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Despite Mayor Bloomberg’s ban on cellphones in NYC Public Schools, my 10 year-old daughters carry a cellphone to school every day. Like hundreds of thousands of other NYC students, they keep them in their backpacks turned off during the school day, and then activate them after school so they can text and call me when Continue Reading →

[powerpress url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121226_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_VO.mp3″] We all know that size matters. But when it comes to our phones, how big is too big? Samsung’s Galaxy Note series has changed our idea of what phone’s screen can be. The first Note had a 5.3 inch screen, and its successor has one that’s 5.55 inches. While these are massive phones, Continue Reading →

What made this year of television notable, one way or another, notable for me? Let’s count a few of the ways… Best ongoing broadcast TV series: Modern Family (ABC) Everything about this comedy gets smarter, more inventive and truer to life season after season. The comedy standard-setter and breaker for this still young century. Honorable mention: The Good Continue Reading →

Thanks to a boom in digital health, the smartphone has assumed the role of everything from an ever-present fitness coach to FDA-approved heart monitor. And, as consumers move to mobile platforms, surveys show that more people are not only turning to their mobile devices for health information, they’re quickly imbuing the new technology with a Continue Reading →

If you’re thinking of moving house or changing jobs, 2012 saw a slew of handy apps that could help you in your endeavors. Indeed, The Next Web covered thousands of apps throughout 2012, from nifty new browser extensions, to the latest game-changing Android and iOS apps, but we sifted through the archives and pulled out Continue Reading →

Nearly six years after the debut of the iPhone, mobile applications are beginning to mature. The best mobile apps of 2012 – with a few notable exceptions – are more about refined practicality rather than anything revolutionary. So while this year’s list lacks medium-defining breakthroughs like Instagram and Shazam, it showcases new and meaningfully updated Continue Reading →

It’s Christmas morning and the sound of pitter patter can be heard around the home as children and even adults scurry towards the Christmas tree in order to get started opening their presents. What did you get? An iPad? An iPhone? Power it on and let’s take a look at some of the apps that Continue Reading →

[powerpress url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121225_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_VO.mp3″] iTunes 11 has been out for a while now. While it is, for the most part, really great, there are still a few things I find weird or unusual about it. One such instance is how prominently iCloud songs are featured in my library, even when that music is no longer on my Continue Reading →

How do we prepare ourselves and our children for a future where we are surrounded by ever-increasing intelligent machines? What skills will we need in a future where computers do tasks originally performed by people? There are two skills that computers will have a really hard time mastering in the next few decades. By understanding Continue Reading →

We’ve seen Christmas trees built out of spare car parts, discarded SCSI drives, OLED panels, and quadrocopter stacked boxes, but Germany? They’re taking the old tannenbaum back to its roots — and tweaking its genetic code. With the aide of a government grant, scientists in Germany are trying to develop a method of tree cloning Continue Reading →