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The best selling electronic device on Amazon.com is the Chromecast, but Amazon is looking to change this with their own inexpensive streaming dongle. Named the Fire TV Stick, Amazon is looking to package all of the goodness from the Fire TV in a $39 HDMI-stick. Amazon has worked hard... Read more
I love playing video games. I actually have to be careful with the amount of video games I play, because it’s easy for me to get into an all-out video game addiction where that’s all I want to do with my life. And since it’s not very productive to... Read more
Twitter Acquires TwitPic Before Shut-Down
NewsSocial Media October 31, 2014
Twitpic has had a confusing month, with creator Noah Everett announcing the death of the service, then the revival, then the death again, and now the final acquisition from Twitter. Just over a month ago, Twitpic announced they would be going offline. Everett cited legal battles with Twitter over... Read more
A group of friends from the United States and Netherlands have joined forces to create the ‘NoPhone’. It is simple in design – a piece of black, rectangular shaped plastic, which supposedly helps those with “app addiction”. What’s more incredible than the ‘phone’ itself, is that it has already... Read more
Pip: Stress Management Biosensor
News October 30, 2014
Do you suffer from stress and anxiety? If you do, then you know that it can stop you from functioning properly. Imagine if technology could ease stress? Pip, a biosensor device, looks like a mini iPod and is held between the thumb and forefinger. It measures our sweat and... Read more
iPod Turned 13 Last Week!
News October 30, 2014
Apple sure knows how to make a guy feel old. Do you remember your first iPod? Well, it turns out that as of 10/23/2001, the original iPod is officially 13 years-old. I can still remember a friend of mine owning an iPod while I was much too broke as... Read more
Draw Working Circuits with Conductive Ink Pens
News October 30, 2014
Do you remember making circuits in school with wires, batteries and switches? Well long gone are those days! Now there are conductive inks which can be put into thin objects, pens or even printed on paper. There is now no need for sizeable framework. Beginning as a Kickstarter project,... Read more
Hemingwrite: Typewriter Meets Laptop
News October 29, 2014
Are you constantly being distracted while trying to write? Facebook, Instagram- it all serves as something else to do other than what you should be doing: working! Typewriters were once the popular choice for writers and secretaries alike! But just before computers became popular, portable word processors or electric... Read more
Christian Bale to Play Steve Jobs in New Film
News October 29, 2014
Christian Bale has sure played some iconic roles during his career, and Batman and Moses are just a couple of them that come to the top of my head. He’s also now set to play Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming flick written by Aaron Sorkin, the pen... Read more
Twitter Buy Button to Launch Next Year
NewsSocial Media October 29, 2014
Twitter is looking to expand its revenue streams, with a new Buy button inside the microblogging site. This would allow users to buy products advertized right from Twitter, instead of clicking a link to a new webpage. This is not the first social network to embrace internal product sales.... Read more
Windowless Plane Makes Flying Amazing But Terrifying
News October 29, 2014
Aerophobia: the fear of flying is common for many people. Being 30,000 feet in the air in a tin can isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. But in ten years time, flying may become even more terrifying! What about windowless airplanes? The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is hoping to... Read more
New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, announced last Friday that the NYPD is planning to outfit all 35,000 of their officers with a mobile ‘handheld device,’ aka a ‘smartphone’. The technology program; NYPD Mobility Initiative, will cost $160 million. As well as giving all the Police officers a smartphone,... Read more
OnePlus is looking to get rid of the invite system on the OnePlus One, after using it as the only way for customers to buy their smartphone for a few months. After complaints railed against the company for their failure to provide customers with smartphones after months of waiting,... Read more
Folks, there really has never been a better time to go out and purchase an Xbox One system. Last week, Techbeat reported that Microsoft was offering some special Assassin’s Creed Xbox One bundles for the holiday season. However, if you’re not at all a fan of Assassin’s Creed and were feeling... Read more
FitBit Preparing $250 Smartwatch
News October 28, 2014
FitBit is preparing three devices this year, the Charge, Charge HR and Surge. The Charge is a upgrade to the FitBit Force announced last year, which got in the news due to complaints of skin irritation. The FitBit Surge looks to be the company’s first smartwatch, after three years... Read more
ATLAS is ‘Learning’ to Accomplish Tasks Faster
News October 28, 2014
When the ATLAS robot was unveiled, there were many folks who balked at the robot’s uneasy stumbling around its environment, trying to navigate simple obstacles. Things have come a long way in a short time. ATLAS has quickly adapted to its environment and now is far more capable that... Read more
Stephen Hawking Is Now On Facebook
NewsSocial Media October 27, 2014
In case you were looking for a new face to friend or “like” on Facebook over the weekend, you can now follow Stephen Hawking, as he has officially joined the Facebook world. It seems he thinks Facebook will allow him to have more of an impact than he already... Read more
The Japanese Have Built A Working Transformer
News October 27, 2014
Look out, world – some Japanese fans of Transformers have created a working, real-life Transformer, and they have plans to make larger ones in the future. Their current model, called the J-deite Quarter, is about four feet tall and is able to walk around, move its head, transform itself into... Read more