If you’re having a hard time sifting through all the futuristic toys available now, here’s a cheat sheet so you can put in your two cents at the next cocktail party once the talk turns to tech. From smart socks to crystal clear TV screens, these are a handful of items to keep an eye on in 2014. The smart watch market is growing rapidly, but CNET calls the Pebble Steel “the first smartwatch worth wearing” so let’s see what makes it the must-have wrist accessory: If you’re a serious runner that

Clear your phone of all the apps you don’t use and replace them with these six apps that will help you become productive, in touch with the world, open to sharing, and more creative. If you’re stuck at home and want to escape for a bit, go on a 360 degree virtual journey with ArounderTouch. A network of professional photographers brings you awesome virtual reality panoramas, covering over 100 of the best tourist attractions around the globe. You can customize your HD virtual tour: navigate and

You may not be tech savvy, but you don’t need to be with the latest sites that help turn everyone into a web designer or visual artist. Websitemagazine.com has gathered a list of great Creative Design Tools for Non-Designers. MyWebRoom picked out a handful of useful sites to share with you: If you’re not able to fork over hundreds of dollars for Photoshop, try Sumopaint, a fast and robust image processing engine. It offers free basic online tools, an intuitive interface, and is available in 22

If your eyes are rolling to the back of your head after sifting through hundreds of reviews to figure out what the best gadgets and tech products are out there, it’s time to let someone else do all the hard work for you. Someone like Brian Lam, a former Gizmodo editor and WIRED magazine writer who founded the review site The Wirecutter. Brian and his team present to you only the best product in each category. They’ve spent countless hours researching every item so you don’t have to. It’s like H

Looking for inspiration for your next design project? Look no further than Niice. Designer Chris Armstrong started Niice, an inspiration search engine, because he was tired of sifting through hundreds of online photos to find high-quality images to fuel his creativity. Chris hand-picked Behance, Dribbble & Designspiration as the first three sites for his “search engine with taste.” Here’s a snippet of what a search for circles will show you: And here’s wood carved into a way to write and rest

We are very excited to announce that Sony and myWebRoom are collaborating to bring all the latest tech toys and gadgets to your online room! For us, this opens the door to the consumer electronics world, a rip-roaring industry where you never know what will be unveiled tomorrow. As a startup that is highly invested in how emerging technologies are shaping the future and connecting people in so many ways, we are proud to present Sony’s products inside myWebRoom.com. As a consumer electronics ind

Sometimes you’re grumpy, lazy, excited or feeling creative and want some music to match your mood. Although Stereomood was created by friends in Milan, Italy in 2008 after listening to the same song one too many times, it’s new to us and we thought we’d share this streaming site that turns your mood into music. Choose a mood tag or type in however you’re feeling and Stereomood will start playing songs curated from the top 150 international music blogs. It’s free to use, you can discover new tun

Shopping and selling has never been so fun. We are pleased to introduce Storenvy, now available in your virtual Shopping Bag’s explore section inside your online room. You can access the world’s most unique businesses or easily set up your own shop in five minutes at Storenvy.com. Over 15,000 items are added every week, and the online community curates products and clicks “Envy This” so the best stores and products can quickly be found by other Storenvy shoppers. Clothes, home goods, art, music

If you have a great story to tell but don’t have anyone to share it with, turn to Wattpad, a fun social writing platform that’s garnering over 10 million readers per month. It’s the world’s largest community for discovering and sharing stories, and now you can “Fan Fund” your work a la Kickstarter and reward your supporters on a tiered system that may include naming a character after them, influencing the plotline, or dinner with the writer. Wattpad is free and allows you to discover thousands

I have a long list of TV series my friends are telling me I have to watch RIGHT NOW and as my list grows, I’m overwhelmed by how much time I’ll need not only to watch the shows, but to search for the shows as well. How can I access Breaking Bad, Scandal and The Newsroom? Through Amazon Prime, Netflix, or Hulu? NextGuide.tv, by San Francisco-based media startup Dijit, is here to the rescue to help me find exactly what’s on and where to find it. We’ve already added it to the TV inside your virtua

There’s no need to be working when you could be shopping. Your boss won’t mind if you spend an hour or two or three browsing an amazing new website called Like.com. Just say you’re looking for a white elephant present for the office holiday party. Most of us slack about at work, so luckily for us, there are non-slacker types out there who actually use their brainpower to make life a lot easier for lazy people. My friend Danny is one smart guy, Harvard for undergrad, Stanford for his M.S. and Ph.D. After all that schooling he joined a start-up called Riya, a Silicon Valley visual search engine company that has just launched an addictive shopping site that finds items by appearance.

It’s your friend’s birthday. So you do your usual shout out… “HAPPY BIRTHDAY (insert name here)!!!” on their Facebook page or Twitter them #you’rethebest #champagne #cake. You know your friend deserved more than that, but you’re not sure what to get them and you don’t have a ton of time or money. The folks at Aggregift have come up with a brilliant solution. Aggregift is a social gift-giving service. You begin the process by selecting an item from Amazon.com. Choose an item Aggregift recommends

If the art world seems overwhelming to you and you couldn’t tell the difference between a Picasso and a 6-year-old’s finger paintings, use UK-based Artfinder to educate and help you define your personal preferences for art. Artfinder takes the guesswork out of the elusive pricetag problem that usually deters people from buying art by placing prices on every piece. You can filter by subject, price, type, shape and size. Here are some pieces that are $150 and under. If you like a particular piec

We’re excited to share all the new features on MyWebRoom.com that will keep students organized, informed and socially stable. If you need to make last minute spring break plans, use the Map on the wall to book travel through Expedia or Kayak. The Newspaper travel section might be worth a look. Once you know where you’re going, tell the world and Tweet it through the Bird Cage. Cancun or Costa Rica? Make sure you pack everything using lists made in Google Docs and Evernote in your Notebook. Hea

These days there are so many Pinterest-like copycats out there that you may not know where to start your search for more image heavy sites. We’ve chosen three sites that have catered to specific niches to showcase today: Manteresting for men, Trippy for travellers and Dribble for designers. If you’re a guy and you’ve been wanting to Pin but think you’ll be called out for playing around on a girly site, head over to Manteresting where you can “nail” pictures onto “workbenches.” The guidelines he