It's early days yet and we’re still taking-in the flood of apps that companies are designing for the Apple Watch and similar devices. Taken together, they are great indicators of how consumers will be using their smartwatches, and the impact this will have on the travel industry. Indeed, travel brands have been among the first to market Apple...
Did you notice a strange feeling in the air suggesting the approach of a massive storm? No? No matter, because the Danish company Vaavud has developed a clever little wind meter that attaches to smartphones to provide an accurate gauge of current wind conditions. The attachment is part of a larger trend of ingenious smartphone add-ons that do...
While big companies and banks are battling it out for supremacy in contactless payments, hard plastic cards still reign. But credit cards, debit cards and rewards cards are stuffing wallets to their limits. The Coin card, a thin black wafer of high-tech ingenuity, is a clever answer to this problem. In short, it's a single digital card that can...
Livestreaming is a trend that keeps getting more so, as it gives cheap and easy access to growing range of events from concerts and protests to news and weather reports. Now livestreaming is being embraced by funeral homes worldwide, becoming a normal part of our cultural last rites. Two companies, FuneralRecording and One Room are offering...
Just when you thought there was already an app for everything, here comes one that that's like Shazam for pills. If, like many people we know, you take several different pills per day, at one point or another you have probably gotten confused about which one is which, or perhaps found yourself wondering whether the pharmacist handed you the...
Peer-to-peer services like Couchsurfing and Airbnb are changing the way many people travel by facilitating connections between strangers to arrange short-term lodging and international friendships. While this new way of traveling and doing business is becoming wildly popular in Western countries, staying in the homes of strangers is finding far...
People who love music have always had to make a choice: either stay at home and hear great sound, or pack the travel speakers and sacrifice quality for light weight. While digital music has made our favorite songs a lot more portable, many of us end up listening on tiny laptop or smartphone speakers with less-than-optimum sound quality. Decent...
Revivals in downtown urban living, tighter budgetary constraints – especially for Millennials – and a growth in green thinking have all neatly led up to one quirky, funny, cute and, perhaps, sad trend: Microdwellings. This growing breed of tiny house or apartment is cleverly designed for a single person and includes things like toilets tucked...
In the beginning, there was iced coffee. Then coffee fanatics said, “let there be cold brew.” For those who aren’t familiar with this libation, cold brew coffee is exactly what it sounds like: coffee brewed in cold water, without heat, usually for about 12 hours. In recent years more and more cafes have begun offering their own cold brews,...
Selfie sticks, those long rods that people are using to hold their camera-phones at greater than arm's length, are so last week. Why tire your arms when you can have a device hold your camera for you, facing you at all times, of course. Japanese anime network Animax recently released a just-for-fun commercial featuring a young man liberated by...