With the traditional bedtime story facing decline due to increasingly high-pressured, high-tech lives, this married couple-run startup hopes to reboot the timeless beauty of bedtime with the world’s first smartphone-powered, light-projecting pop-up book. With Torchlight Tales, relaxing rhymes, calming language and dreamy themes combine to help steer little minds towards their special sleepy place.

To prove the versatility of its new pop-up bar made from a recycled shipping container, Canadian prefab home builder Honomobo transported the bar up the snow-covered hills of Fortress Mountain in the Canadian Rockies. The Honomobo team spent the day on the mountain and used Honomobar to have a drink, relax, play games and enjoy breathtaking views of the snow-covered […]

Moggles is a truly portable VR headset with some smart features and a sleek design. It folds down into a 50 mm hard case and has a space for hand controller inside. Price is 69€ for a headset. Moggles, short for mobile goggles, is a Virtual Reality Console made to fit your pocket. It gives you an easy and accessible way of exploring […]

Flo is an Intelligent Camera and Movie Maker app that auto-edits raw video footage into short cinematic movies using Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence. Everyone loves to shoot videos but don’t know what to do with them. Editing videos is difficult, time consuming and a skillful job. Flo combines Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing to put together the interesting […]

Elbow strips away most mechanical parts of a traditional cassette player, resulting in a strikingly minimal and laconic design. User interaction is made easy and intuitive thanks to bi-axial arm and control wheel, while allowing more playback control than ever before. In addition to boasting a slick, clean aesthetic, Elbow can be pinned to clothes and fabrics, turning your favorite tape […]

An innovative robotic system that can clean building exteriors using water jets or give new coats of paint is now ready to serve customers in Singapore. It is co-developed by local pioneer in automated controls and biometric contactless systems ELID Technology International and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore). Named OutoBot, this patent-pending automation is locally built and will improve […]

Take a monetary system that exists but doesn’t really exist, add in a few creative tech types and let their imaginations run wild and what do you get? Yes, you’ve guessed it: some cool business ideas. Bitcoin may have come into existence only in 2009, but as we head into 2017 it’s starting to become a mainstream hit to some […]

The decision to expand a product line, innovate around a new idea, or move into a new area of business altogether is a difficult one. For example, you might reap the benefits of a larger customer base but spread your staff too thin to provide any semblance of effective support. Regardless, expansion will likely cost more time and money than […]

The battle against boredom is one of the toughest that we fight in the workplace. The job that seems so fresh and exciting in our first years can grind its way into monotony as we move from learning routines to getting stuck in a rut. Many workplaces have recognized this over the years. They have tried to shake things up a […]

NYU Shanghai students Sean Kelly and Sam Shi want to use the potential of VR to increase access to information. Over the weekend at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York, the duo initially looked into assisting students studying brain surgery but they switched their target and developed Teach-U: VR — a platform that lets students, and particularly young people, learn music. Kelly and Shi used Google’s Cardboard VR device […]