Archives for April 2012

Last Updated on April 16, 2012 by New-Startups Team What seems like something out of the mind of Roald Dahl and only should belong in the extraordinary world of Willy Wonka comes … A Lick-able Wall Paper? Yup, you heard correct, if you are by chance in London, head over to the offices of communication […]

Last Updated on April 15, 2012 by New-Startups Team Researchers from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have created Twitcident, a framework for filtering and analyzing tweets to crowdsource information about crises. For the past ten months the system has been in testing as a support program for the Dutch police and fire […]

Last Updated on April 13, 2012 by New-Startups Team A lot of people say print is dead, but we really don’t think so. Although there have been a lot of print company closures in North America over the past few years and fewer printing presses are running, the industry itself still has a place in […]

Last Updated on April 12, 2012 by New-Startups Team Springpad has re-launched with a new interface and design that feels a lot like Pinterest but comes with a ton more powerful features. Springpad is “smart notebooks that let you share and discover with the people you care about”. You can create personal notebooks that can […]

Last Updated on April 11, 2012 by New-Startups Team There’s been very few times that a new development environment that we run across just absolutely blows us away – Meteor is one of them. Meteor is a new real-time JavaScript framework that quite simply makes application development easy. Recently, the early-stage software has been getting […]

Last Updated on April 11, 2012 by New-Startups Team Google has just announced a major redesign for its fledgling social network, Google+, which will now offer a drag-and-drop interface that users can customize as they see fit.Developing

Last Updated on April 10, 2012 by New-Startups Team How would you reinvent LEGO? Do you think there is even a point to alter something so incredible? What could one possibly do to give LEGO users even more creative creation opportunities? The imaginative designers at Muji have come up with a clever new toy series […]

Last Updated on April 10, 2012 by New-Startups Team Following up with Lucky Ant, we are delighted to share that the hyper-local crowdfunding platform for small businesses has begun expansion into another neighborhood in New York. Having launched in January, the upstart “Kickstarter” for small businesses, Lucky Ant was able to help two out of […]

Last Updated on April 9, 2012 by New-Startups Team We’ve been huge fans of MetaLab for years and discovered the teams’ ingenious interactive experiences when scouring through BestWebGallery.com for inspiration during the development of our own very site. The terrific team headquartered in Victoria, BC has now launched Flow: An elegantly designed tool for web-based […]

Last Updated on April 6, 2012 by New-Startups Team High-res images have now emerged of Sergey Brin stepping out wearing Google’s Project Glass heads-up eyeglasses at a charity event last evening. These are the first good photos of a “real” human — a non-model — wearing them in the real world, so we have a […]