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The Newborn to Toddler Apptivity Seat for iPad, from Fisher Price, seems like a reasonably cool idea. An iPad is mounted above the child's head so they can enjoy videos, music and even apps when they're old enough. The seat looks like a normal "grow with me seat" and features a toy bar with plastic [...]
Google may not have been able to get their NFC based Google Wallet off the ground due to carrier restrictions and plenty of other obstacles, but that hasn't stopped them. Instead of keeping Google Wallet as solely an on device application Google has branched it out and they are now offering Google Wallet cards, a [...]
While Sony was celebrating their sale of 1 million PlayStation 4 units on launch day, there were several customers that weren't as happy. As early as Saturday morning reports started surfacing that Sony had shipped a number of bricked PlayStation 4 consoles. Meaning that customers took their PlayStation 4 out of the box whether it [...]
"You're in a car with a helium balloon on a string that is tied to the floor. The windows are closed. When you step on the gas pedal, what happens to the balloon—does it move forward, move backward, or stay put?" That's one of the legendary Google interview questions that have been circulating across the [...]
Tickengo has positioned itself as a pure ride-sharing platform. While similar platforms have facilitated, at times unintentionally, the creation of professional driving fleets, Tickengo remains committed to, simply, filling empty seats.
The Android super phones of 2014 have solidified: The Samsung Galaxy S5, the HTC One M8, and the LG G3. All feature somewhat larger builds, with the M8 speakers giving it more height and the G3 entering phablet territory with a 5.5” screen. The 4.95" Nexus 5 had been my daily driver since it was released [...]
Usually, we cover education companies that have launched. However, we had a chance to ask Micky Dionisio about his new project, Ignite Teaching, currently in Alpha. This project looks amazing. Mickey described it at, the "perfect mix between the ease of Keynote, the power of Photoshop, collaboration of Google Docs and fun of Class Badges." Sounds [...]
The United States, and to a degree Canada, are the only countries in the world that offer outrageous phone subsidies to stay with a certain cell phone carrier. Overseas things are done a lot differently. In Europe, Asia, and even the Middle East you buy your cell phone, or smartphone, from a phone retailer not [...]
When you think media discovery you think aggregators, iTunes, Amazon etc. You may get info from one or two reviews websites and then by word of mouth. It seems that during the past few years, anything new with media discovery was just realigning API's from services currently available. Those new startups would get a "oh [...]
Moejoe Brewing What Joseph Hyman, Alex Wing and Ezekiel Kolajo have come up with is nothing short of amazing. They've literally reinvented the cup of coffee and it all started during the miserably cold and snowy winter in Baltimore Maryland. Hyman, was studying at UMBC. He was fading fast as he was studying and needed [...]
Great Kindness Challenge App NAESP We're gearing up for the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) conference in Nashville later this week. In our preparations for the event, like all events, we reached out to the exhibitors to start some preview stories ahead of time. One of those with Great Kindness Challenge, from Kids [...]
Gripcase iPad Case For Kids The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference was a lot of fun for our six year old correspondent Tatum F. As we were pulling out of Atlanta we asked what her favorite part of the conference was and she said robots and throwing iPads. The conference featured over [...]
There are a lot of companies out there making a name for themselves by saying that they are teaching kids how to program in a very short time. At ISTE 2014 we actually saw it happen when Terrapin Software taught our six year old special correspondent, Tatum, the fundamentals of programming in under ten [...]
At the upcoming International Society For Technology in Education conference in Atlanta, flipped classrooms are going to be a big theme. Flipped classrooms are becoming more and more popular. The term flipped classroom refers to a teaching environment where the teacher turns to video and interactive instruction so that students can work at their own [...]
There's been a lot of talk about Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella. Nadella has been with Microsoft for 22 years, throughout most of his entire career. He's held various executive positions within the company, most recently in an enterprise role. He's also had the ear of Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer throughout his [...]
The Braven 705 is a portable bluetooth speaker that can fit many audio needs without breaking your wallet. This speaker looks good and includes helpful features not seen in some other speakers. It has vibrant color options: yellow, purple, blue, gray and a few other to fit your style. Although the Braven 705 costs [...]
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 [...]
The mobile device, really the iPad and iPhone, have brought out a host of amazing tools for musicians. Anything from new effects, to amplifier simulators, to recording programs, editing programs and did I mention the 1000s of effects available for mobile devices? Rack and pedal gear that would cost tens of thousands of dollars has [...]
Korg, a world leader in music synthesizers and production equipment took to the NAMM show in Anaheim this week to announce it's latest iPad app. Like their iElectribe apps, the Gadget app is feature rich and full of great sounds. The virtual production studio features 15 virtual synths that cover just about every electronic sound [...]
Now I must admit, Padholdr had a clever booth at CES. Their cardboard booth caught the eyes of many during the week long event in Las Vegas. However when we perused their tablet stand offerings it was like every other tablet stand manufacturer out there. They did have a few clever ideas but nothing like [...]
