Author: Diana Adams
Interactive Clothes Hangers Add New Dimension To Shopping & Marketing
A few months ago we featured some high tech clothes hangers that digitally display the number of Facebook likes that each piece of clothing gets from a store's website. If you follow the trends, this is a great way to find out what kind of clothes most people like. You can read about that on Social ...
BrickPi Kit Turns Your Raspberry Pi Into Your Own Custom LEGO Robot
If you got your hands on a Raspberry Pi last year when they became available, you've probably had a lot of fun with it. Even though I've had my Pi from the beginning, it never gets old. It's always fun to tinker with it, and make it do things you never thought it could do. There are tons of tutorial ...
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4 Ways To Use Social Media To Promote Your Next Event [Infographic]
There are so many different ways to use social media in our daily lives, but for some reason, we don't often think of social media being used in the event planning process. If it's done well, social media and event planning can be a match made in heaven. This includes every aspect of the process fro ...
Firefly Lights: Blue Home Laser Lamps With Passive Cooling Technology
There is a lot of innovation going on now when it comes to more efficient and environmentally friendly lighting options. It's a much needed area of our lives that needs improving, and we've written about many alternative lighting options. Yesterday I heard about a Kickstarter project that was seekin ...
Smart Cycling Helmet With Wireless Capability Monitors Heart Rate
Technology seems to be embedded into everything these days, and now with the introduction of this helmet, that even includes what we put on our heads when we ride our bikes. This is the world's first smart cycling helmet, and it's really quite extraordinary. I first noticed it on indiegogo. Their ca ...
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How To Make Coffee Without A Coffee Maker [Flowchart]
We often write about the dynamics of viral content, and how brands can create a buzz online. It's a very different process than traditional marketing, and this is a great example. A coffee company called Tonx created this flowchart below about how to make coffee without a coffee maker. Because it's ...
Turn Your MacBook Backlight Into A Laser Etched Unique Work Of Art
We've featured a lot of ways to customize your MacBook over the years, but this is the most beautiful and sophisticated option yet. It doesn't put stickers or a case on your laptop to personalize it. Instead, it uses the MacBook backlight to illuminate an etched design that nobody else on the planet ...
A Simple Hack To Make 20-Second Vine Videos
If you don't know what Vine is yet, I'll give you the quick background. Vine is a mini-video-taking app that Twitter acquired last October and launched in January. It soon reached the number one spot on the free apps list in the App Store. Vine allows you to take 6-second videos to share with the wo ...
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How To: Keep Your Email Subscribers Once You Have Them [Infographic]
We've said it many times before - even though you may be annoyed with all the email marketing messages you get in your inbox, it's still the most effective form of Internet marketing. When I say 'effective,' what I mean is that it drives sales. According to this recent study by Forrester Research, a ...
Mobile App Helps Visually Impaired Improve Their Photography Skills
You might not think a visually impaired person or even a completely blind person would care about improving their photography skills, but that line of thinking is outdated in today's world. With the technology available, people with sight limitations can improve their photography skills just like th ...
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How To: Develop An Entrepreneurial Mindset [Chart]
If you have recently launched your own business for the first time, you probably feel like you are expanding into uncharted territory. Being an entrepreneur is very different from being an employee, and there is definitely an entrepreneurial mindset that you'll need to develop in order to secure you ...
Teenage Girl Develops Twitter Plugin To Hide TV Spoilers In Tweets
How many times have you DVR'ed your favorite shows only to have them ruined by seeing the spoiler alerts in your Twitter stream? I don't watch television much, so it hasn't happened to me, but I've seen a lot of people on Twitter rant about it. Leave it to a 17-year-old girl to solve this dilemma by ...
Touch Sensitive Poster With Conductive Paint Is A Musical Instrument
Back in the old days, before technology was all around us, people really only had two options to make music. They either had to buy a musical instrument, or they had to make a musical instrument. These days, having an instrument to make music is just an option. To a professional musician, none of th ...
The Star Trek Medical Tricorder Inches Closer To Becoming A Reality
If you are a trekkie, which a lot of our readers are, you probably know that in Star Trek there are three main types of tricorders. One is a standard tricorder used to scan unfamiliar places and collect data, one is an engineering tricorder used for engineering purposes on the ship, and the last one ...
DIY Invisibility Cloak Uses 3D Printing Technology & Microwave Beams
About a month ago, I wrote about the latest advances in invisibility cloak technology. There is a new technique called mantle cloaking that cancels out the light waves so you never see them in the first place, which creates a transparent effect. Now it seems the researchers at Duke University have d ...