technology

When I think about the technological and aesthetic changes and developments I'd like to see in the "airplane cabin of the future," I can really only think of one thing that would make flying more pleasant for me: more leg room. That's it...

Do you know the guy in the photo above? Maybe, but I'm guessing you probably don't. I'm not being smug here, I had no idea whatsoever who this dude was until I learned a bit about him this morning. His name is Demy de Zeeuw, and he's a Dutch soccer star (or, footballer) with an Instagram account that has over 8 million followers...

In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I do not use my snooze button. It's mighty tempting, especially when your alarm goes off in the 3am hour, but having been burned once by using it, I gave it up. The last time I hit snooze, I actually hit "off" instead, and ended up being about 2 hours late (it would've been more, but our producer kept calling until I came around).

I've always wanted to go to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and geek out on all the cutting edge technology on display. CES 2016 just wrapped up last week, so I've missed this year's show, but there's always next year... For those unfamiliar with CES, The Consumer Electronics Show is the world’s largest gathering of the leaders of consumer electronics...

It would seem that lately, every time you turn around, someone, somewhere is flying around in a jetpack-type thing. Just last week, I shared with you the footage of Swiss fighter pilot and adventurer Yves Rossy using his own carbon-fiber composite jet wing to fly with an Emirates A380 over Dubai...

I've never been there, but it sure seems like there's always something interesting/technologically advanced/cool happening in Dubai. Whether it's building the world's tallest building, creating a man-made island that looks like a palm leaf, or letting Vin Diesel wreck half the city by driving cars out of skyscrapers (wait, that was a movie), Dubai has a lot going on...

(To be read in a grumpy old man voice): Back in the day, when we took a "picture", we never really knew what we were gonna get. After you turned the little wheel on the camera to advance the "film" 15-30 times, you opened the back, took out the "little roll," and dropped it off at the "drugstore" to be "developed...

Okay, so it's Back to the Future Day. As you know (maybe), it's the day specified in the movie where Marty and Doc Brown go back to the....blah, blah, blah. Nothing wrong with the movie(s). I enjoyed them, my kids have enjoyed them, but enough about hoverboards and such...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network Illinois' savings could be $425 million over five years if it maximized its use of computers, according to a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. The group's president, Rob Atkinson, praises Illinois' taxpayer information portal as a good start, but more can be done...

Okay, Boeing didn't really build this airplane in four minutes. They did it in their normal assembly time, but the video is a time-lapse that boils it all down into about 4 minutes of amazing assembly and coordination. The airplane you see here is a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner being built for British Airways, the first 787-9 for the British Airways fleet: Some fun facts about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner