Features

The lowdown on TableTiger, the startup that's aiming to empower restaurant managers and owners to measure and improve their customer experience... If you're a restaurateur, you'll know only too well how vital it is to provide excellent customer service. After all, it often can be a major factor in ensuring that people either return to your business or choose to visit for the first time.If ho...
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Holland-based startup Active Cues have created a simple product called Tovertafel aka Magic Table, which projects imagery onto a surface, helping engage children and adults with cognitive challenges. Passive behaviour - decreased emotion, withdrawal, and lower levels of activity - are among the common signs of dementia in older people. Those in care homes often don’t have a lot to do day to...
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We take a look at smart platform and app Medicus AI, the startup that's empowering people to participate in their health and wellbeing decisions with easy-to-understand health insights.  Medical reports and lab results such as blood tests can be difficult to interpret for the layperson. They can’t necessarily be dumbed down too much for us for the risk of oversimplifying or mischaracte...
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We take a look News Over Audio, an Irish startup that's aiming to change how we engage with journalism... Hard work often means little free time, and little free time means that either we don’t keep up with what’s going on in the world around us or we waste time that could be spent with friends and family to do just that. Engagement with quality journalism is already on the decline am...
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The lowdown on innovative SaaS startup Autotrip, that's making mileage tracking and claiming a doddle... As we all know, completing a mileage claim can be a time consuming yet necessary task. Whether we’re submitting our own mileage claim or managing the claims submitted by our employees, the fact remains that it’s a tedious and laborious task.That, however need no longer be the case,...
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The gamified healthy lifestyle app Street Tag, that's aiming to promote and enhance community-wide participation in physical activities.. We’ve seen how popular the likes of geocaching and Pokémon Go have been: apps that get you out and active collecting physical or digital...well, collectibles. Particularly in the case of geocaching, these activities can be great for families, bring...
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The lowdown on Irish startup Alergy Lifestyle, that's aiming to make living with allergies a little easier...If you have an allergy, whether it’s to dust or a particular food, you’ll know only too well that it can be challenging and often dangerous. After all, allergies aren’t simply inconvenient, they can be life threatening too.Learning about triggers and more importantly manag...
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Glasgow-based startup MyCustomerLens wants to help you reach & retain more customers by making faster & more informed decisions. Getting customers is hard. Keeping customers is hard. Business is hard. Customer loyalty can be hard to predict. Will customers go for quality over price or hunt down the best bargain? Will they stay with a company that has provided a good service/product or sh...
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The initiative that's aiming to use 3D printing to create a global solution to homelessness, with an entire community of 3D-printed homes. We may be a long way from doing a Jean Luc Picard and asking our wall for an Earl Grey (hot), but 3D printing is a rapidly evolving technology that has a lot more potential than just printing out a little plastic Infinity Gauntlet, and yes we have gone of...
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In need of an accountant? PROfiltr is a marketplace startup aimed at helping startups and SMEs alike... Whether you’re an early stage startup or you’ve been in operation for quite a while, the fact remains that you will need an accountant. It’s a given. After all, from initial company formation to VAT returns, they provide a service that is essential.Choosing an accountant ...
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Here, Chris Unwin, CEO at LAC Conveyors and Automation explains how these developments in technology can be used to address the skills and labour shortage across a number of sectors.Automation has received mixed reviews from businesses in recent times; often depending on the type of organisation you are speaking to and the level of seniority of the individual being questioned. For some ...
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The lowdown on IoT based hardware and software startup Journey Protector, an Irish based company who have designed a system for real-time remote detection of stowaways in the rear of vehicles, or theft of cargo.We are all aware of the growing migrant crisis around the world, and particularly in France. And whilst we all know about migrant camps and people trying to take row boats ac...
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