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.
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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.
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Just in time for the 30th anniversary, this new app introduces the Fraggles to a whole new audience.
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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.
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Today is the seventh annual International Day Against DRM (Digital Rights Management). Fight against DRM, and get some discounts on great books in the process!
Continue ReadingThe Developers of Game Dev Tycoon, a newly released business simulation game that mimics a video game development company from the 1980s to today, played a brilliant trick on pirates planning to distribute the game illegally. The company released a cracked version of the game themselves minutes after they opened their own store, but all was not what it seemed.
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When the folks behind WeFarm started formulating its peer-to-peer knowledge sharing network with the idea to connect small farmers in developing countries, they found that 90% of those growers simply didn’t have access to the internet. Enter the mobile phone, something that most of these farmers do have access to.
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In our favorite astrophysicist’s latest installment on AOL On’s “School of Thought” series, Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses a little-known-about paper written in the 1950s, titled “Synthesis of the Elements in Stars” and published in several scholarly journals such as Reviews of Modern Physics. This paper discussed the formation of the fundamental elements on earth, those that are taught to us in the periodic table of the elements.
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Congratulations to Jennifer J. who was the winner of our Samsung Galaxy Note II Giveaway!
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We had a chance to review Griffin Technology’s latest kids’ headphones, called MyPhones, as part of their KaZoo kids’ products. The bright colors and adorable animal theme makes them fun for the kids. The volume-limiting sound and reasonable price will make it fun for the parents to buy for the kids.
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The Gripcase is a shock-absorbing, virtually indestructible iPad case that is perfect for young users. The stand is optional, but definitely a useful addition.
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Recently, I was given a chance to check out some awesome software by Smith Micro. I was a little worried that they wouldn’t be user friendly and I would be lost after the install. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case and I’m happy to say we have a complete set of software for one lucky reader.
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A collection of maps at Train Times show the approximate real-time positions of trains on the London Underground and those at and surrounding many major UK stations.
Continue ReadingThe team behind Disney Infinity have released the platform’s latest trailer. It shows more of the possibilities available in the Toy Box mode, which for many of us awaiting this latest Disney experience, is the part we’re most excited about.
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Yesterday the U.S. Navy announced a cancelation of the remainder of the 2013 Blue Angels demonstration team air show season. The impacts expand beyond just the financial. My heart is very heavy about this from a parenting perspective. We are denying our kids critical exposure to STEM skills.
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Read my continued review of Windows 8.
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Just in case you’re not sure you’re going to get exactly what you want this Mother’s Day, enter our Samsung Galaxy Note II giveaway and win yourself the perfect gift.
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The Aerial7 Neo Earbuds offer great performance and a unique memory foam cushion that helps them stay put in your ears.
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3-D printing in the hands of forward-thinking scientists could offer a route to material resembling human tissues, material that mimics the basic structure of our cell membranes and that conceivably could be engineered to replace tissues in our bodies or to deliver drugs.
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In Tanzania, scientists recently used a mobile phone equipped with a makeshift microscope to diagnose intestinal parasites.
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