Google Unveils the Self-Driving Car

On Tuesday, Google made a pretty sizable announcement. The Mountain View company noted in a blog post that they had begun building prototypes of they "Self-driving Car." While the driverless car has been in the works for some time, the prototype design is unlike anything we have imagined. Most notably, there are no gas or [...]

Learner Bites: Blackboard Minus the Awful UI

       As ayone who has ever used Blackboard can attest, there is much to be desired in such a platform. It is a pain to navigate, nearly impossible to keep up with, and is just an overall bad experience. Using mobile? Forget about checking blackboard. Thankfully, alternatives are beginning to sprout up. One such [...]

In The Battle Of The Dashcams Papago’s GoSafe 330 Is A Strong Contender

Dashcams are becoming more and more popular in the United States. While law enforcement, taxi drivers and even fleet management companies have been using dash cams for years, the public use of dashcams became more and more popular overseas over the last few years. Now dashcams are making their way to the United States. Obviously [...]

Wake-Happy: The Internet of Things Comes to the Pillow

The internet of things has worked its way into just about anything you can think of. From powerstrips to thermostats. It only makes sense that it has worked its way into the pillow. This is the Wake-Happy Pillow: Wake-Happy has some pretty interesting functionality. It acts as an alarm clock, and also helps to reduce [...]

Distributor puts offerings on mobile platform using DIY app builder

Appsbar enables wholesaler to engage customers with mobile app   VC Distributors has earned appsbar.com’s App of the Day award as an example of how small businesses are able to engage in mobile outreach by utilizing the DIY app builder at appsbar.com. The app serves as the mobile platform for a San Diego based wholesaler [...]

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Watchdogs Promo Goes Very Very Wrong

Ubisoft's smash hit that was two years in the making was officially released on Tuesday morning at midnight. Watchdogs the game that caters to the seasoned computer gamer who may be just a little too old, sophisticated or hipster to enjoy a traditional first person shooter (fps) has finally hit the street. Watchdogs is a [...]

Beats Is Now By Apple

Earlier this week we were wondering if the Beats by Apple deal would really get done, and if so, what were the hold ups. After all it was back on May 8th that the humongous deal for Apple to acquire beats for $3.2 billion dollars was initially leaked. With those leaks came a promise that [...]

LeVar Burton Needs Your Help To Bring Reading Rainbow To The Classroom

You may know Levar Burton from his days as Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation. You may remember him from his role in Roots or if you're like me, you learned to read watching countless hours of Burton on Reading Rainbow. Reading Rainbow had an incredible run on PBS for 21 years. [...]

Alaskan Company Tackles Project Based Learning With Field Day App

  There are a ton of learning apps out there. Many are good, but more often than not, they just seem to offer the normal learning environment just in a new interactive form. However, we just came across Field Day, a unique new learning app. Field Day incorporates project based learning, and has proven to be a [...]

Fluendo Moves to The U.S. To Grow its ONEPLAY

We just came across some interesting news: Fluendo is moving to the U.S. Fluendo is an incredibly interesting company, that makes a ton of great products. Their main offering, ONEPLAY, is one of the best media players available. ONEPLAY is based off of the GStreamer open source framework. The major benefit of ONEPLAY lies in its [...]

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