Communication Skills
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 →
Kids With Tablets
I hope we can all agree that throwing technology at children will not make them smarter. Let’s start there, because we are throwing a lot of technology at kids these days. Computers have made their way into many classrooms. Shockingly (and sadly), not all classrooms and educators, schools and parents stay up to date. Tablets Continue Reading →
Instagram
On Monday, Instagram said that it has the perpetual right to sell users’ photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry. The new intellectual property policy, which takes effect on January 16, comes three months after Facebook completed its acquisition of the popular photo-sharing site. Unless Instagram users Continue Reading →
iPhone 5
TIME magazine published its list of the top 10 gadgets of the year, and the iPhone 5 came out on top. The list also includes other goodies Apple users love, but there were some surprising omissions as well. The magazine praises the iPhone 5 as “melding hardware, software and services so tightly that the seams Continue Reading →
Healthy Pets
Andrew Hessel is always fun to talk to. He looks and talks like a mad scientist. He’s the closest person you’ll meet to a comic book super villain. He’s tall and lean and has a habit of laughing nervously mid-sentence. Andrew is a synthetic biologist that talks about using viruses to infect people with genetic Continue Reading →
Intel
Are we really living in a post-PC world?  There are hundreds of tablet and smartphone solutions, but – like last year, one of this year’s biggest stories is about Ultrabooks with Intel inside. The Ultrabook story is going to be all over the Intel Exhibit.  Look for examples from your favorite computer manufacturers.  Of course, Continue Reading →
Nexia
Nexia Home Intelligence is a new way to run your home, from wherever life takes you. Nexia has brought together the best home automation technology with a simple way to manage it from a distance. The Nexia system uses the latest wireless technology —out of the way and invisible—so there’s nothing to figure out. It Continue Reading →
AiQ
How smart are your clothes? Apparels’ Intelligence Quotient, or AiQ, is a total solution provider that is devoted to designing and manufacturing smart clothes and accessories through the fusion engineering of fashion and wearable technology.  In other words, AiQ wants to make your clothes smarter! AiQ is where electronics merge with textiles to create fashionable, Continue Reading →
Email
Think that clicking “delete” will actually delete your email? Think again. When a user “deletes” an email in the normal fashion, it becomes invisible to that user and is immediately a candidate to be overwritten. But until it is in fact overwritten, it exists. And it may persist longer on company servers. So, even if Continue Reading →