Faster! Faster! In a world that seems to be at our backs, lashing us forward at an ever-faster pace, don’t you sometimes just want to say STOP!
Is 80 the new 70? Seventy the new 60? One of the stars of “Sunset Daze,” Gail Leibowitz, believes it, and proves it, in a new cable reality show described as Viagra fueled and a geriatric version of “Jersey Shore.”
We’ve all seen it. A company spokesperson, or even the CEO, shows up on TV and tells you what a wonderfully socially responsible company XWZ is. Well now, instead of just helplessly sitting on your couch, Project Label is giving you a chance to throw in your opinion about a company to help create what is called a “social nutrition” label.
What if you could take a pill before your next big meeting and remember everything during the last two months that would help you be the star of that meeting? Or what if you could give your son or daughter a pill that would make taking their next test a snap?
The location-based social networking trend may turn into a craze if this keeps up. Starbucks recently ran the first-ever nationwide “mayor special” through a foursquare loyalty program. Foursquare, if you don’t know, is a location-based startup that gives you the opportunity to “check in” at venues using your mobile device and keeps track of where you’ve visited.
In previous generations, people went to church to keep in touch with their friends, socialize, and yes, practice their faith. Now? For millenials, the generation between 18 and 30, many are now going to the Internet to find God, get religious, or move past religion to something more meaningful.
When you walk up to a pop machine your options have always been limited by the number of different bottles or cans it could hold. That restriction is now history. The new Coca-Cola Freestyle™ machine offers more than 100 different drink choices with flavors as individualized as your own personal taste. What sounds good to you? A Raspberry Coke? A Peach Fanta? No problem.
If Tiger Woods had this app, he might not be in the trouble he’s in. It’s an app that sets a time limit for holding text messages and then wipes them clean from the original phone, the receiving phone, and the server.
Recently it was discovered that “fat” is a distinct flavor from other flavors, such as sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami—which is a taste for protein-rich foods. This finding may not seem earth shattering to you, but it certainly was to the Australian scientists who proved it. It means that humans have a sixth taste, and the ramifications of that truth are just starting to unfold.
What makes someone jump in front of a speeding train? Instead of trying to answer that complex question, one railway company has decided to take more preventive action against the dramatically rising risk both to people and property in Japan.