Enabling the Future Gives Little Girl 3D-Printed Pink and Purple Arm Enabling the Future is an organization dedicated to helping children who are missing one or both hands, either through a birth defect or accident, by 3D-printing the missing appendage. They've handed out al... Continued
Download an Official MS-DOS Windows Phone App as an April Fools’ Prank Hats off to Microsoft for one of the funniest and most elaborate pranks of the day. In an attempt to poke fun at themselves over the lack of their mobile success, they have actually released an MS-DOS mobil... Continued
Amazon Testing PrimeAir Drones in Canada Amazon has had a heck of a time getting the FAA to decide how they feel about the online retailer's delivery drones. I'm not going to pretend to know a single thing about the inner-workings of US airspace, ... Continued
White House Appoints Tech Industry Vet Jason Goldman as Chief Digital Officer As one of the many (and I mean many) Americans who are beyond frustrated with a bunch of old Luddites attempting to regulate technology that they can't even begin to understand, it's always welcome news whe... Continued
Alcohol-Delivery Service Minibar Acquires Competitor Booze Carriage I'm not much of a drinker - my cognitive functions leave much to be desired even when I'm stone-cold sober - but if you like to knock'em back, bottoms up, because now booze-delivery service Minibar is now m... Continued
The Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard is Ideal for Typing On the Go I've used netbooks before and while I don't find the smaller keyboards outright impossible to use, my clumsy oaf hands are much more comfortable using a full sized keyboard. This is the dilemma with portabl... Continued
Get Ready for Laptops with 8K Displays More pixels is always a good thing, right? That seems to be the philosophy for so many of our digital devices these days. We've got smartphones that have evolved from 720p HD to 1080p Full HD to 4K and UHD.... Continued
Bill Gates Weighs in on the Potential Threat of Artificial Intelligence The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too. That's of course a line fro... Continued
Consumer Drone Crashes on White House Lawn One of the most consistent reminders that we're living in the future is the onslaught of stories involving consumer-driven drones being flown somewhere they shouldn't be, causing a ruckus, and then furtheri... Continued
Smoke ‘Em If You’ve Got ‘Em With Smoking Mittens Let me start by saying I'm not here to debate whether you should smoke or not. Far be it from me to judge if you do, since up until my recent bout of the flu I had been a smoker for years off and on (but mo... Continued
Elon Musk is Using 700 Satellites to Create a Space Internet One of my unspoken resolutions of 2015, of which I have many, is to spend less time dwelling on the past and instead focus on the present and the future. I thought I was doing pretty good, too, what with pl... Continued
Disney’s Beachbot is a Robot Turtle That Draws Pictures in the Sand While it may not be as cool as that soccer ball droid for the Star Wars Episode 7 trailer, the Beachbot is pretty nifty in its own right. It's a robot turtle developed by Disney Research that can scamper al... Continued
