Spiral growing tubes enable farming in small spaces
Gardening in bottle caps is a fun concept that’s well-suited to urban settings, but consumers interested in growing more substantial crops might be better off with Whirligro instead. Targeting those with limited growing space, Whirligro uses spiral-shaped tubes to…
Vodafone-branded taxis offer mobile payment & charging
It’s been a couple of years since we featured RideCharge’s mobile-enabled taxi booking service. Now, aiming to offer even more integration with mobile technology, Vodafone UK is sponsoring a fleet of branded cabs in London, enabling passengers to pay…
Hedge fund makes predictions based on the mood of the Twittersphere
Successfully predicting the patterns of a financial market has always been a job for skilled fund managers relying on their own knowledge and experience. Now, Derwent Capital Markets have just launched a hedge fund that uses Twitter to monitor…
Phone box transformed into informal book exchange
As economic pressures have threatened public libraries with closure from lack of funds, the rise of mobile telecoms has rendered public phone boxes effectively redundant. Making the best of two seemingly unrelated developments, the UK-based PhoneBoox has converted a…
App matches up singles based on their online activity
If literary and musical tastes can be used as the basis for matchmaking, then why not a person’s overall social networking activity? That, indeed, is precisely the premise behind StreetSpark, a mobile app that connects singles based on the…