Pebble Time's Kickstarter campaign wrapping up in 3 days

The insanely successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Pebble's new Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel smart watches is ending this Friday, which means this could be the last chance to get on the list for these new wearables months before they hit regular retail channels. Featuring a colour e-paper display, a whole new smartwatch OS, a microphone for responding to notifications, water resistance,  as well as 7-day battery life, Pebble Time is CAD $169 (US $199 after the campaign), the Pebble Time Steel is $250  ($299 after the campaign).

Microsoft drops $150 off the Surface Pro 3

Anyone jonesing for Microsoft's 12-inch 2-in-1 portable Surface Pro 3 can now get the device for $150 off in US and Canada.  The Microsoft Store in Canada will even throw in a free sleeve for your new tablet (but you still need to pay $129 for the super-ncessary Type Cover 2).

Surface Pro 3 now starts at $799.00 for the Intel Core i3 processor with 64GB of storage up to $1799.00 for the top of the line Intel Core i7 processor with 512GB of storage. Is the price drop enough to get you to jump into the Surface Pro 3 camp?

Source: Microsoft Store

Pebble encourages smartstrap development with US $1 Million funding for successful concepts

Pebble is putting their money into encouraging smartstrap development for their upcoming Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel wearables. The smartstrap allows for expanded functionality on Pebbles by making the strap a peripheral. Various concepts have been revealed including one that enables direct connection to an LTE signal. Another concept will add GPS, NFC, OLED displays and varied other components to the Pebble Time.

Pebble pledged 1 million US dollars to encourage development and commercialization of othe smartstrap projects. Interested inventors can get a team together, build a prototype and place their project on a crowfunding platform and Pebble will offer the necessary support to make sure the projects see the light of day. I'm curious to see how far the smartstrap development can go and how much it can add to the Pebble Time.

Amazon.ca Appstore offering up to $115 in top paid apps for free

The Amazon Appstore is celebrating its birthday this week and to honour this special occasion, starting today until Saturday, March 21, the Amazon.ca Appstore is offering a free app bundle, with up to $115 in top paid apps – completely free! 

Customers will be able to download apps such as the critically acclaimed thriller Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 – currently one of the Top Paid Apps globally. To access and download the full list of apps, customers can visit the Amazon.ca Appstore here.