By Kevin Karplus Proud dad of one of the founders of Futuristic Lights and Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz (Image above: Here is what comes in the set: 2 gloves, 10 lights with cases, […]
Toyota Research Institute leases space at the Marina Airport to test self-driving cars
By Tajha Chappellet-LanierMonterey County Weekly January 8, 2021 — Monterey, CA (Photo above: A Toyota Research Institute demonstration from the Consumer Electronics Show in 2019, when the company displayed its “guardian” driver-assist system. Source: Toyota) […]
Christmas trees delivered by drone?
(Source: Parallel Flight Technologies) December 17, 2020 — La Selva Beach, CA Stuck inside for the holidays? Parallel Flight Technologies will deliver your Christmas tree by drone! Okay… maybe that isn’t true. But it is […]