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The speech technology company Soapbox Labs, who are specializing in children’s speech recognition. Learning to read is a hugely important part of developing as a child. Reading underpins everything, and those who are able to, must learn to read in order to reach their full potential as an adult, even if their dream is to be the world’s foremost beatboxer. A parent’s rol...
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Product designers take note - this one's for you! Threedium has created a 3D product configuration and visualisation platform... There is a step between seeing a product in photos and getting your hands on it in person in a shop. Seeing a realistic 3D representation of the product and turning it this way and that to scrutinise it from every angle is the next best thing to seeing it in p...
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Holiday home owner? TravelNest is a startup that has created a unique software solution specifically for holiday home owners... We all know how challenging it can be to find holiday accommodation – there are so many places to look for a start! However if you’re a holiday home owner, it’s not that easy either – for a similar reason. Deciding which platforms are best fo...
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Holomeeting - The lowdown on the startup that is helping to create the office of the future and using mixed reality to enable its users to collaborate, communicate and create like never before... Whilst more and more of us are working remotely, we generally all still need to collaborate and work with others. Therefore there is an ever growing need to find innovative ways to help us do just t...
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Innovation for wheelchair users thanks to Glasgow based startup wheelAIR There are many variables that can make using a wheelchair uncomfortable. Overheating is one such issue. Some of us may have needed to use a wheelchair temporarily during hospital visits, in which case we got just a taste of what it might be like to sit in one all day. Of course, hospital wheelchairs aren’t represe...
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Meet neuroscience-based headset Modius, the innovative headset by Neurovalens that is using neurotechnology to help solve key health problems and make weight loss easier. At some point in our lives, 87% of us will try to lose weight. We made that up, but it’s definitely probably a highish number. Whether our reasons for weight loss are health-related or otherwise, the problem we all have is...
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Homelyfe - The lowdown on the InsurTech startup that puts customers first and is “using technology to make insurance simple." As we all know, dealing with insurance companies can be both frustrating and time consuming. Whether it’s buying a policy initially or when it comes to processing a claim. Recognising this as an issue, our latest startup of the week are on a mission to help.Hom...
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Innovation in play thanks to Storyball, a toy that uses games, stories and challenges to get children playing, learning and moving their bodies As technology advances and more information and entertainment can be accessed from all kinds of devices, it becomes more tempting and easier for parents and carers to occupy their children with these devices. Where once we might have sat a child down in ...
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Upside Energy - The Manchester based startup that's creating innovative digital solutions that support the energy management systems of the future It’s not exactly a secret that relying on fossil fuels is a short-sighted, finite solution to energy production. Renewable energy is on the rise and becoming more powerful. Soon, we will live in a world where homes and businesses all contribute t...
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Mimica Touch - The startup that has created a biologically active food expiry label to help combat food waste. In the UK, 7 million tonnes of food and drink is thrown away every year. Much of this is due to people looking at the ‘use by’ date and throwing away out-of-date food and drink without stopping to check if it really has gone bad. Whether this is easy to check for yourself, li...
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