While it may seem like a good idea, using a white board for a projector is actually really bad on the eyes. The glare that comes from most white boards. When white boards are used for projection screens there are often spots that are sometimes referred to as "sun spots" that appear in the middle [...]
Google Acquires Songza On Tuesday, Google announced that it had acquired Songza. Songza, if you haven't heard of them, offer a unique take on music streaming. Rather than using algorithms and similar artist mash-ups, Songza offers human curated playlists, based on various factors like time of the day, or mood, or location. It is a [...]
Zspace Virtual Reality Classroom The ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Conference 2014 was full of awesome EdTech products. However, there was one product in particular that really stood out. The zSpace was far and away the most interesting thing that we, or at least I, looked at. Although the zSpace was one of the [...]
Apple iCup Barista If you've got what it takes to deliver the best customer service and the best brewed coffee, espresso and other caffeinated beverages Apple may be looking for you. Do you love being a Barista but you're striving for a new challenge? Apple has posted an employment ad for an iCup technician. No [...]
LEO Fitness Intelligence You know how the saying goes, if we got a dollar for every fitness wearable story recommended to us we could retire. So when we first saw LEO we naturally thought, oh another fitness device. After diving into LEO a little further we found that Leo is providing fitness intelligence to it's [...]
While we were at ISTE during this week, we had a chance to meet with a bunch of EdTech startups. In fact, there was a whole section of the expo floor dedicated to startups. Anyhow, one of these startups really stood out. Kidnected World is an incredibly unique company for a number of reasons. Firstly, [...]
Where were you Friday morning around lunch time when Facebook had gone down for the count? There's no way of telling exactly how large it was but Facebook experienced a global outage Friday morning between 11am and 12 noon eastern time. Millions flocked to Twitter mocking their own addiction to the world's largest social network. [...]
Gripcase iPad Case For Kids The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference was a lot of fun for our six year old correspondent Tatum F. As we were pulling out of Atlanta we asked what her favorite part of the conference was and she said robots and throwing iPads. The conference featured over [...]
T-Mobile FTC Cramming T-Mobile has really made strides in digging itself out from a hole that came about when they were supposed to be purchased by AT&T in 2011. They've added millions of customers, dropped long term contracts, early termination fees and they're even offering free music. All of this is under the direction of [...]
Tackk Simple One Page Website Builder There were a ton of great products at ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) 2014. The great majority of these products, in line with the EdTech theme, were education based. However, we came across one that can be used by just about anyone. Tackk is a simple website builder. [...]
