Alex Latham

Amazing new Android Things Lantern by the guys at Nord Projects in partnership with Google. "Rather than insisting that every object in our home and office be 'smart', Lantern imagines a future where projections are used to present ambient information, and relevant UI within everyday objects. Point it at a clock to show your appointments, or point to speaker to display the currently playing...

Here's the vid: https://youtu.be/euJ61nsf_JA

Hi Guys, Chip is an iOS & Android app that comes in the form of a bot. You connect the app to your bank account with read-only access and tracks your spending. From there, using AI, it uses the data to calculate what you can afford to save without having an impact on your day-to-day life, and automatically saves it for you via Direct Debit. It learns how you spend and saves money only when you...

Amazing.

I'm part of the team that has made this new site - AskHerFriends - it fundamentally is a marketplace that revolves around gift recommendations. We have an "idea map" that we have spend around a year developing and collecting data from. The idea map works by collecting data from every users different suggestions and are continuously develops it's algorithm to make sure the gift suggestions are...

These guys have made a cool little shopping game on their site that lets users send a choice of 4 products to their friends and pick their favourite. If the friend guesses their favourite they get 30% off the item. Clever little viral marketing tactic letting online shopping become more fun and social