Nature Valley offers video tours of Grand Canyon and Yellowstone
Nature Valley, the granola snack brand, is attempting to become of added use to people beyond filling them up on snack bars.The brand is going with the nature theme inherent in its name by offering...
View ArticleRed Bull and Shazam partner to offer sports on the second screen
Ahead of the Red Bull Supernatural snowboarding competition in America, the drinks brand has joined forces with Shazam to try to provide a more intense and authentic experience for viewers of the...
View ArticleHyper-location chip knows what product you're looking at
A new microchip developed by Broadcom claims to pin down our position to the nearest centimetre as opposed to working in metres, like many current navigation systems. The company claims the chip, the...
View ArticleWho Funded Amanda Palmer?
It still has 22 days to run at the time of writing, but it seems safe to say the Kickstarter campaign by American cabaret-punk singer Amanda Palmer has achieved something fairly remarkable.Having...
View ArticleTriggers aims to aid life by helping with tasks
The internet of things is arriving and communication between humans and devices is breaking down. Voice control and motion sensors are making it easier for us to get the most out of the technologies at...
View ArticleEurovision is predictable, says data scientist. No kidding, says world
Everyone knows the Eurovision Song Contest is always the same - most of the music will be abominable, tactical voting will rule the day and the UK will languish all night at the bottom of the leader...
View ArticleGoogle gets more relevant as Now supercedes iGoogle
Google Now is here and, perhaps paradoxical to its name, represents the future of personalised services for the search giant's customers. It's the latest part of the hyper-relevance journey for Google,...
View ArticleSafeway's Just for U alters price of goods for each customer
Safeway is bringing its 'Just for U' personalised shopping app to the US, following trials in Canada. The service busts the current system of pricing goods as the same for everyone by offering...
View ArticleVenueSeen helps restaurants track customer feedback
VenueSeen, a start-up that helps restaurants and other businesses track customer reviews and photos is gearing up for expansion.With a plethora of companies supplying services that monitor Twitter,...
View ArticleBlueprints required for vans and tanks, as crowdsourcers get ambitious
The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an arm of the U.S. Department of Defence, plans to launch a design competition for a new amphibious vehicle for the US Marines.Tags:...
View ArticleCirque du Soleil partners Google for Beyond Touch browser experience
Cirque du Soleil, the entertainment group, has partnered Google for a unique experiment which showcases the possibilities of HTML5 technology and gesture control.Movi.Kanti.Revo is a surreal online...
View ArticleBloomingdales uses body scanning technology to find perfect jean fit
Bodymetrics, a firm based in the US and UK, has created a product for retailers that uses Microsoft's Kinect technology to scan a shopper’s body to analyse their shape.As first announced at the start...
View ArticleThe story of the world's first crowd-sourced car, and what happened next
In the not-quite-five years since its launch, Local Motors has done what its CEO and founder, former US Marine and Harvard Business School Graduate John B. Rogers, intended to do - it has brought to...
View ArticleHealthrageous provides a dashboard that monitors your health
We've been tracking the Life+ trend for a while. Landmark examples include Nike Fuelband and Fitbit - both combine data with fitness regimes to monitor progress. Now, we could be looking at another...
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