Your smartphone just got passé. It started with Pebble, a smartwatch, that recently started shipping the fruits of a very successful kickstarter campaign. They were able to raise over 100 times their $100,000 goal last year. Now, Apple, Google, LG, and...
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Microsoft Announces New Office
Microsoft announced the release of Office 2013 at the end of January. The new productivity suite is the first built to use on Windows 8. Also announced was the release of Office 365 for the home user. Office 365 has been around for a while, but only available to...
SpireTech Labs: OwnCloud
OwnCloud is an open-source software package that allows companies to setup a dropbox-like environment for employee use. It comes with clients for windows, mac, linux, android, and very soon, iOS – as well as a server component that works on either Linux or Windows. ...
Your Mouse is Obsolete
A relatively new startup in the bay, Leap Motion, has been causing a stir as they have unveiled the fruits of this last year's labor - an affordable, fast, motion detection system for the PC and Mac. It has already been hailed as the final blow to the mouse. Since the...
Digital Currency in a Digital World
Consumer spending heavily relies on digital currency and perhaps someday paper money will be obsolete. It might sound fantastic but consider how often you yourself use a credit card to buy things, go online to shop, or receive gift cards preloaded with a specific amount of money. Most likely you pay your bills via internet banking, pay-at-the-pump with a credit card, and even purchase movie tickets online. Once you consider the frequency of which you actually use digital currency on a day-to-day basis, we aren’t really that far off from going fully digital with our currency. The Bitcoin revolution
High Tech Green Solutions at The Tokyo Motor Show
This year’s Tokyo Motor Show showcased some interesting, wild, and green concept cars. With efficiency in mind, companies unleashed these eco-friendly designs that are both innovative and rather unconventional. Here are just a few
The 2011 PhotoPlus Expo: For the Wealthy Shutterbug
At the end of October, the PhotoPlus Expo was held in New York City. At the expo, hundreds of people demonstrated their technological advances in photography, including new kinds of cameras, lenses, printers, clothing, gear, and many others. The plethora...
Will Device Connectivity Make Our Lives Easier
We have spoken many times before about how society has become more connected, with others and with the world as a whole. Device connectivity could make how we live much easier by preventing breaks in our work. For instance, if you are working on a document at work and...
Future-Tech: Is 2011 More like Back to the Future Part 1 or 2?
In Back to the Future, Marty McFly travels back in time, from 1985 to 30 years earlier, arriving in a suped-up DeLorean to 1955. While in the past, he subsequently messes-up his parent’s first meeting, and must then change history while he tries to get them...
A Quick Take on some Interesting Winners at the T3 Gadget Awards
In a world where technological advances pop up everyday in news-feeds and broadcasts, the annual T3 Gadget Awards is a microcosm of all of these advances in one place. Like the Oscars for Technology, the T3 Gadget Awards nominate the most cutting-edge gadgets out...