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What Exactly Does “Activating Purpose" Mean in Sustainability?
“Activating Purpose” is a constant theme at this year’s Sustainable Brands conference in San Diego, CA. Emblazoned on numerous banners, flyers, and web pages, the phrase speaks deeply to both the mission and dilemma of green organizations. But, as anyone in the business world knows, the buzzwords and mantras of enterprise are never...
10 Portable Mini Bluetooth Speakers Under $100
Above Photo Credit: Steve Jurvetson by Cole Conway Nothing says summer like walking around the beach with a mini portable Bluetooth speaker. The quality of these speakers keeps getting better, as do their prices. They’re a travel necessity for those who want to have a party in their back pocket. We would like to keep you in...
The Private Sector Space Race Heats Up
by Cole Conway History is repeating itself once again with a new race to the moon. The space race held once between the Soviet Union and the U.S. is now being held between corporations. Private sector companies are having a modern day space race. The next big step in the private space race is reaching the moon, as U.S. officials are...
Interview with The Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman
by John Gaudiosi Robert Kirkman is building a multimedia empire with Skybound Entertainment. What began with comic books like The Walking Dead, The Astounding Wolf-Man, Outcast, and Invincible has expanded into television, video games, and even a feature film – Air. In addition to AMC’s The Walking Dead and its prequel, Fear the...
3 Must-Have Business Gadgets
It's the perfect time to indulge your business gadgets desires. These must-have gifts are some of our favorites. Enhance your workday, be more efficient, and focus on the work you love. SMART kapp, the Whiteboard Reinvented The SMART kapp digital capture board is a must-have business gadget. We’ve all been in those situations where...
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From Smart Parking Spaces to Smart Cities
A lot has happened since Fybr started providing smart parking solutions in the early 1990s. At the time, the initiative was futuristic. But now, smart parking has become commonplace, with a number of solution providers. “We ran the world’s largest smart parking implementation,” said Dr. Rik Goodwin, an organizational...
Coming this August: An Undersea Cable over 4,000 Miles Long
Online and cloud services may soon be on par with oil as a precious resource. Joining numerous pipelines this August will be a massive trans-Atlantic undersea cable approx. 4,100 miles long. The project is the result of collaborations between tech giants Microsoft and Facebook, whose increased demands for global data have entailed a...
5 Steps to Make Money Off of Snapchat
Snapchat Oh, how the youth loves Snapchat, the quick-tap & quick-play app designed and marketed toward millennials. This multimedia platform has made its name the name in the social media industry. But this multi-billion dollar company’s product isn't just for fun; it's also for business. According to Time Magazine, “the...
Curators of the Digital Culture Renaissance
Digital Culture Growing up during my pre-teens I wanted to be a basketball shoe designer. I loved those wild shoes that professional basketball players would wear. And as an aspiring sneaker-head, I would wait hours in line for these limited addition collectibles. One day I was online window shopping for some “sneaks” and saw a shoe...
The Angry Birds Movie Directors Talk Tech
by Charles Warner Innovation & Tech Today caught up with the directors of Sony Pictures’ 3D animated film, The Angry Birds Movie, and got the inside scoop behind the first film ever adapted from a popular app (over three billion downloads). Directors Clay Kaytis (Frozen, Wreck-It-Ralph) and Fergal Reilly (Spider-Man 2, Cloudy...
Med Tech and the Football Concussion Crisis
by Robert Yehling Andre Smith of Chicago hits his head in the final play of the game and walks off the field. He later collapses and dies. Casey Dunne, of Dedham, MA, tells her friend she doesn’t feel well after a routine field hockey practice. Soon after, she dies from a brain hemorrhage. Burien, WA, defensive back...
Check out the WEAR 2016 Conference
The Smithers Apex WEAR Conference returns May 24-26, 2016 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston to convene the leaders in the burgeoning wearable tech industry. A full three days of programming, pre-conference workshops, tours, and presentations will allow attendees to explore the latest products, models, and designs in the fabrics, apparel,...
Digital Book World: The Tide Turns Yet Again
by Robert Yehling After a six-year run as the darlings of convenience-oriented and cost-conscious readers worldwide, e-books and e-readers have topped the mountain that once threatened to encompass all of publishing. Now a downward descent has begun from a high point of 35 percent of all publishing sales, thanks to a predictable...
Fixing The World's Water Crisis: What the Experts Say
Everywhere you look, the news is rough. NASA calls last year's West Coast drought the worst in a millennium. And the Southwest continues to burn or flood, with no middle ground in sight. Meanwhile, we continue consuming water at voracious rates. One would think that with all the flooding, ice packs, oceans, and fresh water sources,...
Why the Nevada Tech Zone is Surging
by David Bunker Technology entrepreneurs come to Nevada to think big. Here, Tesla’s Elon Musk imagined a $6 billion lithium ion battery factory in the sagebrush east of Reno, and then made it a reality. Here, Switch’s Rob Roy dreamed up the world’s largest data center, and then got right to work building it. And in perhaps one...
4 Ways to Get Respect as a Young Entrepreneur
By Matt Hyder As a 23-year-old entrepreneur and the CEO of Recoup Fitness, I’ve faced a certain number of challenges. Among these has been gaining the respect of the people around me, including the older generation of business leaders. Through hard work, trial and error, and engaging with numerous successful people, I’ve developed...
Facebook's Biometric Lawsuit: It's Not Polite to Point
Both Facebook and the public at large are finding out how tricky privacy law is becoming in the age of biometrics. For those who don’t know, “biometrics,” according to the online tech encyclopedia Webopedia, can refer to any means of security verification that relies on some physical characteristic. In other words, if a phone needs...
3 Hilarious Clickbait Generators That Will Leave You Uninspired
If you’re aware of so-called clickbait, you’ll know that this oft-debated gimmick isn’t going anywhere. In fact, this process of hack journalism is now so refined that several innovators have been able to automate the process -- designing websites that apply formulas to conjure clickbaity headlines completely at random. The results...Summer 2016 PREVIEW: The Art of Vladimir Kush
The relationship between art and technology has always been an intimate one. The more tools in your kit, the more artistic options you have. As Vladimir Kush says, when he first came to America after working as a painter in Soviet Russia, he had to get used to being equipped with more than just a “rat’s tail” for a...
Tesla Model 3 Preorder Bonanza
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the release of their latest electric vehicle offering, the competitively priced Tesla Model 3. The latest in Tesla’s line of zero emission vehicles promises to have a 215-mile range, a 0 to 60 mph acceleration in under six seconds and auto pilot-assisted driving capabilities. Tesla received over 115,000...The VR Arcade Conference - The Headsets Are Coming!
“The headsets are coming! The headsets are coming!” It’s an invasion. The virtual reality (VR) experience is taking the world by storm, and there’s no better way to celebrate and learn this industry like going to a conference with “Arcade” in the title. The VR Arcade Conference takes place from May 2-4th, 2016 in...
Drone Delivery Arrives With Flirtey
For the first time, a successful, Federal Aviation Administration approved, drone delivery in an urban environment has taken place and it's causing a stir across the technology world. The most interesting development may be that a smaller company took on Goliaths like Amazon, Google, and Wal-Mart, and beat them. Drones delivering...
Jen Lewin Sits Down to Discuss Art & Technology
Internationally renowned light and interactive sculptor Jen Lewin’s most famous work is The Pool, a giant installation of interactive circular pods that produce colored light when stepped (or jumped, or danced) on. The project, like many of Lewin’s others, uses tech to create an artistic and interpersonal experience. The TEDx alum...
Rick Fedrizzi: Greenbuild 2015 Exclusive Interview
Rick Fedrizzi, CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council, co-founded the organization in 1993. Fedrizzi oversaw the creation of the LEED green building certification program, which has drawn participation from nearly 75,000 commercial properties since it was introduced in 2000. Though 2016 is Fedrizzi’s last year as CEO, he describes the...
Ron Perlman on Zombies and the Evolution of Gaming
Actor Ron Perlman has established himself as an actor to be reckoned with in critically acclaimed TV series like Sons of Anarchy and Hand of God. But gamers know the actor for his work as the narrator in the Fallout franchise (Fallout 4 is out Nov. 10), and they can now hear him in Treyarch’s Call of Duty Black Ops III: Zombies...
Tony Hawk Catches Air with Pro Skater 5
These days, Tony Hawk is helping Mini Cooper sell Countryman family cars. Generations of today’s parents have grown up watching Hawk revolutionize the sport of skateboarding and playing video games he helped design. Activision and developer Robomodo have Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 on store shelves now – the first new Pro...
Inside The Mind Of Chris Carter
X-Files creator Chris Carter and I met in November 1981 at Surfing Magazine where he was an editor and I was an advertising guy. Surfing’s editors barely tolerated the advertising side, being wary of product pitches that may influence the purity of their writing, so I learned to keep my distance. But Chris was different,...The Lighter Side: Better SmartPhone Etiquette
As we start 2016, it’s about time we had a frank discussion about smartphone etiquette. For some of you, this will be a much needed wake up call (like the time I learned the rules about socks with sandals, or that men have cuticles). For others, you will probably violently defend your behavior and continue your abominable ways. If you...
Virtually Speaking of Virtual Reality
After making a cameo appearance at International CES in 2014, Virtual Reality became one of the most popular aspects of the show. By Liam Kivirist Teleportation is strictly for the sci-fi movies. However, more than twenty companies at International CES 2015 showed how we can be anywhere in a virtual world, at any...
Risk in Innovation & Education: “Come Fly With Us”
Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides shares his experiences on hurdles and the fun of space. George Whitesides and Virgin Galactic have made a lot of headlines lately. While working hard to completely change the face of space travel by privatizing it, Galactic launched a test in October 2014. The pilot tragically died....
Smart Bulb Disruptors: LED Bulbs
The LED light bulb market has exploded in the past few years as markets do, with many companies emulating the earliest adopters. However, Sengled’s work and product strategy for 2015 is truly unique, distinctive, and sure to disrupt the market again, as evidenced by its popularity at International CES. 2015. By Charlie...
'TED Talks' with June Cohen: Changing The Face Of Education
If you love to learn from experts atop their fields for free (and why wouldn’t you?), you’ve likely seen a TED (Technology, Engineering, Design) Talk or two. They’re available on a variety of platforms, including Netflix. With over 2.5 billion views and over 1,900 talks posted, it’s clear the face of education and lifelong...
Technology & Animation Mastery: The Making Of Disney's Big Hero 6
At first glance, it seems like a bizarre idea for an animated movie. There is a hero programmed to be a cuddly health care assistant and shaped like the Pillsbury doughboy. His teenaged handler is obsessed with robotics and technology, focused on its good uses, but naïve to its dark side. They live in San Fransokyo, a near-future...
Anarchy Currencies: The Bitcoin
Bitcoin is the first, but not last, of a growing list of alternate forms of money that are as mysterious and intriguing as they are controversial By Peter Gietl A hidden world exists, designed and utilized by some of the most brilliant and secretive people alive. It is the domain of a clandestine, online digital currency that is...
The Digital Health Revolution is Healthcare’s Latest Evolution
Now that digital health has inundated healthcare like a tsunami, we need to take the next step forward and see how its adoption benefits our health and our options. By Paul Sonnier Digital health is taking the world by storm, and our health plus the delivery of health care will never be the same. The profound impact...