technology

This may be the great debate at your house. The kids are begging for a phone so they can enter the world of Snapchat for themselves, and you're holding off as long as you possibly can.  What's the ideal age to let kids have a smart phone, and how does East Texas compare?

Oh, the horror when we jump off the boat into Sam Rayburn Lake, only to realize the phone is still in our pockets!  And sometimes it falls into the toilet and gets soaked that way. Besides panic, what is the first thing we should do?  This method is the best one to save a wet phone, according to the experts.

My dad is getting up there in years, but no teenager is going to out-emoji this guy!  He's determined to fully express himself through pics of beer mugs, corn in the husk, and Christmas trees. By the way, did you hear what emoji might be coming next?  You and my dad will wonder how you survived without it for this long.

Flat screens are everywhere now, and while they look great at our favorite bars and restaurants and on the walls at home, they've created some serious issues for city trash collections.  The old boxy TV sets that have been replaced by flat screens can't just be junked, because they're toxic.  This is what Lufkin is doing about it.

It's not often that you open a Christmas gift, play with it, and get fined for doing it.  But that could happen this year as this thing gets more popular.

How many times do you check your smart phone in a day?  The average is, well, a lot.  It's less than a hundred times a day, but the number is still a shocker.

Tinder is a pretty slick dating tool these days if you have a little patience and don't mind weeding through a few frogs on the journey toward that handsome prince you're dreaming about.  Guys with pics holding up dead fish and dead game are a plenty, and if you spend five minutes on Tinder you'll no doubt see a profile pic of only a motorcycle or a hot rod car...

Ninety percent of emails are answered within a day, and most within two minutes.

How long do you hold off before getting your kid a cell phone?

Technology makes life better, right? Hang on, I'll answer that in a minute.  But first, let me take a selfie.

No more overnight phone charging when this thing becomes available in stores!  Have you ever seen a phone get a full charge in 30 seconds?

If you've had a mishap with texting and walking, you're not alone. I was texting and pushing a grocery cart once, and smacked into someone turning up the cereal aisle.  I got a dirty look!  But no fine or citation.  Do you think we'll see a law against texting and walking soon?  I'll tell you what the experts have to say about that. And ER doctors say there are more injuries these days due to text