Category: technology

What is a Pivot? Startup 101 (Video)

If you’re here, you’re probably wondering what a Pivot is in the startup sense. I’m going to answer that in two ways. First, I’ll give you my simplified answer, and then, I’m embedding a video below my answer of the term’s creator, author Eric Ries, where he gives the only definition you’ll ever need to master the term. Pivot: Changing strategy, without changing vision,...

Unexpected By Design Part 2: Steve Jobs and the iPod

Yesterday we showed you how differently the founders of Snapchat, Facebook, Youtube, and others envisioned their websites being used. Well here’s another example of what I’m beginning to call “the founder’s phenomina”. When Steve Jobs first got onto the stage of Walt Mossberg’s first annual D Tech conference in 2003, he was fresh off of the success of the iPod and the redesigned iMac....

Dancing Drones! (Video)

There’s nothing more fun than drones, as proven by this synchronized performance by several Parrot AR Drones which danced in sync with music (unless you’re a terrorist dodging hellfires from a Predator- but that’s another story). This all went down at CES this week, and it was just one of the many incredible things on the floor we’ll be covering. Enjoy. Give this article a...

Happy New Years- Our Tech Predictions for 2013 are HERE!

Happy 2013! All of the horrible stuff that happened in 2012 is behind us, the world is still here, and we’re going to see some great tech in 2013. We wrote about what we expected  for 2013 over the summer, but I’ll sum up the basics below, and then leave the links below to the full posts.   Classrooms to the Cloud- Education Goes...

Is It Safe To Stand in Front of The Microwave and Watch? The Answer

We’ve all heard it somewhere. “Don’t watch the microwave. You’ll go blind”. “Don’t stand in front of the microwave or it’ll cook you too”. We’ve all been scared by the old wives tale. So is it true? Mostly, no. And for your mother, or your grandmother, or your friend that doesn’t believe you, here’s the technical explanation. As we all remember from chemistry class,...