technology

The new Trio App: mash it up!

The new Trio App: mash it up!

When I first started Instagramming I swore by the photography gods that I would never, ever post a video to the strictly photo platform site; but everyone knows promises are meant to be broken and change is inevitable, which is why I have since fell in…

Volvo <i>LifePaint</i>: a new spray paint technology to make bikers visible at night

Volvo LifePaint: a new spray paint technology to make bikers visible at night

“The best way to survive a crash is not to crash”  Like any big city, biking is huge in New York. I am constantly crossing paths with bikers at all times whether driving or walking down the street, and I am happy to hear of…

On accidentally creep-liking your crush’s Instagram pics: it’s OK, we’ve all been there

On accidentally creep-liking your crush’s Instagram pics: it’s OK, we’ve all been there

“You know that moment when you’re on your phone and your thumb just sort of loses control?” Accidentally creep-liking your current love interest’s Instagram is nothing uncommon. You would be surprised the women I run into who have been secretly looking at their crush’s pics…

Tinder just went all OKCupid on us with <i>Tinder Plus</i>

Tinder just went all OKCupid on us with Tinder Plus

“It’s like we’re predetermining our entire love lives based on the luck of the swipe” Tinder is a drug. A few months ago I went on a rant about how the inevitable addiction takes over your entire life. FAST. Before you know it, you will…

On one of the more unsolvable phenomenons: dick pics

On one of the more unsolvable phenomenons: dick pics

“I think it’s time we all stopped hiding from this, and started talking more about dick pics” It all started about six or seven years ago. I was in Columbus, Ohio, and a friend hooked me up with a visiting tattoo artist who TOTALLY wanted to, you…

Is there hope for true love in the Internet age?

Is there hope for true love in the Internet age?

Valentine’s Day is upon us again, and once again the cynic within is poised to find evidence that love is doomed in America. And if not doomed, then at least destined to be a more pathetic, superficial version of what poets have been clamoring onto…

The thing about Instagram’s new DM feature

The thing about Instagram’s new DM feature

I guess you could call me an “old school” Instagrammer because I could give a sh*t about videos or ads or their recent partnering with Facebook; I just want Instagram for what it is: an app to share beautiful and funny photos (enhanced with the…

There’s another planet system like ours out there somewhere

There’s another planet system like ours out there somewhere

“We don’t know yet why this system formed this way, but we have the feeling that this is a key system in understanding planetary formation in general and the formation of the solar system in particular” – Dr. Juan Cabrera, the Institute of Planetary Research…

It’s fo sho: you need UPLO

It’s fo sho: you need UPLO

I came across UPLO via e-mail one day saying that its recent pairing with sharing on Pinterest has struck quite the chain reaction from photo nerds worldwide. And trust me when I say it’s hard to help yourself from not wanting to share EVERY single…

<i>Gravity</i> is stunning, Emmanuel Lubezki’s cinematography makes you feel afloat in outer space

Gravity is stunning, Emmanuel Lubezki’s cinematography makes you feel afloat in outer space

 “It’s lonely out in space” Forget for one second all the technicalities and technologies of modern astrophysical science; forget verisimilitudes—in fact don’t take into account anything before you go see one of this year’s most talked about films Gravity (sorry, Neil deGrasse Tyson), because that’s not…