Blurring the lines to create a type of new accommodation, the Other House plans to disrupt the traditional sectors of hotels, serviced apartments and private rentals, by combining home comforts with hotel style facilities, whatever the length of stay. Think of it as a second home – your ‘other house’. Launching in South Kensington and Covent […]
Get Closer To The Music and Other Fans with SecondScreen
So there you are at a concert, everybody’s fiddling with their phones, streaming, tweeting, posting – all over the place. SecondScreen have developed an app that can link us all up together, at the one point in time, on the same platform just when wanted to be connected. Imagine that – one communal digital space capturing all the buzz and excitement […]
‘Ruffl’ yourself a London table with new generation dining app
Ruffl, a brand new smartphone app helping diners fulfil the increasing trend towards ‘here and now’, spontaneous dining. Using geo-location and connected directly to an expanding network of restaurants, the Ruffl app allows diners to search, discover and instantly book available tables nearby in just 3 taps, many with special offers, deals and discounts. There are thought to […]
London’s First Digital Food Festival
October marks the start of a month-long digital food festival in Crouch End – the first ever online event of its type in London. From its award-winning coffee bars, an ice cream parlour that makes its own ices from secret recipes on the premises, to a hip Spanish tapas bar, this leafy North London […]
Bjork’s Biophilia App Now Available On Android
Björk has made her groundbreaking multimedia album, Biophilia available on Android for the first time. The app, of which Wired said ‘nothing has come close to the way Biophilia re-imagined the album as something functional’, and which was quoted by The Guardian as ‘restoring some of the intimacy you can have with music’, can be downloaded on […]
Hiscox Launches London Market Online Magazine App
Specialist insurer Hiscox has launched a new web app, Hiscox Global Insight which provides news, views and practical advice to London Market brokers in a new convenient online format. Hiscox Global Insight follows a magazine format and each edition will offer an in-depth look at a specific subject, starting with terrorism, and update people in […]
University of the Body launches crowd funding campaign to shake up health and fitness industry
This is the sort of thing we like – entrepreneurs, gap in the market, fitness and of course, an app. University of the Body, the first product in the world to deliver a year-long gym fitness training programme in HD video, has launched a crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo (http://bit.ly/12JgBrm). University of the Body videos […]
‘Eat It. Feel Good. Give It. Feel Better.’ Action Against Hunger Smartphone Donation App
NGO Action Against Hunger is launching a new calorie-converting app to raise funds for its programmes. The Give Your Calories app scans your food (photo or barcode), calculates the calories and an equivalent donation to Action Against Hunger which you can click and send via Paypal, thereby helping to restore the balance of food for hungry […]