Menthal App Could Help You Realize How Addicted You Are To Your Smartphone
If you're being totally honest with yourself, how often do you use your smartphone each day? In the ultimate example of "turning bad into good," an app run on, yes, your smartphone could help to...
View ArticleApple Sells Record Number Of iPhones, Still Disappoints People
(Reuters) - Apple Inc sold a record number of iPhones over the holiday shopping season but failed to meet Wall Street's target, reflecting intense competition from arch-foe Samsung Electronics during...
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Leave 3D Printing Alone
I thought John Sarik was trying to shake my hand when we met last Spring at the Columbia Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics (CLUE). Instead he was trying to hand me a small tan-colored plastic...
View ArticleInnovation in the Government Industry
Government may be susceptible to the same forces that are currently changing many major industries. Software is eating government, too. Therefore government must use customer development to better...
View ArticleConnecting Military Families with Social Media
I was honored to be invited on an embark mission with the U.S. Navy on the U.S.S. Carl Vinson. Fifteen bloggers and media professionals were taken on a 24-hour excursion out to sea. While the planes...
View Article10 Things I Bet You Didn't Know About Innovation
While conducting interviews and research on an article calling for less talk on innovation and more doing, I stumbled on the list below of somewhat unknown and starling things about innovation and...
View ArticleMajority Of Students Have Skipped Buying A College Textbook Because They're...
The cost of college textbooks extends far beyond the bookstore, with students factoring in textbook expenses when they decide about everything from classwork to course loads, according to a report...
View ArticleIntrepid Gamer Attempts To Find Edge Of Minecraft World
There is a place in gaming where no one has trodden. It's so far off the beaten path that it would take a lifetime's worth of gaming and a heck of a lot of patience to get there. If it were plotted on...
View ArticleFlow State: How to Cultivate a State of Bliss and Seamless Productivity
Most of us have had a heightened and radical experience where time slows down, specific details are enhanced, and self vanishes. This is what some top athletes describe as being "in the zone." In these...
View ArticleAre You an E-mail E-diot?
It seems the more ways they invent for us to communicate, the worse we become at it. Email is pretty old-school these days (and I believe smart companies will replace it, internally at least, with a...
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Google Reveals What People Really Think About Europe And Asia
Google knows what's in our souls because we ask Google the questions we're too afraid to ask anyone else. Questions like: "Why is Spain empty?" and "Why is Kazakhstan so big?" These are questions that...
View ArticleUnder Fire (And Arrest), Charlie Shrem Resigns From Bitcoin Foundation
The Bitcoin Foundation, an organization dedicated to evangelizing the crypto-currency, is distancing itself from a bitcoin exchange founder accused of laundering money to online drug dealers. The...
View ArticleScientists Strap Tiny 'Backpacks' To 5,000 Bees To Learn More About Colony...
From Mother Nature Network's Laura Moss: There's been a lot of buzz about colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon causing bees to die off around the world, and Australian scientists are trying a new...
View ArticleTrippy 'Huelux' Time-Lapse Video Takes The Sky To New Heights
If you haven't had a moment to enjoy the stars recently, here's a new video that will more than suffice. Shot over an eight-month period by time-lapse photographer Randy Halverson, the video gives a...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Apologizes For 'Share A Coke' Promotion Deemed Homophobic
For months corporate sponsors of the upcoming 2014 Sochi Olympics have been warned that their support of the Games could bring about the fury of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists who are...
View ArticleThe Creeping Threat That Should Worry Apple
Apple needs to watch its back. Smartphones from lower-cost manufacturers are eating into the company's worldwide market share, according to newly released figures from two market research firms....
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Alzheimer's Facebook Campaign Aims To Show Just How Terrifying It Is To Forget
It's impossible for someone who does not have Alzheimer's to fully grasp just how confusing, frustrating, isolating and frightening having the disease can be. But a powerful Facebook campaign out of...
View ArticleBetter Understanding of Fair Use, Tech Missing From Copyright Hearing
When a Congressional committee hears from various witnesses Tuesday about the subject of copyright fair use, one of the more important details is who won't be represented at the witness table:...
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Scientists Capture Living Brain Cells Making Memories In Real-Time (VIDEO)
Before they become part of our consciousness, memories aren't much more than molecules. But how exactly do memories get stored in the brain? With the help of mice and some advanced imaging techniques,...
View ArticleWhen Apps Get a Bad Rap
You know their names. The "apps" that kids love to use and parents are warned to fear: Ask.fm, Vine, Kik and Snapchat make it to the top of the list for their reputations as harbingers of porn and...
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