Now Your Dreams Of Riding In Optimus Prime Can Be A Reality
Some people prefer to roll up to a party in an expensive sports car or limousine; others prefer to show up in a Transformer. Luckily for the latter group, Uber is offering customers in Dallas, Phoenix...
View ArticleSoap the Intelligent, Touch Screen Router Makes Way for Home Automation
Scavenging the IndieGogo startup farm leaves me with a lot of candidates for my next tech discovery. I think I found a promising product that really fits into a niche that is supported by a lot larger...
View ArticleNew Nikon D3300 Redefines 'Entry Level'
What is "man's best friend?" A dog? No. A spouse? No. It's his faithful, trusting camera. Think about it: It never lies to you, is always by your side and oftentimes shows things as they really are....
View ArticleThinking of Blogging With a Partner? Read This First
Today, with so much to do, it is hard for a single entrepreneur to be successful. Bloggers, in particular, work long hours with very little in return. With so much competition out there, and so many...
View ArticleWhat If Life Was Like Summer Camp? The No Tech Agreement
If you're a parent of a child who is on their way to sleep-away camp this summer, you've probably been stressing out over the never-ending rush to get them packed before they get picked up at a bus...
View ArticleBjörk Is Getting Her Own Massive Art Exhibition At MoMA
Word was just announced that Icelandic songbird, human artwork and recent educational innovator Björk is slated for a multimedia retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art next year. We think a...
View ArticleSolving Solar's Shade Problem: Students May Have Answered Energy Source's...
This story originally appeared on Mother Nature Network. It's fairly obvious to most of us that solar panels aren't a great investment on a shady roof. Yet even in near-ideal solar locations, partial...
View ArticlePhysicists Pin Down Value Of Newton's Gravitational Constant
Physicists have used the quantum nature of matter to obtain a highly precise value for the universal gravitational constant, the 'big G' that appears in Isaac Newton's law of how gravity pulls together...
View ArticleBitcoin Will Have Its Own Football Game Because Everything Is Awful
Everyone's favorite crypto-currency is finally getting some much-needed legitimacy. No, the Fed isn't making Bitcoin the national currency. Something even more American is happening: Bitcoin is getting...
View ArticleDon't Call Me Maybe, Video Me
Hate email? If you're in the corporate world, chances are you have an affliction like I do. Five hundred emails, 24 hours a day, two means -- portable devices and your desktop -- to receive them. Email...
View ArticleThe Most Inspiring Thing to Happen in Business in Years
Recently Elon Musk announced that Tesla is applying an 'open source' philosophy to their vast patent portfolio (pictured above, now taken down) and that they will not initiate legal action against...
View ArticleLaser, Zap, Repeat: Beauty Tech
On the quest for beauty people will try just about anything. There are so many tech gadgets out there now -- how do you know if they actually work? In this week's episode of Hardwired 2.0 I tested out...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Proliferation of the 'Right to Be Forgotten'
Following on last month's ruling by the European Court of Justice that search engines could be forced to take down links that individuals believe infringe their privacy rights, a new ruling from the...
View ArticleThe World's Largest Video Game Collection Just Sold For $750,000
An anonymous buyer just dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars to become the new owner of the world’s largest video game collection. The trove of 11,000 games sold on June 15 at online auction site...
View ArticleYour Hotel Room Can Do WHAT?! Super High-Tech Amenities
It seems that every week a new tablet device has launched or a new robot is being introduced to do the work of a person -- and hotels that know what's up have made sure to stock up on these new...
View ArticleState GOP Politician Tweets A Photo Of A Huge Penis
Missouri State Rep. Mark Parkinson (R) found himself in an awkward spot Monday when a comical picture of a giant penis was posted to his Twitter account. The Daily Dot first reported on the tweet,...
View ArticleThe Science of Emotion in Marketing: How Our Brains Decide What to Share and...
Every day it seems like we feel hundreds of different emotions -- each nuanced and specific to the physical and social situations we find ourselves in. According to science, it's not that complicated...
View ArticleIf You Ever Needed Inspiration To Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone, This Is It
Cory Richards' work combines discomfort and adventure and the results are sheer inspiration. In this stunning short, "A Tribute to Discomfort," National Geographic Creative photographer and North Face...
View ArticleThe Writers Workbench: Windows Tablets
First things first -- and this is true for all Windows tablet: they simply don't have the apps available yet that the iPad and Androids do. ("Yet" is the operative word. I think Windows tablets is a...
View ArticleGoogle Launching New Push To Get Girls Into Coding
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Diana Navarro loves to code, and she's not afraid to admit it. But the 18-year-old Rutgers University computer science major knows she's an anomaly: Writing software to run...
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