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Launcher, The Banned iOS Widget That Let You Launch Other Apps, Is Back
With iOS 8, Apple introduced a way for mobile applications to add widgets to its Notification Center that offered snapshots of information, like today’s weather, stock quotes, headlines, and more. But one clever app called Launcher took advantage of the new functionality to turn its widget into a tool that allowed you to tap to launch other apps installed on your phone. Last fall,… Read More
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Dealyze Brings A Starbucks-Like Loyalty Program To Any Business
When it comes to encouraging consumer loyalty, Starbucks’ program involving its mobile app and accompanying rewards card set a high bar for the rest of the industry to follow. Today, a new company called Dealyze is launching a service that aims to offer a similar app experience to any business, but at a lower price point than its competitors in the mobile loyalty space. While there… Read More
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This App Turns Your Philips Hue System Into Dynamic, Atmospheric Home Theater Lighting
The Philips Hue connected lighting system offers a lot of useful features out of the box via the stock Philips Hue app for mobile devices, but they also offer an API that lets developers take things even further. The new Hue Camera app from developer Erwin Zwart is a great example, as it brings live atmospheric lighting to your home theater setup using just your iOS device’s built-in… Read More
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Product TV Is A Video-Centric Mobile App For Finding Cool New Products
One of the main things we try to do at TechCrunch is highlight new gadgets, apps, and other products that you might want to check out. We’re hardly the only site with that aim, but the success of Product Hunt (which recently won our Crunchie Award for Best New Startup) suggests that there’s an appetite for services that are all product discovery, all the time. Startup Tube Centrex… Read More
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HaikuJam Is Not A Poem App
HaikuJam v2, officially exiting beta and launching now on iOS and Android, adds collaborative social photo-sharing to its erstwhile haiku-writing proposition — to loudly proclaim that a picture is worth more than a few syllables, however pretty. Hitting The Gym With Smart Apparel Startup Athos
If you’re looking for exercises and workout routines, there are plenty of apps that can help (in fact, FitBit just acquired one of them). But what about making sure that you’re exercising properly? How do you know you’re not working the wrong part of the body, favoring one side over the other, or doing anything else that might lead to an ineffective workout or even injury? Read More
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Now You Can Rent Movies From Gumroad
Gumroad, a startup that helps creators sell digital goods, now allows those creators to make items available for rent, too. It seems like an obvious addition — I’m used to renting movies from iTunes, and the Gumroad system is pretty similar (although it’s a little more generous, time-wise). But a lot of the platform’s early wins were in music and e-books, so… Read More
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This Wearable Game For Visually Impaired Kids Aims To Help Cognitive Development
A Mexican educational psychologist duo has teamed up to build toys for blind or visually impaired kids. The first device they’re building is a wearable game called Smash-a-ball — pictured above in prototype form — which is being designed to help kids’ cognitive development. Read More
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Friendsy Is Tinder For College Students Only, Created By Two Princeton Students
During his freshman year at Princeton, Michael Pinsky went to the student lounge to watch a Yankees game. Knowing there were plenty of other fans on campus, he was certain it would be packed.
But the lounge was empty except for Vaidhy Murti, another fan, sitting on an adjacent couch. The two began to talk, becoming fast friends.
But the pair realized it doesn’t always work that… Read More
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Shift Labs Launches Out Of Y Combinator To Make Medical Devices For Healthcare’s Future
Shift Labs is a small startup launching this spring out of Y Combinator with a lofty tagline: to be “the Nest of medical devices.” But as ambitious as that goal may sound at first, when you take a closer look at Shift Labs, it doesn’t sound that crazy after all. In fact, it seems almost inevitable. If you’ve spent any time in a hospital, you’ve likely noticed that… Read More
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