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Meet the SmartSign team: Carey Smith

Carey Smith is a Sales Representative at SmartSign. Originally from Grenada, he’s lived in Brooklyn for the last 11 years. He came to SmartSign after joining the U.S. Army Reserve, and keeps that sense of adventure alive by driving Lamborghinis on his birthday and trying to get his fellow SmartSign team members to go skydiving. Monica: […]

Teenagers and technology: What can parents do?

A picture posted on NBC New’s Instagram feed in March 2013 shows how much our world has been affected by the 21st century’s most visible tech revolution. The top of the picture is Saint Peter’s Square in 2005 and the bottom is from the same perspective but taken in 2013. If you are over thirty, […]

How I learned to avoid digital distractions

There are a lot of merits to technology. The level of precision, the speed, and the ever-shrinking global atmosphere have created a network where idea exchange can flow faster than imagined thirty years ago. The rise of generations X and Y bring a new breed of socially inept, but technologically brilliant people into the working […]

Teens raise awareness about distracted driving, participate in 23-hour technology fast

We’ve often talked about people succumbing to digital distractions to the extent that they cannot let go of their mobile devices even in their sleep, let alone behind the wheel. But there’s group of kids out there who want to free themselves of the shackles of their cell phone chargers to become more responsible drivers. Sixty […]

3 unforgettable memorials

Memorials remind us of “some larger human value that transcends the petty parts of our day-to-day lives,” says Paul DePrey, superintendent of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument at Pearl Harbor. “The people who are memorialized are the unlucky ones,” he continues. “They died without choice. Those of us who live on have […]

New smoking bans: fairs, beaches, and balconies

America is coming down hard on smoking in public. Every year, more U.S. states ban smoking in public at a variety of venues and locations. First it was planes, then it was restaurants, followed by bars. And soon, smokers will lose some of their favorite and most scenic smoke spots to the U.S.’s onslaught of […]

Texting while walking will cost you, but haven’t we always been distracted?

At SmartSign, we often discuss the dangers of our dependence on smartphones and the benefits of digital detox. But when it comes to texting while walking, those dangers will cost you more than a sense of human connection. In Fort Lee, New Jersey, texting while jaywalking now carries a $54 fine, and it’s not the […]