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While some hotel chains have embraced providing guests with cheap (or free) connectivity, others continue to charge exorbitant daily rates for it. The Marriott’s Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center was actively blocking all hotspots in the convention center to force guests to use its own expensive wi-fi network. While the Marriott Hotel didn’t jam signals, a violation of law, … Read More

First the company sends $5,000 worth of returns to an unsuspecting customer. Then it sends another customer a conveyor-belt roller as a gift. In the first, a 22-year-old Brit kept receiving parcels from Amazon, ones he was sure he hadn’t ordered. There was a Samsung 55-inch 3-D Series 6 TV. A Galaxy Tab Pro turned up too. And lo, the … Read More

Video games and interaction design have become such an important part of our lives, we need to consider it among both design and art. Every time we encounter a screen we are encountering interaction design. Interactive design determines the behavior that helps people interact with the machine. MOMA currently has an exhibition in which viewers can actually play old video … Read More

Pizza Hut locations in the United Kingdom are testing eye-tracking software on their tablet menus, which claim to accurately predict what the diner wants to order. Pizza is definitely not the first thing one thinks of when it comes to technology, but recently some new developments in the Pizza wars have shown that cutting edge technology is now being applied … Read More

The A4 bus service from Bristol to Bath in the United Kingdom might as well be called “the number two”. The U.K.’s first “bio-bus” is powered by biomethane gas, which is generated through the treatment of sewage. Each tank of gas takes the waste five people flush down the toilet annually. With a full tank, the bus can travel up … Read More

Thanks to a company called Hendo Hover, it looks like we might actually get the hoverboard of our dreams. Hendo teamed with Tony Hawk to demonstrate the current capabilities of the Hendo hoverboard. Considering the board can only hover an inch off the ground, the prototype still impressed the seasoned skateboarder. Hawk even performed his first 10-80 on the spinning … Read More

The company’s thumb-size wireless location- and movement-tracking sensor fits snugly in the butt of a Glock handgun. That sensor could shorten emergency response time, defuse deadly situations and create a log for crime analysis and evidence. Many guns come with a hollow space in the pistol grip. In handguns, it’s a narrow area that’s typically the length of the handle … Read More

Starting Wednesday, guests will be able to use their smartphones as room keys at ten Starwood hotels around the world. The technology will be available in all 150 Aloft, Element, and W Hotels by early next year. SPG Members must register their phone once through the SPG App and allow push notifications. After booking a reservation at a keyless hotel … Read More

But for every hundred startups that fail, there’s a fledgling company that’s creating an original and useful product or tackling a difficult real-world problem. Planet Labs: working towards the goal of taking a high-resolution picture of the entire planet, every single day? Planet Labs, a San Francisco-based startup that has already launched more than 70 satellites into space can monitor … Read More

But for every hundred startups that fail, there’s a fledgling company that’s creating an original and useful product or tackling a difficult real-world problem. The 2014 edition of the CNN 10: Startups. Airware: a drone company that doesn’t make drones. It designs hardware, software and cloud services for commercial UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). The company sees itself in a similar … Read More