Technology

There is a new app available that lets you shop for groceries according to you political views.  The BuyPartisan  app allows shoppers to scan the bar code of a product to see if they are Democrat or Republican.  It lets you know which way the CEO and employees of the company lean politically.

Recently, Facebook has required users to download Facebook Messenger if you use the FB app on your Droid or IPhone.  If you don’t download Messenger, you are no longer able to private message (PM) someone on FB from your phone or tablet.

In China a restaurant has opened that is run by robots. There are 12 robots on the staff that cook and deliver food to the tables. They even have two robot hostesses’ that greet customers when they arrive. Each robot cost $6, 500 or the same as a year’s wage.

Timex has added a new watch to their Ironman line of GPS watches, it is a 3-G connected smartwatch. It’s called the Ironman One GPS + and is made mostly for athletes because you can run fitness data to a website so you can monitor your run in real time.

NASA has revealed that astronauts in space suffer from sleep deprivation. According to a 10 year study it shows astronauts get an average of only six hours of sleep a night. NASA orders crew members to get at least 8.5 hour of sleep but that’s not happening.

The worry about the future is robots taking all our jobs. Most people now believe they will create more jobs. There are many robots doing the jobs humans used to do, assembly lines at auto manufactures, warehouses and even hospitals. These are line work jobs and usually boring and require heavy lifting, robots are replacing people in jobs humans really don’t want to do.

Can you believe the Mars rover ‘Opportunity’ has been on Mars since 2004? Seems like only yesterday! The rover has set a new record on the red planet; it has become the furthest traveled wheeled vehicle on another planet.

MIT graduate, Patrick McCabe, has programmed a robot that can play a game with you. The game is Connect Four and you can choose from four levels of difficulty. The game can even give you a hint if you need one. There are details on how the machine works at his website patrickmccabemakes...

In this day and age of technology, your smart phone probably has more capabilities than the first space ship to go to the moon, but on July 20th 1969, an American made the first footprints on the moon’s surface. This Sunday, July 20th marks the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon.

Keith Urban premiered a hologram show in Sydney, Australia. Fans had to take a double take to make sure it was Keith himself. Fans even got the opportunity to sing along side Keith’s hologram. Here it is:

Townsquare's radioPup music-streaming app now has a great new partner: Sonos wireless systems. Here's an easy guide for how to find radioPup and add it to your Sonos home system:

The government in Chile has been studying photos of UFO’s that were taken by miners at a remote cooper mine. The government says they believe they are genuine UFO’s. The study was done by the Chilean equivalent to the FAA.

When you think of quiet rides, a motorcycle isn't the first thing that comes to mind. Enter the electric Harley Davidson, which will be introduced in New York this week!

There’s a new app for your phone and the only thing it can say is ‘Yo’. Sounds silly but it has raised a million dollars from investors and has attracted 50,000 users. Yep, the only thing it says is ‘Yo’.

Scientists in Australia have made what they refer to as a ‘super banana’. It is a genetically engineered banana that is super-enriched with alpha and beta carotene and they hope to improve the lives of millions of people.

We hear it all the time; families don’t sit down together for dinner anymore. Statistics show more and more families are eating on the go and when at home just grab a bite whenever they can. There is a new app that may help families gather around the table together more often.