Starting a Restaurant? Don’t Waste Money on the Non-essentials

If you’re thinking about starting your first restaurant, it’s important to know where to spend your money. A restaurant is a demanding enterprise. Without careful allocation of your limited resources, it’s easy to see the end in sight, right when you open your doors for the first time. Most restaurants close within a year of opening. These long odds don’t […]

Livia – The Off Switch for Menstrual Pain

The new solution for instant pain relief from your period – no more pills, no more nonsense. Getting your period sucks. For some of us it sucks a whole lot more. We’ve been working on a high tech solution for years, and we couldn’t be prouder to present Livia. Livia is the off switch for your menstrual cramps. Livia is […]

Beer From Recycled Bread

I’ve always known food waste is a moral and environmental issue, but seeing it ranked as the third most important climate solution for the next three decades has me reevaluating my priorities. But what should I do about it? Drink more beer, apparently. At least, that’s one way to make a difference if you’re drinking Toast Pale Ale—a beer that’s […]

Sustainably Built

This prefab home by Arup Associates is made from recycled, reusable and sustainably sourced materials. The Circular Economy Building was designed as a prototype for this year’s London Design Festival and built in only two weeks. The project revisits the archetypal house and reinvents it with refined prefab construction techniques and sustainable materials. The prefab clearly show its Circular Economy […]

Self Healing Potholes

It’s no secret that potholes are a huge pain in India. While we may grumble that it’s because of cheap building materials or inefficient labor, the truth is that roads just naturally decay over time. But now, a team of scientists from the Netherlands believe they have the answer to prevent potholes from even forming. Schlangen’s technique mixes in tiny […]

Share and Shop Right From ShopChat

Share and Shop right from your chat keyboard. ShopChat is the world’s first shopping keyboard. Share it with friends to shop together while you chat. Founded in 2016, San Francisco-based ShopChat offers a downloadable iOS app (Android coming later) that serves to replace your default keyboard app and works across all major messaging apps, including  iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp, giving users a direct […]

Wingman Dating App – Play Matchmaker for Your Friends

  Enter Wingman, the new dating app that forces you to relinquish control to your friends, when it comes to picking romantic partners. Really, it’s not all that different from handing over your Tinder profile to friends after a night of drinking, and let them swipe for you instead. When London-based Tina Wilson found herself recently single, she was intrigued […]