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Innovation in mobility for the visually impaired thanks to WeWALK, a revolutionary smart cane!  Almost 1 in every 25 people is visually impaired. That’s 250 million people worldwide. Of these, 50 million use a cane. We’ve all walked past someone at some point, making their way confidently with a white cane, and considered how difficult and frightening we would find it to have to ...
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Running smarter thanks to this insole fitness tracker... Running is a good and an increasingly popular way to stay fit and healthy. However it is also a good way to injure yourself. Leg injuries, particularly to the knee, are common with runners; however, these are preventable in most cases. This is one way in which a running coach comes in particularly useful, as well as when it comes to improvi...
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Real estate and proptech focused startups sort for new real estate accelerator programme, RELab, a 12-week accelerator programme, launched by Leading Real Estate Tech investment firm, Goldacre. Leading real estate tech investment firm, Goldacre, have launched a twelve-week accelerator programme to open doors to tech businesses and ‘invest in disruption’.  Run in collaboration wi...
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The sweet smell of success! Innovative smart vending machine and sampling startup Odore, announces partnerships with London’s leading perfumer; Miller Harris, and London’s award winning fine wine & dining venue; M Restaurants to bring consumer’s on-demand fine fragrances to the City of London. Launched in September 2017, early-stage madtech startup Odore acts as both a smart...
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Aiming to replace standard paper catalogues, Magik Book, the first ever physical catalogue book that links to digital devices, was last week launched by the Portugal-based startup of the same name. As 'Magik Book' pages are turned, the smartphone or tablet responds with synchronized videos, animations, music, images, interactive models and more. Designed as a marketing tool for luxury produc...
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Despite technological advances and a heightened awareness of the need for safety in technology, electrical devices still pose a fire risk. Despite horror stories of devices exploding because they were used while charging, for example, parents still allow their children to do just that because it ‘probably won’t happen’. However infrequently these things happen, they do happen, an...
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Startacus has recently been spending some time looking at and writing about AI related Startups.. Next up is London-based AI startup Gluru, a smart to-do list that uses deep learning and natural language processing to help you identify your to-do tasks, even suggesting the answer. A to-do list is an entrepreneur’s...well, maybe not best friend, but a good friend with a great memory, who re...
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