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Since the launch of the iPhone 7 and AirPods there have been a number of products dedicated to making sure those little white computers in your eardrum never get lost. Courage, Tapper, and the Spigen AirPods Strap come to mind.

With those preventative measures in mind... Enter to win free  AirPods! The winner will also get a brand new iPhone 7, plus two runners-ups will each receive the new Apple Watch Series 2. 📱⌚️🎉

Late Friday night Snapchat unveiled their highly anticipated smart video sunglasses: Spectacles. With the tap off a button you record 10 seconds of circular video, a new format that looks pretty awesome (and solves the portrait vs landscape video debate, at last). As part of the launch Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. to reflect that it's more than just an app.

But Spectacles isn’t Snap's first physical product launch. Here are 5 others you can buy right now:

❄️ Ice Tray
🎒 Backpack
🃏 Playing Cards
👻 Plushie
⛱ Beach Towel

When you think of fashion in tech, hoodies, Dropbox tees, other startup tees, and Slack socks come to mind. When fashion meets tech, it gets a whole lot more interesting with these products:

😮 InkHunter lets you try tattoos in real-time using augmented reality
🙆 Try.com is your new favorite place to try and return clothes online
📸 GoFind AI lets you snap a photo to find similar items to buy 
🐐 GOAT is the safest way to buy and sell sneakers from your phone
🏃 Nike's self-lacing running shoes will finally go on sale Nov 28th!

Special thanks to Ashley Laurel for curating the Fashion Meets Tech collection on Product Hunt. 🙏

Apple recently released macOS Sierra, and Siri is everywhere (shortcut: activate Siri by pressing Option + Spacebar). You can ask her all kinds of things on the Mac, such as:

🕵 "Find all PDFs I worked on in the last 30 days"
📅 "Add 'research cat GIFs' tomorrow at 1pm to my calendar"
🤔 "What's a good Italian restaurant nearby?"
🎶 “Open Spotify and play Creed"

But there are so many more things you can ask (and Easter Eggs!) in this comprehensive list of Siri commands.

Now, if you're on Android, explore over 150 OK Google commands that work like a charm.

Google's highly anticipated smart messaging app just launched on iOS and Android! Get it here.

Things you can do with Google Allo:
• Respond without typing, with a single tap
• Shout or whisper it to get your point across
• Draw on photos and add text (like Snapchat)
• Respond with Stickers (because it's 2016) and...

Get help from your Google Assistant. Add the @google bot to request restaurant recommendations, nearby movies, YouTube (cat) videos, sports scores, and a bunch more. You can talk to this bot for hours. Google is quite good at AI.

Today the iMessage App Store turns 1-week old. They grow up so fast. So we put together a list of some of the early must-have apps:

🤗 Jib Jab: Turn yourself into a GIF without leaving iMessage
🎉 Party Parrots: The best of Slack now in your iMessage
🤐 Censored: Bad words bleeped. Photos pixelated. Secrets kept.
✂️ Rock-Paper-Scissors: Win any argument right inside iMessage
😏 Grammar Snob: Markup your friends' texts like an English teacher
🗼 Airbnb for iMessage: A new way to plan your trip

Follow the topic to stay up to date as new iMessage apps come out!

Software engineers have superpowers, but there are a lot of things you can build without writing a line of code.

Create a beautiful website in just a few clicks with Tilda, build a fully functional web app using Bubble, make your own games with Stencyl, and Code-Free Startup will teach you how to build Airbnb and other real world apps.

Build an app without writing code. It's magical. Full collection on Product Hunt.

This week at TechCrunch Disrupt ambitious startups took the stage and shared their vision of changing the world™. Meanwhile, potential investors care about a variety of things, like genius, courage, and using tabs over spaces. As well as...

Dave McClure reveals the metrics he looks for at the seed stage

Aileen Lee on growth you need for your pitch to stand above the rest

Robert Herjavec on his top 3 attributes when deciding to invest

Lauren Kolodny cares most about these qualities in founders 

Mark Suster has advice for startups raising money in this day

For more, read our new Medium post on what investors look for when evaluating a startup, and Startup Metrics: Which Ones Matter Most. 💸

Slack, the GIF-sharing app with team collaboration and bots, has a new beta for Windows and Mac! It's completely rebuilt on Electron so everything is lightning fast (and just better overall). You're invited. 💌

Popular Slack bots you gotta try:
🐤 Birdly is a  Slack bot that does you expense reports
👥 Gotta Slack ‘Em All will distract your team with Pokemon
🕓 Timezoner is the time zone calculator for distributed teams
🌮 HeyTaco rewards your teammates with Tacos when they're 🔥
🌥 WorkBot lets you command all your cloud apps from Slack

Explore more Slack bots, but first download the new Slack Beta.

Transportation is so hot right now. GM bought Cruise for over $1 BILLION and last week Ford acquired this SF-based commuter service.

Now Uber is rolling out self-driving cars. On the streets. With pedestrians and everything. Can't wait to try it. 👀