If you are looking for way to navigate around your city, you might want to check out the New York-based startup FlyKly. FlyKly offers a electric bicycle in two models: the sleek, forward-thinking Modern (shown here and above left) or the rugged, classical feel of the Vintage (shown here and above right). Both come at…
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Green technology is making consumer appliances cool again: yesterday, former Apple iPod SVP Tony Fadell unveiled a smart thermostat called Nest. “We [are excited] to reinvent such an important yet unloved device that would make people’s lives easier and hopefully, make the world a little better too,” blogged Fadell, who left Apple in March 2010. He…
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Operating in a sustainable way is becoming a best practice for companies seeking efficiency and corporate social responsibility. If you still haven’t adapted your business practices to include sustainability initiatives and need an affordable, yet thorough solution, Sustainability Dashboard might be a great place to start. Sustainability Dashboard helps companies monitor, report and identify areas…
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Imagine a world with fewer cars, without traffic jams, and with less pollution. That’s exactly what the founders of Getaround did, and they came up with a sustainable transportation solution. Getaround is a social car sharing service that enables car owners to safely rent out their underutilized cars to a community of trusted drivers. People…
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Did you know that the average power drill gets used for approximately 12 minutes in its entire lifetime? Or how about the fact that 80% of the stuff we own gets used less than once per month? Americans own so much junk that we spend $22 billion a year on storage space. There is a…
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We’ve seen a number of companies jumping into the hybrid automobile market, the most recent is luxury sports car maker Porsche with the creation of the Porsche 918 Hybrid. The vehicle is one of three Porsche models with a hybrid drive that made their world debut at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. The two-seat, high-performance…
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Tech Cocktail enjoys reporting about innovation and technology of all types including cars, personal jetpacks, space, watches and more. So today, we’re looking to the nautical world. Boats. I grew up around boats and even owned one back in my AOL hay-day (it’s name, appropriately, was “Options” – when the stock plummeted, Options was sold)….
Read MoreHow many times have you noticed that even a printer-friendly version of a web page wastes tons of paper? It can be thoroughly frustrating when you try to conserve resources yet still end up with stacks of paper, much of it ending up in the trash. Fortunately, PrintEco, an Illinois-based startup which will present at TECH…
Read MoreEvery year Earth Day is celebrated on April 22nd. This year the eco-friendly holiday fell on a Thursday. Earth Week, however, has been happening all week long (April 16-22). Still high on Earth Fever? Let us help share there more Earth Day friendly applications that you might like.
Read MoreWonder how much energy leaving your laptop plugged in could be wasting? Google took a step to try and help by announcing the launch of Google Powermeter API on Google Code. Google PowerMeter is a free software tool that allows you to view your home’s energy consumption. Here are a few points to explain how…
Read MoreWith social media providing a new toolset for non-profits, it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed by the problems in the world – daily tweets about the environment, poverty, hunger, etc. But the tools are also providing inspiration for a new breed of non-profits who are seeking to create longer-term, self-sustaining solutions. ChannelYourEnergy.org is exactly that…
Read MoreI think my simplest self-imposed challenge was to: go entirely paperless at the office this month. It was so simple it’s almost laughable. I’m so confident that I met my own goal I’ve posted this a week before the end of the month. So how did I do it and how did it spill over…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More