During ISTE earlier this month, we had a chance to check out a whole bunch of educational games. Some better than others. The educational gaming space is sort of a strange market. There is clearly a goal behind all of the games - some sort of knowledge building or retention. However, many of the games [...]
Israeli Conflict Halts Kickstarter Campaign Last week we brought you the story of SNIPE a really fun kickstarter campaign that bridges a physical game with an app. With SNIPE you get a gun that looks similar to a nerf gun with soft foam bullets. These bullets are optimized for their "softness" and to trigger actions [...]
Is Nabto The Internet Of Things Infrastructure? We have seen a ton of crowdfunding campaigns, but we just came across one that is very interesting, Nabto has built a box that allows for "peer-to-peer remote access to your home network." Essentially, then, the Nabtobox "enables you to create remote access to your home network [...]
OBLOCO Paperless Receipt Platorm It's hard to believe that Apple sent their first email receipt in 2005, nearly a decade ago. Since then though, there hasn't been a real innovation in moving receipts from paper to paperless. Paper receipts are hard to keep track of. They get balled up in pockets, thrown on the floor [...]
Ingress iOS Over the years Google and Apple have had an interesting relationship, both as a company and as a user base. In the past Google has been quick to provide iOS users with most of their core apps, and slower to slugggish on others. Then there was that debacle with Google Maps. Apple tried [...]
The internet of things along with crowdfunding are producing some amazing new technologies. Just this morning we reported on Sandpiper IS a spirometer that attaches to your smartphone and gives you data on your lung function. Now we've uncovered a unique new device that measures the air quality around you called Skywair. Skywair was originally [...]
Chromebooks have found their place among educators. Many school systems across the country have turned to Chromebooks because of their affordability and because Google has made it extremely easy for educators to manage an entire fleet of Chromebooks across classes, schools and districts. Chromebooks have also found their way amongst people that are looking for [...]
Denton Startups CoWork Denton The big ole state of Texas is actually one of the most rapidly developing start up states in the nation. Trust me, after founding Nibletz.com and the everywhere else conference I know a little bit about startup communities. Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and Houston have rapidly growing startup communities and all [...]
Naming Exoplanets Naming a star is a cool gift for some. Perhaps you "bought" a star for your kid or even to impress a girlfriend. But there are billions of stars in the galaxy and once you receive the certificate in the mail, are you really going to see your star again? ArsTechnica is reporting [...]
EdTech GoNoodle Brain Break When I was in elementary school the first thing we did in the morning was an "eye opener" activity. Some kind of word or math puzzle or problem. The idea behind that was to get our brains working and ready for the school day and ready to learn. There was really [...]
