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Gaming Addiction: Signs, Symptoms, And Treatments

January 13, 2017 By Aaron

While it is typically far clearer when someone has a substance abuse issue, gaming addiction is not always so clear. However, it should be noted, that a gaming addiction can ruin a life just as quickly as a drug addiction. The game becomes the drug of choice for users.

Young addicts are stripped of their social abilities, and older users usually suffer from a deterioration of surrounding relationships and employment issues. Here are a few signs and symptoms of a gaming addiction, along with a few helpful hints as to how to handle an already developed addiction. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gadgets, Home Entertainment Tagged With: addiction of gaming, addiction to gaming, finding proper treatment, signs and symptoms of gaming addiction

4 Ways Technology Can Help Your Business Save Money

March 26, 2015 By dave

By now, you know that technology is an integral part of marketing a small business. You know it’s essential to have a website, an up-to-date Google listing, top reviews on Yelp; you see how technology has broadened your business’s exposure, but have you figured out how it can also cut your costs and increase your profits? Here are some examples.

Technology in business

1. Energy technology lowers bills

Energy efficiency gets results. Bulbs certified by Energy Star (which enforces the strict guidelines set forth by the EPA) use 70-90% less energy than traditional light bulbs. Those energy reductions translate, quite simply, in to cash.

If your business switched to exclusive use of energy efficient bulbs, the savings would be impressive, so imagine if you utilized other “efficient” methods like toilets that reduce water waste and solar panels instead of electric heat.

2. Social media as free advertising

The key here is simply a willingness to change. The cost saving methods of advertising available via social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and Pinterest are only cost saving if you’re willing to put aside your old ideas about what constitutes effective advertising.

Gone are the days of the campy local television commercial, the radio commercial, the newspaper ad. We live in a world of blogs, podcasts, and DIY-everything. So, if you really want your company’s word to meet ears: you have to create worthy content.

3. Tablets for all industries

Early on, it was exciting to see how tablets might change the way doctors interact with patients, granting them effortless access to medical records, treatment ideas, and even making perscription sharing and updating more efficient.

Now, it’s become apparent that if you’re a small business, and you aren’t maximizing the power of the tablet, you’re missing a big boat. No other device saves time (which is equivalent to saving money), almost eliminates paper waste (also money), and streamlines communication the way a tablet can.

4. Credit card processing

Speaking of tablets, the old way of taking payment using a credit card machine and a phone line, is not only costly and unreliable, it’s cumbersome. Thanks to mobile payment technology like Square, companies can easily accept payment on the go (no more costly and risky invoicing), and can save money by cutting back on processing fees.

5. Ordering online

Once, your company thought that a Costco membership and a big utility closet were the most effective way to minimize operational costs. But internet retailers have turned the tides, making it possible to purchase office essentials online at a fraction of the cost, using a fraction of the space.

Web vendors often offer membership services which promise real benefits: exclusive discounts, better prices, and special shipping, unlike the less obvious perks offered by a company like Sam’s Club where the costs are not dramatically reduced for buying in unnecessary bulk.

Filed Under: Gadgets, Laptops, Portable Media Tagged With: credit card processing, energy technology, how technology can help business save money, ordering online, social media

3 Top Geekiest Kickstarter Projects Ever

September 11, 2014 By Teresa Martinez

Kickstarter has jump-started some of the more interesting innovations introduced to humankind. Some have generated more interest than others prompting a number of people to buy kickstarter projects by virtue of curiosity. What could be more attention-grabbing than the 3 top geekiest kickstarter projects ever.

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Useless Can

Imagine exploring the possibilities of science and robotics only to produce a useless can. The interesting part here is that several people are already backing up this project to produce a can that can only turn itself off and nothing else. What is even more interesting here is the amount of work that needs to go into producing this can which does absolutely nothing. You would need to assemble 45 pieces of parts to form one useless can.  So if you want to indulge into sheer uselessness, this can is one perfect prop to have.

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Socket Circuits

What could be more wonderfully geeky than a papercraft animated robot with a LED-lit barrier grid animation called BarriBot? It is actually the beginning of a continuous development of a papercraft programmable and swarm capable robot. Socket Circuits provide learning and inventing, in that particular order. Simply put, its electronics and toys on paper.

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Know Your Numbers

A game to help you memorize your most important contact numbers, one cannot help but think how gaming can be allowed to be as geeky as needing to memorize numbers. Know Your Numbers is an app for use in smartphones. Hopefully this does the trick when it does leave the drawing board.

Funding Chances for Geeky Projects

So how do geeky projects like the three mentioned above actually fare when it comes to attracting funding support? They actually fare a lot better than most . Either people are just so tired  of old products just getting modified over and over that they would actually rather see innovative albeit geeky products have their chance or they want to see something new, period.

Product creators will never really know if their idea could reach out the public unless they present them. Geeky or not, worthy products need to get the attention and patronage of buyers. Putting them in Kickstarter just gives an incredible head-start.

 

Filed Under: Gadgets Tagged With: funding geeky projects, kickstarter geeky projects

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