How Voyeurgasm Is Handcuffing America’s Police State

Jun 19, 2020 | Trends

This post is based on an excerpt from Michael Tchong’s book, Ubertrends. The slow and agonizing eight-minute-and-46-second murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer captured by a bystander’s video on May 25, 2020 is the latest manifestation on an...

Face ID and Animoji

Sep 19, 2017 | Innovation

Now that we know more about Apple’s new iPhone X, let’s delve into two truly outstanding iPhone X innovations, its Face ID face recognition system and animated emoji, dubbed “Animoji” The iPhone X discards an already innovative fingerprint ID system...

Pioneer Rayz: When Opportunity Knocks

Feb 16, 2017 | Innovation

Apple’s decision to remove the audio port from the iPhone 7 resulted in a public outcry of world-ending proportions. To some Apple aficionados, it was Armageddon meets invasion of the headphone port snatchers. But as any creative individual will tell you, problems...

Unwired

Apr 13, 2015 | Ubertrends

When the Zenith Space Command remote control went into production in 1956, few could have predicted that this ultrasonic gadget would be the catalyst for a whole new era of wireless devices, and the birth of the couch potato generation. Zenith’s ultrasonic technology...

Smiley Talk

Jan 4, 2010 | Trends

Conversing via electronic means has exploded in the past decades. In 2008, 11 billion text messages were sent each day worldwide. That figure is dwarfed by the estimated 269 billion e-mails sent daily in 2017 (PDF). The sheer volume of these one-dimensional messages...