Under Desk Elliptical Cubii Being in the tech world you probably spend most of your time behind a desk. Perhaps your plotting the next Facebook, fielding customer service calls for a new startup, or working on something edtech related. Whatever the case may be, you, like me, spend the bulk of your day in a [...]
Vex Robotics ISTE 2014 Our 6 year old special correspondent Tatum F enjoyed playing with lots of robots at the International Society for Technology in Education conference. The first video interview she did was with a high school student who had won a Vex Robotics competition prior to ISTE. A robot called the Bee-Bot helped [...]
Android Wear Lyft Need a Lyft? Well if you have a new Android Wear smart watch your next Lyft can be ordered up right from your wrist. Forget having to take the extra step to pull your Android smarpthone out of your pocket, just turn your wrist a quarter turn, call up the new Lyft [...]
Listen Edition ISTE At the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference 2014, there were a ton of great high-tech solutions for educators. A ton. From robots to apps to 3D interfaces, the advances in the EdTech industry are astounding. However, we came across one startup that is capturing the power of one of the oldest [...]
POM Tracking Chip There are plenty of bluetooth and gps enabled tracking devices out there, especially in the world of Kickstarter. The problem with most of them though, is that first they are positioned as a way to find your car keys. While that may be a great use for a tracking device that's not [...]
iWatch Imminent With TAG Heuer Hire Apple's dip into the world of wearables and smart watches has been rumored for the past two and a half years. The rumors have really heated up in the last 12 months or so with tons of mock up photos, "leaks" and analysts chiming in. Tim Cook has even [...]
Modular Robotics STEM Throughout the course of ISTE 2014, we heard over and over how important it is to expose children to technology during school. However, while this was a common theme, a large majority of the products that were on display were incredibly complex. This was especially true in the case of robotics. Now [...]
The latest iteration of Google Chrome OS devices are coming in the form of "Chrome boxes". The initial Chrome boxes were released two years ago as Google was still trying to navigate the Chrome ship. Now Chrome as an OS is starting to catch on, most significantly in edTech. Both ASUS and HP have released [...]
Smartphone Fireworks Tips It's hard to believe that the Fourth of July is already here. That means that millions of people are going to use their smartphones tonight to take pictures of fireworks. If this is your first time owning a smartphone on the Fourth of July, or your fireworks photos have come out bad [...]
We love to call it slacktivism but companies like Tom's shoes have made it so easy to give back just by purchasing their product. Now we've learned that Gripcase, the company that makes the iPad case our 6 year old ISTE correspondent loved, has applied the same model to their line of iPad cases for [...]
