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Embrace All the Gadgets: Big To Little, Human-Centric To Automated

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It’s a gadget-eat-gadget world out there, and really, we’ve got no choice but to embrace the madness. We can look at them and all of their technological glory – the big ones, the little ones, the human-centric ones, and the ones that aren’t interested in humans at all. And if we continue to expand our horizons and adjust our perspectives, all those gadgets can work for us.

We’ve got gadgets that use smaller and more powerful processing. We have gadgets that come at the behest of industrial design. There are the wearables that are taking humanity to the next level of analysis and comprehension. And then there are the gadgets that aid in automation and control. [Read more…]

4 Ways Your Smartphone Can Improve Your Health

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Once upon a time, a phone was just for making calls and sending text messages. Maybe even send a few emails. However, since the development of mobile technology, there are all sorts of things that your phone can do for you.

When it comes to being the healthiest version of yourself it can be a challenge. With all kinds of temptations around us on a daily basis, we need all of the help that we can get. This is where your smartphone comes into play. [Read more…]

Ways Technology Is Helping Take Care of Aging Parents

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We all have parents and if we are blessed enough, they will live a long and productive life. Playing with grandchildren, answering our late night calls about how to discipline our children, and the ongoing stress they have watching us stumble through the obstacles of life takes its toll on them. This doesn’t even include the normal day to day tasks our aging parents tackle on their own. It is a natural part of life for us to eventually take care of our parents as they took care of us. Below are a few ways that technology is now able to help us do a better job. [Read more…]

Finding Ways For New Tech To Help Your Make Cash For Your Business

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New technology is kind of cool in its own right, but you can also leverage it to help you make money. So it’s not just good for hobbies or entertainment, it’s also good for the cash flow in the business you already have, or perhaps the one that you want to create!

Five things to consider when it comes to the relationship between new technology and money include things like the ability of franchises to prosper, how the mobile revolution factors in, the positive aspects of smaller, faster, and smarter, using new tech to enhance older sales methods, and following technology news as it’s presented in mainstream consciousness. [Read more…]

Anyone Can Be An Artist: Great Creativity Apps

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Adults often forget the great lesson of elementary school art class, that – as the famous artists that work with Turnaround Arts and Park West Gallery always teach – anyone can be an artist. Instead, work and daily responsibilities tend to dull the creative tendencies, resulting in an attitude that art is best left to kids and “real artists.”

Luckily, the increasing popularity of adult coloring books is bringing a little creative energy to those who thought their days of arts and crafts were behind them, and apps are even letting us take those projects on the go. Here are 5 of our favorites, for both the serious artist and the margin doodlers among us. [Read more…]

5 Places To Search For Inspiration For Your Next Mobile Game Creation

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If you’re into mobile gadgets, and potentially games as well, then at some point you may have considered what it would take to create your own games. Does it require programming skill, or connections within the industry? Can you submit game ideas to companies or do people usually go it on their own?

But before you make it too far into those types of logistical questions, you need to search for the inspiration for the games themselves. You can’t create something without a core idea, so where might that idea come from? A few possibilities include collected game sites, best-selling books, revisions of classic games, putting gameplay into the idea of character development, or even just approaching gameplay from the idea of psychological simplicity. [Read more…]

Gadgets You Can’t Go On Vacation Without

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Once you get to where you’re going, the fun can start. However, getting there can often be grueling, boring, uncomfortable, and long. Imagine the days of the Oregon Trail, or even beyond then in other countries. Journeys that would take a mere couple of hours today with modern technology took months and months. Imagine how bored and uncomfortable people must have been being squeezed into a covered wagon with all of their belongings and whatever livestock they had.

Granted, people might have had longer attention spans and a greater tolerance for hell as people today, but the thought of what they had to go through in addition to the traveling conditions that people all over the world in third world countries have to deal with on a day to day basis is enough to hopefully make you thankful that you have some cool gadgets to play with, a comfy Lincoln MKZ hybrid to sit in, and a view as you take off from coach class on the plane that is taking you across the world in a matter of hours. [Read more…]

Using Your Mobile Device To Help Eliminate Your Addictions

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At some point in many people’s lives, there will be some aspect of addiction to deal with. It could be on a personal level, it might be with a family member, or it could even be work related. But, one positive aspect of the mobile, technological, and gadget-driven revolutions that are present is the fact that common devices can now be used for purposes of addiction recovery, simply due to information flow and application availability.

Consider the following five ways that you can use mobile devices to help eliminate addiction issues, including finding resources that list signs and symptoms, getting apps that help you with bad habits, keeping people connected with support groups, accessible inspiration, and even something like shock treatment for another route of support. [Read more…]

Making Communication Tech Work For You: Professionally And Personally

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Ah, communication technology – it’s the most amazing thing in the world, keeping everyone connected and webbed together in the tightest of nets. When it works. But that’s one of the things about the advancement of gadgets and gizmos when it comes to communication specifically – it takes some time to adapt to, and there’s always going to be a learning curve involved. And that goes for both professional and personal use.

Think about a few generations of your family, for instance. Grandparents may be completely comfortable with landlines, a bit more hesitant about cell phones, unsure of smartphones, and completely uncomfortable with video chats. But now teenagers don’t even know how to plug landline phones into the wall, and don’t know anyone’s phone numbers anyway. [Read more…]

5 Security Imperatives for Your Mobile Gadgets

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Mobility, in terms of smartphones permanently connected to all of your web-based needs, is definitely a convenience. But with that convenience also comes additional security risks. They aren’t necessarily worse than your desktop of laptop potential issues, but because of greater mobility, there are certain additional factors to consider.

So, five security imperatives when it comes to your gadgets on the go are going to include securing your email, using password protection, setting up your lock screens, installing GPS locators (in case of theft or just forgetfulness), and using private data apps for things like photos and sensitive business data. [Read more…]