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EdTech: Boundless Is Re-imagining Educational Material

By |Education, Interviews, ISTE 2014|

   There is no question that the traditional textbook will soon be a thing of the past. They are, simply put, outdated. A science textbook from 2009 is filled with information that has since been proven wrong, or has since been updated to a significant degree. It does not make sense to keep using such [...]

The Bicycle Bell Of The Future Has Arrived On Kickstarter

By |CES 2014, Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks|

Way back at CES 2014, we had a chance to speak with the team behind MYBELL. Here is what we said during CES: MYBELL is a customizable electronic bicycle bell. Think about MYBELL as ringtones for your bicycle. Users can upload any audio file to the bell via a micro-USB connection. The company has a [...]

There’s At Least One More iOS 7 Update Before iOS 8 Debuts This Fall

By |Everything Else|

It seems that Apple CEO Tim Cook and Senior Vice President of Engineering Craig Federighi did a great job earlier this month getting people fired up about iOS 8. Typically the world waits with baited breath for the release of the next iPhone, and while we are waiting for that iOS 8 seems to have [...]

ASMO Charger Is The World’s First Green, Intelligent Phone Charger

By |Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks, Mobile|

There are some startling statistics when it comes to the chargers for the nearly 7 billion mobile devices in the world today. Many people have no idea that when they leave their cell phone or tablet charger plugged into the wall, when the device isn't charging, it's still pulling current as if it were charging. [...]

Change Your Game With Smash, The Ultimate Tennis Sensor

By |Everything Else|

We've seen several wearables when it comes to sports. Some devices are sport specific like Zepp's system that can be used for baseball, golf and tennis. A new device, developed by Rob Crowder, an Australian entrepreneur, is designed specifically for tennis. A few years back Crowder started playing tennis and fell in love with the [...]

Apple Testing Several iWatch Designs?

By |Apple, News, Wearable Technology|

According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is preparing not just one smartwatch/fitness/health wearable, but several. This is certainly in line with many of the health based initiatives - Health, and HealthKit to name a few - that Apple announced at WWDC a short time ago. The new device(s), according to the Journal, are aimed at bringing new functionality [...]

Apple Launches New Entry Level iMac For Just $1099

By |Apple, Editors' Picks, News|

If you're an iPhone or iPad user and you've been waiting to take the plunge into the world of Mac, Apple may have just made that possible for you. Wednesday, the second most popular brand in the world, Apple, launched a new entry level iMac all in one computer. The new iMac features a 1.4-GHz dual-core [...]

Dogs’ GPS Tags Help Track Stolen Vehicle

By |Gadgets & Tech, News|

GPS tags on dogs are becoming more common today. Many families are putting a GPS tracker on their dogs just in case they get loose so that they can find their family pets. For those who's dogs are as much family members as their kids being able to locate them brings a huge bit of [...]

EdTech: EDpuzzle: Helping Teachers Make Use of Video

By |Education, Interviews|

    There is no shortage of video in the world. According to YouTube, there is more that 100 hours of video uploaded to the platform ever single minute. With this huge amount of video out there, it seems like this would be an excellent source for educators. However, the huge amount of video is both a huge [...]

The Pebble Watch Does Even More Now

By |Editors' Picks, Internet Of Things, Wearable Technology|

(image: pocketlint) The "internet of things" is on a massive growth spurt. Until recently the "internet of things" has mostly centered around your smartphone as the hub and the controller for whatever brain you have at the center of your "things". Yesterday we brought you the story of the Nucano Smart Door Chime, [...]

Microsoft to Begin Phasing out Nokia Brand

By |Microsoft, News|

On Wednesday June 11, @evleaks published an internal Nokia document. This document, among other things, revealed that Microsoft will phase out all Nokia branding. Microsoft will no longer be carrying the Nokia name on any devices in the near future. The leaked document included an FAQ section. Within this section, the first FAQ really stands [...]

Makerbot Remixed As Tattoo Robot

By |3d, 3D Printing, Editors' Picks|

At last year's French Ministry of Culture's Public Domain Remix event a team from the design studio LeFabShop commandeered a Makerbot 3D printer to create the first ever robotic tattoo gun. The Public Domain Remix event encourages hackers to take an already existing electronic device and repurpose it for something else. Geek.com reports that all [...]

This Magical Device Is The PPrintee Pocket Printer

By |Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks, Gadgets & Tech|

Is that a printer in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? This magical device is the PPrintee Pocket Printer.S Sure pocket printers are nothing new these days. LG has a few pocket printers, there's one on the horizon for Samsung and there's a few across Kickstarter and Indiegogo. But if the [...]

PF Chang’s Falls Victim To Hackers, Resorts To Manual Credit Card Imprinting

By |News, Security|

On Tuesday, Asian casual dining restaurant chain PF Chang's China Bistro reported that they were investigating a breach of customer's personal and payment data. CEO Rick Federico said that the company, "initiated an investigation with the United States Secret Service and a team of third-party forensics experts to understand the nature and scope of the incident, [...]

Prime Music: Amazon Prime Adds Free Streaming Music

By |Everything Else|

On Thurday, Amazon announced a new benefit for Prime members: streaming music. Although this service hardly a challenge to Spotify, Pandora and the like, it is more of a benefit added service: With Prime Music, Prime members have unlimited, ad-free access to over a million songs at no additional cost to their membership. Prime Music [...]

Classgap: Online Tutoring Service

By |Education, Interviews|

   When I was in school, one of my biggest problems was my stubbornness. Whenever I couldn't understand a concept, or was having trouble, I refused to go to a tutor or lab. Rather than take the help that was available, I would try to figure things out for myself. Although I am not 100% [...]

Mozilla to Offer $25 Firefox OS Phones in India

By |Editors' Picks, Mobile, News|

On Tuesday June 10, Mozilla announced that they will soon begin selling "ultra-low-cost" Firefox OS devices in India. Back at MWC, Mozilla announced that they had begun working with Spreadtrum to "deliver turnkey Firefox OS reference designs with Spreadtrum's entry-level smartphone chipsets."Spreadtrum Press Releases, "Spreadtrum and Mozilla Take Aim at Global Smartphone Accessibility with Turnkey Solution [...]

According to Reports, Apple to Release a New Health Wearable in Oct.

By |Apple, Editors' Picks, Wearable Technology|

  According to new reports, Apple is indeed set to launch a wearable device sometime in the very near future. According to Nikkei Asian Review: "Apple is getting set to move to its next stage of growth with a wearable health-monitoring device, hoping to establish a solid foothold in the promising healthcare sector."Yuichiro Kanematsu, Nikkei Asian [...]

EdTech: MyScript, Handwriting Recognition – Upload Your Notes

By |Editors' Picks, Education, Interviews|

     When I was in school, I took all of my notes by hand. I was one of the few. However, when looking back over these notes, it could be a real pain to find one exact sentence or fact. If only there was a way to upload my writing as text to a computer. [...]

Create Diagrams For Anything With ProcessOn

By |Developers, Editors' Picks, Interviews|

   Anyone who has ever designed a website knows how important wireframing is. It is a great way to map out the look and feel of a site before diving in. However, there are very few good wireframing resources out there. Often, developers and designers use Photoshop and or some other image editor to create [...]