It’s 10pm. Do you know where your children are?
Well, you would if you had OnStar’s Family Link. In fact, you would know where your wife or husband was too. That’s because it tracks every single car in the family’s garage, …
It’s 10pm. Do you know where your children are?
Well, you would if you had OnStar’s Family Link. In fact, you would know where your wife or husband was too. That’s because it tracks every single car in the family’s garage, …
Google Maps has always given great directions. Too bad it lived in a fantasy world where the roads were always clear and you could zip down the highways without another car in sight.
In the real world, I would always factor in …
Gone may be days of sitting next to a screaming baby or in front of a “kicker” on your flight. Airlines are now offering passengers the option of choosing their seatmates based on social networking profiles.
This month, …
Robotic cars are no longer mere sci-fi fodder — they could also begin appearing on Nevada highways. After ongoing lobbying from Google, which began testing self-driving vehicles in 2010, Nevada passed legislation last June that …
Since the advent of portable electronics, man has been trying to jury-rig portable electronics into automobiles to replace the lowly car stereo. Those days may soon be coming to an end.
I spent most of my early- to …
Tour guides are just waiting to show you around Silicon Valley, legendary home to Facebook, Google and countless other big-name tech companies. The problem? Not too many people are lining up to see such exciting locations as the Symantec cafeteria and Fry’s.
The San Jose Mercury News recently talked to Shawn Hartung and Chris Soden of …
Ford’s Microsoft-powered Sync system offers voice-activated control of music and navigation services, but the technology will be expanding to include health and wellness services in the not-too-distant future. On a rainy October day outside MIT’s Media Lab, I hopped in a cloud-connected Ford Explorer for a demonstration by Ford’s …
Slowly but surely, many of the best iOS apps are coming to Android, and their quality once they get there is improving.
Case in point: The excellent air travel search engine Hipmunk, which arrived in a version for Android phones recently. Its Android version is just as good as the iOS one—good looking, easy to use, and brilliantly …
Google launched its very own flight search and wants to completely dominate your life. Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, now this? I’m kidding. Well… sort of.
Google’s flight search is set up with some pretty basic parameters: You can input your origin, destination, price, duration and tweak a bunch of filters for other …
Researchers from MIT and Princeton have developed a smartphone application called “SignalGuru” that uses the camera from a dashboard-mounted smartphone to capture images of traffic lights. Once the images are captured, they’re analyzed to detect whether the lights are green, yellow or red and then that data is passed along to other …
“Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope. Oh, and please remove laptops from their protective sleeves and all metal objects from your pockets.”
The future? The future. An airport in France is using holographic staff members to welcome passengers and provide them with instructions as they proceed toward their respective …
If you’ve ever suspected that maybe, just perhaps, you’re not really doing social media right, here’s something that might reinforce that feeling for you: A man got a free steak dinner delivered to him as he disembarked a plane following a long flight, and all because of one cheeky tweet.
Social media consultant Peter Shankman—who …