Keeping your valuables close, and your children even closer

Designed to keep your valuables close, hipKey is an advanced wireless proximity and movement alarm-tracking accessory for the iPhone and iPad. Developed by Denmark-based, hippih, they will soon make available their app and app-enabled accessory to the U.S. and Canada exclusively at Apple.com

hipkey tracking

Danny van der Poel, CEO of hippih says: “While other devices may track your belongings, hipKey is the only device on the market that provides four unique functions, in a practical, aesthetically pleasing device. We aim to make the lives of Apple customers easier with hipKey always by their side.”

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Friday quick links

best of kickstarter

Best of Kickstarter 2012.

Whalla: Events-based photo and video sharing focused on offline social relations model.

Searching for movies and television shows all day? Watch It Stream aggregates it all for you.

Do you need a special day to make someone happy, make someone smile or make someone feel precious? Why can’t we just go and tell them on any day of the week that how awesome they are? Or how much you love them? Joy cards do that for you. By 21Fools.

A turn-key subscription program.

Pagodabox is like adding a server admin to your startup.

VoThink.Us, the independent, non-partisan platform responsible for organize worldwide elections and referendums and express your opinion.

Groapp is a simple site that keeps track of all the services you use to run your startup and at the same time suggests your startup to others if they’re unhappy with your competition.

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The smartest fork you’ll ever use

At the CES HAPILABS introduced the HAPIfork – the smartest fork ever that helps you lose weight and improve digestion by eating at the right pace. When you’re eating too fast, you ultimately end up eating much more because your body and brain doesn’t realize you’re full. When you control the pace at which you eat you feel full, resulting in less calories being ingested and weight control.

hapifork

Designed by French engineer Jacques Lepine, the HAPIfork sends a vibration and turns on indicator lights when it feels your not eating at the best pace for healthy eating. The smart fork, available in various colors, also monitors number of fork servings per meal, start and finish times of meals, and servings per minute it then sends the details back to an accompanying web app for analysis.

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Testing your Android app on 100s of devices in 5 minutes

Fragmentation, it’s a word that is the inevitable hatred to fuel the hearts and minds of every Android developer. AppThwack hopes to relieve that frustration by rapidly testing apps on 100s of real, physical devices in parallel so you don’t have to. What’s that? It must be the sound of developers around the world exhaling in appreciation.

appthwack testing on 100s of android devices

Founded by Trent Peterson and Pawel Wojnarowicz, whom have previously worked at Intel, launched their savior for developers back in July and since has preformed over 1,120,000 tests for Android and HTML5 apps. You simply drag and drop your app to its site and AppThwack begins running its tests. You then get results on how effective or poorly your app is running in the fragmented landscape of Android devices. Results are filled with stats, logs and screenshots to help discover and debug issues easily.

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YPlan last minute events in London

YPlan shows you the best events that London has to offer, every day. This new iPhone app is your pass to tonight’s hottest gigs, movies, theatre or even quirky events like rickshaw racing & chess boxing.

yplan london events

Currently only offered for events in the British capital, the team of young English entrepreneurs curate only the events they think are worthy of being stamped with their approval. The unique discovery and party planning app lets you buy tickets for things to do only 24 hours in advance adding that element of spontaneity to what you may find. The short and sharply selected list removes the problem of figuring out “what should I do right now” in London.

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Products, culture and style for men

Launched in December of 2012 by housemates Scott Purcell and Frank Arthur, Man of Many is a new source for the latest and best in men’s products, gear, gadgets, technology and style. The site offers a carefully and manually curated selection range of finds for gentleman to stand out from the crowd. Sharing things not seen anywhere else for every type of man is the mission of the new website that’s updated daily with their Aussie larrikinism and style.

man of many

Similar to the hugely popular Uncrate, the duo behind Man of Many were always following similar blogs as a hobby searching for the latest in new tech and style. They decided to launch a similar web portal but with their own Australian flavor and feature more than just ‘consumer products’ but also great videos, television shows, movies and architecture.

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Friday quick links

below the boat

Below the Boat.

The latest in products, culture and style, just for Men.

Leadership: When you sincerely refocus the spotlight, the immediate impact is to help others thrive.

Pinterest for lists.

A visual resume for our digital age capturing everything and more from your LinkedIn profile in a stylish and professional format shaped by the needs of recruiters and employers.

Simple private sharing.

Unlike other corporate social networks, Hexigo was built specifically to drive business productivity.

The most portable game console ever.

Book of the week: Dude and the Zen Master, for the Big Lebowski in all of us.

Because we believe humanoid robots are coming in 2013.

The artistically beautiful snowflakes app by hado labs. You can download it via iTunes for iPhone and iPad here.

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Unbounce provides startups and marketers landing page optimization without IT

Internet marketers and startups hoping to optimize their website’s landing pages can pursue a large number of different avenues. There’s no shortage of developers out there willing to design and deploy exciting new creative and copywriting on landing pages to either launch a promotion or perform A/B testing to find out what combination of imagery and call to action banners works best. However, these options, as interesting as they are, take time. They take resources too. Whether managing the landing page creating in house or working with a contractor the fact remains that landing page creating and testing requires careful administration, lead time, and money.

mailchimp unbounce integration graphic

Enter “unbounce”. Unbounce provides firms who are looking to manage their landing pages with a solution that enables effective landing page creation, publishing, and testing without the usual need for advanced IT knowledge and developers. As mentioned previously, the options available to any startup who would like to manage their landing page creation and testing are numerous, however the choices available to a firm who would like to accomplish the same goal without a developer are significantly fewer.

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So, what’s all the hype?

In other terms, ‘hype’ is a concept that equates to a high level of anticipation. It is something that is invisible, but not only does it exist, it has become a driver of consumer behavior in today’s world. In a product’s pre-release stage, it is something that is quantified by outdated and unreliable means, and by traditional outlets such as surveys and clustered compilations of chatter from social media. Hypejar aims to funnel the ‘hype’, capture it in a single container to quantify, and to then present it to the world. A website dedicated to sharing details on all products that the mainstream wants to be aware of, but is yet-to-be-released and presenting it in one place.

hypejar

The Montreal-based company launched their beta site back in September with a very simple idea – organize all the products that are about to be released and make it more easy-to-find instead of scouring multiple sources. A sneak peak if you will, at the future of consumer products. Co-founder Grant Yim says:

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