When people think of startups, they might imagine a warehouse office in Silicon Valley, crowded with young software engineers who prefer T-shirts to suits. Think Google, Facebook, and billionaires under the age of 30. But could Broward County become the Silicon Valley of the East? Don’t laugh! The burgeoning startup…
“It’s a lot easier to cool a body from the inside-out, rather than the outside-in,” says Catherine Baldwin, CEO of Suspended Animation, a Boynton Beach company that specializes in transporting dead bodies to be cryogenically frozen and stored. Thursday night, she spoke from a podium at the Church of Perpetual…
The Deep Flight Dragon sports a raised back spoiler, aerodynamic design, propellers, and two enclosed cockpits. It’s small, sleek, and off-white, looking more like a toy fighter jet than a $1.5 million two-person submarine. Deep Flight’s Director of Tourism, James Doyle, explained earlier this week in Fort Lauderdale, “It’s a…
Drones are objectively cool. They are flying robots that do our bidding, whether that means shooting high-res video from thousands of miles in the air, or dropping off our Amazon packages on time. The ‘bots are relatively cheap, which is a blessing for consumers everywhere, but an absolute nightmare for…
It’s easy to get depressed about the state of the world today, what with the scourges of terrorism, global warming, and Sandy Hook hoaxers. Well, there’s an antidote to that: 15-year-old Hannah Herbst. This smiley, bright, and poised-beyond-her-years 9th grader from Boca Raton has invented a device called an “ocean…
The biggest bummer about looking for love online — you don’t really know who is sitting there on the other end of the internet connection. “If you think about it, Match.com or any of those, the only information you have on there is what people represent as being the truth,”…
The image was hard to shake: a smoke-spewing fireball swallowing a Lake Worth trailer. As the on-the-scene footage began cycling through the news coverage this week, the worst-case scenario was confirmed: when the Piper PA-28-180 plane dropped out of the sky on Tuesday afternoon, smacking into the Mar Mak Mobile…
Floridians are a weird bunch. Geographic isolation has leant its way to bizarre habits, like an aversion to indicator signals and a pathological fear of cockroaches. We even have our own twang—we prefer “you guys” to “y’all” and “Publix” to “supermarket.” It should come as no surprise that we e-laugh…
Forbes calls GamerGate “a consumer movement.” But the Washington Post calls it a “misdirected lynchmob.” CNN calls it “a heated debate over journalistic integrity.” But the New York Times says it looks “like an orchestrated campaign of harassment against women.” So what the hell is it? If you don’t play…
For anyone with a bike and a USB cable, your life is about to get a little easier. South Florida resident Nicolas Zamora is an engineer with a passion for cycling. He combined those two elements and created The CydeKick — a device that hooks on to the wheel of…
A Florida-based doctor and inventor is about to get all Star Wars-y up in your vag. In order to treat his patients suffering from pelvic pain, board certified female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgeon Doctor Ralph Zipper came up with a device that used low-level laser therapy. But during clinical…
Broward County Commissioners have agreed to propose new measures for ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft that would require more thorough background checks for potential driver’s, as well as more stringent inspections for vehicles. Commissioners also want to have drivers fingerprinted. The County Attorney’s Office will prepare the requirements into…
On March 6, 2014, a gray-haired Japanese-American man in wire-rimmed glasses swept past a swarm of television crews that had been staking out his home. He jumped into a car and led a chase through Los Angeles, the likes of which had not been seen since O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco…
The Sun Sentinel doesn’t just offer local journalism to the good folks of Broward and Palm Beach. It also offers digital services to businesses and websites. This separate branch of the paper, called 435 Digital by Sun Sentinel, promises to help any interested entities “grow your presence online,” “increase your…
It was 2013, and Tessie Patrick had been hired to write the biography of a woman named Kat Stacks. When the author first Googled the name, she was appalled. Stacks, better-known as Andrea Herrera, was a foul-mouthed 24-year-old, internet-famous for talking smack about rappers. On WorldStarHipHop.com, a viral-video and taste-making…
Inside a windowless warehouse across from the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, workers rip up carpet and pressure-clean AstroTurf. Construction of several film sets is underway. One is meant to look like a college library; another, a receptionist’s office. A third is modeled after a stereotypical 20-something girly-girl’s bedroom, complete with…
It’s back! The New Times’ Miami Web Awards are here to pick the best of the web. Who’s the Funniest Twitterer? Who can lay claim to Meme of the Year or Best Viral Video? Can you choose just one Food Instagram User who has you salivating when you look at…
