Hidden: A Mobile Wireless Speaker with a Fresh Design
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They look like a collection of tin canisters. There’s no sign of a logo anywhere on the device. Aptly named “Hidden” this speaker is one of the easiest and elegant wireless solutions we’ve seen. You simply press down and twist the cannister, the way you might open a pill box. Suddenly a delicate blue light indicates your Bluetooth connection awaits and a …
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Ebook or Print: What’s a Parent’s Choice?
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center studies children’s media from various vantage points. Their most recent study looked at parents’ preferences when it came to reading with their young (ages 2-6) children. What they found was a mixed bag. While parents who read iPad books with their kids found certain features helpful, they found others distracting. They gave the thumbs up to audio …
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Necomimi Perks Up Your Ears
In the “truth is stranger than fiction” category, I bumped into a Necomimi-wearing woman at an event the other night. Necomimis are “brainwave-calculating” animatronic animal ears. They sense your “mood” and flop down or perk up accordingly. The Necomimi consists of a headband and fuzzy cat ears – like a fuzzier Catwoman. The ears are battery operated and have a …
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MobileTrax Weighs in on Nokia’s New Lumia 920
Excerpted from Gerry Purdy’s MobileTrax column, the Nokia Lumia 920 may be just the ticket for its versatility. It incorporates speed, a back and front facing camera and an enhanced system that improves photos taken in low light conditions: Read Gerrry’s review: Nokia and Microsoft are continuing their close partnership. They almost come across as a joint venture equally owned by both …
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Trend Micro Focuses on Social Networking Protection
It’s a constant game of social networking leapfrog: the good guys versus the bad guys trying to scam you into someplace you shouldn’t be, leaving you and your family’s online security at jeopardy. Titanium, Trend Micro’s latest product, offers its usual state-of-the-art anti-virus protection, but the newest features are designed to protect the modern social networking family. To begin with, …
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Computing My Facebook Addiction
Wolfram Alpha is a search engine unlike any other. It’s called a computational search engine which, at the end of the day, means that you’re not searching for weblinks to other sites but rather getting a data analysis from information about those sites. It’s best used for searching on things that can be measured: cancer victims in the US., how …
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Are China’s Grandparents a Model for the US?
A guest column from Gary Kaye, founder of In the Boombox, and frequent contributor to AARP and AARP Radio. I just returned from a fascinating trip to China, where grandparents play a very different role than they do here in the United States. In every Chinese city I visited, each morning you could see grandfathers and grandmothers pushing strollers through …
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