By trade, and education, Marissa Mayer is an engineer. She was employee number 20 at Google and their first female engineer back in 1998. As she grew with the company she helped invent things that we use, and take for granted everyday. Mayer's name is found on several Google patens for technology still in use, [...]
If you've been thinking about getting a shiny new Xbox One but you've been waiting to pull the trigger than today is the day you may want to get to your neighborhood Gamestop. Tomorrow (June 9th) is the day that the new Kinect-less Xbox One hits the stores and in celebration (or to blow out [...]
Schools across the nation have been upgrading technology at a steady rate over the last five years. Laptops, Chromebooks and tablets are finding their way to seats in as many classrooms as they can. Even the school system in Los Angeles set out to deploy iPads for every seat in their system. The Los Angeles [...]
EzeeCube is part of an amazing set of stackable accessories that together create the last digital media setup you'll ever need. The EzeeCube is a 1TB digital media hub that wirelessly and automatically syncs photos, music and videos from your wireless devices right to the hub without having to think about it. The team behind [...]
We are always on the lookout for a good tablet stand. It is tough to find a good one though. There seem to be an exponentially larger number of stands than there are tablets out there. Anyhow, we just came across an incredibly unique stand from XAR Motion, The Bee Tower. Think of a [...]
Have you ever gone to your son or daughter's school for a parent teacher conference and found their teacher on the Pinterest website? Before you worry that the teacher is more concerned with posting the latest wedding dresses, and neck tie fashions to the social network, they may actually be doing it for the class, [...]
Beats has prepared a mini movie that's leading into an advertising campaign to run during the World Cup. Like many of Beats advertising and short films, the ad is interspersed with celebrities from music and sports. Omar Johnson is still heading up the Beats marketing department and there's no reason to believe that Apple won't [...]
There's a war going on between Netflix and Verizon and it doesn't appear that it's going to slow down anytime soon. Netflix has been trying to become more transparent to it's customers and at the same time, they've been working on deals directly with broadband providers to get the optimal speed for their users. Netflix [...]
By viewing each school in totality, Edsby is able to keep all parties - students, teachers, administrators, and parents - informed and up to date. The robust education tools - for both students and teachers - though available from other sources, pair with the administration and parent tools to provide the most holistic view of a school possible.
For whatever reason, sometimes we get trapped in our own little U.S. bubble. Especially in the EdTech sector. However, we just came across a really interesting company based out of Berlin, Germany. bettermarks has created a ton of adaptive courseware for math educators. betterware's technology is pretty amazing. We had a chance to [...]
