- via Gigaom Filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain opens her new documentary Connected with a personal confession: She once faked having to go to the bathroom during dinner so that she could check her email on her phone. For many web-addicted people, that might not be too shocking a reveal, but for her it Read More

While technology has opened many doors for us, it has also increased the number of possibilities for ‘oops’ moments. Ever hit reply all on an email meant for one person? Drunk dialed an ex? Sent a text to the wrong person?

Three days ago, Blackberry users discovered that the services they take for granted on a daily basis: e-mail and BBM. First, it started in Europe, the spread to South America and has finally reached the U.S. and Canada. It turns out that the cause of this outage was a backlog of emails sent to Europe. Read More

Driving down the road of life, we’ve all come to the same conclusions: the radio plays the same 10 songs over and over again, there are never enough cigarette lighters to plug in all of our gadgets, and parallel parking just plain old sucks. As 2012 approaches, it’s time our vehicles reflected that; since it’ll Read More

There are days when talking on my cell phone is no big deal. But then there are those days when I can both hear and feel a friend talking to me. My ear seems to vibrate and my brain pulsates with every syllable of the person’s voice. That’s when I know it’s time to get Read More

- via MSNBC “The narrative is set for Apple’s iPhone event Tuesday: Tim Cook, Apple’s new CEO, will attempt to fill Steve Jobs’ shoes by unveiling not one but two iPhones, a future-leaning iPhone 5 with slimmer body, larger screen and better everything, and a new $99 variant of the iPhone 4, made with cheaper Read More

via MSNBC – What’s on your mind as you drive down the road? Cars of the future may tap into those thoughts in order to keep you and our roads safer. The technology builds on brain-machine interface research pioneered at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland that allows wheelchairs users to get around using their minds. Read More

With every new technological advance, the world around us gets just a little bit smaller. It was announced recently that translation company myLanguage has released an iPhone application that will directly translate spoken word into foreign languages. The new app, called Vocre, essentially eliminates language barriers by opening the lines of communication with people all Read More

The city of the future, or a green ghost town? Pegasus Global Holdings, a development company, has secured a 20 square mile tract of land in New Mexico to build a brand new city. The catch is that absolutely no one will live there. Pegasus is using the faux-city to test ‘green’ infrastructure and technologies Read More

1996: The days when the internet was young, the sound of your modem connecting through your phone line both annoyed you and gave you a sense of hope that soon you’d hear the AOL message, “You’ve Got Mail”! My how far we’ve come…