Wireless Communications

Over a billion downloads can't be wrong! iPhone apps are the new gold rush of software development, turning backroom start-ups into overnight successes. And Metro Detroit is getting in on the action. (more >)

Cheap Ways To Revitalize Your Downtown

By: Jon Zemke, 7/30/2009

From households to businesses to city government, everyone is in belt-tightening mode. But if there's one thing Metromode believes, it's that necessity is the mother of invention. A few Metro Detroit communities have come up with innovative and inexpensive ways to revitalize their downtowns. Time to take notes! (more >)

Information Evolution

By: Tanya Muzumdar, 5/8/2008

Computer science + design + social science = Innovation. Concentrate checks out the student projects at the University of Michigan's School of Information and witnesses the next evolutionary stage in information technology. (more >)

Nanotechnology: SE Michigan's Industrial Revolution

By: Lucy Ament, 4/24/2008

Got nanotech? Southeast Michigan does. Metromode has seen the future even though it's invisible to the naked eye. The next evolution in technology is occurring at the atomic level and it just may usher in a new industrial revolution. (more >)

Ypsi's Wireless Co-op

By: Jon Zemke, 2/21/2008

As various for-profit wireless initiatives push back access dates and struggle to work out their business model, locals in Ypsilanti are taking matters into their own hands to create an ambitious community-based Wi-Fi network that is expanding from the city's downtown to Depot Town. (more >)

Blog/Steve Pierce

Ypsilanti resident Steve Pierce was launching Internet service companies before anyone ever heard the word website. In January, he and his partner launched Wireless Ypsi, one of the most successful free wireless services in the state. Since then they've helped several Michigan communities set up similar networks. Steve will share the secret of bringing free wireless to the masses. (more >)

Video/Solidica

We have officially entered the realm of sci-fi style technology. Ann Arbor's Solidica makes wireless sensors that can not only communicate the status of distant vehicles and machinery, but also predict where systems might fail. It's a brave new world after all. (more >)