Walmart to Offer iPhone 5 Via Straight Talk Pre-Paid PlanWalmart announced today that it will offer the unlocked iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 via its Straight Talk wireless service.Starting Jan. 11, shoppers in more than 2,000 Walmart stores can pick up one of the Apple smartphones and get unlimited talk, text, and data starting at... Continue Reading →
Certified BitTorrent Box Brings uTorrent to Your TVThe first ever certified BitTorrent Android box goes on sale today, allowing users to stream files downloaded with uTorrent wirelessly to their television. The new set-top box supports playback of all popular video formats and can also download torrents by itself, fully anonymously if needed.With a quarter billion... Continue Reading →
Certified BitTorrent Box Brings uTorrent to Your TV
Fed Now Pre-Monetizing: Bernanke Buys $300 Million Of Treasury To Be Auctioned Off TomorrowThere was a time when the Fed would repurchase freshly issued bonds a month, a week, or even a day after they were auctioned off by the Treasury (to avoid that whole perjury-inducing "no monetization" stigma). That's no longer the case. Moments ago the... Continue Reading →
Fed Now Pre-Monetizing: Bernanke Buys $300 Million Of Treasury To Be Auctioned Off Tomorrow
Intelligent Hands-Free Display for Smartphones Just as smartphones forever changed the telephone, the Vuzix smart glasses M100 redefines our interface to the ever-expanding digital world.Vuzix smart glasses M100 is the world's first enhanced "Hands Free" smartphone display and communications system for on-the-go data access from your Smartphone and the Internet. Running applications under the Android... Continue Reading →
Intelligent Hands-Free Display for Smartphones
Iris Solution CenterLearn more about Iris at http://www.Lowes.com/Iris. Meet Iris. Iris is a Home Management system exclusively from Lowe's. Sure it helps keep your place secure, comfortable and energy efficient. But really, what it does is bring you and your home closer together. Take security. Iris keeps an eye on things and texts, calls or... Continue Reading →
Iris Solution Center
iTwin Connect turns a humble USB stick into your own VPN (video)Passing files over the internet using iTwin's 256-bit AES encryption's all well and good, but wouldn't it be nice if you could use that connection for other things? Luckily for you, that's just what the iTwin Connect was designed to do. In addition to the usual... Continue Reading →
iTwin Connect turns a humble USB stick into your own VPN (video)
Dell's Project Ophelia: an Android 4.0 stick that turns any display into a PCDell Wyse, the company's cloud services arm, is worried about your security. It's also thinking that it's time you didn't need to drag that laptop wherever you go. As such, it's working on Project Ophelia, a chunky Android stick that turns any... Continue Reading →
Dell’s Project Ophelia: an Android 4.0 stick that turns any display into a PC
Plair: A Dongle For Streaming Videos From Your Phone To TVThere’s no great way to watch a YouTube clip with other people. You know what I mean. Someone has this hilarious video that you just have to see. So you awkwardly crowd around a computer, neck strained, anxious to know when you’re supposed to laugh.... Continue Reading →
Plair: A Dongle For Streaming Videos From Your Phone To TV
Future of Hospitals online forecasting game
http://youtu.be/oiK0AfaGFw8 My Institute for the Future colleague Bradley Kreit and collaborators have launched a new online forecasting game you can play today and tomorrow about the future of hospitals. From a press release: The Future of the Hospital, created and produced by Institute for the Future (IFTF) with the sponsorship of the California Health Care... Continue Reading →
A Tale of Two RooftopsAs a series we’ve covered a number of urban farms, it’s a subject that’s near and dear to our hearts as urbanites. Farms in the city, and particularly rooftop farms seem to be an obvious way to make positive change in our food systems. For that reason we wanted to see... Continue Reading →