“I think of this app as a 21st century record album.” that's what Michael Epstein told The Wall Street Journal about the app he directed with digital artist Mark Thompson. That app, "John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes" was built around four hours worth of demo recordings, interviews, and interactive features all surrounding a trip that Lennon [...]
On Wednesday, Quirky announced that it had closed a Series D Round worth a whopping $79 M. Quirky is a company that makes invention accessible by bringing new product ideas to life through its online collaborative platform.
As expected video game sales slowed in October in anticipation of the next gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony. NPD just released their data on video game sales for October. September was a hot month thanks to the edition of Grand Theft Auto Five and two new Pokemon titles for the Nintendo DS. According to [...]
SolarWinds recently conducted a survey of network administrators to determine the biggest drivers of network complexity, and asked the group to look to the future, and predict which skills IT pros will need in the next five years. This infographic examines the results.
I gave up the good ole #FF on Twitter a few years ago but that doesn't mean we still can't have Follow Friday. Check out this great list of 10 techies to follow on Twitter for our first TechFaster Follow Friday: Myriam Joirie (@TnkGirl) Many of you know Myriam or Tank Girl from her Engadget [...]
At first glance you might think that a service that allows you to record, download and save all of your favorite movies and shows from the likes of Hulu, HBO Go and Netflix, would be illegal. But it's not. My good friend KT Bradford turned me onto PlayLater after she dissected the service over at [...]
The internet of things has made it's way to new borns. A Boston tech firm called Sensible Baby has released a new sensor/app combination called SmartOne that helps parents with a newborn baby rest easier. Who knows what these parents did before smartphones and sensors were invented. Ben Cooper, the CEO of Sensible Baby told [...]
Treadmill desks, standing desks and other fitness hybrids are sweeping the nation. People believe that they can use the time that their working to take on a workout or get a little more physically fit, and they can. A lot of this has been fueled by the fitness sensor/app epidemic. When people get a Fitbit [...]
Earlier this month when we kicked off our Holiday Gift Guide we brought you the Zepp GolfSense 3 a sensor device that attaches to your golf glove and helps you manage and track your golf swing. Now Zepp has announced the availability of their MultiSport Training System. While most wearable fitness devices track the movement [...]
I know the day is going to come when the "internet of things" comes to sex. There's a sensor for just about everything in the world right now so one for sex has to be right around the corner. Now there are app controlled sex toys but that's a discussion for another time. Wordondastreet reports [...]
