There are many questions and concerns about the long-term effects of the relationships infants and young children are developing with electronic gadgets. When the gadget starts to look like a cuddly toy, it must be particularly confusing for a young mind. Smarty Crew’s Oliba brings the parent back into the equation with their smart tag […]
One important pearl of wisdom garnered from coaching youth baseball is that it is really difficult to teach a 5 year-old, but every once in a while it is possible to trick him into learning. At that age, the most important thing is to make the activity fun and the skills will follow. Zivix takes this approach […]
No propane, no fuel, no matches, no problem with the GoSun, solar-powered grill, as explained by GoSun’s Peter Harten. This isn’t an everyday grill, however, as, in addition to grilling, it will steam, bake, boil and fry with temperatures, according to GoSun’s website, of up to 550 degrees Fahrenheit. Harten explains that the materials are […]
One of the exhilarating, some would say stressful, aspects of organizing a conference is adjusting to last-minute speaker cancellations. In the case of last February’s Winter Education Conference, NCTC did an amazing job of finding a replacement luncheon keynote after the original speaker had to bow out after inclement weather ruined his travel plans. Mark Cordes […]
The Minnesota Governor’s Fishing Opener begins today and represents the start of the summer tourism season. As its name would suggest, a big part of this event is about Minnesota fishing and opening of fishing season. It is fitting that the above video, about a high-tech way to catch fish, made its debut on the ViodiTV channel […]
The opportunity to peer inside someone’s brain might be frightening, mysterious and humorous. Steve Gleave gave attendees of the 2014 Metaswitch Forum the chance to take a lighthearted and entertaining peek into his thoughts. Gleave, who is Senior Vice President of Marketing for Metaswitch, made excellent use of video and the stage to illustrate how software has decoupled from hardware […]
“We want to bring beautiful images into millions of homes, everywhere in the world,” said Sheldon Laube CEO of Artkick. Artkick is a two-screen app that streams images to the TV (smart TV, Roku, Chromecast, Apple TV) with the smart phone or tablet as both the remote control and meta-data viewing device. The smart phone […]
The @Viodi Twitter handle is supposed to be for industry-relevant items, but sometimes it is used for things that are seemingly a bit off-topic. Traveling home from MTA and inspired by Rosie Berg of Pinnacle, I figured that Twitter might be the easiest way to draw attention to what looked to be a potential log-jam […]
One of the trends of International CES 2014 is the number of products created by small teams or, in the case of the above video, one person. Foretold by the likes of Tom Peters many years ago, entrepreneurs are assembling dynamic teams to make their visions reality with little capital and little formal organizational structure. […]
“Take advantage of the tools that you have, the access to the world that you have at your fingertips through the Internet and through all the things that our brought to our house everyday through technology that makes it effortless to learn and to do things and make a difference in the world,” said Levi […]