Being addicted to your cell phone is not uncommon.  Many of us have a hard time not playing with our phones even when enjoying a dinner out with friends.  Just the other night, a friend of mine stopped in mid sentence to answer her phone.  That doesn’t include the number of times she answered text messages while we were eating.  My phone was dead or I probably would have been right there with her.  Enter a new game called Phone Stack that is liable to cost one of us some money.
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The website announced by J.K. Rowling back in July has yet to come out of beta.  That means that only a select group of Harry Potter fans has been able to access Pottermore.  When will it ever open to the rest of the public? Who knows.
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How many times have pulled up to a light and felt your car vibrate because of the heavy bass beat coming from the car next to you?  Probably quite a lot.  Now that low barely audible but definitely felt beat can power a medical sensor created by scientists at Perdue.
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AIDS is a horrible disease and the tiniest victims, babies born with the disease are in desperate need of help.  Enter social media leaders who plan to partner with bankers and consultants to reach a goal of 0 births of babies with AIDS by 2015.
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While many people are still trying to figure out what “cloud computing” really means, various businesses specializing in cloud services are going after the U.S. government’s business.  Companies like Box and Amazon Web Services are looking to pick up federal government business by providing extra security and specialized “cloud areas”.
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No not the color green but the renewable resource green.  Like cellulose and cotton insulation, sheep’s wool is a renewable resource with a twist.  Cellulose insulation recycles paper and cotton insulation recycles the bits of blue jean material that would normally be tossed in the trash.  Sheep’s wool insulation is naturally renewable because sheep grow new coats yearly.
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A lot of people are all agog at Apple’s new iBooks Author App.  Don’t be.  Self publishing software has been around for awhile.  Not only has it been around it has been used and is being used successfully to publish books that can be sold for more devices than just Apple’s.  Rather than rushing headlong into software that will limit where your book can be read, look around and try out a few different programs.
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The Kenguru is a small neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) that has been modified so that people in wheelchairs can easily enter and drive it.  It’s top speed is 25 mph and it will go 60 miles on a charge.  It won’t challenge a Tesla Roadster but it will provide independence for a lot of people who have had to rely on others. 
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Both Liquipel and HZO showed off their waterproofing products at CES this past week.  Both submerged treated iPhones in water.  HZO used a fish tank and Liquipel used a casserole dish and sprayer.  The iPhones continued to work in both instances.  So how soon can you get your phone/mp3 player waterproofed? Depends on which technique you choose.
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It’s one thing to talk about an invisibility cloak that makes a person invisible, it’s another entirely when you talk about making an event invisible.  That is exactly what Cornell scientists have done.  Of course, they haven’t caused anything major to disappear like a top secret meeting, but they have shown that the possibility is there.
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On the road to developing regenerative body parts, scientists at Oregon Health and Science University, combined the parts of six different embryos to create three chimera monkeys.  In another unrelated but eerie bio/tech blend, scientists from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have developed new type of data storage using Salmon DNA.  Monkeys or memory sticks? Both use biological building blocks to create new technologies.
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It’s January 1, 2012, a brand new year.  A time to set resolutions, review goals, and take stock of where you want to go this year.  If you are the owner of a Fisker Karma, the first place you need to head is back to the factory.  It seems that your $96 K car has a problem.
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People getting fired over what they put on Facebook is nothing new.  Since its inception there have been people who haven’t quite figured out that you have to use discretion when posting.  Apparently a large group of officers in the UK police need a little refresher course on common sense.
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Merry Christmas!  You just found that new computer under your Christmas tree and now you want to set it up and optimize it.  Well here are some tips to get you started and make your computing experience the best.
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Dear Santa,
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For all parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and family friends, Google has created an easy way for you to make sure that the children in your family get a phone call from Santa.  Yes, the messages are limited and somewhat canned, but for a free service and a little smile from the kids your life, it’s not so bad.  There are also some other services that will send letters and postcards to your little ones as well.
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Google and the Science Museum in London are collaborating on two exhibitions that will be installed over the next few years.  The first exhibition will open in June of 2012 and will celebrate the 100th birthday of Alan Turing the father of computing.  The second exhibition will open in 2014 and will be a permanent installation at the museum.
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