You may know Levar Burton from his days as Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation. You may remember him from his role in Roots or if you're like me, you learned to read watching countless hours of Burton on Reading Rainbow. Reading Rainbow had an incredible run on PBS for 21 years. [...]
There are a ton of learning apps out there. Many are good, but more often than not, they just seem to offer the normal learning environment just in a new interactive form. However, we just came across Field Day, a unique new learning app. Field Day incorporates project based learning, and has proven to be a [...]
We just came across some interesting news: Fluendo is moving to the U.S. Fluendo is an incredibly interesting company, that makes a ton of great products. Their main offering, ONEPLAY, is one of the best media players available. ONEPLAY is based off of the GStreamer open source framework. The major benefit of ONEPLAY lies in its [...]
We just came across an incredibly interesting low-tech innovation. This is the WarkaWater. The device is the brainchild of Italian designer Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler.Laura Secorun Palet, NPR.com, "A Simple, Elegant Invention That Draws Water From Air," 26 May 2014. The two visited Ethiopia in 2012, and witnessed first-hand, the water shortage. Only [...]
According to several reports, Samsung has been hard at work preparing a new smart watch that can serve as a standalone device - not requiring users to have a phone near by. According to The New York Times, Samsung, "is making another run at that perennial technogeek dream, the wrist communicator," and looks to [...]
Its no secret that we love power - external power sources, chargers, and just about anything power-related that you can think of. Most of the time, we look at some wildly inventive devices. However, we just came across a re-imagining of the wall charger. This is the ENERGI 2K from Tylt: It looks just like [...]
Being the father of a six year old girl who absolutely loves science, can get, well, a little messy. We've got science kits among science kits among even more science kits. We've ruined just about every decent shirt with volcano eruptions, mixing non dangerous chemicals, and making so many things that bubble up you'd [...]
The "Internet of Things" has caused an onslaught of sports related tracking devices over the last three years. The most common of course would be the fitness tracker. Companies like Fitbit and the Nike Fuel Band fueled a movement of like minded fitness tracking devices. Then came balls, golf trackers, baseball bat trackers and even [...]
YouTube is still by far the largest video platform on the web. At last count YouTube saw over 1 billion views per month from across the world. Entertainers, musicians, comedians and YouTube stars all still prefer YouTube because of it's more robust platform. But, we would by naive to think that YouTube isn't at least [...]
Facial recognition is one of the fastest developments in technology today. On one hand it's being used across social media to recommend people to tag in photos. On the other hand it's being used by law enforcement to help identify law breakers, something both welcomed and feared by many. Privacy is obviously the biggest hindrance [...]
