Added 19 June, 2013
As part of an ongoing effort to keep New Yorkers connected, the city is creating Street Charge, an initiative to provides free solar mobile charging stations in locations across all five boroughs where the public can charge their phones, tablets and other mobile devices. Between now and the end of summer, AT...
Added 19 June, 2013
While several high profile companies like Google and Apple have signaled their intention to produce smartwatches,
Shanghai-based GEAK Watch is the first to market a fully-functional computerized arm piece. The WiFi-enabled watch runs Android 4.1, can download apps directly, and get over-the-air system updates. Owners can pair their watch with...
Added 19 June, 2013
Electronic self-publishing is booming in China, where there are at least half a billion Internet users and several websites with millions of user-generated titles in their database. One publishing house executive have pointed out that no authors below 35 years old were discovered recently outside the internet. One reason that online lit is doing...
Added 17 June, 2013
Some of the best gadgets these days are those that understand a modern problem and aim to tackle it in an innovative way. Take brushing and rinsing, for example. Two tasks that always go together but, until now, required toothbrush as well as a cup or cupped hand. RinserBrush offers a clever alternative with a a geyser-like stream that's created...
Added 16 June, 2013
With every tech company from Apple to Google reportedly working products to compete with the Pebble and the Sony smart watch, wearable tech is one of the hottest topics on the gadget frontier. Now Microsoft is looking to the next level with an invention that aims to make data transferring – from using a credit card, logging into your account, to...
Added 15 June, 2013
Transparency and sustainability trends collide as supermarket prints its reports on grocery receipts
A company's sustainability report can be truly sustainable itself, as proved by Auchan, one of the largest supermarket chains in Europe, which is printing its "Self Scan Reports" right on customers receipts. The move dovetails with the company's tagline: "Auchan - the responsible discounters" and upholds their long-term commitment to offer...
Added 14 June, 2013
Apps are now emerging that let people "touch" and "kiss" from far away, so it's right on trend that Huggies and Ogilvy & Mather Argentina made a belt for men that allows them to feel their unborn baby's kicks. The belt is synced up with the real-time movements of the baby in the mother's belly, apparently through some kind of wireless sorcery...
Added 13 June, 2013
Real and virtual worlds continue to collide with products that interact together online and off. One of the coolest new entries is the Scoche smartROLL dice that use Bluetooth technology to interact seamlessly with a touch-screen tablet. The dice have a built-in accelerometer and motion sensors that make real action appear virtually.
Added 11 June, 2013
Google offers many automatic answers. Ask it to add or multiply and it will. Ask for a current exchange rate and it will tell you. Put in any flight number and it will automatically show you if it is on time. Now, in line with the world's increasing interest in health, the search engine is automatically showing users nutritional and calorie...
Added 8 June, 2013
eBay is launching four 24-hour interactive storefronts in Manhattan this weekend, enabling shoppers to browse and order merchandise from Kate Spade’s new weekender line on a touchscreen, appearing on the windows of closed retail locations. Shoppers will be able to schedule free one-hour delivery to anywhere in NYC and pay with PayPal Here upon...