If you find yourself spending more time holding on to your favorite smart phone than your significant other’s hand, you’re not alone. According to Business News Daily, a new survey shows that 60% of small business owners are confessing to a similar problem. Staples, the office supply company, conducted a poll exploring the use of […]
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John Paul Titlow over at ReadWriteWeb.com reports that this year proved to be a strong one for online employment, as more and more took to the Web to find work, where an increasing number of jobs are for employers in other geographic areas, according to a report released by Elance. Elance reported its one-millionth job
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PSFK.com reports that one of the winning entries at the 2010 Red Dot Concept Design is the “Haptic Braille” by Baek Kil Hyun. The mouse-shaped device scans any text, identifies the characters using optical character recognition technology and converts them into Braille on its surface, enabling the visually impaired to read any printed material, without
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Navigating an airport can be stressful even for experienced travelers so designers Kang Eun-Kyung and Park Ji-Eun thought a compass built into one’s boarding pass would be a great idea. The result is the Airport Compass, which is powered by a solid-state thin film battery, which needs very little energy and is flexible. The arrow
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Who knew the e-book would be such a boon for novelists penning whimsical tales of cheesy intrigue? The New York Times reports that “if the e-reader is the digital equivalent of the brown-paper wrapper, the romance reader is a little like the Asian carp: insatiable and unstoppable. Together, it turns out, they are a perfect
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Back in October, we told you about Daniel Vitiello, a 19-year-old Texas Tech sophomore, who taught himself to fix Apple’s 3G, 3GS and 4 iPhones and fixes dozens of them from his parent’s dining room. “I don’t really like having a typical job, and so I needed an idea to make money,” said Vitiello. His
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We mentioned back in October that Dean Kamen was hosting a science TV show on Green Planet. If you don’t have Green Planet on your cable system you can still watch the first show on the internet here.I don’t know if Green Planet plans to stream every show. Photo by Green Planet.
According to Wired, the Concept 1, a $300 basketball shoe that features a proprietary springlike device under the balls of the feet, has been banned by the NBA since it may, in the words of a league spokesperson, give players an “undue competitive advantage.” Called Load ‘N Launch, the feature was developed by Athletic Propulsion
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Launched last month by a California company with the same name, the Looxcie (pronounced “look-see”) is a wearable Bluetooth camcorder that lets users capture video of everything they see, reports trendspotter Springwise. The device fits comfortably over the ear, the company says, and points wherever the wearer looks. It’s always on, so the user needn’t
Apple’s iPad is a consumer device, first and foremost. But a few recent events have illustrated how the iPad could also potentially become an important device for business and enterprise users, as a lightweight, reliable, powerful — and most important, easily programmable — touchscreen tablet. And that could be a big opportunity for Apple, reports
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