Muffle Guard is a recently launched new web application that helps big companies control what their users tweet. Muffle aims to help mitigate PR disasters whilst also helping companies capitalize on PR positives. For instance a politician is surely going to have a team delivering tweets directly or indirectly on their behalf. Muffle helps delay, […]
Children’s drawings + 3D printing = Crayon Creatures
Our favorite startup of 2012 was the re-crafting of kids drawings into huggable plush toys. Children love to be creative, draw and imagine all kinds of wonderfully colorful animals, toys and everything in-between. Child’s Own Studio, takes these wonderful creations and for a small fee manually creates stuffed plush toys in resemblance of the artwork. […]
Stalking Vines with VinePeek
While GIF’s were the source of countless funny and quirky moving images online, Vine is quickly becoming poised to be the next medium to capture and share memorable moving moments. Jumping on the popularity of the new app, Vinepeek and VineRoulette let you see how people are using the service to possibly inspire or just […]
Tagtool
Projecting art onto a building isn’t limited to high budget production companies developing interactive art and entertainment environments. OMAi, a Vienna-based agency has taken its DIY project and evolved it into an app described as “animated projection painting”. Tagtool turns your iPad into an intuitive live instrument for projection art. Think of it as projecting […]
No more junk in your physical mail box with PaperKarma
There are spam filters for you digital mail, but there never seems a way to stop the useless junk mail that comes to your physical box. PaperKarma tackles the mission to help you take control of your home or business mailbox and to receive only what you want. Businesses don’t want to spend needlessly on […]
Find My Train
If you frequently use public transit systems you’ll understand the pain of waiting at a bus stop counting down minutes, when you could have been doing something more useful. Especially during these cold months, being outside is the last thing anyone wants to do. Luckily in Toronto apps like the Rocket Man app exist, although […]
Startup Vitamins
“Always deliver more than expected”. “The trick isn’t adding stuff it’s taking away”. “Life is short. Build stuff that matters”. Those are just some of the incredible quotes from the likes of Larry Page – Google, Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook, and Siqui Chen. Startup Vitamins takes these quotes and many others, designs a poster, and […]
Instatrip: Mapping your vacation photos
Instatrip is in the business of creating and sharing photo trips based on your Instagram exploits. Automatically generated via Instagram’s photo stream and its location tagging service, it’s a place where you can create and share your photos from holiday trips, vacations, road trips with friends or any of the other random and interesting places […]
LUMOback
LUMOback, by zero2one is hoping to help 80% of Americans affected by back pain at some point in their lives. Back pain leads to lost work time, missed workdays, disability claims and is a $50 billion per year industry. One of the most common accelerators to back pain is poor posture; in the startup world […]
Winbot: The window cleaning robot
There really only are a few household tasks that are as mundane as cleaning windows. Grabbing a spray bottle, squeegee and a towel with a bucket of water just so you can spend an hour trying to achieve a streak-free window. But fear no more, the inventors at Ecovacs have created a Romba style device […]