Dueling with AirBnB and Couchsurfing isn’t an easy battle, but is exactly what newly launched (out of beta) Roomsurfer is hoping to tackle head-on. The German startup connects travellers with hosts using their Facebook likes and interests to match people for their right experience. Despite being a latecomer in the scene, Roomsurfer believes it has […]

Built by a team of three passionate people, who recently moved to London. Being newcomers to a big international city, they found that connecting with strangers and discovering the city on ones’ own can be challenging. That is why they believe that it should be shared with like-minded people. Pokke is their solution to solve […]

The recent article’s about the upcoming demise of Facebook might sound far-fetched today but the points drawn do make it a great possibility especially with their failures in mobile; but what could take its place and be the new “Facebook” for the next generation? Maybe there’s a sign from the new startup genres that have […]

If you travel a lot you surely have had the displeasure of booking a hotel room for a full-nights stay when you’re only going to be there for a few short hours. Sometimes your flight comes in at midnight, but checkout is 8am, shouldn’t you have the opportunity to buy a room via a pack […]

If you were a fanatic of SimCity growing up you surely can understand the overwhelming wave of optimism and teeth-biting anticipation of SimCity 5 and its upcoming release. Simulating urban design however doesn’t have to be limited to SimCity, to quench your thirst-of-anticipation for the next release we wanted to share StreetMix.net. An ongoing experiment […]

Keeping track of your friends is pretty easy with all the social media options they have to share. Favorite moments are captured on Instagram, what their thinking is on Twitter, and everything else is on their Facebook pages. But what if they were featured in the NY Times? Unless they post the link boasting their […]

Using augmented reality effectively has been buggy, cumbersome and sometimes inefficient – it just seems that very few are capable of implementing it in a useful way. Tokyo Newspaper, also known as Tokyo Shimbun, and Dentsu Tokyo created an app that is simple enough to use with augmented reality that it’s targeted at kids. In […]

It started with surfers trying to figure out how to film themselves while they practiced their craft, but without a cinematographer. Soon after Soloshot was born. Pairing an armband mounted GPS sensor to a Soloshot base affixed to a tripod and camera; once paired, the Soloshot base follows your path pointed toward only the armband […]

We meet entrepreneurs of all kinds, some are tech geniuses but with no design background, others are business oriented but have no understanding of the intricacies of user experience and interfaces and vice versa. But let’s focus on the former – people can make software do almost anything if they understand how to code, but […]