A HIGH-TECH voting system has prompted outrage after town hall bosses revealed it was being installed in a bid to speed up long council meetings.
Blackburn with Darwen Council is spending £50,000 on the electronic key-pad system, similar to those used on television game shows such as ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’, and improvements to […]

 
MarketClusters founder and CEO Nick Gregg has got his eye on India as a market to sell into and recruit from.
MarketClusters’ flagship product is a digital media intelligence offering called StrategyEye. It provides real-time information on the changes ocurring across the sector.
Gregg says: “India is one country we want to go into. We can remotely […]

 
Videoconferencing specialist ICU Global is cashing in on the public’s ever-growing awareness of environmental issues as well as the desire of many business people to spend less time in airports.
Founder and CEO Stephen McKenzie says even though videoconferencing has been around for years, there’s huge potential in this business technology area.
“You save money on travel, […]

 
I have just heard that Google and gas pump maker Gilbarco Veeder-Root have announced a partnership that will bring Google Maps down to earth and provide driving directions, local search, and coupons to 3,500 Internet-enabled gas pumps across the US.
A great idea but isn’t this a little too late? With the modern day sat nav […]

 
Britain’s personal debt is increasing by £1 million every 4 minutes. Graduates who leave University have an average debt of £12,363. Are you in debt? Could you work with the homeless, sick and elderly? Then you could become debt free simply by doing some charity work.
It is a new and exciting scheme called Do Good […]

 
Chances are that Louis Michaud is one of very few people who spend their days trying to make tornadoes. A year ago, the retired petrochemical engineer put together what looked a bit like a high-tech kiddie swimming pool. Only rather than splashes, this pool tends to generate twisters about as high as the garage.
Michaud is […]

 
Entrepreneurs Alla Ouvarova and Ann Richey have launched their innovative and simple business Two Chicks selling a brand of free-range liquid egg white.
Fitness fanatic Anna said the idea came from frustration, from separating the egg white whenever she wanted to make an egg white omelette and was shocked when she found this product was not […]

 
The concepts of 2.0 are really evolving now and i am surprised to see what concepts are sprouting up next!
Quebec-based Myca already has a hit with a service called MyFoodPhone, which lets users snap photos of their daily meals and send them to the company’s nutritional analysts.
Myca is a pioneer in what you might call […]

 
Something that you would see on Dragons Den!
The Super Yoga Mat is a yoga mat you unfurl from a metal tube that’s actually a stereo. It can take in memory cards or play content off an MP3 player. The real tech candy here is the mat which is made of an electronic paper screen.
The idea […]

The iStraw is a lightweight polycarbonate straw fitted with a special membrane, which uses micro-filtration technology to clean your water. If you’ve tried chlorine tablets, you know how icky the taste can be, and with the iStraw there’s no aftertaste. The company sent one for me to try out so I can attest that the […]