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Years ago, I had a kinetic watch. The battery was charged from everyday, normal movements: waling, driving, writing. You never had to worry about replacing the battery. If it stopped, all you had to do was shake it around. Since then, I have always wondered why that same concept could not be used in larger [...]
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 [...]
Among many thing announced by Apple on Monday at WWDC was HealthKit. The new iOS 8 functionality has been a long-time coming, and has been the subject of several leaks over the past few months. Anyhow, HealthKit acts a central hub/repository where third-party apps can store data in one central location. The idea being that [...]
CES 2014 was like an invasion of robots. Robot vacum cleaners, robot's that let you virtually work in the office, robots that followed you around, robotic vehicles and MiP by WowWee. Short for Mobile Inverted Pendulum, MiP is the latest innovation by WowWee, and the first in association with the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the [...]
Today, Amazon announced a new category of products in its ever expanding ecommerce platform: a 3D Printed Products store. The "3D Printed Products store, [is] a marketplace that gives customers access to more than 200 unique print on-demand products, many that can be customized by material, size, styles and color variations, and personalized with text [...]
The return of Minecraft has been nothing less than monumental. 30 something gamers are returning to a favorite pastime, and a younger generation of players is finding Minecraft is nothing short of addicting. Minecraft has found a spot amongst the Doctor Who swag at every Hot Topic in the country. Minecraft toys are hot as [...]
Brian Yetzer, a Philly based artist and digital designer, recently became inspired by the works, and wonderous brain of Nikola Tesla. He explains on his Indiegogo page that Nikola Lonchar from the Tesla Science Foundation in Philadelphia introduced him to the world of NIkola Tesla just three short years ago.Since that time, Yetzer has used [...]
All the talk in the consumer wireless world this year has been about T-Mobile and their crazy un-carrier antics. Earlier this week we reported that T-Mobile's CEO John Legere made more than both the CEO of Verizon Wireless and AT&T, and for good reason. Their positioning as the "uncarrier" continues to add subscribers to the [...]
Last September Box CEO Aaron Levie made the first mention of Box Notes. This new functionality would allow Box's large consumer and enterprise user base to leverage the cloud storage platform and write, edit, store, collaborate and share notes. The feature was seen as an Evernote competitor, than a Microsoft competitor, then some Google competitor. [...]
Have you ever planned a large group outing to an event? It is one of the most mind-numbingly painful things to do. You have to find tickets, a ride or parking, hotels, food, and tons of other things. It is just a huge pain. However, on startup has come up with a simple solution [...]
It seems that McAdam's statement, to the effect that everyone pays based on usage, is in direct conflict with net neutrality, rather than being "the most important concept of net neutrality." In fact McAdam's statement is in direct conflict with net neutrality.
Jeff Bezos is obviously an intelligent man. He created Amazon which is by leaps and bounds the largest e-commerce site in the world. Amazon has changed several industries and revitalized delivery services globally. Bezos has also invested in several successful startups and personally bought the Washington Post in hopes to turn the newspaper around. That's [...]
We just came across a pretty interesting mobile app. Toplist is a shopping app, but it takes a lot of cues from social networks. There have been a few social commerce apps and companies, but Toplist thinks that these guys had the wrong idea. Rather than just a repository for people to dump [...]
As wearabes and other small devices are growing in popularity, the problem of power has taken center stage. As it stands right now, battery life is the number one factor limiting wearables. Batteries are the single largest and bulkiest component of every single wearable on the market right now. Thus, companies are forced to decide between [...]
We're at the Alabama Educational Technology Conference (AETC) this week and we have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is Book Systems. Book Systems is library and textbook/asset management software developer. They are used by more than 10,000 schools and libraries worldwide. We had a chance to ask the Book Systems team [...]
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 [...]
As more and more companies are moving toward video explainer videos, as a first means of contact with potential customers, many businesses are being left behind. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, if you want to hire a studio to create such a video, it can cost upwards of thousands of dollars. [...]
Verizon Throttle October For the better part of the last three years Verizon Wireless has been segueing customers away from unlimited data plans. Those plans are no longer available however a system malfunction earlier this year allows some unlimited customers to renew. Customers with unlimited data who never formerly renewed their contracts and have simply [...]
Leave it to a guy in Nashville, one of the startup hub capitals of the world, to take a machine like a CNC Router and turn it into the ultimate wood working production tool. That's exactly what Tyler Smith, the founder of Southern SawDust has done. Smith and has team have created the MT24, a [...]
Target has apologized profusely for the data breach that has resulted in the compromise of personal and credit card/debit card data from over 40 million Target shoppers. Anyone who shopped at target from Thanksgiving to December 15th and paid with a credit or debit card, fell victim to the heist. Target has done everything a [...]
