Although we take them for granted these days, smartphones are simply amazing. Seriously: there was a time when people who wanted to know answers to questions like, “why is the sky blue?” or “what is a VoIP number?” had to find an expert or crack open an encyclopedia (or more recently load one from a CD-ROM). But these days, answers […]

Frequent note-takers undoubtedly have desks littered with sticky notes. However, if you have a flash of inspiration while away from your desk, why just settle writing your notes on your phone? With this nifty Cubinote printer, you can print out notes straight from your phone for just $145. The Cubinote Pro Sticky Note Printer lets you jot down your ideas […]

Many of us frequently use Google Maps’ Street View feature, to see what things look like at a given location. Well, Australian scientists are developing a sort of audio equivalent, that will let users hear various eco-regions throughout the country. Known as the Australian Acoustic Observatory, the system is being set up via a collaboration between the Queensland University of […]

Rumors have long suggested that Apple was planning on launching an augmented reality headset in 2020, but according to a new report, that date may be a little optimistic. According to a report from The Information, Apple held a meeting in October in which the road map for the device was discussed — and it now looks like it may […]

True to its fame as Norway’s most sustainable airline and as the two-time International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) recipient of the “Most Fuel-Efficient Airline on Transatlantic Routes” award, Norwegian Air is ambitiously targeting a carbon emissions reduction of 140,000 tons per year. It will do so by leveraging the SkyBreathe fuel efficiency app. SkyBreathe was developed by the European […]

If you care about clothing styles in the first place, then it can be difficult, trying to determine if your outfit is fashionable. It would be great if your phone could tell you, and with the new Fashion++ app, it may soon be able to do just that. The smartphone application was designed in a partnership between researchers from The […]

Cycle Tracker, an app that helps women keep track of their menstrual cycles, has now arrived on the Apple Watch. While limited cycle tracking has been part of Apple’s iOS Health app since 2015, with the release of iOS 13 and WatchOS 6, Cycle Tracker is now its own discrete sector within the Health app on the iPhone and a separate […]

A couple of powerful earthquakes in Southern California in July came just a few months before this week’s 30th anniversary of the catastrophic San Francisco Bay tremor that killed more than 60 people. The two quakes were a sobering reminder of scientists’ predictions of another major tremor hitting the region within the next 30 years. With that in mind, a […]

What’s pinned today may be irrelevant next week, so Pinterest is giving users more ways to control what ideas they see. On Tuesday, October 15, Pinterest launched home feed tuner controls, along with more pin-level control over what pops up in the home feed. The change, Pinterest says, is designed to help the home feed evolve as user needs evolve, […]

Scotland’s Skoog Music is all about making music easy and fun. Five years ago the company launched a touchy-feely cube on Indiegogo that could be picked up and played in minutes. Now a new big-buttoned melody maker has been announced called the Skwitch. Again being launched on Indiegogo, the Skwitch combines an iPhone dock that’s home to a big single […]