Neuroscientists have figured out how to induce daydreaming according to a paper just published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For the skeptic (with their head already in the clouds), inducing daydreaming seems completely unnecessary. And since daydreaming can occupy up to half our waking lives, it seems even more pointless. But these […]
It’s pretty amusing to look back at old websites and see how static (read: boring) they used to be. One of the things that often catches me off guard is seeing website designers old take on a header. Usually it’s just a plain banner which may or may not have been made using MS Paint. […]
Two months into 2015, and apps still aren’t going away any time soon. In fact, iPhone apps are reaching record sales numbers! Unfortunately, this onslaught of techies with large app-etites means app developers are churning out new apps all the time. This makes it impossible to wade through seas of apps all beckoning for your […]
A cool new app makes it seem like the smart home is closer than ever. Sure it’s not this fully furbished smart home that cooks, cleans and entertains for you. But it is readily available and makes life an awful lot simpler. While heat pumps and air conditioners are great they have their limits. On hot […]
CES 2015 was an event not to be missed by tech enthusiasts. Even gardeners lent an ear as CES attendees promoted smart gardens! As diverse as the offerings were, they all pointed back to the same theme- the Internet of Things. Personally I believe the Internet of Things has been over-promised and under-delivered. In 2015 […]
Apple, alongside thousands of mobile software developers have been met with a particularly ravenous crowd. Enthusiastic users of iPhones, iPads and iPod touches spent a whopping nearly $500 million USD on applications and in-app services in the first week of the year. Not a bad start to 2015 for mobile software developers! This is the highest […]
The ‘Internet of Things’ has been enthused over for many, many years. Perhaps too many years. In fact it was in 1926 that Nicholas Tesla first said, “”When wireless* is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and […]
Is your once tendered and loved vegetable garden now a pot of shriveled roots? Are your camellias now tangled in a web of weeds? A lot of people have a natural talent at killing plants. For people who used to rely on cultivation for food, we are now terrible at keeping plants alive. But now […]
Technology developments are incredibly hard to predict. Technology changes so rapidly and every year it seems to have taken a new direction. I believe one of the best ways to predict technology developments is through looking at the past. ‘ In 2014 we saw several exciting developments in mobile. We saw the iOS8 able to […]
While Star Wars VII is still just under a year away from release, Star Wars social media accounts are running rife with speculation. Everything and anything is being analysed as a hint as to what the film holds in store. Take for example a video posted on the entertainment franchise’s Instagram page. An old commercial […]
