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I can hear a geek squeal as I am writing this, so take a deep breath and don’t pass out. As winter is among most of us, we love to take out our winter gear, bundle up and enjoy the snow sports that some of us long for when summer season hits. You are going to need to buckle up for this snowboarding ride that will have your deck geeked out. …

You did it! You scored that awesome internship. Your future is blossoming before your very eyes. The time to push outside of your academic comfort zone has arrived. Now it’s time to get some real-world work experience. Internships are great for building your resume, but even more importantly; this will help you discover more about yourself. What are you strengths? Your weaknesses? What kind of employee do you want to be? Your boss may control your job, but you control your career. Make the absolute most of this opportunity by following these ten tips for a meaningful internship experience….

The outdoors types of the world have benefited from recent technological advances that make exploring the world easier, more enjoyable, safer, and often more in-depth. It’s one of the promises of technology – simplifying processes. One such simplifier is the Gibbs Quadski, dubbed the “world’s first HSA amphiquad.” In four seconds, it is able to go from land to lake and back again. It isn’t a slouch at either type of terrain with boasts of speeds up to 45 MPH either way. Here’s a look at it once transformed for water use: As Jeff Sabatini at Car and Driver puts it: The big draw, of course, comes in that…

We ladies know how much time we put into getting ready to be presentable every day, adding to our beauty we like to do our hair and especially our nails. Nail Art has become very popular, adding various designs and stickers to glam up our nails. Yet the time to make them look fabulous and wait for them to dry can just be too much. …

There really is nothing like curling up in a nice warm, comfortable bed. However, there are nights when falling to sleep takes longer than you like, no matter what you try. The sound of your alarm clock always seems louder than usual, reminding you with every tick how much closer it is to the time you must wake up and with every toss and turn the frustration grows, making it even more difficult to drift off into dreamland. If counting sheep and warm milk no longer works to help you have a goodnight sleep, a singing pillow may just be the item that will do the trick. …

Cruising around on our bikes, exploring the great outdoors has become a great pastime for some of us, while others choose to use it as an environmentally friendly mode of transportation. If you own a smartphone or DSLR camera you can now capture your biking adventures, no matter what you use your bicycle for, with the Bikepod. …

Just about everyone who is familiar with Google Maps has explored a distant land at one point or another. Big cities like Moscow, Sydney, and Jerusalem are accessible in ways that we could have hardly imagined a decade ago. As Google continues to expand their catalog of cities on Google Maps Street View, they are finding ways to reach the most remote communities. In the video below, they went to Cambridge Bay, a tiny community with a distinct culture and people that most would never have known about without this promo piece. For better or for worse, Google is opening our eyes to people and places that…

Unconventional designs are making their way into mainstream as we are merging to cramping our big lifestyles into smaller spaces. There are many designs out there that can accommodate us in various arenas within our lives but none that is ordinary quite suit our exotic styles. We love pieces of artwork made to be furniture that is not only helpful but useful and designer Andrea Zittel makes furnishings look like they belong in your home. …

Our desks are becoming more cluttered every day from the papers that need filing to the trinkets and photos we like to show to remember we are still human. Unfortunately keyboards take up too much space, and can make room for taking notes a little more difficult on a desk that has hardly any capacity at all. Making space is something we often try and taking time to re-organize constantly almost seems futile since come Monday morning your desk will look like a torpedo hit it and any additional space becomes unrecognizable. Many of us often forget what our desks even look like underneath all of the work…

There has been plenty of buzz lately about the rise in shopping from mobile devices. Smartphones in particular are seeing sharp increases as entries into the eCommerce. Black Friday saw over a billion dollars in online sales. Despite the trend, the use of shopping apps is still low on the list. Gaming, weather apps, and social networking each account for over twice the number of people who use their apps regularly. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t a lot of people shopping on mobile devices. It just means they aren’t using apps to do it. Yet. In this infographic, we take a look at some interesting…