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Imp: A New, Open-Source Computer

If you take a quick glance through the technology sections on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo, you'll see a ton of innovative, cutting edge projects and products. However, you will see very few new takes on older products. However, we just came across one such product: the Imp Computer. While, yes, the absence of new takes [...]

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SlidePick: Organize Your Photos Quickly and Easily

   With the huge amount of pictures that we take with mobile devices, organizing them can be a real pain. There are just too many photos. However, we just came across an app that makes in incredibly easy to organize all these photos: SlidePick. We had a chance to ask the team a few questions [...]

Microsoft: All Siri Did Was Get Bigger

I've got one of those tree falls in the woods questions, if a smartphone, mobile based digital assistant has better functionality than any other digital assistant on the market, but the smartphones it's in only have 3% of the market, is it really better? That's the question that probably has people in Redmond Washington scratching [...]

FileInvite: A New Way to Communicate With Clients

  If you have ever worked as a freelancer - really, in any role - you know what a hassle dealing with clients can be. It is not that clients are malicious or anything like that. Rather, they just seem to be unsure or non-specific. That's a huge part of why they bring in freelance [...]

Free Yourself From Wires & Bluetoothify Your Headphones With BTunes

Most high end headphones, aka Beats, top models from Sony, SOL, Sennheiser and many more, connect from the headphones to the audio producing device via a detachable cord. For the past decade or so, headphone manufacturers have found it valuable to save their customers from having to replace expensive headphones just because the wire snapped. [...]

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Aereo Files for Bankruptcy Protection

Aereo's battle against the giant cable company's has come to an end. On Friday, November 21, Aereo applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. While the writing was on the wall, there were some signs, however slight, that Aereo may slip out of its legal noose. Whatever the case, Aereo put up a valiant fight, arguing its [...]

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Water Hero: Control Your Water System From Anywhere

As we have noted, there are countless examples of "smart" things out there. A majority of these smart things, however slight a majority, are arbitrary. There are, however, some smart devices with some serious world-changing  implications. One such device is the Water Hero Smart Leak Detection System: Though water damage and leaking pipes may not [...]

Walmart Is The Place To Be “Cyber Week”

We all know that after we fill up with turkey on Thursday for Thanksgiving, it's off to the races for Black Friday. For those of you that still know what Radio Shack is, you can start your shopping fix right after turkey dinner, or heck, right before. But for those of us Americans with that shopping [...]

Voyajo: Personalized Travel Itineraries

  We travel a lot. Going to conferences and meetings keeps up on the road. While we stay pretty busy on the road, there is a good amount of downtime. This downtime can present quite a challenge. A lot of the time, we are in cites that we are completely unfamiliar with, meaning we have [...]

Has The iPad Met It’s Match In Common Core?

The memes are everywhere. Parents that grew up in the 70's, 80's and 90's are stumped by the new "Common Core" state standards in education. These standards are supposed to insure that kids in Omaha Nebraska are proficient in the exact same things that kids in Tallahassee Florida are. The idea behind common core seems [...]