When many people around George W. Robertson’s age, 97, probably don’t even understand the cellphone and how it works, he has created an app that allows the user to keep their mind sharp, reports Ottawa Citizen. The game, called CheX Challenger, is a numbers game involving two players who alternate entering the digits one through […]
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The Guardian: Draw Something is the latest classic board game to be reinvented for the digital age. Words With Friends is the new Scrabble, Monopoly is a hit online. But none has rivalled the phenomenal growth of Draw. The game has been a winner from day one – it was averaging three drawings a second
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Business Insider: Justin Kan already has quite the track record. His second [business], Justin.tv, has turned into a runaway success since rebranding to Twitch.tv. Its traffic has doubled in the past six months. It now has more than 16 million unique visitors every month. Now he’s leaving that startup to work on a completely new
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There is a reason people love the tagline, “There’s an app for that,” so much. It’s true. There are apps for everyone, including inventors. Here are a few shared by Davison Inventions. iHandy Carpenter This app has five of the most well designed tools for builders, makers and carpenters. InventionLand An app on a mission
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The increasing popularity of touchscreen phones has caused some problems for the visually impaired. However, the new BrailleTouch app hopes to fix that. In an app coming to the market relatively soon for both iPhone and Android, Georgia Tech researchers have reduced the price of realistically typing Braille on a smartphone from $1700 plus the
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Google wants developers to make the best apps possible for their android system, so they launched a website to help developers do exactly that. On Thursday, Google launched Android Design, a web site created specifically to help aid developers in the creation of applications for ICS. The site offers a comprehensive visual to third-party application
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The app industry is bigger than ever, especially with the rise in app sales during the last week of 2011. This could be the year to put a little more attention into the app you use to promote your business or start an app company of your own. In its most recent report, Flurry estimated
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Ever wonder why you can’t control your television with your phone? Well, iRule is an app that will let do you exactly that, and more. A plan to make $2,000 each last year on the side by developing and selling software for a universal remote control app for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch has morphed
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In June we mentioned an inventor who finally struck gold with his word game. Today the 84 year old inventor has taken his game to the next level. It is now an app that you can download on your iPhone or iPad. Since receiving his first patent in 1958, Weiss spent more than 50 years
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Most 7 year olds are learning the basics of reading and writing. He is running a LLC, reports Youngstown News. The soon-to-be second-grader recently debuted his first app called Toaster Pop, a brightly colored game in which participants try to spread butter, jam and other toppings on one of his favorite breakfast foods — toast.
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