Test Drive: BMW’s Reinvented 7 Series

We spent a day in the 2016 750i Sedan discovering all its finer details

The myriad of innovations within BMW‘s all-new flagship model—the 7-series—is apparent from the moment someone hands you a display key. Yes, display key. The small device features a color touch screen that can be used to answer those ubiquitous nagging questions—how much gas is in the car? Did I lock the doors? Are the lights off? And beyond the simple functionality of controlling locks and …

The Knock Knock App

Easily share the contact info you want with this new connectivity app from the Humin team

From Humin, the company behind the relationship-based intelligent contacts platform (which remembers how you met a new person), comes a new way to make exchanging contact info less cumbersome. New app Knock Knock uses Beacon and Bluetooth technology to link phones and, after two knuckle taps on the screen, you’re connected to whoever else is on using app and nearby. There’s the option to find …

Fotokite Phi GoPro Carrying Quadcopter

An easy-to-use tethered drone, with accountability at its core

Utilizing the same technology as their professional model (used by the BBC for special programming and broadcast coverage), Swiss electronics company Perspective Robotics AG has just announced their consumer-oriented quadcopter follow-up, the Fotokite Phi. Up now on Indiegogo, this unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)—more commonly known of as a drone—snuggly holsters a GoPro camera and takes direction from a tether, rather than a GPS or remote …