Archive for the ‘Technology’ tag
Google Us
Flight delayed? Good. If you’re taking to the skies on Virgin Atlantic, it’ll give you more time to play around with Google’s new Chromebook. Event Marketer did a nice write up of the program MKTG developed with Google to drive awareness of its soon-to-launch laptop. Lucky airline passengers and guests of New York’s Ace Hotel can get their hands on these sleek PCs from now until the end of September.
Everybody Chromercise
Around the Studio today we are love, love, loving this Chrome video. And for this reporter it’s about all the exercise she’ll get all month. Enjoy!
REST IN TWEETS
Good news: you CAN take it with you. With E-Tomb, you can keep in touch with
your social networks even from the great beyond. The solar-powered headstone
contains a Bluetooth-enabled device that stores the deceased’s
social-networking data, so all those ranting blog posts, drunken party pics
and hilarious kitty videos can enjoy everlasting life.
DESIGNATED TYPER
Ever had a few too many and gotten behind the computer screen to post about your epic night? Or come home from a seemingly harmless happy hour and then commented on your brother’s Facebook page on how your new nephew looks more like Yoda than a beautiful baby boy? Or maybe you overloaded…and ended up over-sharing?
Now there’s designated damage control: a Social Media Sobriety Test available from Webroot - making the Web a less embarrassing place, one post at a time.
Former Sprint, Radioshack CEOs Form Cell Phone Recycling Company
The ambitious new venture plans to set up easy phone trade-in schemes. eRecyclingCorps will partner with network providers, and customers can bring their old phones in to carriers’ stores. The stores will provide customers with a credit to put towards a new cell phone. The stores then send the old phones to eRecyclingCorps, which sorts which phones can be refurbished and which need to be recycled. eRecyclingCorps will safely recycle unfixable phones and sell refurbished phones in emerging markets like Brazil, India, Russia and China.
Unsurprisingly, eRecyclingCorps’ first partner is Sprint. eRecyclingCorps will handle phones turned in to 2,500 of the provider’s stores and dealers. With luck, Sprint won’t be the only company featuring the new trade-in program: eRecyclingCorps says its working on convincing other carriers to adopt the program, too.
Savior Bud Device Produces Drinking Water from Tree Leaves
The Giving Tree-inspired Savior Bud designed by Seol Ah Sun and Kim Hyo Jin is a portable device that attaches to tree leaves and slowly collects water. After four hours, a full cup of water is ready for drinking. More at Inhabitat: link below.
Inhabitat » Savior Bud Device Produces Drinking Water from Tree Leaves.
