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The Freelancing Revolution [Infographic]
Are you thinking about becoming a freelancer instead of having to faithfully keep taking that train to work every morning to do something that, despite the secure employment, doesn't really tickle your fancy? A lot of people think about that, and more and more are actually taking that step into the ...
The Entire Internet Weighs As Much As A Strawberry
Have you ever wondered how much the Internet weighs? When I did my research for an article I wrote a few months ago called Global Data Storage: How Much & Where It Is, I learned that there are about 600 exabytes of data stored on the Internet right now. If you put all the information from one ex ...
The Nokia Twist: The Flexible Mobile Phone
If you have followed the technology industry updates the last few weeks, you have seen that some companies, or Samsung rather, is going to introduce a flexible cell phone in the coming future. I have always wondered why a flexible cell phone would be beneficial in the first place. However, now that ...
LED Slippers Will Prevent Head Bumps When Sleepwalking
Alright, so here's a scenario for you. You wake up in the middle of the night in dire need of some water. With great effort, you manage to persuade yourself to actually go through the trouble of getting out of bed, walking all the way to the kitchen to get a glass to fill up with water, then take it ...
iHome Stereo Boombox: Go Retro With Your iPhone
Most of you know that I love writing about new gadgets, especially when they are retro and cool. There is a lot of stuff being launched onto the market every day, and unfortunately, it is impossible to cover it all. You have to somewhat pick out the new and cool if you will. Usually people send us a ...
Snap! Makes Your iPhone Look Like A Real Camera
I bet you are excited about shooting new pictures with that iPhone 4S you are probably flaunting right about now, right? The chances of me pointing out the people who have an iPhone 4S are actually pretty good. After all, Apple has sold more than a few of those puppies. Along with the new phone came ...
Finder: RFID Locator Finds Your Misplaced Keys
Don't you just hate it when you are in a hurry, and you can't find your keys or your mobile phone? Usually right then it's even impossible to remember where you might have put them since you are in such a hurry and stress keeps your brain from functioning properly. I remember the "whistler" when I w ...
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Introducing Touch Tone Dialing: A Huge Leap In 1963 [Video]
When Apple held that now legendary keynote where they introduced the iPhone for the first time, we were all insanely impressed with with this new way of using our phone. We weren't just able to call someone anymore, we could also use our smartphone for a ton of other things. The impact has been huge ...
HAL9000 iPhone Siri Dock For Retro Fandom
The newest feature on the iPhone 4S must be Siri. During the original presentation, Siri didn't make such a great impression. I don't think it was because she didn't deliver, it was more because people had it in their minds that she was going to be yet another really bad voice command feature. Howev ...
Old School Rotary Phone Becomes Today’s Twitter Client
I think many of us are using different Twitter clients than the ones Twitter makes available on their site or through their apps. For those who don't know what "client" is, it is the software that you use in order to send and read tweets, etc. It's the program that you log into and use with Twitter ...
Levitating Lamp: The Future Of Interior Design
If you are one of those people who is continuously redecorating your home in order to follow the style and fashion of the trends, I am sure that you are always looking into the future for answers about where things might be heading. There have been many "concepts" of what we might put into our livin ...
Star Wars Han Solo Mimobot USB Flash Drive
If you are one of those geeks out there who is dying for a laser gun, a lightsaber or a spaceship, I am sorry because every kid knows that those things aren't going to enter our world for quite some time. However, if you are looking for some rather awesome and cool Star Wars accessories, you have ab ...
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How Social Media Compromises Home Security [Infographic]
I remember when social media first started becoming really popular back around 2009, people who were much older than me would many times make comments about how unsafe they thought it was for us to announce our whereabouts to the world. Although that concern seemed legit on a logical level, most of ...
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What You Text vs. What I See [Humor]
Texting is really strange when you think about it. Just yesterday I was standing in line at a store, and there was a group of four or five teenagers in front of me. I just stood there watching them because every single one of them was talking to the others, but at the same time, having text conversa ...
The 1983 Apple Gift Catalog: A Special Kind Of History
This brings back so many memories for me. I remember the first time I ever saw an Apple computer. It was in the early '90s. My uncle bought a Power Macintosh desktop computer, and everyone in my family thought he was nuts, except me. I was intrigued by how it looked, and I always wanted to visit him ...