Music is inherently social, but almost all of the popular music services that exist today are optimized for individual listeners. Chune is a new social music concept designed for parties, offices, and other shared use settings. Users who have the Chune app installed on their phone can tap a custom speaker, and through the magic of NFC, their playlists and musical tastes […]
Chune Music Sharing
TravelCard – Charger in a Wallet
People love their Smartphones – until they run out of power. Usually at the worst possible time: Traveling. Outdoors. During a blackout. Or having car trouble. With the TravelCard, you always have reserve power available, in your wallet. It’s the exact size of a credit card, only 3/16″ (4.77mm) thick and weighs just 2 oz. (56.7g). You can say goodbye to annoying cables and […]
Spritz Re-imagines Reading
Reading is inherently time consuming because your eyes have to move from word to word and line to line. Traditional reading also consumes huge amounts of physical space on a page or screen, which limits reading effectiveness on small displays. Scrolling, pinching, and resizing a reading area doesn’t fix the problem and only frustrates people. Now, with compact text streaming […]
Dating App with Help of Instagram
Glimpse is a new dating app built on Instagram. It’s hard to write about yourself. Instead, let your Instagram do the talking, and build a window into your world. Sign-in on Glimpse with Instagram, bring your story to life in nine photos. Anonymously explore the community, and smile at who’s interesting. If they smile back, break the ice over a photo.
Wearable Automatic Calorie Tracker
GoBe is the only way to automatically measure calorie intake by calculating the amount of glucose in your cells—through your skin. Simply wear it to see calories consumed and burned, activity, hydration, sleep, stress levels, and more, delivered effortlessly to your smartphone. Know exactly how many calories you’re consuming by using GoBe to read the glucose in your cells—through your skin, with […]
Bottle Caps Lego
Bottle caps typically serve a humble purpose and aren’t really thought of as the most practical invention ever — instead, they contribute to more than USD 1 billion worth of plastic waste that ends up in US landfills each year, rather than being recycled. Clever Caps has redesigned them to give them extra use as Lego-style bricks after they’ve finished their life as […]
Liquor Delivery App and Service
Drizly aims to become “the Amazon.com for alcohol” by letting New York City and Boston residents order beer, wine, and liquor for delivery within approximately 30-60 minutes. The company aggregates the booze each participating liquor store has in stock, takes orders, and sends transactions to retailers to process. Each store employs its own couriers, but Drizly helps attract customers and provides […]
Pretty Shoes for IKEA Furniture
IKEA excels at creating basic, functional furniture, but for hardcore aesthetes the lack of attention to detail is sometimes off-putting enough to knock it out of the running. Swedish upstart Prettypegs, founded by Jana Cagin and Mikael Söderblom, offers a way to make otherwise plain homewares sing. The company, which describes its product line as “fabulous shoes for your furniture,” makes […]
Simple is Blessing
I have written about the tiny house movement before, but some of these houses are so damn adorable, they deserve a separate mention. For example, this 8×20 ft dwelling created by graphic designer Alek Lisefki. Built on a flatbed trailer, the house is fully transportable and has already been taken for a spin across the country, from Fairfield, Iowa to […]
Lego Power Brick
From air-powered vehicles to miniature robot bands, people just seem to keep finding innovative uses for Lego. It was only a matter of time before the versatility of those little plastic blocks was put to use in the era of the smartphone. The COI+ Lego Power Brick, a block of Lego which acts as an external battery pack for your […]