We have a lot of help when it comes to tracking the contents of our food. Devices like the Nima…
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As a traveler on a tight timeline, there are few things more frustrating than having flights canceled. Last year I…
For years, carpooling has been a great way to cut commute costs while minimizing environmental footprint. It’s a concept with…
We’re not going to lie: we don’t know much about this product (there is very little information floating around), but…
It all started when Richard Shaw wrongly predicted that the United Kingdom would stay in the European Union. As a…
Despite leaps and bounds in smartphone innovation, especially when it comes to smartphone cameras, one area that has yet to…
Sometimes, an idea starts off the right way; it’s based on a true premise and solves a real problem. Then you…
Adhering to a medication schedule is tough for many people. Products such as pill reminder boxes have been created to…
2016 was a tough year for a lot of people and many of us are glad that it is finally over. But…
For many of us, 2016 will be remembered as the year of Pokémon GO, and the year that Augmented Reality…
2016 was a big year for the tech, startup and business worlds and thankfully, it was also a big year…
First you take something people really enjoy: shopping. Then you combine that with more things people enjoy, like sports and…
In today’s digital world you’ll find many places making huge pushes to go paperless, but one area still remains relatively untouched in…
There’s nothing fun about divorce. On top of the hurt feelings, split holidays, and new living arrangements, there’s the ever-present,…
Aside from cable’s growth in the 1960s and 70s, the television industry has faced very little disruption since it first…
Imagine you’re living la vida loca Silicon Valley style and can effortlessly afford to own a $700 cold press juicer;…
Hey, remember last week when we published that article about how Snapchat is all growns up now? Well guess what:…
Making the perfect cup of tea is a bit more complex than most think; there’s a lot more to it than…
Mark Zuckerberg’s charitable company, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, recently partnered with the Obama Administration to host an invitation-only Summit on…
If you thought vinyl records and record players had been relegated to relevance only in episodes of Pawn Stars, you were…
Smart mirrors are a technology in their infancy. What that means is that the products in the segment are still…
I’ll admit it. Hell, I’ll say it with curmudgeonly pride: I don’t get Snapchat. Though the number of thirty-somethings who…
Science fair projects and teenagers seem to have become solid sources of full-fledged tech progress. Uday Parshionikar told us how his…
If you look at Joseph Walla’s history, you’ll notice a trend of trying to solve big problems. His early experience…
Canvas from Occipital is pretty powerful new tool for home improvement, or really anything exercise that requires sizing up your pad. By using…
Smart and discreet don’t seem to go together a lot in wearable product design. Take Google Glass, for example; it…
It’s no secret that cell phones are used for way more than just talking, texting and browsing the Internet. Many…
Whether you’re a high-performance athlete or just an exercise enthusiast, the winter months are rough. Not just because of the…
Traveling can be fun or annoying, and sometimes certainly both. While traveling, all kinds of things can ruin the mood; over-packing (and…
Apparently, now there’s smart clothing that will get you deals at fine-dining restaurants or invites to VIP parties. Further down…
When you think of heart monitoring, often images of classic stethoscopes, finger-clip-booths-at-the-mall, or expensive and bulky medical equipment come to mind.…
Amazon announced its $2.5 million Alexa Prize last month to foster artificial intelligence innovation around its digital voice assistant, Alexa.…
If you’ve been living under a rock, or perhaps a really large iPhone for the last several months, you may…
Interior design and furniture selection used to be a labor-intensive, time-sucking, expensive endeavor. You had to travel to a variety of…
A couple weeks backs, we took a look at The Lucid Dreamer, a wearable device that relies on administering current…
Laurence Chandler and Joshua Cooper founded their upscale men’s fashion house, Rochambeau, as an outlet for creative expression and artistic collaboration.…
Waking up, accepting that the day has begun and then quickly getting organized to attack it isn’t always easy. The…
When it comes to cycling, whether you have a high-end ride or cheap beater, bike tires are most often the…
Whether it’s for work productivity of spontaneous entertainment, there are plenty of scenarios in which a second (or third) larger…
Internet search has seen some great innovation. Local search of personal assets though? Still painful. Hopefully Findo represents the future with it’s artificial intelligence-based cross-platform search of all your files, emails, and more.
The American College of Sports Medicine, working with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, found in a…
Running out of juice too soon is an ongoing problem for all electronics. Here are eight of the best tablet and smartphone chargers trying to change the game with innovation.
Backpacks are evolving quickly. They used to be accessories meant simply to carry things around. Then they became fashion statements…
If you’ve ever seen the movie Harry Potter, then you’re probably familiar with Wizard’s Chess; the game where the pieces…
Who says solar panels need to be ugly and clunky? Elon Musk and other entrepreneurs are making renewable energy stylish and sexy with these green-energy materials that look like standard building supplies such as tile, slate, glass, and stone.
We’re increasingly trusting of technology to keep us safe; from products like the Allergy Amulet protecting us from peanuts, to the…
File this one under, “It’s about bloody time” (and then file that comment under “As if we just criticized a…
Are you considering running your own business? Do you have an idea for a startup company yet lack the ‘fire…
Dieting is one of the hottest industries in the world, filled with tens of thousands of products promising to help…
Artificial intelligence is earning itself a seat in just about every faculty; it’s in mental health, it’s in productivity and office…
If you’ve ever worn an orthopedic cast, you know that flexibility is not their strong suit. Especially when you’re itchy. That may change thanks to Cast21 and their 3D-printed, open weave cast that lets air and water in.
We could all use a little extra help in the kitchen. Thanks to the Internet of Things, and some succulent…
As traffic continues to worsen across the globe, many municipalities are turning to high occupancy vehicle and high occupancy toll…
Last week, BMW unveiled its latest concept at the BMW Group Future Experience event in Los Angeles. It was a…
Well this might change everything forever (leave it to an eccentric engineer worth $11.7 billion to make that sort of…
There seems to be more innovation in assistive technology than ever before. There’s also more money in it as a…
Ever watched a Photoshop tutorial online? Cooked a recipe from Pinterest? Learned guitar through an app? Downloaded a MOOC with…
In 2004, at 18 years old, Nathan Copeland broke his neck in a car accident. The injury left him paralyzed,…
If the thought of getting a tattoo scares you, I don’t blame you—there’s so much that can go wrong. Even…
According to the World Health Organization, in 2012, approximately seven million people died prematurely as a result of exposure to air pollution.…
The Autonomous Tent Co makes semi-permanent structures that can be disassembled without leaving a trace. Two days to build, $100K … and you’ve got a kind of glamping that puts a cabin in the woods to shame.
Taking photos with our phones has become an almost reflex response to seeing something cool. While some of us have mastered…
At this point, humanity’s colonization of Mars (or at least attempting it) has become an eventuality. That’s right; that fabled…
Due to a lack of widespread quality healthcare and on-the-ground, up-to-date medical training, 470,000 babies die each year in Africa…
As significant as is the recently brought-to-light Wells Fargo scam, we can’t really be too shocked by it—if you went…
There are a kinds of get-around gadgets on the market today, from basic (flammable?) hoverboards to skateboards that want you to feel…
Artificial intelligence is pretty versatile. Many of us are already familiar with how the technology can be used to identify objects…
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
Most alarm clocks just badger you to wake up. The Kello smart alarm clock, now on Kickstarter, actually has the intelligence to help improve your sleep and integrate with your smart home.
Fitness trackers are everywhere and while many attach to clothes, the future of wearables will definitely see a lot more…
Everyone who has children knows how important it is to record things like first steps, first words, and first musical performances.…
The latest addition to the SCOTTeVEST line has launched and its a jacket that might be trying to kill the backpack. The OTG is kinda OMG.
Fall is a time for branching out and embracing diversity. Companies large, medium and small are looking for new bounties outside…
It appears to be a time for courageous decisions in the world of consumer electronics. Apple led the charge by…
If you aren’t doing it standing, you’re not doing it right. I’m talking about work, ya perverts. Researchers have found…
Targeted toward lupus patients, skin cancer sufferers and anyone else interested in monitoring their exposure to UV radiation, the Shade medical device and companion smartphone app is more than 25x more accurate than the similar device by Microsoft.
CannaKorp, Inc. is a Stoneham, Massachusetts-based technology start-up company focused on simplifying and improving the experience for medical cannabis patients.…
You focus on the call. A new personal assistant system with artificial intelligence, Clarke.ai, will focus on taking the call notes. It turns out there actually is an AI in “team.”
TechCrunch Disrupt landed in the City by the Bay this week after making a pitstop in New York earlier this year.…
Now that self-driving cars have arrived, it makes sense that scientists put their efforts towards making anything that moves autonomous.…
Much of our media, especially the stories that make it to the front page of Reddit, paint India as a…
Snoring is easily one of the most annoying habits in the world—unfortunately, it’s also one of the hardest to control. One company offers a…
As we discussed in a previous article, it’s easy to underestimate the impact eSignatures can have on an organization. A…
Yesterday was another big Apple event. The September Keynote started off on the right note, quite literally; Tim Cook belted out…
In the past few years, I’ve had to say my final goodbye to my dad, grandmother, godfather, cousin, aunt, and best…
Over the years, many people have asked: “What’s in a name?” The answer, as you might expect, will vary depending…
The 21st Century has given us an explosion of accessible technology and astounding technical talent. One of the most profoundly…
In the fast-paced world in which we currently live, sometimes it’s worth the time to appreciate the beauty of things…
In the early 2000s, a new type of headphones began to appear—headphones that played music via the user’s bones. At the…
People have been 3D printing crazy things for some time now. Orthodontic braces? Check. Fingers? Yep. Custom footwear? Obviously. Musical instruments?…
You know exactly how puzzling books can be if you’ve ever tried reading Gravity’s Rainbow (or anything else by Thomas…
Smart bricks may be the smartest future of the smart home market, thanks to a team of scientists out of the University of the West of England. These “living” bricks will do things like clean water, reclaim phosphate, generate electricity and facilitate the production of new detergents.
Thanks to a recent wave of spirited startups, “having drinks at home” has become a lot more creative; solutions like Brewie make…
Hillary Clinton recently released a detailed initiative for the future of technology and innovation in the United States. Now that she…
When it comes to most apartments, renters and owners tend to sacrifice most of what they want for practicality and…
The space race was first spurred by Cold War hostilities and the jostling for bragging rights. Today, innovation in space…
Reaching a crowdfunding goal isn’t always easy, but there are some campaigns that do make their goals, and then some. Today…
Stem cell research may have found a way to grow breast tissue that would replace standard breast implants. It’s been done in Japan and the UK has dabbled in it. The US might be the next growth area.
LAFORGE is a startup offering a line of prescription-grade, smart glasses with keen eye for the future of fashion tech. The…
Bagel is a reinvented, smart tape measure, complete with a companion smartphone app, that enables you to make pinpoint measurements, save…