What did high school students, drug dealers, and doctors have in common 10 years ago? They all carried pagers. Now cell phones and text messaging has made those prior status symbols obsolete but thankfully, the networks that carried all that…
Continue Reading →In an ambitious effort to curb waste (and possibly increase their global PR image), Sony has launched a new national electronics recycling program. The Take Back Recycling Program aims to place a center within 20 miles of 95 percent of…
Continue Reading →In a classically A+B = Cha-ching! moment, the latest way to exploit thirteen year olds and their flailing parents has been discovered: A) Digital cameras see a broader spectrum of light than the human eye; B) The "camera-phone generation" is…
Continue Reading →This morning, on the way to the coffee shop where I write, I passed a young lady with headphones in her ears. A normal enough occurrence for a rainy Friday morning, but the feeling that something was terribly out of…
Continue Reading →A lot of holes in your wall: that's something you don't want. Instead of mounting your sweet new flat screen plasma TV directly on your wall"”discoloring your paint and drilling holes in the drywall to keep the screen up and…
Continue Reading →Last I checked, mirrors could only present reflections of what stood in front of them. I mean, that's the definition of a mirror. But not this mirror. This mirror reflects what stands in front of it, and it accepts text…
Continue Reading →Microgravity Enterprises sells products such as the AntiMatter energy drink and Space2O water. The company is based on "bringing space to earth", so basically flying the product to space and bringing it back down is special. Space2Oâ„¢ claims to have…
Continue Reading →Okay, let's just put it out there; we could talk about the iPhone today, again. Over and over and over. Everyone else is doing it, and hundreds (or thousands, perhaps?) of people are hanging outside of Apple stores in all…
Continue Reading →Yesterday I paid a visit to the Apple Store in Boulder (above, left), and I could feel the iPhone buzz in the air already (I mean a palpable sort of buzz, more intense than the steady, annoying buzz that has…
Continue Reading →So much for hiding your cables: Britta Böhne's Cable Carpet integrates them into a plush white pile to display them prominently on your floor, saving you not only from pitching face first over those pesky whatever-gaming-device-makes-you-gooey-this-week cords, but also from…
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