Properly equipping your kitchen can be first step toward improving your diet, and tech can help you do it. Whip up healthy, delicious meals with these nifty tools and small appliances. Breville Avance Steamer Breville’s steamer can simultaneously steam three dishes on three tiers, and comes to temperature in just 30 seconds. Unlike boiling, which […]
Category: Tech Made Simple
10 Smart Kitchen Gadgets Every Tech Nerd Needs
Here’s a handful of high-tech smart kitchen gadgets to make cooking even more satisfying. Find the perfect gift for your favorite tech geek—even if that’s you! Drop. A Wi-Fi-equipped food scale, Drop works with a recipe app to make baking simpler. If you’re short on an ingredient, it can adjust measurements, offer substitutions and […]
Take Your Tech on Your Next Camping Trip
Going for a Campout but want your tech to tag along? Take along the BioLite CampStove, that claims to “turn fire into electricity.” Leave gas canisters behind, load this little award-winning camping stove with twigs, and it will not only burn clean with patented combustion technology that creates a vortex of smokeless flames for a […]
Robot ‘Duck’ Aims to be a Weed Zoomba for Rice Fields
For centuries, rice farmers in Asia have used ducks as a natural alternative to pesticides. While paddling around in flooded rice paddy fields, ducks tear up weeds and snack on insects, with their manure even acting as additional fertilizer. In the 21st century, this practice is not widespread, but a new technological twist on the […]
Google Cedes Tablet Battle to Apple
Google will not be launching a sequel to last year’s Pixel Slate tablet, according to Business Insider and Computer World, and will instead focus its Chrome OS hardware efforts on traditional laptop devices like the Pixelbook. “For Google’s first-party hardware efforts, we’ll be focusing on Chrome OS laptops and will continue to support Pixel Slate,” […]
Thanks to Tech, Chick-Fil-A Rises in the Ranks
Fast food companies are constantly competing to poach potential customers from their competitors, whether it’s with an exceedingly witty social media presence or by cashing in on of-the-moment trends. However, sometimes all it takes to gain new customers is dedication to what you’re good at and faster, more convenient service. That’s evidently been working for […]
Heads Up Harry Potter Fans! Wizards Unite is Now On iOS and Android
Pokémon Go creator Niantic Labs’ newest augmented reality game based on the Harry Potter universe is available now for both iOS and Android in the US, a day earlier than we anticipated it would launch in the region. The game, called Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, is similar in style to Pokémon Go, asking players to […]
This Year, Your iPad Gets Its Own iOS
Apple now recognizes the iPad as its own platform by spinning off iOS into its own iPad-specific system. This new platform makes iPad use much more user friendly and gives it access to a lot more bells and whistles. For example, app switching on Slide Over mode can be accessed by just dragging up and […]
Siri’s Getting a New Voice and Some Other Updates
Siri has a slightly new voice. The voice assistant is now generated entirely by a neural text-to-speech technology rather than a human-based recording. There’s extended support for Siri on other Apple devices like the AirPod. On the Bluetooth earbuds, Siri can read your incoming messages and let you respond immediately. It’s still unclear whether you […]
Apple is Beefing Up Security and Asking Permission
Apple just announced they are beefing up security from third-party offenders: you can now elect to have apps ask you every time whether you want to allow your location information — all other times, iOS will cut off access to that data until an app needs it to function. Apple’s also building its own single […]