Nintendo has had a rough year and it all actually started in 2012. Nintendo decided that they would unveil their newest console system, the Wii U, in time for the 2012 holiday season a whole year before we saw the Xbox One and PS4 hit the street. The system was relatively innovative with it's game [...]
While everyone is talking about Marissa Mayer and the fact that she's made $214 million dollars in just 15 months at Yahoo, what are they going to do about it? They're going to rock out with Live Nation. Yahoo announced at their "Digital Content New Front" on Monday in New York that they've entered into [...]
We just came across one of the most inventive Crowdfunding campaigns yet: the Trinity portable wind turbine. The Trinity is a portable wind turbine that charges any USB device like your smart phone or tablet. The Trinity Kickstarter campaign was launched by the Skajaquoda Group. The Trinity has three blades that harness wind-power to generate power. This [...]
Many don't realize how innovative Disney is. They've been working with animatronics, special effects, and innovative technology for decades. The animatronic "It's a small world" ride is celebrating it's 50th year, this year. So we shouldn't be surprised that Disney is working with 3D printing. Gizmag reports that Disney is using 3D printers to make [...]
Some pretty interesting news came out of MIT on Tuesday. The MIT Bitcoin Club - the fact that there is such a club is news in and of itself - "raised half a million dollars for a project to distribute $100 in bitcoin to every undergraduate student at MIT this fall."MIT Bitcoin Club, "Announcing the [...]
Back in November, before we realized that the winter of 2014 would have more snow than all the previous winters combined, we reported on a geinus app called Plowz. Plowz is the Uber of snow plowing, connecting home owners and business owners with an on-demand fleet of snow removers. Trust me they had a great [...]
We just came across some new photos of what is purportedly some sort of dummy mock-up of the iPhone 6.Steve Hemmerstoffer, Nowwhereelse.fr, "iPhone 6: A physical model for leakage?," 30 April 2014, Via 9to5Mac These images show an incredibly thin device. There have been a bunch of recent leaks that show a much thinner [...]
Over the past year, there have been some enormous acquisitions. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for a staggering $19 billion, and then a little more than a month later acquired Oculus for $2 billion; Microsoft just acquired Nokia Devices and Services business for $7.2 billion; Google bought Motorola in 2011 for $12.5 billion, Nest in 2014 for [...]
Thomas Hurst, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is trying to bring a new iPhone case to market that will change the way people take photos with their iPhone. The idea for the case, simply called Covr, comes from a device we've been using for decades, the remote control. According to Geekwire,the idea for Covr came about [...]
The Webby Awards are like the Oscars,Emmys or Grammys for the web industry. Think all of those wonderful internet only tv shows, radio shows, podcasts and YouTube channels. Like most award shows, the internet elite assemble for a red carpet award show in New York. The New York Times calls the Webby Awards the "Internet's [...]
