Category: Education

10 hours of Elon Musk videos

10 Hours Of Elon: Binge-Watch Elon Musk’s Vision Of The Future

Visionary. Entrepreneur. Sci-Fi Nerd. Elon Musk is just one of those people who you can watch for hours. Instead of rewatching Orange Is The New Black, or Arrested Development, why don’t you revel in the future, and binge-watch Elon Musk. We’ve gathered over 10 hours of Elony goodness, talking Tesla, Spacex, Solar City, and the Hyperloop. Watch him interact with journalists, and venture capitalists,...

the ipotty - a potty training toilet with a built-in ipad stand

This Potty-trainer toilet Has A Built-in iPad

I’m a believer in the smart home. The web can definitely make household items much better. But is this potty trainer a bit overkill? Is this the message we should be sending our kids, and is it safe? CTA’s digital 2-in-1 iPotty encourages the habit that we all  do discreetly…taking our phones/tablets into the bathroom. It’s supposed to allow potty-training children to do some...

Leo Grand homeless hacker coder inspiring story with his chromebook by samsung

Meet Leo The Homeless Hacker, And Learn How His Life Changed

A few months ago, Patrick McConlogue, a New York software engineer, came across a homeless man exercising using boat chains and rocks as makeshift machinery. In the sorrowful tale of Leo Grand, homeless since he lost his job in 2011, McConlogue saw promise, and he acted upon it in a way that not many people would. Patrick proposed an experiment online, hypothesizing that a homeless...

Fast Fig: Startup of the Month

This month’s featured startup has an idea that I’m surprised we haven’t seen executed until now. The company is fast fig, and the product is a cloud-based math word processor. They’ve basically applied the Google docs model to math, making typing equations as simple as writing a sentence, and making math available anywhere. Problems and equations automatically format, and literally solve themselves as you type,...

Happy International Pi Day

Happy National Pie Day! Today (at least in the world of mm-dd-yy dates) is 3/14/13, a time when we celebrate pi, everyones favorite number. Enjoy this video on the history of pi, and those of you who are nerdy enough can point out that this post was published at 3/14 at 1:59:26, getting as close to Pi as possible. That’s actually called International Pi...