A little while back, I got wind of some pretty nasty stuff going on at Lower Merion High School, my alma matter (also Kobe Bryant’s) located in the Philadelphia area. Recently after my graduation in 2007, the school decided to give every student a MacBook for their personal and academic use. The school district reserved [...]
The only drawing class I’ve ever taken in my life proved to me that I am artistically challenged. Or at the very least, I can’t produce with a pencil or paintbrush the image in my head. The EyeWriter Project recently released a tracking technology so that users can produce art just by wearing special goggles. [...]
While I was hiding from the world at TechCrunch Disrupt, Apple surpassed Microsoft in market value. People have been predicting this would happen sooner or later, but the media seemed shocked that it happened so soon. In the technology world, the number of Mac product users (iPod, iPad, MacBook, etc.) outweighs the number of PC [...]
En route to TechCrunch Disrupt 2010, a 3-day event in New York City. From what I gather, there’ll be a bunch of start-ups presenting their cutting edge ideas to successful executives and investors. Some of the highlights include talks from the CEO of AOL, the CEO of Yahoo!, a few Google people, the creator of [...]
The Onion is usually a pretty reliable source for hilarious interpretations of current events. Today’s video on Google’s “new project” is no exception: the report explains that the employees at the Googleplex have launched voice advertisements. Basically, if you’re on the phone with a friend and you say something like “Want to go get a [...]
A few months ago, I switched from Comcast to Verizon Fios thinking my TV watching experience might get a little better. Nothing really changed: I’m was still sick of flipping through channels without finding anything to watch, and paying too much for the service. If there was something I actually want to see, I knew [...]
Track Lost Phone | Prevent loss Ever notice man’s fascination with maps? Ever since the beginning of time, man has wanted to design systems to determine location and track whereabouts. Tracking a lost phone is a modern daily requirement. Consider that this was an issue of survival. Knowing where you were and the weather [...]
I never thought twice about why I refer to the internet as the “web” until I wanted this TED talk. Gary Flake from Live Labs introduces an application called Pivot, designed to locate and display commonalities across the board. For instance, say PhoneHalo writes about StarCraft 2. Pivot allows you to pull up a screen [...]
One of my favorite blogs, ReadWriteWeb is holding what they call an “unconference” today in Mountain View, California. The topic is mobile development trends, and it seems like they plan to cover just about every niche of the industry I can think of: geo-location services, commerce & marketing, content/publishing, mobile social networking, augmented reality, and [...]
The biggest announcement of iPhone OS 3.0 last year was the ability for the iPhone to interact with accessories. This opened up the iPhone to hardware developers. However, we have yet to see the iPhone accessory gold rush take place. I personally feel that this is a pity and that there is a world of [...]