The Droplet sprinkler takes accurate aim at individual plants and positions itself to be the Roomba of the watering world.

The Droplet is a robotic watering system that wants to make watering more efficient by aiming at specific plants, rather than indiscriminately watering everything in sight. It doesn’t move around like a Roomba, but sits in one spot and hooks up to your garden hose to aim a stream of water at each plant. It knows where to water, how … Read More

NBA wears Google Glass

The NBA’s Sacramento Kings are using technology from CrowdOptic that lets fans see what players, cheerleaders, and announcers are seeing through their Google Glass. In real time. Johnson, McCallum, and Thompson of the Sacramento Kings were wearing Google Glass as part of a new program the Kings have started that is designed to let fans see things like shootarounds, pre-game … Read More

World Wide Web 25th Anniversary

Poll finds most Americans are on the web and happy with it. The technology’s birthday is reckoned as March 12, 1989, the date that Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote a paper proposing a system for managing information on the internet that would become the framework for the Web. He released the code for the system for free on Christmas Day the … Read More

Apple's 'iOS in the Car' technology due in cars later this year.

Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo are aboard for the launch of the operating system, which lets drivers access various iPhone functions through a car’s built-in screen. The official announcement for CarPlay was made at the Geneva Motor Show. Apple talked up iOS in the Car at its Worldwide Developers Conference last year, with VP Eddy Cue — a Ferrari board member … Read More