All Your BTTF II Fantasies Of Riding A Hoverboard Have Come True…Sort Of

Lexus’ SLIDE was recently unveiled to much critical attention. It’s a hybrid car hoverboard (…yes a hoverboard) Lexus designed (perhaps uncoincidentally) just in time for Marty McFly’s 2015 Delorean trip to the future, as seen Back To The Future II. The actual date of Marty’s touchdown and run-in with Griff at the 80s cafe that spurred cinema’s first […]

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Future Doctors Will Have Been Taught Inside A VR Holographic Classroom

The days of Med students dissecting the deceased might be nearing an end, as virtual reality has almost achieved the capabilities of the Minority Report (slide fingers in the air to browse a 3D computer floating in front of you). Case Western Reserve University is partnering with Microsoft to bring the HoloLens to the classroom. Outside of […]

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Angry Birds 2 Launched …Let’s Start The Countdown To Angry Birds 3

The original mobile game Angry Birds came out in December 2009 for iOS. If you 3-star beat every level in the first week, you would only have have had to wait 294 more weeks before you would get to play part two! Angry Birds 2 was released today on Android and iOS, just 5 years and 7 […]

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Intel & Micron’s New Memory Chip is Hulked-Out

Are you concerned about your mobile device’s speed and memory? Sure we all are. Well, news broke today that Intel Corp. and Micron Technology, Inc. have had a major breakthrough in developing a “new breed” of memory process and technology that could bring dramatic performance gains to computers, smartphones, and other kinds of high-tech products. In […]

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Was Amazon Prime Day A Success?

Last week Amazon offered up a 24-hour marathon of sales they dubbed “Prime Day” which touted “More Deals Than Black Friday.” But unlike Black Friday, which was open to all Amazon.com shoppers, this day’s sales were exclusively open to customers subscribed to Amazon Prime. According to all accounts Amazon had record breaking sales which trumped this year’s Black Friday (Forbes) with […]

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New Address, New Website, New Blog

Earlier this month the Appelago office moved from 22 Cortlandt Street to 160 Broadway. We only moved a block, but now my desk looks out of two giant windows. We are still located in Manhattan’s Financial District, but now we are right in the center of the “Canyon of Heroes.” I didn’t realize this until the other day […]

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