The International CES is where partnerships are formed. Some are odd, some are exciting and some make sense. Two partnerships announced this week in Las Vegas fit all three categories. First, BMW was showing off their new i3 electric car. The car is a little larger than there Mini Coopers and features connected, wireless electric [...]
As the 2014 International CES winds down all eyes are looking at February 20th when all of the tech and mobile press in the world will converge on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. With the GSMA's Mobile World Congress so close to CES many of the high profile wireless device manufacturers like Samsung, LG and [...]
For many the world revolves around their smarpthone. Even if they have a home phone system, contact numbers and information lives on the smartphone. So in this day and age, manny phone calls from home phones and even some office phones, start by looking up someone's phone number in your smartphone contact list. Don't worry [...]
Many people have predicted the demise of the stand alone GPS. They're predicting that the smartphone GPS will replace the likes of the stand alone GPS. Of course that didn't stop GPS mainstays Garmin, Tom Tom and Magellan from presenting at this years International CES. There were also several other pop up stand alone GPS [...]
Student-led organization uses mobile app for outreach Kingwood Park FFA is a Texas-based, student led organization that bases its program on agricultural education. The group has developed an app that outlines its mission, calendar of events, and provides links to social media outlets. The app is optimized for both iOS and Android smartphones and tablets [...]
CES 2014 was like an invasion of robots. Robot vacum cleaners, robot's that let you virtually work in the office, robots that followed you around, robotic vehicles and MiP by WowWee. Short for Mobile Inverted Pendulum, MiP is the latest innovation by WowWee, and the first in association with the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the [...]
There has been an abundance of portable battery chargers at this years International CES. They come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colors and power allotments. It's hard to stand out in the power race but a company called Digital Treasures has done that with their PowerFlask. PowerFlask looks like any other flask, and because [...]
If you're in Las Vegas for CES, or you're walking through the streets of New York City, or any other big city for that matter, you've probably seen Laurence Hallier's work. Hallier was instrumental in the taxi cab top advertising with his company Taxi Tops which was eventually sold to Clear Channel outdoor. Not it [...]
Wearable technology has swept the 2014 International CES. We can't begin to tell you how many fitness trackers and monitors we saw. They come in all shapes and sizes from tags to bracelets to smart watches. A lot of them are great, some of them are junk, but such is the lay of the land [...]
At the end of day 2 at the 2014 International CES the Techfaster team was headed out of the Venetian and literally bumped into the youngest exhibitor at CES. I noticed that this cute 7 year old girl had an exhibitor badge on, riding on the up escalator. In years past I've seen a few [...]
