Summer is coming and the heat is already gracing Sonoma’s vineyards. Last weekend Scribe Winery hosted a members wine tasting and picnic. Their chilled Riesling was perfect for the lamb, radish and hummus hors d’oeuvres. Crunching into a not-too-pretty but absolutely delicious radish straight from their garden was a real treat and we felt privileged to share the bounty of the the earth. In the case of Scribe Winery it [...]
How often have you wished you could bring someone along on a particularly enjoyable vacation? Looxcie, the makers of the wearable mobile-connected video cam, are letting you do that…almost. Wearable over your ear or attachable to a ball cap, car visor, bicycle handle bars or helmet, the hands-free camera captures video just that way you see it. Rather than wait till you get home to share it, Looxcie Live, a [...]
UPDATE: TourWrist wins People’s Choice Award at DEMO, the emerging technology conference. TourWrist won top honors among five DEMO God finalists and was awarded one million dollars in media from IDG, producer of DEMO and publisher of VentureBeat and other technology publications. Check out the panos on TourWrist to get a real perspective of what it’s like to be a presenter at DEMO. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a [...]
UPDATE: The winner of the documentary contest is from Salt Lake City. Her whirlwind tour took her from the snows of Salt Lake City to San Francisco, where the fog decided to give her a break, allowing her to walk barefoot on the beach and sip California wine. Next stop was London then off to Lisbon for some instruction is surfing (yes, you can surf there) and what fabulous food. [...]
Maybe this is exactly what the Cosmopolitan was going for — a 21 to 30 year-old stiletto-heeled and testosterone pumped crowd. While very average-looking tourists milled around the ground floor of the 100,000 square foot casino space, their numbers grew thinner with every floor as we rose up in glass elevators and escalators. Right above their heads were tight-dressed girls leaning over the balcony on upper floors, gazing through walls [...]
Ask me my opinion in a survey and I’ll usually decline, knowing that there’s some sales pitch attached, or my name and personal information will go into some deep repository to receive never-ending spam. But there was something about the two freshly scrubbed kids in the Senado Square in Macao that made me stop, and willingly submit to their interviews. This was not a solitary incident. My husband Russ and [...]