Tag Archives: technology

Celebrating the restoration of the emergency center at my hospital — NYU Langone Medical Center

04/29/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Ken Langone, chairman of the Board of Trustees at the NYU Langone Medical Center, the New York City hospital center named after him, was being treated for pneumonia on the 11th floor of the facility when Superstorm Sandy flooded the…

A chip and a PIN: The future of credit cards

02/10/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
An EMV chip embedded in a credit card — a worldwide standard for point-of-sale transactions that the U.S. market is woefully behind on. (Mastercard) A series of hacks at two major retailers over the Christmas shopping season has so startled…

GlassesOff app claims to eliminate need for reading glasses

01/23/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
The GlassesOff app cdan train your brain to improve your vision. (GlassesOff) The GlassesOff app cdan train your brain to improve your vision. (GlassesOff) PreviousNext Like death and taxes, reading glasses can seem almost inevitable — perhaps until now. A…

Penn State students are building a moon lander for Google’s Lunar X Prize

01/20/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Gretchen Buttorf, an Aerospace Engineering junior at Penn St., tests a student-designed rocket engine test rig for the Lunar Lion moonlander. (Penn State) Forget ‘rithmetic. For these students, it’s reading, writing and robotic moon landing. In their free time, most…

The 2014 alternative CES awards

01/08/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
There’s gizmos and there’s gadgets — and then there’s this. Here’s a few of the strangest things we’ve seen or expect to deal with at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show — including some high lights, some low lights and a…

New smart bed, smart watch will study you while you snore

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Jan. 8, 2014: The remote control and iPad app for Sleep Number’s new “smart bed,” the x12, seen at the 2014 CES. (FoxNews.com / Jeremy A. Kaplan) Jan. 8, 2014: The Basis smartwatch, seen in action at the 2014 CES.…

How the tech industry is working to combat veteran unemployment

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Our nation’s veterans are struggling to find jobs – especially young veterans. As of November 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 9.9 percent of veterans of post-9/11 wars were out of work. That’s 241,000 men and women…

No science fiction: Company shows off real-world Star Trek ‘tricorder’

01/07/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
In Walter De Brouwer’s right hand, the tricorder used on the TV series “Star Trek.” In his left hand, a real-world version he has invented. (Jeremy Kaplan/FoxNews.com) “Bones” would have approved. On a mission to boldly go where no man…

Last light: Final phaseout of incandescent bulbs coming Jan. 1

12/13/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
It’s lights out for the light bulb. On Jan. 1 it will become illegal to manufacture or import traditional 60-watt and 40-watt incandescent bulbs, thanks to a 2007 bill that set strict minimum efficiency standards – and effectively outlawed the…

iPad band of autistic students post song on iTunes

10/25/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
They’ve got the beat. FoxNews.com broke the news in July of a school band from New York City made up of special needs students using iPads as instruments. After the shoot, we suggested putting their original song on iTunes for…