Enter to Win a Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
Enter to win a Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 from GeekMom and you’ll have the perfect gift for the Dad on your Father’s Day list! Read more →
Posts in Category ‘Technology’
Ten Hour Slow Cooking: Pork and Three Bean Chili
With two full time jobs and two children under four in the house, GeekMom Sarah turns to technology for some time saving with her housekeeping. Here she shares a ten hour recipe for the crockpot that will allow you to eat well but not eat into your precious family time. Read more →
The Powerocks Tarot: Portable Power That Fits in Your Wallet
There’s a careful balance to be struck between power and bulk when it comes to portable batteries and the Powerocks Tarot is designed to manage both. Read more →
Happy Birthday to Computer Scientist Ivan Sutherland!
Dr. Ivan Sutherland doesn’t register at the same level of public fame as Grace Hopper or Bill Gates, yet his accomplishments in computer graphics in the early 1960s advanced the field of Computer Science tremendously. Please join me in wishing him a happy birthday today! Read more →
Fund This: STEAM Carnival Puts Robots and Science Under the Big Top
This traveling circus is looking to blend science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Read more →
Realtor.com’s Mobile App School Search Feature: Godsend for Parents
About 10 days prior to our trip to buy a new house in Colorado last week, I found out about an update for the realtor.com mobile app service that I’ve relied on to send me customized search results for the areas in which we’re looking to live. This update would make realtor.com to be the first mobile real estate search capability to fully integrate school information in their app. Read more →
Welcome Home, Hadfield, Marshburn, and Romanenko!
Last night, at 10:31 EDT, after spending 146 days in space — 144 of which were spent on board the International Space Station — and making 2,336 orbits around the planet, clocking close to 62 million miles, astronauts Chris Hadfield (Canada), Tom Marshburn (United States), and Roman Romanenko (Russia) touched down safely in southern Kazakhstan. Read more →
Professors Win $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation, Give It All Away
Rice University Professors Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden recently received the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovations and then promptly gave it all away. Read more →
Read Your Cares Away With the Fraggle Friends Forever App
Just in time for the 30th anniversary, this new app introduces the Fraggles to a whole new audience. Read more →
Screensters by Toddy Gear: Fun for Kids
The Screenster’s slim, simple design, the numerous caricatures to choose from, and convenient top loop for hanging it on a bag makes this a fun accessory for kids’ tablets: iPads, Kindles, Kobos, Nooks, or Galaxy among others. Read more →