This startup uses shoplifters to get their message through By connecting digital billboards to store alarm systems, shoplifters got unexpected real life push notifications, reminding them not to forget to pay. Klarna, the Swedish payment provider behind the initiative found an unorthodox way to help people who often miss their payments. Since the launch of the new Klarna app the […]
This startup uses shoplifters to get their message through
App That Works Like ECG
A newly developed smartphone app has shown promise for determining if a person is suffering from a serious heart attack. A study into the app’s accuracy revealed it was almost as effective as a traditional electrocardiogram (ECG) at identifying a serious form of heart attack. The system currently focuses on identifying a very specific, and deadly, form of heart attack […]
GameShare With Your Friends?
Sharing a game is no longer as easy as passing a cartridge of your favorite game to a friend. With so many games stored digitally, it’s become incredibly hard to navigate the endless hoops and requirements to play your games when and where you want. Thankfully, there are ways to share your games across multiple PlayStation 4 consoles, so you […]
Netflix Roulette
Are you getting tired of sifting through the same old suggestions on Netflix for the zillionth time? We all know that feeling: Scrolling through interminable rows of the same old shows and movies until fatigue begins to set in, and suddenly nothing that’s being offered looks good. If you use Netflix regularly, you aren’t likely to see a lot of new recommendations, […]
Waze’s New Feature Hopes To Make Your Commute More Bearable
Waze already offers Spotify integration but the popular navigation app has just announced the addition of more streaming services as part of the launch of a new audio player. In a bid to make your commute a little more bearable, Waze is adding support for Pandora, Deezer, iHeartRadio, NPR One, Scribd, Stitcher, and TuneIn, giving you easy access to more […]
Google Map Now Tells You Offers From Your Favourite Places
Google seems to have been extra busy this year rolling out new features for its Maps app, and on Thursday, October 25 it offered up a couple more. Initially for Android users, the first one lets you follow places such as your favorite stores and restaurants, ensuring you’ll be among the first to know about special offers, upcoming events, and […]
This Apps Notices You Places To Refill Your Bottle
Most of us know by now plastic bottles aren’t great for the environment yet more than 1 million plastic bottles are bought every minute — or about 20,000 per second — around the globe. A new app wants to eliminate purchases of single-use plastic water bottles by making it easy for you to find a place to fill up your […]
World’s Thinnest Smartphone
While most of us are perfectly happy with our smartphones, some prefer something a little more compact and pocketable. For those people, Japanese company Kyocera has come up with a device that it’s billing as the “thinnest smartphone in the world.” It’s called the KY-O1L, and it’s built specifically to fit inside a business card holder. For that, the phone […]
GO2SLEEP : AI Powered Device
The Go2Sleep Home Sleep Test is a revolutionary device on monitoring and improving your sleep quality. It elevates comfort while maintaining almost the same detecting accuracy of a pulse oximeter, but with a lot more key information. The precise data gathered would then help generate a comprehensive sleep report, just for you. Based on the data, the smart App would […]
Cornell App Gauges Eye Alertness
Given that our level of alertness varies throughout the day, it only makes sense that we should avoid performing attention-demanding tasks when we’re at our drowsiest. An experimental new Android app is designed to determine when those times are, by examining users’ eyes. When we’re in an alert state, our sympathetic nervous system causes our pupils to dilate so that […]