This is not something out of a science fiction movie. After three years of research and development the RoboRoach is real. RoboRoach is a wirelessly controlled backpack that can be attached to a real live cockroach with some quick do it yourself surgery. Once you do the surgery and attach the reusable RoboRoach backpack to [...]
Katy Perry's Prism Truck outside the iHeartRadio Music Festival 2013 (photo: Techfaster) While Apple's iTunes Radio is hoping to dethrone Pandora as the king of internet radio, another i-radio continues to follow the internet radio giant very closely. Clear Channel Media and Entertainment's iHeartRadio recently reported more explosive growth. The popular music app [...]
First off this is not a joke and it is a very realistic possibility that the Xbox One could be the last of the Microsoft gaming consoles. Â Many reliable sources, including Bloomberg, are reporting that Stephen Elop is a front runner for the CEO position at Microsoft. Before running Nokia into the ground Elop was [...]
The next two weeks are certainly going to be hot for video game enthusiasts. The two biggest players in the console gaming ware are releasing new systems in time for the 2013 holiday shopping season. While both the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 have had updated versions released over the years it's been 7 [...]
AT&T is looking to put more veterans to work. The nation's second largest wireless carrier has set a goal of hiring 10,000 veterans and their family members of the next five years. AT&T is hoping to draw on the technical expertise of veterans who are segueing back to civilian life for IT roles, with a [...]
Yesterday just after Twitter's debut on Wall Street a good friend of mine tweeted and updated her Facebook status that she wasn't going to buy Twitter because it didn't have a profit. She couldn't be more wrong. Now we're not going to talk about making big tech bets and trying to make a quick buck [...]
During the month of October fast food giant McDonald's gave away their signature candy buckets with their Happy Meals. This year boys received Star Wars buckets while girls received Monster High buckets. Aside from the fatty foods, which McDonald's is trying to supplement with smaller amounts of french fries and bags of apples, there's no [...]
For some it may be hard to stomach that the latest "statewide" 1gbps internet rollout is coming to Mississippi. For others, it may not seem that odd because Chattanooga, in neighboring Tennessee, was actually the first city in the United States to get 1gb fiber. Contrary to popular believe, Chattanooga actually rolled their 1gb ethernet [...]
Viper has always been an innovator in automotive security. They were one of the first companies to offer a car alarm that alerted the owner on their key ring. They were also one of the first to integrate a mobile app into their automotive security system. Now the Vista California based company has become the [...]
"You're in a car with a helium balloon on a string that is tied to the floor. The windows are closed. When you step on the gas pedal, what happens to the balloon—does it move forward, move backward, or stay put?" That's one of the legendary Google interview questions that have been circulating across the [...]
