Sixty years ago I was rewarded big time for giving $1 to the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. I was sitting cross-legged in front of our black-and-white TV set when I heard Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin announce that Lois Schneider from Hollis, Queens donated a dollar to help discover a cure. I was so shocked and exhilarated by that announcement that the feeling has lasted with me for years.
National Geographic was awarded for its efforts in digital media by the 2013 National Magazine Awards.
Natural Geographic won the tablet category because it offers smooth navigation, immersive interactivity, and social media integration.
Nat Geo has has a global paid digital circulation of 330,000, more than any other magazine, according to the Association for Audited Media.
I am helping Zedge, the most popular worldwide apps for mobile ringtones, wallpaper, and games, raise money for good causes. I need you to help me so I can help them. Continue reading
Many of our readers wonder who are the young geniuses behind some of the biggest Internet sites and mobile applications that have been developed in the last few years. Continue reading
If you have a teenager in your life, you’ll want to be up on Snapchat, an extremely popular photo messaging app. But it’s not a copycat of Instagram or any other photo app. With Snapchat, the photos you share with your friends and family will disappear after a set time of your determination, but no longer than 10 seconds. After that the content is deleted from the recipient’s device and from the company’s servers. The whole idea is not to let others own or manipulate or share your material.
You could just flash your pretty punim for 2 seconds, and poof! It’s gone!
Good news for all you TV junkies. Netflix just announced its upcoming original series “Orange is the New Black,” which will start on Thursday, July 11, 2013. Continue reading
I must say that LeapFrog has a great reputation when it comes to educational devices targeted at your grandchildren. That, however, doesn’t stop me from wondering about which products are useful and which ones are superfluous. I’m interested in what you might have to think.
Brain computer interface is not a fantasy anymore. There are a number of inventions being developed that allow you to move things around simply by thinking about such actions. It really is quite amazing that in just a few years we might be able to turn lights and appliances on and off with our minds.
Here is the reality. Samsung is currently testing tablets that can be controlled by your brain. The current version uses a cap that is studded with monitoring electrodes.
NeuroSky has a Bluetooth-enabled headset that allows people to play concentration-based games on computers and smartphones. Your brain is the joystick.
Emotiv has a device that can be used to play games by thinking about an emotion a person is feeling.
I guess someday I will be able to write this post just by thinking about it.
To read more companies that are delving into this field, click here.
If you have lived in New York all your life, you always think about height. Sometimes when I visit friends in their West Side apartment on the 50th floor, I wonder how much above sea level we really are. When I ask, no one seems to know the answer. Recently, we had lunch in a restaurant on top of a ski mountain in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I wasn’t sure if we were 7,000 or 9,000 feet up. Everyone had a different calculation.
I don’t know why I am so curious but I am. I recently heard of an app called Height Finder. It quickly and accurately calculates the exact altitude of your current location. I love it. I am currently 137.39 feet above sea level in my apartment on 62nd Street and Second Avenue.
Height Finder uses GPS for accurate results. It also uses global databases when GPS is unavailable. The app displays altitude in feet and meters, which you can toggle between by tapping the on-screen reading, and can be used indoors and outdoors.
If you decide to download this app, let me know how accurate you feel it is.
Happy heights.
Richard Krain
Long time friend Richard Krain was good enough to comment on my Polaroid Happy 40th Anniversary post. He was being kind when he said he had a slight correction to my copy.
“Polaroid has been around a lot longer than 40 years. This anniversary commemorates Polaroid’s invention of color instant photography. Seeing a color photo in 60 seconds was an amazing achievement and the soft color tones of the Polaroid system was hailed by photographers all over the world.”
Thanks, Richard, for setting me straight. I do appreciate your attentiveness.
Richard and I met through work in the 70s. He was a big shot at Grey Advertising working on the Panasonic account. No, he doesn’t know Don Draper. He is nothing like him.
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