Should Our Kids Be That Exposed to Technology?
I often hear the same words from my friends talking about their young kids: They trail into the sitting room and wander around, throwing their eyes everywhere, scanning for an iPod Touch or an iPad, craving for some Tech time. Most of the time too, these kids are so young, they do barely know how to [...]
Do We Still Need Physical Tech Retail Stores?
These days, everything tends to become digital. Of course, one of the biggest examples being newspaper and books. And services: booking services, billing, even financial services. Our music has gone digital too, in two phases though, migrating from an analog physical support to a digital, then swapping physical support to become cloud-embedded. Movies and series [...]
Want To Live and Die on Mars? Apply Now!
Mars One has officially begun its worldwide search for astronauts who will fly to Mars in 2023. A tiny detail though: They will never come back. Mars One Program: From what we can see so far, it does look like the first humans on Mars will most probably be reality TV stars. Why? Looking at the whole “selection” process did [...]
What Is IMAX?
So we have a new movie theater in Lebanon. VOX Cinemas recently opened its doors to the public; this new complex is located inside Beirut City Centre. What is so special about it? Well, it is equipped with screens and theaters following IMAX standards. But what exactly is IMAX? IMAX (an abbreviation for Image Maximum) is a motion picture film [...]
UVeBand: Your Friendly Sunscreen Reminder
Summer is warming up its engines and will be here in no time. Some time in the sun is what you’ll do best in a few weeks. Better be careful then, keep your sunscreen nearby. This time around, you’ll have a new sunbathing companion: UVeBand. This new Kickstarter project can protect you from the harmful effects of ultraviolet [...]
AI & Robotics: Where Do We Stand
Similar to our newly launched series about comics, of which we published the first part a few days ago, we are going to be publishing a series of info and trivia articles about general science matters, maths wonders and other interesting stuff, we worked on collecting from about everywhere, be it on the internet, or [...]
What Happened to HD-DVD?
HD-DVD and Blu-ray bloomed at around the same time, practically. Of course, Blu-ray is something we’re mostly familiar with (I’m writing this piece in front of a full library of Blu-ray movies blue boxes), but HD-DVD is nowhere to be seen. Let me go back a notch to the early days of both. These formats [...]
At The Pool: The New “Anti-Facebook”?
At The Pool is a Los Angeles-based social discovery platform, or maybe did you know that. Target: to provide “similar” or “substitute” services to the ones provided by Facebook, taking advantage of the latter’s potential attrition in the near future. To do that, At The Pool focuses on “getting you offline and connecting you with [...]
Tech Transitions: Encyclopaedia Britannica Case
Encyclopaedia Britannica ceased production of their famed physical volumes about one year ago. Of course, as we can witness it in our daily life, the vast migration of information from ink and paper to bits and screens has begun. But imagining and realizing that a massive publication such as Britannica would cease production is not [...]
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