Social Commerce is quickly infiltrating into every social media site. Facebook and Twitter quickly jumped on board. But now it’s no longer just the big guns participating. Smaller social media sites including small retailers in Asia are becoming more social. Even social media profiles of influential users have become social commerce hotspots! BBC explains this […]
You may have heard of a little revolution called the Lily Drone. If not, here is a video: There are several things about Lily that make her a game changer. First is the fact that this drone has a purpose. Tech critiques complain that drone technology often does not serve a purpose. But this drone […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is no shortage of opinions on Sony Pictures’ decision to withdraw the movie The Interview due to claimed hacking from North Korea. Prominent figures from actors to politicians are willing to give their two cents. And now the infamous Dr Evil has chipped in. Dr Evil, the antagonist of the Austin Power film series […]
Target is always surprisingly far ahead of technology innovations. And by far ahead, I mean Target is on to the next big thing in tech 18 months ahead. Although the retail giant hasn’t made a robotic store assistant like Lowe, they may not be too far away. Target’s four key target areas include virtual reality, […]
Day by day new and innovative ways of using the 3D printer are fabricated. From a 3D printed house to 3D printed laptop kits, you begin to wonder whether anything more bizarre could be thought up! That was until a New Zealand company allowed you to print your own brain. How does this technology work? […]
Android 5.0, or ”Lollipop” is being released this month. A cool new feature is it automatically encrypts users data allowing the user exclusive access to their data. This means Google cannot unlock the device even at the request of law enforcement. Previously users were allowed to encrypt their own information on Android devices since 2011. […]
