Tag: Media

For smaller retailers, gaming solutions can help entice in-store customers. Now, a Canadian startup is building a community especially for watch enthusiasts in a bid to strengthen local trade. The platform was created by a French founder who spent many years in the watch industry. It brings together stories from community members that provide insights into how their love...

Thanks to a small robot, visually-impaired children can be better integrated into conversations. However, young people, and young women in particular, often see more than they bargained for in chat rooms or on social media. Images of male sexual parts, for example. Or hate-filled comments and insulting statements about gender. Which is why a female founder and her Berlin-based...

Anomalies in network traffic can be detected musically. Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs) can be devastating too, turning entire coastal areas red and tourists away in the process. Enter a university lecturer in Florida and her data on coral diseases and the impact of HABs on coastal economies. Not for her publishing a series of dull tables and reports. Instead,...

A little pony or skeleton key chain for your school satchel - magazine publishers work with the toy industry in order to make their products attractive to children. However, they hadn’t reckoned with a ten-year-old girl from a Welsh coastal town. Shocked by the potential environmental damage caused by the cheap plastic toys found inside her favorite magazines, she...

Who doesn’t miss the reassuring ‘ding’ of the elevator, Susi’s energetic typing, or the sound of Bernd eating his morning snack? Well, fear not, for help is at hand with a new range of background office noises. The sound of the telephone, the ‘ping’ of the microwave, the bark of the workplace dog… There’s something for everyone who finds...