Your Handy Travel Washing Machine

Finding time to wash your clothes is difficult enough at home, but it’s even more of a hassle when you’re traveling. The Sonic Soak is designed to act like a tiny, portable washing machine, using sound waves to clean clothes – including your delicates – as well as jewelry, toothbrushes, cutlery, baby items, fruit, veggies and basically whatever else can […]

4 Ways to Improve the Scalability of Your Business

Every company needs to have a plan for its own growth. Indeed, a business owner who isn’t looking to expand isn’t likely to experience much sustained success. To put it even more bluntly: if you’re not growing as a business, you’re dying. With that in mind, today we’re going to look at four ways that startups can improve their scalability, […]

Bee Hotels Just For Bees??

In 2010, biologist Corinna Hoelzer and her husband Uwe Marth established an initiative in Berlin called, “Berlin is buzzing!” To encourage the waning bee population, they began building hives on buildings around the city, many of them landmarks and tourist hotspots, including the city’s state legislature building, a theater, the planetarium, and the German finance ministry. There’s even one in […]

Small restaurants that made it big

Even the largest restaurant chains with a global footprint started somewhere – and often, their journey began with the passion of just one or two individuals. They may be household names now, but you might be surprised to learn that these familiar chains had very humble beginnings indeed! Cheesecake Factory, USA When David Overton opened a salad and sandwich shop […]

Identifying You By Your Footsteps

Have you ever said of a person, “You can see it in the way they walk”? Well, if it was their identity that you were referring to, then you were right. To that end, scientists have now created an artificial intelligence-based system that identifies people via their footsteps. Created by researchers from the University of Manchester and the University of […]

Backup Your Photos And Videos Without A Computer

When it comes to portable, computer-less media backup, there are precious few options. Gnarbox sprang into life to address this very need, raising over half-a-million dollars on Kickstarter for its first product, a rugged backup solution designed to go anywhere built around a solid-state drive. But now, LaCie — a subsidiary of hard drive manufacturer Seagate — has entered into the […]

Surgeons To Train In VR Simulations?

It’s not the most glamorous part of medicine, but cadavers, aka dead bodies used for training, are an essential resource for learners. Unfortunately, they are also not readily available. An increasing number of physician assistant and nurse practitioner programs, along with a shortage of donations, means that there is frequently a strain on supply. Could cutting-edge technology help? Quite possibly […]

Nature Preschools

Children today spend just half the time outside that their parents’ generation did. The consequences of our nature-deficit disorder are still largely anecdotal, but obvious: shorter attention spans. Diminished cognition. Lowered creative-thinking skills. Childhood obesity. Meanwhile, some experts have come forward with a shocking new stat: that kids ought to be outside, on average, between three and six hours a […]

The Taste Of Love Marketing

Chocolate maker stakes its claim as a romance brand with feature-length movie about love, increases online search by almost 1,500% Lacta, a Greek chocolatier, created a feature-length movie about love and technology to raise the profile of the brand around Valentine’s Day. OgilvyOne Greece created the 73-minute long science fiction film, called The Taste of Love, for the Mondel?z-owned chocolate […]