According to several reports, Samsung has been hard at work preparing a new smart watch that can serve as a standalone device - not requiring users to have a phone near by. According to The New York Times, Samsung, "is making another run at that perennial technogeek dream, the wrist communicator," and looks to [...]
Its no secret that we love power - external power sources, chargers, and just about anything power-related that you can think of. Most of the time, we look at some wildly inventive devices. However, we just came across a re-imagining of the wall charger. This is the ENERGI 2K from Tylt: It looks just like [...]
Appleseeds mobile application earns appsbar’s App of the Day honor Appsbar has awarded its App of the Day honor to Appleseeds for showcasing how clubs and organizations are utilizing the new mobile technology provided by the DIY app builder at appsbar to engage membership. In the case of Appleseeds, the app serves as a mobile [...]
Being the father of a six year old girl who absolutely loves science, can get, well, a little messy. We've got science kits among science kits among even more science kits. We've ruined just about every decent shirt with volcano eruptions, mixing non dangerous chemicals, and making so many things that bubble up you'd [...]
The "Internet of Things" has caused an onslaught of sports related tracking devices over the last three years. The most common of course would be the fitness tracker. Companies like Fitbit and the Nike Fuel Band fueled a movement of like minded fitness tracking devices. Then came balls, golf trackers, baseball bat trackers and even [...]
YouTube is still by far the largest video platform on the web. At last count YouTube saw over 1 billion views per month from across the world. Entertainers, musicians, comedians and YouTube stars all still prefer YouTube because of it's more robust platform. But, we would by naive to think that YouTube isn't at least [...]
So at this point in time if you haven't heard of the megahit game Threes there's something wrong with you. It's an addictive game that has the player try and build up multiples of Three to score more and more points. Start playing against family members and it becomes downright time consuming. While Threes is [...]
Facial recognition is one of the fastest developments in technology today. On one hand it's being used across social media to recommend people to tag in photos. On the other hand it's being used by law enforcement to help identify law breakers, something both welcomed and feared by many. Privacy is obviously the biggest hindrance [...]
On Thurday, May 22, T-Mobile crossed a meaningful threshold. T-Mobile has overtaken Sprint as the number 3 Smartphone buyer in the U.S. This follows the recent line of T-Mobile's user acquisition strategy, using "aggressive discounting to add more new subscribers than any other U.S. wireless operator."Marina Lopes, Reuters, "T-Mobile overtakes Sprint as No. 3 smartphone buyer [...]
There is no question that the internet of things, or connected home, or whatever you want to call it, has the potential to drastacly change the world. The problem, however, is that of cost. For many of these setups or connected things, the cost is ofetn quite prohibitive. However, we are beginning to see some [...]
