Added 21 January, 2014
The United States is known worldwide as a country of laws. It is also a country of prisons with the dubious distinction of having one of the largest prison populations in the world. A new study published this month in the academic journal "Crime & Delinquency" says that, by age 23 almost 38-percent of White men, and 49% of Black men in America...
Added 19 January, 2014
The Internet of Things is the concept that all the things we use around the house will be connected to us, and to each other. You've probably heard about refrigerators that are connected to the Internet, can alert you when you are out of milk, and even place the order itself online. If that is the direction that things are going, then why not have...
Added 19 January, 2014
The London-based architectural firm Foster and Partners has put forward a far-reaching plan for bicycle lanes in the sky that would transform transportation in the city. The proposed SkyCycle network would be built above existing rail lines and cover up to 220 kilometers (100 miles) around London. The somewhat fanciful project was created to...
Added 19 January, 2014
Smart watches, socks, diapers... we have written about them all on WikiTrend. Wearable computers have breathlessly been reported on these pages for some time now as one of the Next Big Things. However, with few exceptions (like the transmitters on sharks in Australia that alert bathers to their presence), almost all the wearables we've spoken...
Added 16 January, 2014
Cities generate a lot of heat. In New York, for instance you can often see columns of steam rising from the streets, emanating from some netherworld below. In the dead of winter this kind of emission seems like a waste, right? That's what the powers that be in London thought and they are doing something about it in the form a program that captures...
Added 16 January, 2014
KLM has been out in front of the social media curve for several years now. The Dutch airline has started many online trends, including initiatives that invited Business Class flyers to connect with each other before flying to facilitate business relationships. The airline is also one of the most active on Twitter and has a large social networking...
Added 16 January, 2014
The trend for foods to be natural, organic, local, hand-made, small batch and the like is pervasive; we are seeing it everywhere, from restaurants that only use produce that was picked the same day to organic vodkas that use sustainably harvested quinoa instead of wheat. Not even chewing gum is immune from this trend. Simply Gum claims to be the...
Added 14 January, 2014
Pizza Hut is the largest hot food delivery brand in the United States, as well as many other parts of the world. Up until now, if you wanted to order a delivery pizza, or Chinese food or whatever, most people would pick up the phone and call the store. The advent of delivery services like GrubHub and Seamless Web, both of which have popular mobile...
Added 13 January, 2014
Stereophonic sound reproduces music using two or more independent audio channels to mimic natural hearing, making it seem as though the music is coming from various directions. Today, a dance band called NightBus is releasing a new single called "When the Night Time Comes" that is made in a novel new way, called "three-way stereo." The track is...
Added 13 January, 2014
The trend away from cash may be moving towards contactless mobile payments, but then again, maybe not. The process has been slow-going, with relitively few people adopting Google Wallet and other mobile-based payment systems. In the meantime, plastic credit cards contine to reign supreme. Problem is that credit cards are so successful that many...