Have you ever noticed how the more you need the Internet the less Wi-Fi bars you tend to have? Or how the farther you have to travel to find an outlet the fewer battery minutes you have left on your laptop? Our digital lives are funny that way. Case in point: just the other day,… Continue reading 10 Funny Facts About Your Digital Life
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The Future Is Here: Engineering Students Discover How To Use Wi-Fi to Charge Cell Phones
In the future, cell phones will charge on air. We’re almost there, thanks to the genius engineering students who figured out how to charge cell phones with a Wi-Fi signal. Students at Duke University developed a material that captures Wi-Fi energy waves and converts them into electrical current. With this technology the students have proposed… Continue reading The Future Is Here: Engineering Students Discover How To Use Wi-Fi to Charge Cell Phones
Would You Like Some Google with Your Frap? Faster Wi-Fi is on the Way to All 7,000 U.S. Starbucks Stores
Google has announced that it will soon bring free and faster Wi-Fi connections to all 7,000 company-operated Starbucks stores in the U.S. Beginning in August, Starbucks stores will convert to Google’s network, enabling connections up to 10 times faster or, in Google Fiber locations, up to 100 times faster than before. The conversion process will… Continue reading Would You Like Some Google with Your Frap? Faster Wi-Fi is on the Way to All 7,000 U.S. Starbucks Stores
Sayings 2.0
Savvy web users know better than to judge an app by its icon. Nor is any web service truly free. In the age of “like my page, and I’ll like yours,” what else can you count on people saying on the Web 2.0? You know what they say, never bite the hand that provides feeds… Continue reading Sayings 2.0
17 First World Problems in 2013
By 2013 you would think that technology would have made us more productive than before. The internet, though, is a new tool (historically speaking, that is), and studies have shown a wide learning gap exists before humans can fully incorporate technological advances. While digital cameras, for example, now give you the ability to take and store… Continue reading 17 First World Problems in 2013
WiSee: Body Gestures Control Home Devices Using Only Wi-Fi
A new technology could allow you to use gestures to control appliances and electronics from any room in your home using only Wi-Fi. That’s right: no wristbands, fancy remotes, or cameras, just good, “old-fashioned” Wi-Fi. Called “WiSee” (pronounced “we see”), the system is currently in a functional prototype state. How WiSee Works WiSee detects human… Continue reading WiSee: Body Gestures Control Home Devices Using Only Wi-Fi
