By Adriana Lee |
Pizza and gaming are like a dynamic duo. They’re two great things that just work great together, no? And now, thanks to the Pizza Hut ordering app for the Xbox, that pairing just got even better. The Xbox Live “Create Your Pizza App” lets users…
By Adriana Lee |
There are two immutable truths whenever food and technology meet: There is always someone in the dining room or at your table who chooses talking/texting/checking Facebook over engaging the actual friends right in front of them. Reactions vary greatly: “Normals” tend to shake their heads…
By Adriana Lee |
Some of us aren’t in a very LOL kind of mood until we’ve had our first hits of caffeine. And so, it naturally stands to reason that we should combine the two activities into one glorious, stupendous creation, right? Meet Textspresso, the texting espresso machine that…
By Killian Bell |
Earlier this month, Apple announced it was bringing a new “Food & Drink” category to the App Store, which would not only include all of the apps found in the “Cooking” section, but also all of the related apps that were getting lost under categories like “Lifestyle”…
By Killian Bell |
Apple has announced in an email to registered developers that it will be adding a new, dedicated “Food & Drink” category to the App Store “in the next few weeks.” The App Store already features a “Cooking” section, but the new category will incorporate related…
By Adriana Lee |
I remember the horrible school lunches I had as a kid. Pasta Mondays, Tuna Surprise Tuesdays, and “Are you sure this is really food?” specials every other day of the week. I didn’t realize until I was an adult that spaghetti noodles weren’t supposed to…
By Adriana Lee |
Seems Gordon Ramsay might have one less reason to get all red in the face. Plans for his upcoming Las Vegas eatery (Gordon Ramsay Steak, in the Paris casino) seem to be going well. Not only is there buzz around this opening, still slated for…
By Adriana Lee |
Ever wonder what astronauts eat when they’re on mission? Well, this is your chance to find out. You might even influence the future of space cuisine. NASA is looking for a few good cooks to explore food preparation and consumption on an isolated Mars…
By Sage Lane |
Not so many years ago, a man named Howard Moskowitz fundamentally changed a very important industry. His name may not sound familiar, but I assure you that the impact he has had upon your life and mine has been profound. Howard is a psychophysicist, and…
By Adriana Lee |
Finding a decent place to eat can be one of the most difficult things about traveling. Being hungry, possibly tired and probably cranky is not an ideal state of mind for a savvy food hunt. In that state, I blindly go into auto-search mode by…
By Adriana Lee |
If you’re attending Illinois’ Wheaton College, then lucky you — you get to belly up for the country’s best campus food. Anyone else going off to college, however, might wind up spending most of the semester staring forlornly at cafeteria platters of meal plan collateral…
By Adriana Lee |
I love how innovative restaurateurs continually try to improve the dining-out experience. I used to frequent a place in New York City that had a sushi-riding conveyor belt that ran throughout the small setting, carrying an unending stream of small plates filled with nigiri and…
By Adriana Lee |
How do you get people to do things they normally wouldn’t? Or even excel at things that are difficult? Simple. You turn it into a game. Called gamification, the approach has existed for a while, long before there was even a term coined for it. You…
By Emily Price |
Planning a huge road trip this year? If you’re hitting the highway this summer, there are tons of applications and tech that can help you get where you’re going and find what you need when you get there. I’m a tremendous fan of the road…
