Square, has empowered street vendors, craft fair vendors, and flea marketers with the ability to accept credit cards with a simple swipe. Square's easy to use app and card reader eliminate the risks associated with carbon paper credit card slips and taking bad checks, problems that have plagued mom and pop merchants across the globe [...]
The International CES is where partnerships are formed. Some are odd, some are exciting and some make sense. Two partnerships announced this week in Las Vegas fit all three categories. First, BMW was showing off their new i3 electric car. The car is a little larger than there Mini Coopers and features connected, wireless electric [...]
Many people have predicted the demise of the stand alone GPS. They're predicting that the smartphone GPS will replace the likes of the stand alone GPS. Of course that didn't stop GPS mainstays Garmin, Tom Tom and Magellan from presenting at this years International CES. There were also several other pop up stand alone GPS [...]
CES 2014 was like an invasion of robots. Robot vacum cleaners, robot's that let you virtually work in the office, robots that followed you around, robotic vehicles and MiP by WowWee. Short for Mobile Inverted Pendulum, MiP is the latest innovation by WowWee, and the first in association with the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the [...]
There has been an abundance of portable battery chargers at this years International CES. They come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colors and power allotments. It's hard to stand out in the power race but a company called Digital Treasures has done that with their PowerFlask. PowerFlask looks like any other flask, and because [...]
If you're in Las Vegas for CES, or you're walking through the streets of New York City, or any other big city for that matter, you've probably seen Laurence Hallier's work. Hallier was instrumental in the taxi cab top advertising with his company Taxi Tops which was eventually sold to Clear Channel outdoor. Not it [...]
Wearable technology has swept the 2014 International CES. We can't begin to tell you how many fitness trackers and monitors we saw. They come in all shapes and sizes from tags to bracelets to smart watches. A lot of them are great, some of them are junk, but such is the lay of the land [...]
Next to Bluetooth speakers and wireless headphones there are enough portable battery chargers at this year's International CES to power a small country for a year. They come in all shapes and sizes, with all kinds of functionality. But, it's a group of guys from Provo Utah (yes Utah) who took the time to listen [...]
We got a chance to go hands on with the new Toq smart watch. Smartwatches have become quite the rage and we have seen many new devices come to the market over the past few months. Qualcomm is usually thought of in the Android world in relation to their processors but they have recently announced the [...]
A Cincinnati company has reinvented the mobile keyboard. Traditionally keyboard accessories for tablets and smartphones have required the user to be sitting down, essentially using your device as a "mock' laptop. When you think about that for a second, it takes away the mobility from the device. Now typing with your thumbs is easy for [...]
