How The Facebook Ping Notification Noise Was Designed & Developed
I'm one of the few people I know who actually likes the Facebook ping notification sound. Sure, it's a distraction I don't need during my busy day, but the sound itself is nice. Have you ever stopped to really listen to it? It's almost smooth and soothing. There's no question that it's a step up fro ...
Window Socket: Plug Your Devices Into Your Window For A Solar Charge
We've written about so many solar powered device chargers over the years that it's hard to remember them all. Even after all the creativity put into the idea of charging our gadgets with sunlight, it still isn't mainstream. Of course, the best case scenario would be if we could just plug all our cor ...
Charge Your Phone With The Iron Man Power Pack & Light Up Arc Reactor
Having a mobile charger or battery pack is essential to complement our mobile technology lifestyles. I often work from a cafe, and the prime real estate in those places are the tables next to a power outlet. I've even had strangers ask me if they could borrow my charger for a few minutes to give the ...
4 Steps To Turn Any Pair Of Ordinary Gloves Into Touchscreen Gloves
If you are tied to your smartphone, it would be useful to know how to make touchscreen gloves in five minutes. I'm about to show you how to do that. People in the generation before mine don't seem to understand how important our smartphones are to us. They would probably say we don't understand how ...
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How Google Works: Overview Of The Powerful Search Engine [Infographic]
The world's most powerful company on the Internet certainly has to be Google, right? Their algorithms pretty much define how the Internet works and who gets the most traffic. Their search engine alone has created more business channels than any other company in the history of mankind. When you start ...
6 Steps To Prevent Digital Identity Disaster
When I was in college (back before our civilized, digital epoch had dawned), the resume was the “you” you presented to potential employers. It was a carefully crafted document, edited to put your experience and skills in the best possible light. It was quite efficient, and the primary filter that co ...
How Technology Can Keep You From Falling Asleep While Driving
Falling asleep while driving, even if just for a moment, can be as dangerous as driving under the influence of alcohol. It seems more and more people are falling asleep while behind the wheel or driving drowsy. According to an article published on the Huffington Post earlier this month, one in ten d ...
3D Printed Record That Actually Plays Music On Ordinary Record Players
I remember a year ago when I wrote about the world's first Chocolate Record that plays music on an ordinary record player. At the time, I thought that was the neatest thing ever. I'd like to think I have grown a little and gotten a bit more sophisticated in the past year. Today I'd like to share wit ...
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Is The Cost Of College Worth It & Necessary In 2013? [Infographic]
We've all read the inspiring stories of people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Richard Branson who dropped out of school to pursue their dreams, and they became wildly successful. I've noticed though that some young people now think it's a badge of honor to dropout of school. I've e ...
YouTube Adds Slow Motion Video Feature To Editing Options
Get ready because funny YouTube videos are about to get even funnier. Yesterday YouTube added a slow motion feature to the editing suite of options, so now anyone can make a slow motion video without having a high-speed camera or other fancy equipment. It's basically a fun little effect packed into ...
Environmentally Friendly Basic Phone Introduces Smart E-Ink Features
The constant strive to make smartphones and devices more environmentally friendly has led to a whole lot of innovation in the past decade. The more we can recycle, the better. This is something that smartphone developers are constantly looking into, even though the results may vary. Recently there w ...
Xbox One First Impressions: Is It Already Outdated?
So, Microsoft has released the new Xbox, the Xbox One. Is it the leap forward over the previous Xbox that it needs to be, or has Microsoft dropped the ball? I’m no expert, and can’t speak in great detail on it, but there were a few off-the-bat impressions I had on the announcement that I thought wer ...
Medical Implant Heals Wounds & Then Dissolves
The augmentation of our bodies has reached a point where we are beginning to see some true innovation. Latest in a row of eye-opening innovations is a groundbreaking medical implant that is going to change the treatment of wounds forever. Medical implants are of course not a new field of discovery, ...
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Pinterest Update: What Are We Pinning? [Infographic]
It's been a while now since Pinterest became one of the few really popular social networking services. The number of users Pinterest has managed to rake up is a little unclear when you start looking at the statistics. One source says that Pinterest is worth over $2 billion due to its 25 million user ...
Groundbreaking Augmented Reality Car Repair App Soon Available
Augmented reality is a tricky concept to make popular it seems. I don't know what it is about it. It's always on the brink of becoming popular, but it never does for some reason. People marvel over the cool effects and innovation around it, but we don't seem to adopt it into our own lives. Let me as ...