The Ubuntu Edge may be the future of the smartphone, but does it have a future? Nexus rumors abound for the next generation of Google’s vanilla tablets and smartphones. Meanwhile, startups are hitting up Indiegogo with new quantified self devices, including sleep-tracking sheet Beddit and extreme sports tracker Trace . We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast , featuring John Biggs , Jordan Crook , Darrell Etherington and Romain Dillet .
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