What! BuzzFeed Was Plagiarising?

Popular viral content site Buzzfeed found themselves under the spotlight for plagiarism late last week. The issue started to come to light on Thursday, reports The Huffington Post. Two twitter users, @blippoblappo and @crushingbort began posting instances where Buzzfeed editor Benny Johnson was quoting other works verbatim without attribution, on their site Our Bad Media.  For the [...]

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MyBell Hailed As Awesome Device By Members Of Deaf Community

The creators of MyBell have taken to innovating an almost novelty safety device and turned it into something fun, customizable and of course safety conscious. MyBell is a handlebar mountable customized bicycle early warning device. Using MyBell's technology users can quickly and easily use their customized sound files as a quick warning device for pedestrians, [...]

NVbots Crowdfunding Worlds 1st “fully-automated, cloud-connected 3D printer.”

NVbots, a Boston startup, just launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund their new 3D Printer. The company has already raised "$850,000 from angel investors (who aren’t being disclosed) and is looking to close the round at $1 million via Fundable."Kyle Alspach, Beta Boston, "MIT-founded NVBots to ramp up its 3D printer for schools with crowdfunding [...]

EdTech: BYOD or 1:1 [infographic]

There are so many buzzwords in EdTech. In fact we compiled this cheat sheet of sorts as we headed into the International Society for Technology in Education show earlier this month. Two of the big buzzwords are 1:1 and BYOD. BYOD is bring your own device and 1:1 is when the school, or district distributes [...]

How Many Xbox One’s Has Microsoft Sold?

How Many Xbox One's Has Microsoft Sold? That's the question everybody has but Microsoft is mum about. It's been months since the Redmond based computer giant has disclosed their sales numbers for their next-gen console. That didn't change on Tuesday when Microsoft gave their quarterly earnings call, reports Geekwire.com They did state that they sold [...]

Amazing Things: We Talk With The CoFounder Of GoGlove

What makes GoGlove an amazing thing? GoGlove is an inner glove that can be worn under someone's ski gloves, outdoor gloves or even cycling gloves. There is a module inside the glove that connects to sensors that react with each other on the users fingers. In short, GoGlove allows the user/wearer to interact with their [...]

Wimble: An Ingenious Approach to Time-Management

If you are like us, sometimes it can be hard to manage your time. With so many tasks to get to, and so little time, it can be a hassle juggling all of them. Often, figuring out how to approach the problem takes up precious time. Anyhow, we just came across a new startup - [...]

Doh Looks Like HTC May Have Leaked It’s Own AndroidWear Smartwatch

HTC Leaks Smartwatch HTC was at one time the hottest thing in Android phones. HTC was responsible for the flagship G1 the first "Google" Android phone that hit the market. After a slight downturn in 2011 and 2012 it appears that HTC is back full throttle with Android. Their HTC One M8 is one of [...]

What’s In Your Breath

Pro2 Fitness Data Believe it or not there's a lot of important information you can get from simply breathing. Of course breathing is one of the most important life functions for any species, but did you know your breathing can actually tell you a lot? Pro2 is an early stage startup company and a spinoff [...]

Calling All Skiers, Cyclists, And Lawn Boys

HandsFree GoGlove Whether you're jonesing for ski season to get here, you're an avid cyclist or you're cutting lawns this summer one things for sure, you're most likely doing it with music. By now you've probably found the best pair of over the ear ear buds, and the music app you like the best. But [...]