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10 Years Ago Today: Apple Introduces the iPod, Changes Everything
There are some historical moments whose significance is obvious at the moment, where you know it will be remembered and commemorated in years to come. But I suspect most people wouldn’t be able to...
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Simple Gadget Love: The KitchenAid Stand Mixer
The holidays, in all their horror and glory, are fast approaching. And in this house, that means one thing in particular: the assembly of confections. When I started out cooking, I didn’t even have a...
View ArticleWatch the Kinect Through Night Vision Goggles
Much as I would love to have a Kinect, we have neither the space nor the hardware for it. But in the course of researching sensors for an upcoming book of robotics projects I’m working on, I found this...
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Talking About My (Smart Phone) Generation
As I was standing in a long line at the bank the other day, minding my own business (and by that I mean: mindlessly wasting time on my iPhone by either repeatedly checking email, looking at my Facebook...
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Car Safety Tech at the L.A. International Auto Show: Next Gen Safety
In the automobile industry, times are changing. Not only do automakers focus on making the slickest cars on the market, but they also have embraced a revolutionary focus on safety. Some might say they...
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GeekDad Goes (CNN) International, Talks Kids and iPads
GeekDad’s own Dan Donahoo was a guest yesterday on CNN International to chat a bit about kids and iPads. He did a fantastic job dispelling some of the common myths about screen time and the affect of...
View ArticleYouTube Is the New Substitute Teacher
School, like most of everyday life, is at times boring and occasionally a waste of time. We can place blame for that squarely upon the education system and teachers, or share it with parents if we’d...
View ArticleTEDActive Makers Hack Art, Urbanization, and Kinetic Energy
TED is an annual, global idea conference. TEDActive is the arm of the TED conference that engages thinkers and doers in projects centered on the TED Prize. What happens when an artist, an engineer, an...
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Nest Thermostat Is Part HAL, All Awesome
Without going into the hyperbole surrounding the Nest thermostat, the simple explanation is that it is the home heating and cooling thermostat-equivalent of a smartphone. It has a beautiful graphical...
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Flipping the Classroom Requires More Than Video
In 2004, a former hedge fund analyst began recording and posting videos of himself explaining some math techniques, posting the videos to YouTube. By 2012, Salman Khan had more than 3,000 lessons...
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Technology Adapts to Imagination, Not the Other Way Around
Last weekend, after failing yet again to settle Catan, I instead settled myself into the recliner to watch Real Steel, the Rocky/Over the Top near-futuristic mashup starring Hugh Jackman. I'm not going...
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Zachary Levi Talks STEM Skills, Digital Literacies and Human-Centric Tech
I heard his voice as Trooper 4 while playing Halo: Reach. I've seen him as the charismatic host of Spike TV’s Video Game Awards in 2011. And my son and I are both huge fans of his tech-savvy...
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Microsoft Announces Imagine Cup Finalists 2012
The Imagine Cup is a competition run and delivered by Microsof tto support and engage students from across the globe in developing technology projects that address global issues such as poverty, access...
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Imagine Cup 2012: People’s Choice Voting Now Open
In a couple weeks more than 100 teams of young innovators, entrepreneurs and developers will be traveling from across the globe to Sydney to compete in Imagine Cup 2012. GeekDad will be there to share...
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The Vox Mini3: A (Tiny) Amp for All Seasons
Years ago, in what we may call the Before-Time, I had a sweet home office, a dedicated room that my desktop, various collectables and musical equipment called home. Then, the addition of two kids took...
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Give Classes an Upgrade with Top Hat Monocle
Top Hat Monocle gave me a hands-on demo of their service using my iPad as they showed me a new level of interactivity that is available to instructors and students with internet-connected devices in...
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A Collection of Children’s Ideas for the Future of Technology
Kids Vision: a collection of children's ideas for the future of technology is a fascinating new publication from Latitude. Latitude have been engaged in a wide range of projects that have engaged...
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The Future of Learning: A Thought-Provoking Documentary from Ericsson
Information technology is changing the way we receive information. This 20 minute documentary looks at how access to information is changing education.
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12 Painfully Bad Excerpts of Hold Music
I know what you're thinking: What hold music isn't terrible? Clearly, I spend a lot of my life on hold, as this short list represents only half the total I've recorded over the course of the last...
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NASA Johnson Style (Gangnam Style Parody)
I've seen a lot of cool things come out of NASA as they try to appeal to the next generation of scientists and engineers, but this is one of the best yet.
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