Smart Tech The Best Electronics Every Start-Up Should Have

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When you’re in business, having the right tools at your disposal is essential to moving your company forward. Startups and small businesses may not have the crazy large budgets of big companies, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need the right technology. A few well-placed innovations can make office life much more inspiring and profitable.

Styluses and Smart Pens

Despite voice-to-text, typing, and the quickness you’ve learned when typing on those tiny touch-screen keyboards, many people still reach for a pen and a post-it to quickly scribble down information. That’s where the Livescribe 3 Smartpen comes in. When you write on Livescribe’s paper, the pen reads your written notes and turns them into a digital format. Then it uses Bluetooth to connect to your iOS devices to store your written info.

If you need to do a lot of graphics, the Scriba stylus is a must. You actually squeeze the pen to dictate line thickness, and its battery works for 200 hours per charge.

Screens and Projectors

Whether you’re a small business owner or an entrepreneur who does extensive business outside the office, you need a way to get your information and ideas across to employees and clients during presentations and meetings. While in the office, a high resolution smart TV from a company like Sony, Panasonic, or LG with WebOS is the solution. An easy wireless connection lets you link up your smartphone and connect to the web, giving you large-screen access to all your videos and spreadsheets with a click of the remote.

If you want to convey images and videos outside the office or in many departments, a P300 Pico Projector from AXAA is a great idea. It connects to TVs, laptops, computers, USB devices, and AV connections. You can get a projection as big as 120″ in low lighting. It’s a great way to come prepared to any meeting.

Device Charging Solutions

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Startups are known for small office spaces with a mess of cords going every which way from devices to outlets, phone jacks, and routers. Chargers are cumbersome and easily damaged, and when you have a big presentation or need to run to a meeting across town with a client, a dangerously low battery can mean the difference between professionalism and gaucherie.

The Znaps charger and mobile adapter changes the charging experience for phones. A small magnetic charger goes inside the plug dock in your phone, and an adapter covers the plug-in of your existing charger. They connect magnetically, are waterproof, and work for Android and Apple devices. If you trip over the cord, no problem, it just disconnects easily without pulling the phone to the floor. For your laptop, there’s the FINsix Dart, a tiny lightweight charger which has connection options compatible with most computers. It completely eliminates that bulky, heavy charger that came with the laptop.

With these new electronics, you can stop focusing on the mundane irritations of office spaces. Scrap the old, glitchy technology that made life difficult for these new innovations that will make startup and small business life easier.