Apple Soon to Unveil New iPhones, Apple Watches, and More
Apple is set to unveil the latest editions of the iPhone and Apple Watch. See what's expected in this new tech preview.
International VR Festival Launches Many Canadian & World Premieres
The Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories (FIVARS) is a epic expose of VR. Here's our interview with the executive director.
First Look: Sonos Amp Adds Versatility to Home Audio
Sonos, one of the best-known brands in home audio, is adding a new piece of hardware called the Sonos Amp. Find out here what it means for smart audio.
Is Calm Technology possible in an era of Interruptive Tech?
Calm Technology? Perhaps but we live in an era of interruptive technology. The world beeps at us incessantly, dividing our attention and fragmenting our focus. Our divided attention can lead to dangerous situations, such as trying to focus on driving directions while speeding down a congested highway in a new city. We can’t expect to...
Review: Control Multiple Smart Devices With a Push of The Button
Want to control your Apple HomeKit devices with the push of a button? This new tech, aptly named The Button, has more to it than meets the eye.
Where Integrative Health & Preventative Medicine Intersect
Ian Gillman wanted a way to change his lifestyle and remove the synthetic medicines from his system. He found it in integrative health.
Abode Home Security System Review: An Easy Step Towards a Smarter Home
In this episode of Gadget Gauntlet, we take a look at the Abode Home Security System Starter Kit. This kit can be a big step towards smart home.
The Automotive Cybersecurity Dilemma
Everything We Want Out of Automotive Vehicles Makes Us More Vulnerable It’s a given that the modern automobile is becoming a computer on wheels. The 100 million lines of code found in the various computer systems within a modern vehicle validate that assessment. That means, like a computer, they are vulnerable to hacks from malicious...
Azio's Aventa Gaming Mouse Review: Great for First-Person Shooters
Azio's Aventa Backlit Gaming Mouse is a sleek, modern mouse designed for a smooth pc gaming experience. See our video review here.
nuraphone Review: Headphones with a Sound as Unique as You
See how nuraphone headphones can tap into how your ears hear to provide a rich and unique listening experience. But it's not all peachy. Learn it all here.
HTC U12+ Review: Great Potential, But Falls Short in Practicality
What are the key features and benefits of the new HTC U12+ phone? How about its shortcomings? Get the scoop on the HTC U12+ here.
National Bioskills Laboratories Sets Up Third Campus in San Francisco
National Bioskills Laboratories (NBL), a surgical training company headquartered in Pittsburgh, has established a third location in San Francisco. The new facility will feature numerous embedded cameras, with streams displayed through 20 LED screens placed throughout the auditorium and training labs. The lab features 25,000 square feet...
Sports Technology: Is it Changing the NFL for the Better?
Sports technology has long been part of the NFL, with former Dallas Cowboys GM Tex Schramm and ace scout Gil Brandt using computers to leverage the power of big data in their highly successful tenure. The two helped build what would become one of the league’s winningest and most consistent teams from 1966 to 1989. All the Cowboys did...
Moto Z3 Play Review: An Affordable Smartphone for Everyday Use
Highlights Long Battery Life Impressive HD Screen Convenient Usage and Voice Control No Headphone Jack The Moto Z3 Play is Motorola’s third installment in their Moto Mod-Ready Smartphone series, following up the Moto Z2 Play. The biggest change with this new iteration is the Z3’s use of an 18:9 aspect display and the...
VAR: The Automated Referees of the 2018 Russia World Cup
The 2018 Russia World Cup is in full swing, the quarter-final games beginning on Friday. With the new World Cup comes new World Cup technology. For the first time, Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology will be used in a major, international soccer tournament. The Video Assistant Referee is actually a team comprised of four people,...
How Nanotechnology Will Make Car Waxing Obsolete
Usually, when you read about nanotechnology or see it depicted in Hollywood movies, it involves tiny machines or micro-robots doing incredible things. But the first piece of nanotechnology that actually breaks through to mainstream use will likely operate differently. Instead, it will be an amazing consumer product that, after...
Elon Musk’s OpenAI Five Plays 180 Years Worth of Dota 2 a Day
In 1997, Deep Blue, an IBM program, became the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion in a game of chess under standard tournament time controls. Then in 2017, DeepMind’s AI program AlphaGo beat the world’s best Go player, leaving him both “shocked” and “deeply impressed” after the match. Now, Artificial...
How a 3D Printed Cornea Could Save Sight for Millions
Blindness due to retinal scarring or disease affects over 15 million people across the globe. Sadly, there are too few cornea donors to meet the demand and scientists have been struggling for years to develop alternative treatment options for those in need. The long wait may be drawing to a close, as researchers at Newcastle University...
How CircuitScribe Makes DIY Drones Approachable
While they were considered to be more futuristic technology than an approachable STEM project, drones are now more accessible than ever. This is thanks to innovative companies such as Circuit Scribe, who have created DIY drone kits that are fun to play with and entertaining to assemble. After all, taking to the skies with a drone...
5 Ways New Technology is Innovating the Art World
Whether art imitates life or life imitates art, technology plays a prominent role in the modern forms of both things. Technology is an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, and it's having a growing impact on the art world. Here are five ways these advancements are transforming the art world. Tech is a Tool for Making...
Big Trucks Go Electric
Big Trucks Move Closer to Full Electric While some might say the trucking industry is experiencing a watershed (where the direction of an industry changes), others would describe it more like a dam break, where suddenly we see a flood. In this case, the flood is medium- and heavy-duty big trucks moving to zero-emission technology. As...
The Investor’s Guide to Equal Pay
Natasha Lamb explains the importance of social capital and her mission for equal pay Amazon. Google. Intel. Natasha Lamb has taken them all on. Her goal? Close the gender pay gap. In 2013, Lamb co-founded Arjuna Capital, an activist arm of the Boston investment firm Baldwin Brothers Inc. Her work has resulted in such successes as...
Taking Strides Toward Healing Spinal Cord Injuries
Patients with severe spinal cord injury (SCI) often experience chronically low blood pressure that negatively affects their health, their quality of life, and their ability to engage in rehabilitative therapy. “People with severe spinal cord injury – especially when it occurs in a higher level in the spine – have problems with...
Building Better Digital Health Tools with Behavioral Science
The digital health landscape is littered with wearable devices and digital health apps that caught on like wildfire at first, only to be abandoned over time by consumers. It’s the modern equivalent of the unused gym membership, purchased on New Year’s Day, only to be forgotten within a few months. The problem isn’t with the...
“Screen Eye” & “Selfie Elbow,” Old Ailments, New Names
During the past few years, our vocabulary has added several interesting ailments that point directly to the technology in our lives. We’ve seen “Nature Deficit Disorder,” a byproduct of screens and video games; “Fractured Attention Syndrome,” a byproduct of our fixation on screens and inability to handle the bombardment of...
Tech-Savvy Moms Need Fewer Doctor Visits
Being an expectant mother is often thankless, expensive, and hectic. The journey from conception to birth can feel like it consists of little more than uncomfortable mornings, swollen ankles, and endless doctor visits. Or at least that’s how it may have felt before the advent of OB Nest, a thoughtful new approach to prenatal care for...
Jaguar and Waymo Unite to Rev Up the Driverless Car
Announced at the New York motor show, a recent deal between Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Waymo sees the car manufacturer supplying up to 20,000 of its new electric I-Pace cars to the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of Alphabet. With this deal, worth over $1.6 billion, Waymo will be able to incorporate self-driving technology into the...
The Oppo F7 Has A Ridiculous Selfie Camera
It’s easy to forget just how new of a concept the selfie camera is. After all, before releases such as the iPhone 4 popularized the concept around 2010, most of us had to resort to embarrassing mirror selfies for our profile pictures. Please, don’t remind me of those times. Well, needless to say we live in a golden age of selfies,...
How THC Can Actually Improve Brain Health
Have you ever wished you could give your brain a facelift? Researchers are discovering the antidote for “senior moments” may be as simple as a daily dose of dope. A recent study conducted by scientists at the University of Bonn and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem linked intake of THC (the active component of cannabis) to a more...
Three Employees Walk into Glass, Injure Themselves at New Apple HQ
In April 2017, nearly 13,000 Apple employees began the six-month process of moving into the all-new Apple campus in California. The massive facility, which originally began planning stages in 2006 under Steve Jobs, is shaped similarly to a spaceship and appears as if it could easily double as a nature commune. Officially titled, “Apple...