Features

The lowdown on Blink Identity, the tech startup that is innovating how facial recognition is used...  As we have said many times in various ways, the future of everything is digital, technological, whether artificial intelligence or smart, personalised marketing. We’ve already seen advertisements personalised to you as you pass by with your phone broadcasting to them, but what if those...
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RevLifter is powered by artificial intelligence and uses live basket data to work out the best offers for each individual customer, within the goals set out by the client.  Everyone loves a good deal on their purchases, be it money off, bonus items, or reward credit to use on their next purchase. What about deals for purchases you don’t yet know you want to make?  At first glance...
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SwimAR, a lightweight, hydrodynamic training device using augmented reality that attaches to normal swimming goggles. In keeping with our recent uptick in coverage of virtual reality and augmented reality startups, today we’re going swimming. With augmented reality.  Swimmers in training need to know their swim data to know what they need to improve on, what their strengths and weakne...
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The "VR edtech platform where culture meets curriculum” No matter what age you are, a trip to a museum can be a brilliant experience. However for a child it can be even more so. It can open their eyes to history, culture and of course develop their knowledge, imagination and creativity.Of course, not every child is fortunate enough to get the opportunity to visit a museum, let alone a whole...
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London-based startup Daye is taking the benefits of CBD and applying it to tampons for localised, faster relief of pain and discomfort. To dumb it down to our level, cannabidiol (CBD) is the medicinal part of cannabis. CBD products are named as such because they do not include tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is the druggy, not good part of cannabis. CBD is used to treat all sorts of ailments fr...
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Smart-home startup Hero Labs have created Sonic, an AI-powered device that uses flow, pressure, and temperature sensors to detect leaks... Water leaks are anything from annoying to worrisome to catastrophic. But it’s not just a case of a dripping tap evolving into your bathroom dropping into the kitchen; water leakage causes up to £2.5 million of damage per day in the UK alone, compar...
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The lowdown on the 3D virtual world conferencing platform Virtway, that lets you be present at business events, from a distance! Conferences and events we would like to attend are often too far away or too expensive to travel to, and so we have to give them a miss. There’s no telling what we may have missed out on by doing so, and who we may have met if we had been able to go. Online confe...
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Arthur aims to use AI where AI is best used, so that customer care agents in a contact centre can focus on what's important. Human-centric artificial intelligence!  Customer service isn’t just about trying to deal with people who have fallen for the old ‘customer is always right’ nonsense; it’s flicking between different tools, documentation, accounts, looking up info...
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Smarter business spending is the core mission of London based startup, Soldo, who are aiming to streamline the entire business expense cycle –from payment to reconciliation... Whether you’re responsible for budgets in a small startup or you oversee the entire financial operations in a larger organisation, you will certainly have a difficult task on your hands when it comes t...
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The lowdown on Project Wren, the app aiming to help us to take the first step in reversing climate change, making it easy to offset your carbon footprint. If you have ever taken a couple of brain cells and rubbed them together, you’ll understand that climate change is the single biggest threat to the human race since we went to war against the dinosaurs. As with so much that we write ...
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We take a look at Grandpal, the startup that is helping Nursing Homes connect with locals who want to use their spare time doing good! We wrote recently in our article about Tovertafel that people living in care homes often find only their physical health cared for and not their mental health. Lack of activities and stimulation leads to apathy, which leads more easily to isolation and l...
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The vidiCREW app is on a mission to show your wedding through the eyes of your loved ones. How does it work?  We all know that weddings are relaxed, stress-free affairs, packed with fun and everybody getting along. Everyone loves the wedding photographer or videographer sticking a camera too close to their faces and demanding an on-the-spot witty yet deeply emotional one-liner for the happy ...
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