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Loopd: Hyper-proximate Networking, and Beyond

     Loopd is hard to explain in a few sentences. It is quite interesting but a bit complex. Right now, Loopd is a social discovery app, aimed at business professionals. However, they are in the middle of an Indiegogo campaign in which they are raising funds for a litany of new discover apps. Apps "targeting [...]

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Super Smash Brothers With NFC Figures To Debut At E3

We are a little more than a week away from E3 the largest video games industry conference in the US. While we are expecting a slew of great news in the software department across multiple platforms, the hardware news expected is minimal. One of those big software news bits is expected to be the announcement [...]

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Google To Produce 4,000 Project Tango Tablets

On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that next month Google is planning on producing some 4,000 prototype tablets with sensors and cameras that allow for 3D tracking and mapping.Lorraine Luk and Rolfe Winkler, The Wall Street Journal, "Google Developing Tablet With Advanced Vision Capabilities," 22 May 2014 (Paywall) The prototype tablets utilize the same technology found [...]

More Robots Headed To Amazon

Jeff Bezos, one of the most progressive technology company founders is known for bold moves with cutting edge technology. Bezos also bets wisely, and often times things pan out just right. While the world is waiting to see Bezos' Amazon Drone experiment come to fruition, his play in warehouse robots has paid off. Now it's [...]

Could Steve Ballmer Be The Next Microsoft Alum To Own An NBA Team

Reports have been hot and heavy that Steve Ballmer could end up the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Originally tipped by TMZ and then corroborated by a variety of other sites, are reports that say Shelly Sterling has been in secret discussions with Ballmer about selling the team. After the Donald Sterling racism debacle, [...]

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The Latest In Runner Safety Is Actually Low Tech

We've seen a trend in safety products for runners. While there are all kinds of different safety device laden phone cases, GPS apps and apps that send text messages to loved ones, the best safety devices we've seen for runners have been more on the low tech side. Take the Run Safety for instance, it's [...]

Uh Oh Could The Beats Apple Deal Be In Trouble?

May 8th the world was abuzz with what looked like the first billionaire hip hop artist, Dr.Dre. After performing on and producing multiple Grammy award winning records Dre was already celebrating his billionaire status not for his rhymes but for his Beats. May 8th was the day that multiple "reliable" sources reported to the likes [...]

Leaks Claim a New Fitbit Coming This Year

According to a new leak from @evleaks, Fitbit is set to launch a new, upgraded version of the Fitbit Force sometime this year. Though there is really no indication when this year. The new Fitbit Force will carry on the long line of Fitbit activity/sleep trackers. The new Force will come with the usual features: step, [...]

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Tommies Ties: The Necktie That Can Clean Your Phone

We cover an awful lot of crowdfunding campaigns, nearly all of which are some sort of tech product or app. However, every so often we come across non-tech campaigns that are just so interesting or useful that we have to sneak them in. This is one of those times. As Father's Day is coming up, [...]

Talentoday: Modern-day Career Guidance

     There are so many people just drifting along in the day-to-day. So many that appear to lack a goal or motivation. Appear is the key word there. It is not so much that these people aren't motivate, it is more of a question of finding the motivation. Finding this motivation can be a serious [...]