The App That Gives You What You Need Before You Need It
With all the responsibilities piling up on your desk—all the hundreds of emails, tweets, texts and other electronic missives that are inundating you and all the appointments you’ve got to keep—I’ll bet you wish you had your own personal assistant, don’t you? Someone who could sort through all that vital and sometimes completely useless garbage […]
The Peril of Juvenoia (And What You Can Do About It)
My bloggy friends, today I’ve got a new word for you: juvenoia. OK, you won’t find the term in the dictionary. But it was coined not all that long ago by a sociology professor named David Finkelhor and essentially means: “An exaggerated fear of the detrimental impact of social change on our kids.” When he […]
Hey, Wimp, Go Big or Go Home
The word is out, Plugged In readers. You are what handheld device you use. Seriously. There were some researchers at Harvard’s Business School who recently started wondering whether or not the type of screened device people regularly utilized—you know, a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop, etc.—might have some direct connection to that person’s assertiveness. And […]
The Mess That Wouldn’t Stick
Hey gang. You know I like to bring you notice of new, and sometimes quirky, products from time to time. And sometimes, even if they don’t have a direct Plugged In media-consumption angle, I can’t help waving them in your face. Well, I’ve got a doozy for you today. It’s called “NeverWet.” After we spotted […]
Just One More Selfie For the Record
With the digital age upon us, it appears that everything is in flux. Even the venerable old photograph—an art form that was birthed way back in the 1830s and has remained pretty constant ever since—is changing in some pretty dramatic ways nowadays. Cameras. Film. Photo albums. Gathering friends and family for some commemorative shots. Those […]
Unreal Reality Television (Courtesy PBS)
If you happen to think that reality TV has pushed things to ridiculous extremes, you’re not alone. I’m certainly with you. And, guess what? So is PBS. Like us, a New York Public Broadcasting Service affiliate was obviously tired of all the crazy drunken-teen- swamp-faring-croc-hunting-mom shows that seem to populate nearly every network’s lineup. And […]
The All-in-One Matrix
The Xbox One is a-comin’. This latest-gen gaming console is scheduled to officially hit the store shelves sometime this fall. And now that the media dust has settled, some of you have probably heard at least something about it. If you’re a gamer, hey, you’ve probably been searching out little clues and hints about the […]
Did You Hear About the ‘Scandal’ in Church?
When you go to your Sunday service and plop down in the pew, do you think about Scandal? No, not the choir director’s new chest hair-exposing shirt. I’m talking about the TV show. If the ABC drama Scandal is being discussed in your church sanctuary, then you may be in one of the congregations that […]
Who Do You Trust?
Maybe you’ve heard by now that the Reader’s Digest has put out its list of the 100 most trusted people in America. Yes, there still is such a thing as a Reader’s Digest. Trust me. Anyhoo, what you may not have done is actually looked closely at that list. I think there is an interesting […]
A Movie Made From Matter’s Most Miniscule
If you’re like everybody else in the world, you’ve probably seen all types of movies—from good movies to not-so-good movies to bad movies to Adam Sandler movies. But chances are you haven’t seen an atom movie. Check it out. [View:http://youtu.be/oSCX78-8-q0] OK, it looks like some kind of throwback thing from the early days of Pong […]