Cozy Wants To Make Apartment/Home Rental Process Suck Less
At some point or another, you have rented or will rent an apartment. You’ll go through the dance of finding a place, filling out an application — which is often, inexplicably, still paper-based — and...
View Article7 Grandiose Tech Campuses That Make Your Office Look Like a Hole In The Ground
Maybe you never gave much thought to your office building. If that’s true, then you probably don’t work at one of these seven companies. Judging by the building plans of tech’s major players, sci-fi...
View ArticleCool Tech: Liquid Wiring On Paper, Walls And More, Thanks to Conductive Paint
If you could put circuits anywhere you wanted, what would you do with that? Build a toy? Turn your wall into an interactive display? Make your own battery-powered Tron costume? Turn that beat-up desk...
View ArticleAmericans Spend 58 minutes Daily on Smartphones, Most of It Talking
Less than 10 years ago, most mobile users couldn’t even conceive of the computing power they’d eventually have in their hands. Imagine — the primary use for cell phones was actually talking back then....
View ArticleAshton Kutcher Steve Jobs Film Gets Aug. 16 Release Date
JOBS, the Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher and originally titled jOBS: Get Inspired, is set for release nationwide on August 16 (four months after it was originally slated to open), according...
View ArticleWhat if Jony Ive Redesigned Everything?
Are you still stinging/cheering from Apple’s big reveal? Good or bad, one thing was pretty indisputable — Jony Ive had a specific and consistent design ethos when he came up with the aesthetics for...
View ArticleBank Clerk Dozes Off on Keyboard, Accidentally Transfers 222,222,222.222...
Ever fall asleep on your keyboard? Of course you have. Who doesn’t know the fuzzy horror of waking up with an indentation on your cheek and NNNNNNNNNN across that all-important document? When it comes...
View ArticleSick Teen Throws Pitch at MLB Game Using Google Fiber and Telerobotic...
At a Yankees-Athletics game earlier this week, 13-year-old Nick LeGrande threw out the ceremonial first pitch as the sun quickly faded behind Oakland Coliseum. It’s been done a thousand times—a staple...
View ArticleEye on EdTech: What It Takes to Succeed in Educational Technology
With graduation ceremonies behind us now, the world is flush with a new crop of bright-eyed hopefuls chomping at the bit to blaze trails. And for some, that will involve coming back to an environment...
View ArticleKen Levine Writing Logan’s Run Hollywood Remake
Irrational Games’ co-founder and BioShock creator Ken Levine is taking a short break from video games to make the jump to Hollywood. His first screenplay? The Hollywood remake of the 1976 cult classic...
View ArticleStar Wars Episode VII Casting Begins and Provides Some Hints of What is to Come
Casting has begun for Star Wars: Episode VII, and the notes sent out to casting directors gives us some insight as to what is to come. Bleeding Cool has come up with a document that it says it has 100...
View ArticleCatch Jimmy Fallon’s “We Are The World of Warcraft” Geek Extravaganza Music Vid
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon has held its Video Game Week for four years, but this time, the show may have outdone itself with gleeful cheesiness and sheer gamer geekery. When it comes to Jimmy’s “We...
View Article‘Jobs’ Trailer Featuring Ashton Kutcher Released
The official trailer for Jobs was released recently for the movie in which Ashton Kutcher portrays Apple’s late CEO Steve Jobs. The film was delayed in March while production companies worked to boost...
View Article10 Money-Saving Tips For The Tech-Savvy
Every once in a while, I stumble upon helpful hints that can benefit most any modern tech user, regardless of platform preference or level of gadget addiction. And this one invokes a driving force for...
View ArticleMicrosoft Launching Web Version of Xbox Music Next Week
Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch a Web version of Xbox Music as early as next week, giving subscribers another (much more convenient) way of accessing the service. According to The Verge,...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines Replaces Heavy Pilot Manuals and Charts with iPads
American Airlines became the first major commercial airline to deploy iPad-based electronic flight bags in place of physical charts and manuals for its entire fleet this week, after the Federal...
View ArticleTwitter Adds Genre Browsing to #music iPhone App
Twitter on Thursday introduced a small update to its Twitter #music app for iPhone, making it even easier to explore different genres. In addition to discovering new music through Popular and Emerging...
View ArticleOfgem Warns U.K. Facing Energy Crisis, Says Prices Could Skyrocket
The Ofgem this week said the risk of U.K. blackouts has tripled in just twelve months as energy shortages continue to threaten. Things could get so bad in the next few years that prices could...
View ArticleWeekend Project: NFC Your Life with WhizTags
I’ve been a proponent of NFC technology ever since last year’s Google I/O. Google made a big push to integrate it as a core functionality of Android and I was hoping to see its integration be expanded...
View ArticleGuy Implants “Invisible Headphone” Into Ear, Isn’t Human
The only notable thing about Rich Lee’s appearance is a slightly greying goatee. And if you didn’t know any better you’d think he’s like any other guy you’d see on a normal day. But Lee has managed to...
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