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Nelson Zhang and Richie Zeng, two former UC Berkeley engineering students and co-founders of Wearhaus Inc., recently launched their new product: the Wearhaus Arc headphones. These are wireless headphones that sync with other music listeners, allowing you to discover new music and broadcast your own playlist. According to Zhang, the
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The newest update to Snapchat now allows for live chatting! If you’ve become disinterested in Snapchat (although we don’t know how anyone could get tired of taking selfies), it’s time for you to update the app and let shameless self-absorption take over your life. Here are some of the new features: new
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One afternoon last summer, Mark Webb, a UC Berkeley alumnus who studied Biochemistry, went on a hiking trip in New Mexico and “really wanted a hot shower and a warm meal.” The result of these thoughts was the creation of Energant, a company that promotes sustainability by electrifying rural communities in developing countries.
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What if you can score a cute date on Tinder and get a free meal in the process? It’s that kind of question that started a blog on Tumblr called Swipes for Swipes. According to the Washington Post, “if you have extra meal swipes in AU’s dining halls, add the
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If you saw Tatia Pilieva’s viral YouTube video featuring strangers kissing for the first time (which actually turned out to be a clothing advertisement), you’re familiar with this concept. But did you know that on Tuesday, April 22, UC Berkeley students and Berkeley Story Collective teamed up to create make their own version of
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Mark your calendars — because for the first time ever, UC Berkeley is hosting an Eco-Hack. According to the Facebook event, the hack-a-thon will be held on Sunday, April 27 from 12:45 to 5 pm, so mosey on over to the Brower Center on Allston Way to get your eco-hack on.
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Here to ameliorate the plight of many college students who forget to bring their wallets around, the Isis Mobile Wallet is a tech bundle that allows you to pay at checkout simply by scanning your phone against a contactless terminal. Sounds cool, huh? We’ve never imagined the human race would reach such
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For Pierre Bourbonnais, losing the ASUC presidential election did not mean the end of his campaign to change UC Berkeley. BearFeed.org — his political party and news website — gathered a lot of attention during the 2014 ASUC campaign. But now that the elections are over, is BearFeed over? The short answer: no.
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The Internet is a wonderland full of infinite possibilities for entertainment and communication and, unfortunately, full of endless opportunities for something to go terribly wrong. Because so much of our lives takes place online — homework, conversations, news and games — we have no way of avoiding possible dangers like
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It would be extremely easy to say you will turn your phone off, put it out of sight and focus on your homework. But let’s face it — none of us have the guts to actually do this when we’re studying or slaving away on a new computer science coding project. Our
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