You would think that years of science fiction would have stopped this. Sure we’ve embraced Big Data in a big…
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The concept of using stone as a source material for paper is not new. Back in 1998, Taiwan Lung Men…
With sci-fi staples like reanimation, hoverboards, and 3D ovaries already reality, space may truly be the final frontier. Near-Earth asteroid…
Nearly 40 percent of respondents in Virgin Pulse’s 2015 survey of more than 1,000 full-time employees in the U.S. and…
This is how I imagine writer’s block. Like Jack Nicholson’s character in “The Shining,” locked inside an old hotel typing…
Back in 1597, a fellow named Sir Francis Bacon saddled us with a sentiment that has more than held up…
Through our ubiquitous underground network of ethically vacant culture correspondents in Silicon Valley, we have obtained the leaked document below;…
Have you made a promise to yourself to double-down on the business growth of your startup? Are you willing to…
Around this time last year, we were telling you about the Rocketbook Wave, a smart notebook that allowed you to…
A growing number of people are escaping the traditional office and choosing to work as digital nomads. They use technology…
When it comes to a successful marriage, most of us have heard the saying, “Happy wife, happy life.” Well, when…
If you’re in the business world and you’ve encountered at least a few conversations about B2B software, there’s a good…
Time tracking can be a pretty annoying thing to do, whether you’re doing it for personal productivity or professional necessity. It’s…
If you look at Joseph Walla’s history, you’ll notice a trend of trying to solve big problems. His early experience…
“I find it funny when my corporate friends who are sitting in their beautiful high rise office buildings in midtown…
Good time management can help you successfully reach almost any goal. Learning to manage your time well is not a…
It’s no secret that cell phones are used for way more than just talking, texting and browsing the Internet. Many…
Waking up, accepting that the day has begun and then quickly getting organized to attack it isn’t always easy. The…
Whether it’s for work productivity of spontaneous entertainment, there are plenty of scenarios in which a second (or third) larger…
Focusing can be surprisingly uncomfortable. If you’ve got an overactive imagination (read: crippling ADD), it can be damn near unbearable,…
We all have a bucket list of the things we want to do and see before we kick the bucket…
Since the launch of Twitch in 2011, and the massive popularity of eSports (competitive, cash-generating gaming for the layman) through…
You focus on the call. A new personal assistant system with artificial intelligence, Clarke.ai, will focus on taking the call notes. It turns out there actually is an AI in “team.”
The online job listing website Snagajob released its mobile app this past June, allowing job seekers to view an interactive…
Bagel is a reinvented, smart tape measure, complete with a companion smartphone app, that enables you to make pinpoint measurements, save…
I feel like 90% of my day consists of reminding my kids to clean up, get their pajamas on, brush their…
Buying habits of consumers are affected by a wide variety of factors, the obvious being price, availability, and quality. Today,…
These three exciting startups are making the online bill payment process a little less horrible. From one consolidated bill to a tool to track your monthly subscription costs, each one offers something unique to take a little of the sting out of the task.
Casabots develops salad-making robots for restaurants, grocery stores, cafeterias and hotels. They’re great for efficiency and should make food production safer, reducing the risks of food borne illness by reducing human handling of food.
Technology has come a long way since the days when you had to make plans on a landline hours in…
I’m not sure exactly why I hate scheduling meetings as much as I do, but they are, and have always…
If you didn’t know any better, you could easily mistake the RocketBook Wave for a regular-old notebook. For one, it…
After weeks (if not months) of toiling, your master startup plan is ready. You just need to execute it. Where…
We entrepreneurs can be tough to buy gifts for. Because we work so much, we don’t have a lot of time for…
Until technology can begin to work on making humans smarter — leading to the arrival of the first transhumans around…
A famous problem in theoretical computer science is the Traveling Salesman problem. In it, a salesman is given a list…
In the pecking order of “sexy” startup verticals, word processing ranks dangerously close to the bottom, somewhere between accounting software…
It’s not that I haven’t acknowledged our global affinity for the petty, superficial and distracting. I know what people watch…
Coordinating schedules for groups has always been challenging. With so many meetings to attend, the calendar can fill up rather…
You’ve probably seen them before, wandering aimlessly through the aisles of the market trying to remember what they were there…
Despite how it might seem, laziness and productivity are not opposites. The truth is, lazy people can be very productivity,…
One of the biggest drawbacks of business travelers is that your focus lies in zipping through airports, meeting clients and…
Do you consider yourself a productive person? Before we can discuss the qualities of highly productive people, we need to…
It has been another busy week for startups on the move. From Blue Talon’s $5 million raise to Urban Airship’s…
Project management is about delivering an outcome or solution in a planned way. Although there are various frameworks and methods…
Money is not the most important factor when it comes to motivating employees. When asked if money was important to…
It is never too late to start and impress the boss. Here are some of the qualities that most employers…
The new year is the perfect time to make a resolution to improve your life. With the change in the…
Do you know that although implementing team building activities for younger employees effectively curbs turnover, it also impedes their work…
Regardless of where they work or what they do for a living, virtually everyone is looking to boost their productivity…
Do you dream of launching your own startup company? Is the yearning to follow your entrepreneurial dream becoming too strong…