Author: Souhail Alaoui

Science Focus, the online website of BBC Focus magazine, edited its new Cool gadgets list for February 2018. Stellina telescope appears amongst a selection of 17 gagdets and sits next to the biggest tech brands. The readers can also find the Apple Homepod, Leica Q Snow camera, Sony Xperia Ear Duo or Honor View10 smartphone in the selection.

The cool gadgets list – February 2018

Whatever resolve you might have had through January has probably ebbed away by now. It means that now your will power has been thoroughly exhausted. Let us tempt you with some of the best gadgets and gizmos this month.

Stellina smart telescope

Telescopes tend to be big, bulky and for the most part, telescopy. (It’s something you learn sitting next to our friends at Sky at Night Magazine when it’s time for them to do telescope reviews). We’re pretty excited to see the Stellina smart telescope, which resembles something that landed from space more than something to look into it.

Rather than peer through a lens, Stellina uses a smartphone app to help you track and look at the stars. It is smart enough to tell you exactly what you are staring at. If that happens to be a hazy orange sky over the city, worry not, as it uses a special light pollution filter to cut through the atmosphere. Weighing a tidy 7kg, it’s portable enough to lug around you if you want to take it on a hike as well.

Read the original article on Science Focus here.

The Gadgeteer, tech news and reviews website, featured an article about Stellina smart telescope on February 28, 2018:

The universe is at your fingertips with the smart, app-connected Stellina telescope

The Stellina doesn’t look like a typical telescope. Instead of a long tube, Stellina is a 19? x 15? x 4.7?, 15lb block that opens into an ED doublet refractor with an 80mm aperture, f/5 focal ratio, and 400mm focal length sitting atop an alt-azimuth mount. Its 6.4MP Sony CMOS image sensor has 3096 x 2080 pixels and a 1° x 0.7° field of view.

The integrated computer can automatically find your target of interest, and the Stellina uses the included derotator to automatically follow the target as the stars rotate for long-exposure astrophotography. It uses a micro-USB 5V 2A AC power supply or by an optional mobile power charger. You can expect up to 10 hours of use with a 20,000mAh external powerbank. An app on your smartphone or tablet controls the telescope. Vaonis says: “Stellina opens up new ways to collaborate with the scientific community through crowd-sourced science. Exoplanet transits, asteroid occultations, variable star or supernova monitoring: contribute to the research by sharing your data with research scientists. Be more than an observer, be an explorer!”

Because of the compact size and light weight, the Stellina and its included tripod are easily thrown in a backpack to take along on hikes and camping trips. Its IP53 water-resistance rating means you can safely transport and used it in less-than-ideal conditions.

Vaonis is taking pre-orders now at a $500 discount. Pre-order now for $2499, and you can expect delivery in the third quarter of 2018. Learn much more about the Vaonis Stellina telescope and place your pre-order at the Vaonis website.

Read the original article on The Gadgeteer here.

Stellina telescope was featured on CNN Tech amongst 17 cool gadgets that tease the future. The article was published on January 16, 2018, after Vaonis smart telescope caught the attention of CES special CNN reporters Heather Kelly and Kaya Yurieff. In this selection, Stellina telescope sits next to the biggest tech brands. Indeed, the readers will be able to discover the Samsung’s Wall TV that made sensation during CES 2018, LG Display rollable TV prototype or Aibo, a companion robot dog designed by Sony.

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High tech telescope

Stellina is a larger portable telescope that works with a smartphone and tablet app.

Instead of searching the night sky yourself, you can select which planet or constellation you’d like to view from the app. The telescope will automatically find it and send images back to your device.

The telescope includes light-pollution filtering to help city-dwellers see more stars. The 15-pound device can run for 10 hours with an external battery.

The telescope will be available starting in March in Europe. Cost: $2,500.

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Original article available on CNN here.

During CES 2018, Stellina telescope caught the attention of Digital Trends, major media website featuring the latest technology news around the world. CES special reporter Jake Rossman interviewed Cyril Dupuy, founder of Vaonis, who gave a presentation of the award-winning smart telescope. The interview appears in an article published on January 11 on the media’s website :

Stellina smart telescope from Vaonis lets you take pictures of the universe

“The goal of this project is to make astronomy more accessible to everyone,” said Vaonis CEO Cyril Dupus. “We can easily take wonderful pictures with drones, and with GoPro, but nothing exists to take pictures of the universe. So we have created it.”

He’s talking about the newest addition to the telescope family — Stellina. While traditional telescopes can be difficult to use and install, Stellina offers up a simple, more user-friendly way to gaze into the heavens.

With app connectivity, this new-age telescope makes collecting gorgeous images of the stars easier than ever before. All you have to do is set up its tripod, press the power button, and choose from hundreds of suggestions directly from your smartphone. It only takes a few seconds for Stellina to position itself, take a picture, and send the image directly to your phone or computer. From there, you can share these photos on Facebook or Twitter, or just save them for a rainy day.

Stellina is also very compact. With its lightweight design, you can slip this telescope into a backpack, head to a remote location, and take wonderful pictures of the night sky. No matter where you travel, you’ll always be able to save your favorite images and share the beauty of the stars with the ones you love.

“There is no eyepiece, because with an eyepiece, you have to observe alone,” said Cyril Dupus, speaking to the connectivity Stellina provides.

You can reserve your own Stellina from the company’s website, which is offering a $500 discount for CES. With a price tag of $2,499, this smart telescope may be out of reach for the average consumer, but at least it’s a step in the right direction.

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Original article available on Digital Trends here.

Stellina telescope was featured on Wired UK amongst The most interesting new gadgets and gear from CES 2018:

CES 2018 is here, which can only mean one thing: gadgets. Cut through the landfill with our guide to the new gadgets that will define 2018. For what you should buy right now, take a look at the WIRED Recommends guide to the best gadgets.

VAONIS STELLINA

Stargazing has never been so easy. The Stellina telescope is a smart product that photographs the night sky at a push of a button. You hook-up the telescope’s accompanying mobile app and it uses GPS to work out where you are. Then it’s possible to select a constellation you want to photograph and the telescope will do its best.

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Original article available on Wired UK here.

To help startups build relationships and get noticed, TechCo media company and CES, have teamed up for the CES Startup Night Downtown Las Vegas on January 8, 2018 for a showdown with some of the top startups selected from Eureka Park.

Vaonis was selected amongst 15 top startups from around the world to pitch to an exclusive group of industry leaders and investor judges, competing for a chance to win a spot in the Top 100 Startup of the Year Semifinalists at Innovate Celebrate 2018.

The event was open to tech enthusiasts and CES conference attendees, and offers an opportunity to see some of the hottest, early-stage, tech startups before CES begins. Attendees can enjoy signature cocktails and delicious appetizers while they mingle with investors, experts, media, and other techies in the industry that can help build businesses.

Startup of the year Downton Las Vegas was not the only event Vaonis participated during CES. The team also attended the French Village CES 2018 event. The organizers also offered a pitch contest for a selection of the best French startups exhibiting at CES. Cyril Dupuy, founder of Vaonis, won this competition and a 100,000€ value prize.

More details: www.tech.co

Stellina telescope received the 2018 Observeur du Design award, a product design competition organized by the APCI, a French agency promoting industrial design.

This year, the jury of the Observeur du Design awarded 163 creations for their innovative design, respectful of environment, companies or to users. The laureates will be showcased in France and abroad and will be presented in the book Design of Today (Dunod editions) that gathers all the laureates with comments from designers and experts from the industry. Stellina is pleased to announce this award and the publication of this book presenting Stellina amongst ‘163 creations that announce the change of tomorrow’.

The Observeur du Design award is not the only award received by Vaonis. Stellina smart telescope was also awarded for its design in 2017 by a Janus de l’Industrie. In October 2017, the Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest tech event worldwide, announced the telescope won a CES Innovation Award in the Digital Imaging category. French major retailer Nature & Découvertes also designated Vaonis and its Stellina innovation as winner of their annual startup contest in 2016.

More details: www.apci.asso.fr/observeur

Smart telescope Stellina was awarded CES 2018 Innovation Honoree in the Digital Imaging category. The prize was announced during CES Unveiled Paris, a pre-CES event reserved for entrepreneurs, influencers and medias of the tech industry in order to give a preview of the innovations that the visitors will be able to discover during the CES held in January.

The CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is the largest global gathering of innovation that showcases the connected future of technology. Last year, 180,000 visitors discovered the latest product innovations from all over the world. In January, more than 4,000 exhibitors and 7,000 medias and journalists will attend this major event that gathers the biggest industries, most disruptive startups and major players in the tech industry to build the world of tomorrow. The annual CES Innovation Awards program celebrates outstanding product design and engineering in brand-new consumer technology products.

Vaonis is pleased to announce this prize that rewards the best product innovation every year and its participation to the event in Las Vegas in January 2018 where the team will present its innovation to the international public.

Plus d’infos : www.ces.tech

Vaonis is laureate of the 2017 NETVA program, a French national competition organized by the Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the United States. A hundred of companies applied to the competition that offers a personalized mentoring program tailored for young, innovative French companies hoping to discover or better understand the inner-workings of the North American high-tech market. The support program includes strategic trainings, as well as access to a vast academic, scientific, and industrial network and a travel to one of the four NETVA cities: Boston, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington, DC (where Vaonis will travel).

About NETVA
Since 2010, NETVA (New Technology Venture Accelerator) has supported 88 startups. It is organized by the Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the United States, in partnership with a total of thirty partners such as the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation, Bpifrance, Business France, Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France, Inria.

More info : www.netvafrance.com