Last year we looked at DriveNow, an innovative program set up by BMW that would connect you with whatever form of transit made sense given your location. The system, accessed via a smartphone app, could, for example, direct you from a shared bike.
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If you’re like me, you have a somewhat conflicted relationship with your smartphone. Features like GPS, email, basic web browsing and ebook reading have become indispensable. But I also find myself looking at screens filled with apps I’ll never use. And while.
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There you are, doing something worthwhile online–researching, reading the news, connecting with people on Facebook. Then you see a link. “This kitten has a special trick that’ll leave you speechless.” You click through to a web page with a Youtube.
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The Amazon Fire phone came out last week with great fanfare. Besides its nifty dynamic perspective capabilities, the Fire features the Firefly technology, which, depending on your perspective, is a great blessing or a major curse. Firefly has some beneficial or benign applications:.
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Aside from publishing this site and our real estate arm, one of the chief things LifeEdited does is spread the less is more gospel at various conferences. This last weekend we–specifically Graham Hill with my assistance–presented at the Revitalize Conference.
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A few weeks ago, we looked at CoeLux, a sophisticated LED light that comes close to replicating a naturally sunlit window. The notion of giving advanced technology the duties historically given to mother nature is, for some, kinda weird. But.
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I’m going to start this post with a big admission of failure in my #weekoflivingconnectedly. I could do an analysis of my metrics–i.e. number of postings, pics uploaded, etc–but I will say with relative confidence that I didn’t meet the quotas of tweets,.
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Two years ago, we reported about MIT’s CityHome. The concept presented a technologically-enhanced way of mating residential interiors with resident needs. In the way someone enters personal preferences for an online dating site, a resident would list his or her needs in.
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The first thing I did as part of my experiment was to be as indiscriminate as possible in terms of who I connected with online. Channelling my inner Ray Kurzweil, I figured why not have as many connections as possible, increasing my.
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As regular LifeEdited readers know, I am no tech zealot. Sure, I use the stuff copiously. I have up-to-date gadgets: 15″ Macbook Pro with SSD, iPhone 5, iPad 2, etc. I am pretty facile with social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram..
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