Posted on August 31st, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Raising money from strangers is all the rage these days. It happens online.
Kickstarter is the most well known “crowd-funder” and Indiegogo (pronounced Indi-go-go) isn’t far behind. Do the strangers get their money back if the product doesn’t succeed? Good question, for which the answer is: sometimes and mostly no. The answer is blowing in the crowd. Here’s our experience.
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Posted on August 29th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
The August issue of PC Magazine reviewed the 100 best Android apps of 2015. Besides the usual suspects, we saw some we’d never heard of. Such as…
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Posted on August 28th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“Colorblind man sees purple for the first time” is a remarkable YouTube video you can find if you search on those words. A friend surprised him with a special pair of sunglasses that correct for colorblindness. He weeps with joy at all the colors he’s seeing for the first time, shouting to a friend, “Your car is pretty.” The sunglasses start at $350 from EnChroma.com.
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Posted on August 28th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Smithsonianmag.com has an article about a 32-acre test track being used for driverless cars. “MCity” at the University of Michigan has fake obstacles, railroad tracks, shops, gravel roads, paved roads, roundabouts, signals and even a robot pedestrian named Sebastian who never looks both ways. He has yet to be run over.
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Posted on August 28th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
CuriosityStream.com claims to have the world’s best documentaries from the BBC and other channels around the world, plus original programming. The first month is free, then it’s $3 a month if you want to continue. But you have to give them a credit card for the free trial — and we never like that.
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Posted on August 26th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“15 Animals that want to be Man’s Best Friend.” Google those words for some amazing video clips. We saw an otter playing dead on command, an armadillo playing with a squeeze toy, a baby elephant playing soccer, and a cat playing fetch and panting like a dog.
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Posted on August 25th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
We love Google’s calendar app for Android and iPhone, which keeps us up to date on our phone when we’re away from our computer. Windows 8 and the new Windows 10 also have calendar apps. Set up the calendar app in these systems by clicking the start button, “all apps,” and then “calendar.” When we did this we immediately saw all the dates we’d entered into our Google calendar, so we didn’t have to re-enter anything. Unlike the Google calendar, the Windows calendar puts all your Facebook friends’ birthdays right on the calendar. This can be amusing, if like us, you have Facebook “friends” you hardly know. We even saw birthdays for friends who aren’t on Facebook, whose birthdays were […]
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Posted on August 24th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Here’s a wakeup study for election time: Recent research shows that we trust the Internet — maybe too much. In a test of undecided voters, the name and favorable information about any candidate that came in at the top of their search results, made them likely to switch to that candidate.
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Posted on August 22nd, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Some insurance companies pay you for getting fit. Ours doesn’t, but the free app “Wellcoin” (iOs) (Android) earns you discounts for healthy behavior. Cheaters are apparently welcome. When Joy was filling out their questionnaire, she put down “Twinkies” as her healthy snack choice and right away she earned five points. In fact, it gave her “health points” no matter what she put down. (Joy hasn’t had a Twinkie since she was 12. Bob has had only one bite in his life — can’t stand em.) She got triple the points if she took a picture of something healthy and clicked “verify.” The Wellcoin community weighed in immediately to judge her handful of unsalted almonds. Tap “Marketplace” to see discounts of […]
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Posted on August 21st, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
We’ve been fit to be tied by printers forcing us to change ink cartridges when ink levels are low but not out. A new model Epson inkjet printer is getting rave reviews for its “two-year ink supply.” The Epson Ecotank Printer, the ET2550, has a tank of ink you refill yourself every two years or so. This means fewer empty cartridges going into landfills and big savings on ink, unless you’re already buying from third party suppliers, which are much cheaper. The downside is the $400, and up, price tag. But compared to buying separate Epson ink cartridges for years, you come out way ahead. Four bottles in colors at $13 each should last at least two years, for around […]
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