Although just a concept the work of South Korea designer Bomi Kim is inventive enough for us to dream it makes an appearance on Kickstarter for us to have hanging in our own offices. The nail shaped concept design lets you turn anything into a clock.
The nail-shaped mechanism keeps track of the time, while you insert what ever you want into the hour and minute hands to create a clock from anything you desire. No longer will time be just a current moment, instead time can also contain a message that speaks to you.
If you’re fan of Big Bang Theory you must remember the episode in which Raj and Howard created the “Internet Kissing” prototype. For those that aren’t familiar, this “device” sensed where you placed your lips, and a secondary “robot” in another location would simulate the actions to allow two people in a far distance to “connect” physically. Watch the video below to see it in action because words can never give the scene the justice it deserves.
When this episode aired the idea seemed comical in its context yet encompassed some genius to it. How can two people entertained in a long distance relationship provide the comfort of physical intimacy? Skype took conversations to one level, Snapchat’s pushed it to another point, but the latest Durex experiment takes the “Howard and Raj Internet Kissing” idea and makes “touch over the internet” possible.
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” The words of Japanese poet Ryunosuke Satoro mean so much to the team at Bidvoy that they headline their team page. The tightly knit trio are working on making Bidvoy better everyday to enable us with an insightful tool before selling and buying on eBay.
If your thinking of buying or selling your iPhone 4, Galaxy Nexus i9250, Apple TV 2, or any other product, Bidvoy will scour over 10,000,000 eBay auctions to give you a birds eye view of what that product is valued at. With a very specific search (for example “iPhone 4” 16GB black) your lifted with trend stats on when to buy and sell, median prices, margins, number of auctions, Amazon price comparisons, and new or used product classifications. All this graphical data is displayed like you were in Google Analytics but broken into a more simplified user interface to get you what you need to know in the easiest way possible.
Hopscotch is an app built by those who want to create things that they themselves wished existed when they were kids. The free beta release of the app teaches kids aged 8-12 the beginnings of simple coding. The iPad app uses bright, fun and highly visual cues to keep interest to foster inheriting programming concepts. Instead of the boring line by line tutorials and creating a “Hello World” type of page, Jocelyn Leavitt and Samantha John (Hopscotch founders) are hoping boys and especially girls will join the forces of programming at a young age with a youthful focused approach to teaching.
Boys seem to gravitate toward coding much more easily then girls possibly because of their devotion to video games, while girls get to play with dolls and fashion essentials. With Hopscotch’s bright and colorful interface the app attracts girls to use their building blocks of learning, without it being overly feminine to turn boys away. The interactive program lets kids drag blocks of code into a scripting area to develop their own projects. The female programming movement has been amazing over the past year at the same time childhood learning of circuits and programming has also been a topic with much news. A movement that we hope continues and possibly one day the number of female programmers is equal to that of their gender counterpart.
In North America and many parts of other established nations dental hygiene is a staple in everyday life. However, over the totality of our world there are too few dentists, moreover in poor communities the problem is even more pronounced. Our communities face significant oral health challenges and even in those living in situations where dental care is easily found, those that are poor simply can’t afford the care that’s available.
“Our health is connected in important ways to our systemic health, and when people go without the dental care they need, the effects ripple through their body and also affect their families and communities.” That wisdom from Joe Brennan of Smiles for the People accentuates how a simple act of buying a toothbrush can turn into an extraordinary act of generosity if companies provided for greater good instead of just for-profit.
What do your employees think of you? That’s a question that at best gets a tip-toed answer when asked face-to-face. So how do you learn what’s really on their minds so you as a founder can do better? Morale.me helps companies assess employee satisfaction as a free app to learn exactly that.
The iPhone app uses LinkedIn credentials and monthly anonymous feedback to track results and report back what state morale is at. Instead of reviewing feedback on sites like Glassdoor after an employee leaves for new possibilities, Morale.me gives an overall sense of how your organization is really doing right now. Founded by internet recruiting veteran Joel Cheesman the app uses simple smiley faces for employees to answer “are you happy working with us”. The data then is compiled to bring a company together for the ultimate goal of a happy workplace.
Over the past few weeks we’ve uncovered and fallen in love with new music discovery sites that let you stream tunes based on another’s playlist. Already this year we’ve played with Spotify, Earport and Songaz to name a few; now we’ve also jumped on Soundsupply for an absolutely different reason. While the aforementioned platforms let you stream your favorites along with those of others, Soundsupply curates what will be your new favorite brands, bundles them up, and digitally “drops” them to you at a sweet-low price to own in your own music catalogue.
Every other month Soundsupply releases their newest bundle of 10 albums for download at the mere price of $15. Launched in 2012 by brothers Tim and Eric Mortensen, the hand-picked albums called “Drops” are compiled with up-and-coming and well known artists. But while waiting for the bi-monthly release of new music those that need a fix right now can jump on board with “Mini Drops” that comprise of 5 albums for just $10 that come out every Monday (at least so far for April).
Mgadget.net cuts through the noise of finding relevant information to make an educated decision when buying accessories for the iPhone, iPad; video, audio photography and other popular categories. Products are categorized and one can search and filter on a wide criteria of relevance. This all occurs in a minimalistic playground without the clutter of ads and useless tools.
We are suffering from information overload and websites do not make it easy to access information. This site is an attempt to simplify the process by providing a curated selection of electronic accessories for buyers. Mgadget aggregates information from YouTube, Amazon and other sources to let you view reviews and read specs with as much or little detail as you like.
