VEX IQ is a robotics platform designed to transform STEM learning for young students and their teachers. Students as young as 8 can jump right in and snap robots together using this intuitive, toolless platform while educators can utilize the free VEX IQ Curriculum to help teach them valuable lessons and skills that are needed in today's changing world.
Mobile app serves as introduction to advanced software processes Appsbar has recognized Captivate Adv as the appsbar.com App of the Day for showcasing how hobbyists and enthusiasts are utilizing the DIY app builder at appsbar.com to promote content on mobile platforms. Captivate Adv is the mobile extension of the book "Scripting Enhanced Interactions in Adobe [...]
We all know that Dong Nguyen was onto something with his hit game Flappy Bird. Many sites have estimated that the game is pulling in $50,000 a day in ad revenue. It's an addictive little game where the user tries to get the bird through as many pipes as possible without running into them. There [...]
For some people chocolates and flowers just won't do. Sometimes tech geeks just want tech stuff for the popular Hallmark holiday that falls at the end of this week. Amazon has answered the call for those techno loving people with tech loving Valentine's. Nothing says I love you like the new Kindle Fire HDX right? [...]
On Saturday, we were one of the earliest sites to report that Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen was considering taking down the addicting and popular, Flappy Bird, out of the app stores. Nguyen seems to be one of those guys that's just not ok with fame. He fancies himself an indie game developer and never [...]
Global executives are aware that effective administration is the key to long-term business success, yet they still find themselves caught in administrative tasks, leaving no time to concentrate on other business aspects. Luckily for businesses of today, software tools can handle most of the administrative and management processes including contract management, bookkeeping, payroll, customer relationships [...]
The Learning Bird platform benefits students, teachers, and parents. Students are given "access to an online database of lessons matched to their learning styles, region and grade." Teachers benefit in several ways. They are given access to the database of lessons that can serve as teaching tools; they are allowed to watch and learn teaching methods and styles from said videos; they are paid for their additions to the database when their videos/material help a student on Learning Bird. Parents are allowed all the benefits of providing their child with a traditional tutor, at a fraction of the cost. A win-win-win.
Their are Minecraft apps, 3D printing websites, tons of merchandise, and a revolution of sorts happening around the popular, retro 8 bit game. It seems that most of the Minecraft merchandise you can purchase has been officially licensed from Mojang, the developer of the game. However there seems to be a lot of piracy and [...]
To boil the essence of the software down, a MapStory is an open-source platform for creating mapped displays of data sets. Think of a MapStory as a sort of video, showing trends, movements, events, or locations (among many others) on a map, over time. The MapStory pictured to the left, for example, shows how the 1988 Yellowstone shifted and grew over the course of several months. MapStory has the potential to become a sort of Wikipedia for visual data.
