Cool Product of the Day

DJs who mix and perform sets of Electronic Dance Music, or EDM for short, usually require large set-ups of computer hardware and digital turntables to put on a performance.  The amount of work involved in setting up equipment for each gig is substantial and can be limiting for DJs who make their living from their mixing and performance work.  Cool product in technology Mixify is an online platform that not only makes it possible for DJs to avoid large set-ups by streaming performances remotely in high quality audio, but also lets them stream mixes and sets to multiple locations at once all over the world.  Read more »

Designing and prototyping software and websites is such a tedious and difficult process partially because the two acts require such different skillsets.  Designers are necessary to find the best interface for a positive user experience, but they do not have the coding skills professional programmers have that are necessary to turn a design into a working prototype ready for demonstration. The Marvel app is a cool product in technology that lets teams avoid part of this lengthy process.  The Marvel app helps people quickly create prototypes for new designs without having to code at all.  Instead, the Marvel app has users use the images of the designs themselves to formulate clickable and interactive prototypes to present to clients, investors, or anyone else they want to see their concept in action.  Read more »

Mental health professionals must be especially protective of their data due to the sensitive information they often have about their patients.  Patients’ confidence in a therapist’s discretion is essential to that doctor’s long-term success.  While there are many cloud-based office programs that can help a therapist’s office organize and schedule their clients and appointments, many of them do not have the added security necessary for such a setting.  Cool product in technology Yellow Schedule is a scheduling platform that takes the special needs of mental health professional’s situation specifically into consideration.  The product helps therapists schedule their appointments and meetings easily. Yellow Schedule also lets doctors directly communicate with patients regarding their appointments and has strong built-in security to keep patients’ information safe.  Read more »

Having a digital personal assistant has been a science fiction fantasy for many consumers for decades.  Computers that speak to you and act as a personal assistant has been a common trope in popular television shows, books and films over the years.  However, only recently did the idea become a viable reality for the everyday consumer.  When Apple’s Siri feature for the iPhone debuted several years ago, it was a major hit. The conversational interaction that triggered the feature tapped into to many people’s fantasies about artificial intelligence.  Suddenly, people had the ability to ask their smartphone to make appointments, look up information and perform basic online tasks with just a few spoken words.  Flash forward a few years later and now there is a cool product called GoDog Fetch that acts in a similar way, but does so for other platforms besides the iPhone, such as Android and Windows devices.  Users who have trouble downloading the product for any of their devices can get help from a smartphone IT support service. Read more »

Independent retailers always have many hurdles to deal with when trying to set up complicated POS systems that can be costly and time consuming.  Small businesses often run into technical troubles or have difficulty maintaining their POS systems and the transaction data collected by it over time.  Cool product in technology Bindo wants to give small businesses a leaner solution to inventory and POS systems.  With Bindo, POS data is securely stored in the cloud and storefronts can operate with just an iPad and a few accessories.  With Bindo’s use of mobile technology and cloud data, small retailers have a simpler solution to finding a fully functional POS system that serves their needs.  Bindo’s POS system works through Apple mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad rather than through any complicated computer system.  Rather than struggle to fix a system when it goes down, Bindo users have the option of simply contacting a mobile computer support company. Read more »

While many prefer to customize their vacations and limit their activities to themselves, their families and some close friends, there are many frequent travelers all over the world that enjoy large group tours planned by specialized travel companies.  However, these guided tours vary heavily in quality, which is why cool product in technology TourRadar exists to help travelers find and book the highest quality guided tours available.  TourRadar is an online marketplace where user can browse all types of pre-booked guided tours and book them based on recommendations from other users.  Users can review and rate every tour available on the site in order to help others decide if the trip is worth booking.  This cool product even collaborates with certain tour companies to provide exclusive discounts to its customers, encouraging more people to book with TourRadar and rate their trips.  Any customers who have trouble rating trips on the TourRadar website might need to find a tech support provider to assist them. Read more »

Most people do not perceive dairy farming to be a highly computerized or technology-heavy industry.  However, that doesn’t mean that the Internet, cloud technology and data tracking don’t have anything to offer the dairy farming world.  Cool product Farmeron is a digital platform that helps farmers eliminate paperwork and crunch numbers more efficiently.  With Farmeron, dairy farmers can keep track of all their business’s data in one place rather than in several complicated spreadsheets.  This cool product makes all of a farm’s data accessible and viewable in several different formats depending on what a user needs at a particular time.  Farmers create their accounts online and upload their data to Farmeron’s cloud-based platform.  Customers can then access their business’s data securely from anywhere, even on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.  Farmeron’s system saves farmers time by avoiding cluttered spreadsheets and makes it easier for them to make sense out of the data they collect about their herds. Any clients of Farmeron who find themselves unable to access their data over the web will need to contact a cloud tech support professional about the matter. Read more »

Television shows have always been a major piece of American pop culture and in recent years, there has even been increased media attention for popular shows on network and cable television.  Shows such as Game of Thrones, The Big Bang Theory and Mad Men have all garnered tremendous fan bases and mainstream media attention. Many online communities centered on different television shows sprout up consistently as well.  Die-hard television viewers who watch and follow several shows religiously now have a cool product that helps them stay up to date with each show they watch.  TeeVee is an iPhone app that contains a large database of many active and inactive television shows that still air regularly either in their main runs or through syndication.  The app gives users data about the next time a show is going to air, episode details and even connects people to preview trailers for new seasons and episodes of popular shows.  TeeVee is currently available as an app both for iPhone and iPad users. Apple support is available for those who experience issues trying to download TeeVee from the App Store. Read more »

YouTube is no longer just an amateur video site.  Many people produce high quality content for the massive Internet video platform on a regular basis and even manage to earn a living purely from the advertisement money coming from their YouTube channels.  YouTube has gone from an interesting novelty to a major platform for many different types of media—from talk shows to independent dramatic web series.  However, for potential YouTube personalities, the task of building an audience large enough to sustain a regular show or popular channel can be daunting.  Cool product VidIQ wants to give users a better chance at getting enough regular viewers to make their YouTube videos profitable.  Building an audience takes far more work than just content creation and VidIQ is a platform that streamlines that work.  Read more »

While many people consider reading books to be a solitary activity, that doesn’t always hold true in reality.  For lots of readers, books are as social of a hobby as anything else.  People create book clubs, use social media and engage in events such as author signings and Q&A sessions just to meet other avid readers and discuss the nature of their favorite texts.  Conversations range from speculation about character motivations to complex academic discussions about story themes.  Now, a cool product in technology wants to harness this social aspect of book reading for profit.  Bookmate lets readers take notes, leave questions, and copy quotes in every book that they read with the app and then share all their notations with all of their friends on social media.  Users can read their friends’ notations within a certain book as they read it on Bookmate and then engage those friends on social media to discuss how they felt about those notes.  Bookmate integrates with popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter so people can even share their notes with friends who don’t use Bookmate.  Anyone who cannot connect his or her Bookmate account to Twitter or Facebook should get help from a remote computer support provider. Read more »