Can’t get your child to sleep through the night? There’s an app for that: SleepHero uses a parent’s voice to lull babies into slumber. SleepHero is an app that helps settle babies and toddlers to sleep and keep them asleep throughout the night. The app is noise activated to detect when your baby is waking up. It can play a recording of a parent speaking […]
SleepHero Apps for Awakened Babies
Augmented Reality: The Future of Real Estate Marketing
Back in the day, before this time of high tech gadgetry with sophisticated cameras and mobile horsepower which can take advantage of constant interconnectivity, real estate agents had to rely solely showing off an attractive site in person, with perhaps a catalogue or four thrown in for good measure that displayed a multitude of potential properties with something for everyone. […]
Smart Umbrellas
When you spend a lot on an umbrella, it can be painful when you lose it. Enter Davek Alert. Davek makes high-quality umbrellas—the kind you’d like to have for longer than an unexpected downpour. This weather wonder not only has a zinc alloy handle and an industrial grade aluminum and fiberglass frame but it also has high-tech features. When the […]
Peeple on Your SmartPhone
There are already external door-mounted cameras that stream video of visitors to users’ smartphones, plus there are cameras that fit into existing door peepholes, recording shots of visitors and displaying them on an LCD screen. Peeple, however, is kind of a combination of the two. It peeks through a standard peephole, and it transmits video of what it sees to […]
HidrateMe Smart Water Bottle
HidrateMe is a smart water bottle that syncs to your phone to track your water intake and glows to remind you to stay hydrated. The HidrateMe bottle is a 24 oz. – 710 ml. reusable water bottle, made out of BPA free Tritan plastic. It’s dishwasher safe and comes with a leak proof cap. The sensor stick inside the bottle automatically tracks how […]
Pot Cradle
Seoul, South Korea’s design studio HEAN designed Pot Cradle, an adjustable case that lets you hang your plants anywhere. Instead of being stuck placing potted plants wherever there’s a flat surface, you can now hang them from a shelf, desk, wall hook, or window. A Simple Solution for Hanging Your Plants [Design Milk]
Green Business In France
France just passed a trailblazing new law that requires that all new buildings constructed in commercial areas to be partially-covered by either solar panels or green roofs. Not only will this bring dramatic changes to the nation’s skylines and bolster the efficiency of all new commercial construction, but the law will help France pick up the pace the solar adoption—which […]
Self Watering Tableau
Whether or not you have a green thumb, Tableau makes it easy for you to nurture and keep vibrant plants within your home. Created by Pikaplant, Tableau automates the task of watering your house plants. Mimicking the natural wet-dry cycle of ground water, the watering tray gives just the right amount of water to your plants, so that you don’t […]
Compact Prototype Hotel Room
This clever micro loft is a prototype for a hotel room, created by Amsterdam based studio Concrete for the hotel brand Zocu, who will unveil it to their customers this fall. Zoku, which is Japanese for family, tribe, or clan, will disrupt and create a new category in the hotel industry. The place will have the services of a hotel and the social […]
Chromebit to Power Chromebooks
The Chromebit can effectively turn TVs or old computers into fully functioning Chromebooks. The device crams the Chrome OS, 16GB of memory, 2GB of RAM, WiFi and Bluetooth functionalities, and more into a unit roughly the size of a travel toothbrush. And as the number of apps for Google’s OS expand, so will the capabilities of these devices. Priced at […]