20 Cool New Startups You've Never Heard Of

[Guest]

At the DEMO conference, tech entrepreneurs strut their stuff. We gathered up 20 launches that could change your life, if history repeats itself.

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[Trueno07]

Strange that most of these are Android apps/utilities...

Not really, but it's good to see this kind of stuff being developed for the Android platform.

 

[killerclick]

So the only innovations are applications for phones? I don't have or need a smartphone, this is useless to me! Bah!

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Rebtel’s Android app sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out.

 

[dxwarlock]

am I the only one scrolling and reading going "hmm one of these must be interesting" and getting to the end to realize none of them was?

not one of them made me stop and go "that's kind of cool" they all seem like everyday things you'd find on the marketplace appstore already, or in wal-marts electronic section.

 

[Tomsguiderachel]

[citation][nom]DXWarlock[/nom]am I the only one scrolling and reading going "hmm one of these must be interesting" and getting to the end to realize none of them was?not one of them made me stop and go "that's kind of cool" they all seem like everyday things you'd find on the marketplace appstore already, or in wal-marts electronic section.[/citation]
I think Zosh sounds amazing--I hate having to print then scan stuff in after signing it--this adds the signature for you. Thickbuttons could change the way smartphone users type....I dunno, I think a few of these are actually a big deal.

 

[Tomsguiderachel]

[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]So the only innovations are applications for phones? I don't have or need a smartphone, this is useless to me! Bah![/citation]
Many of them are web sites not phone apps!

 

[milktea]

At first I thought this article could excite me with cool new inventions. Instead, it wasted all my time scrolling through all 22 pictures. The only interesting thing was the nano-scale camera sensor.
I'm pretty disappointed with this year's Startups.

 

[climber]

No way am I going to send my signature to any company over the internet, to be placed in a document. You want identity theft, go for it.

 

[climber]

[citation][nom]climber[/nom]No way am I going to send my signature to any company over the internet, to be placed in a document. You want identity theft, go for it.[/citation]
I was referring to the Zosh app.

 

[Onus]

Yeah, I would like to have seen more hardware, not software; paint-on solar cells, a new battery technology, cheap superbright LED lighting; that sort of thing. Oh well, it's coming...

 

[Guest]

The most boring 20 companies I've never heard of ..... for a good reason. /yawn

 

[Tomsguiderachel]

[citation][nom]climber[/nom]I was referring to the Zosh app.[/citation]
Do you feel that way about online banking too? Or financial tools like Mint.com?

 

[marybranscombe]

@jtt - the hardware launches were The Panel, Quantum Film, Glide TV and Phone Halo (so 4/20)... there were a lot more mobile apps and Web services than new hardware, perhaps because hardware is still more expensive to develop on a startup budget. A new battery technology means a lot of investment in chemistry which is harder than physics to industrialize and reproduce reliably, but it's an area I keep tracking!

@climber - the signature gets embedded into the document that's sent, just like any fax; today a lot of people print out, sign and then scan forms to email. Zosh actually saves the mathematical vectors of your writing so it could prove you signed something (or didn't). The Zosh team did ask me if I'd be prepared to save my signature online to use with devices that don't have a touchscreen and I said 'depends on who secures the site' but there are huge potential security risks in doing that and it's not what the app does today.

@JohnnyLucky - I expect to save a lot of money with the Rebtel app!

 

[pocketdrummer]

"designed by Lady Gaga’s stylist!"

Is that supposed to be a good thing?

 

[Guest]

Can you tell us more, like does it include "Bluetooth" or even USB connectivity to interface with PC or Mac?

 

[artilano]

MEDL is seeking funding for a product that already exists. Samsung has the LapFit, which is also a USB monitor. And just about any monitor maker can come up with this using DisplayLink.