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This past Saturday the Saturday Morning Tech show was incredible and I hope you will take time to listen to it. During the show, one of our guest launched the National Innovation Alliance. I spend some time tonight talking about that initiative. Over the coming shows you will want to pay attention to hints for prizes as we march towards
Geniatech has introduced a very small settop box that is called Enjoy TV. The small white box packs a lot of features into it, including a MicroSD card slot, infrared remote control, ethernet, HDMI, USB, and WiFi. App Makers will be able to tailor the apps they build to this box and make them ready for the big screen TV.
These days everyone is dreaming of high-tech cars, but not everyone wants to buy, or can afford, a new car. Mavia is a new car interface that plugs into the diagnostic port of your existing car (1996 or newer) and brings most of that modern technology along with it. It can geo-locate your car and there's an app for your
We’ve all done it, at the start of the year we say we are going to give more to charity. We all have good intentions, but unfortunately for most of us we often fall short and at the end of the year we are scrambling to make up the difference. Many times we fail miserably. The process starts all over
If you are like me, keeping yourself organize is a never-ending and not always successful process. I have tried a lot organizers, both applications and web-based. One by one I have abandoned them, either because they are too complicated to use or because they don’t sync between my mobile device and my computer. Catch is built for someone like me,
How can they be off-the-shelf yet custom-fit? Easy, Sculpted Eers can be bought off-the-shelf in stores or online but come with a custom-fitting kit that takes five minutes to mould your ears and make a personalised earphone. Nick from Sonomax, manufacturers of Scuplted Eers, gets Andy fitted with Eers at CES as you watch. The Sonofit custom-fitting kit inserts small
Roamz is a new app that aims to consolidate all of your different social media feeds, like Facebook, Twitter, 4Square, and others, into one location on your smartphone. However, Roamz isn't looking at your circle of friends, it's looking at posts from those closest to you geographically. This gives you a snapshot of what is going on wherever you're at.
Penclic is a Swedish company that has an innovative new take on the plain old computer mouse. The mouse actually looks a bit like a pen resting in a fountain, as it protrudes from the top of the small mouse. This allows the user to control the movement in a more ergonomic manor, more like old fashioned writing than actually
John from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) chats with Jeffrey and John on the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. In the past year, the last remaining IPv4 addresses were handed out to global regions. Some areas of the world have already run out of unallocated addresses, so it's essential that in the next few years everyone starts using
In possibly one of the most interesting things at CES, Peter from spnKiX demonstrates their motorised shoes to Jeffrey and John. No, really. The SpinKix motorised shoes are the result of over 5 years research and development. Two 6"-ish wheels on the inner and outer sides of the shoe are driven by an electric motor powered by batteries will take
The nuances of human interaction are so complex that even as adults we often misunderstand one another and at other times, we want to shout our message plainly from the rooftops. So to help us communicate more effectively, SnapCuts offers video messaging using prepared clips from film and TV to help pass on the message with clarity. Think "I'm sorry", "Thanks for
In this Round Table Jeffrey from Geekazine.com talks about using Yahoo Pipes. Todd Cochrane of GeekNewsCentral.com talks about controlling your own media / website so that when the host or company you have your media site with changes business models you are not left with a site that is dead in the water. Some RSS Tips Sponsor: GoToMeeting with HD
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