Archive for the ‘Lifestyle’ Category

Crunching the numbers: iPads vs texbooks

8 hours ago by Sal McCloskey | add comment

Some day in the (very) near future, we may no longer need a traditional backpack at school. Rather than carrying around a laptop and textbooks, we will be consolidating the various components of school gear down to a single device that fits nicely within our hands: an iPad. Many schools are already more »

Geek vs Hipster: The battle for the coolest of the uncool

14 hours ago by Lorie Wimble | add comment

As terms of classification of humans goes, hipsters and geeks have been battling for the title of the “coolest of the uncool.” For hipsters, the phrase “before it was cool” has become synonymous with their lifestyle and music sense. What’s the difference between the two (if any) and who really more »

Ericsson's vision of a networked society expands with "Thinking Cities"

Feb 21 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

When we first covered Ericsson’s Networked Society Project, we called it beautiful and terrifying. Their latest video shows that beauty can prevail when technology inserts itself into our lives with positive motives in mind. The concept centers around Information and Communication Technology (ICT). As cities continue to grow more »

iGEM makes science cool for students

Feb 20 by Connor Livingston | add comment

For nearly a decade, the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition has put the sharpest minds in high school and undergraduate institutions around the world into competitive and creative mode to find the next great mad scientist genius inventor. Students work during the summer more »

Is 4G enough to end the high-end tablet war for iPad?

Feb 14 by Lorie Wimble | 3 comments

The over-$500 tablet war was, for all intents and purposes, over once the iPad 2 came out with a front- and rear-facing camera. It was the missing feature that kept some people from buying the original iPad and pushed sales of the sequel to a higher level than many thought possible. Still, there were more »

Pinterest may be changing the social commerce game, but why?

Feb 13 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

Pinterest is starting to enter into the social media in ways that most sites only dream about. Other than Google+, it’s the fastest growing social site in the last year with 329% growth in the last 4 months of 2011 alone. We get more questions on our social media podcast about Pinterest the last month more »

Is online banking as safe as people think?

Feb 11 by Connor Livingston | 5 comments

More US adults bank online than use social networks (for now, at least). It has become such a common activity that despite the risks of identity theft, hacking, and phishing, most of us are still convinced that the transactions are secure. For the most part, they are. For the most part. The banking community more »

Tesla's electric Model X adds sexy to the minivan

Feb 10 by Lorie Wimble | add comment

When one thinks of Tesla, they think of high-end electric vehicle performance. The company is known for putting out some of the best-performing, visually stunning vehicles available in the market. Now, Tesla is going for the family market with a minivan that goes 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds. According more »

Yelp users are easier to spot than most

Feb 9 by Rocco Penn | 1 comment

There are definite distinctions between users of various social sites. They’re often easy to spot based upon their look (Tumblr), activities (FourSquare), and attitude (Pinterest), but the combination of the three can help us identify Yelp users very easily. Our friends at Flowtown take a humorous more »

Using technology to learn more efficiently

Feb 9 by Diana Cook | add comment

It’s a problem that students have dealt with for generations. How do I best study and retain information in an efficient and timely manner?  The pressure to acquire specific knowledge within a given timeframe can be overwhelming. Traditional methods such as cramming and memorization through more »

Twitter and Facebook may be more addictive than alcohol or cigarettes

Feb 8 by Scarlett Madison | 4 comments

Has Western culture grown too attached to their social networks? It’s possible, according to a recent study led by Wilhelm Hofmann at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. While the nuts and bolts of the study were far from a compelling, comprehensive bit of scientific research (205 adults were more »

As the workforce goes mobile, security concerns rise

Feb 8 by Lorie Wimble | 2 comments

As more offices become virtual and more employees work from home or on the go, the logistics of keeping devices and computers secure can be a nightmare for any IT pro. Cybercriminals are rampant looking for targets who are accessing their data from low-security connections. Businesses are at more »

Super insulated foam torched in man's hand (right before he eats it)

Feb 7 by Connor Livingston | add comment

It’s one thing to take a handful of foam into one’s hand and apply a 7,000-degree torch to it for 20 seconds. It’s another thing to then take a large spoonful of the foam and eat it. The demonstration by the Aarmourtherm Foundation is both crazy and fantastic. The possibilities of having a bio-degradable insulated foam like more »

The growing reach of social media's election impact

Feb 5 by Rocco Penn | add comment

Social media and the internet in general had dramatic effects on the election in 2008. This year is proving to give even more influence to online opinions and news aggregation as bumps are going up and down dramatically both with the GOP primaries and with the general public’s opinion of all candidates, more »