Cool Product of the Day

Hunting and Fishing are favorite pastimes of millions of people, but they are also highly regulated activities throughout North America.  While regulation is often for good reasons such as environmental protection or animal population concerns, it makes finding great places to hunt and fish seasonally difficult for many people.  Cool product in technology PowderHook provides tech-savvy hunters and fishermen a way to find great locations to perform their hobbies throughout the continent.  Users who want to find a good place to hunt or fish just log on to the PowderHook website and browse through the many hunting or fishing opportunities listed there.  People can search for opportunities in numerous ways.  PowderHook makes it possible to look for opportunities not only by location but also by the type of animal users want to hunt.  Whether someone wants to hunt something as common as deer or to go on a more exotic adventure such as hunting ocellated turkey on Mexico’s southeastern coast, PowderHook can help hunters easily book the trip.  Any users who have trouble browsing the listings on the website may have Internet connection troubles and will need to find home network service for a fix. Read more »

Augmented reality has many applications in the real world.  People can use it with wearable technology such as Google Glass to create head-up displays for when they perform physical work in an outdoor environment.  However, augmented reality isn’t only limited to wearable tech devices.  Cool product Augment puts the power of augmented reality in the hands of anyone with a smartphone or tablet.  Augment allows people to impose 3D models or prototypes that they create onto the physical world.  Users can view how their models would appear as real-world objects and get a better idea of how they would look before investing money to create a physical item.  Read more »

Moving is costly, time-consuming, and mentally draining even if you aren’t driving the moving truck and packing everything yourself.  This reality is especially true for moving long distances to another city, state or even country.  Finding moving companies with viable prices and services is often a struggle on its own and people also take their own inventory of items to ensure that they forget nothing.  Moveline is a cool product on the web that can help people get through the process of moving with less hassle.  The service aims to help customers relax and focus on the other issues surrounding leaving and going to a new city.  Moveline accomplishes this by guiding people through the process one-step at a time.  The company uses a combination of technology and personal service to help their clients.  Moveline gives people one on one interactions with moving agents while also making use of smartphone cameras, video chat services and online price search and aggregation. Read more »

Fundraising is a major concern for anyone running a nonprofit, school or community organization.  Large networks of regular donors are essential to keeping any of these organizations both alive and accomplishing goals that are part of their stated missions.  However, fundraising is also a complex and draining process.  Building a network, maintaining contacts, hosting events and converting new donors are all difficult tasks.  Even more problematic for many of these organizations, they are not selling a product or service that directly benefits the people paying them and therefore, converting people into donors becomes far more difficult.  Fortunately, there is a cool product called Kimbia that provides a web platform that nonprofits, schools and other fundraisers can use to both manage and optimize their efforts.  Read more »

Shopping online for clothing is simultaneously incredibly convenient and potentially worrying.  While there is no question that purchasing items online and having sites deliver them directly to someone’s front door is far easier for people than going to the local mall, the question about how a particular item of clothing will fit is constantly in the back of many online shoppers’ minds.  Buyers just can’t guarantee that an item is going to fit the way they need it to when they spend their hard-earned cash online.  Cool product in technology Virtusize wants to change this reality for the millions of users buying clothes online every day.  Virtusize helps customers accurately measure the clothing they are shopping for online so they can ensure it will fit when it arrives at home.  People access the specialized online tool through the websites of affiliated online retailers.  Users click the “Virtusize” button on these websites when shopping for clothes to access this cool product.  Anyone who can’t access Virtusize on a site that advertises its use needs to contact a tech support professional to determine what is causing the problem. Read more »

Paying for college is increasingly difficult as the price for higher education continues to rise.  Large student loans are now commonplace for college attendees and graduates and in many cases, students take out more than one loan in order to pay for their schooling.  Unfortunately, people in their late teens and early twenties are usually unexperienced at handling debt to multiple organizations.  This situation leads to students often making mistakes or mismanaging the payment of their loans.  Cool product Tuition.io wants to help these students and college graduates by providing them an online platform where they can visualize and manage all their student loan payments in one place.  Students who receive money from banks, the government, and charity organizations can organize their payments to all of them through Tuition.io.  This cool product provides students with a dashboard that combines the data regarding all their loans, preventing students from having to guess or calculate their debt situation on their own.  Any users who have trouble importing their data into Tuition.io will have to contact an online computer support company in order to address the problem. Read more »

Many independent crafters, artists, clothing designers and inventors desire a physical retail location to sell their artwork or products.  Unfortunately, finding affordable and reasonably located retail space is not as easy as it sounds.  Cool product Storefront is an online space that aims to make the process of finding store locations easier for smaller retailers and artists who want to sell their goods.  Users simply log on to the Storefront website and browse detailed listings in multiple cities for different storefront locations.  Read more »

Radio dramas were once a major part of pop culture.  Countless people tuned in weekly to hear episodic audio performances ranging in genre from crime fiction to sci-fi to romance.  Then, of course, technology moved forward and radio dramas became part of the past. Television became the primary form of entertainment for most people.  In an ironic twist, cool product New Fixtion is bringing back the format of the radio drama, but doing so by using the advantages of the technology that is quickly upending television as the primary form of entertainment in pop culture—the Internet.  New Fixtion hosts a large set of serial audiobooks that feature performances from multiple voice actors.  While a single performer usually reads many audiobooks aloud, New Fixtion provides users with stories performed by actors to create a feel similar to old radio dramas.  New Fixtion wants to bring back the serial audio drama by using the Internet and making these performances available for streaming or download whenever people want.  Anyone who experiences streaming issues while using New Fixtion should seek out a computer tech support service to get help. Read more »

When trying to engage customers, sometimes it’s just as important to let them engage you.  Cool product Zelo offers businesses a unique and interesting way for their customers to interact with them.  Zelo provides a cloud based platform for users to record video messages on a website and have those messages directly delivered to the site’s owner.  Rather than a typical comments section or impersonal email form for users to fill out, Zelo gives customers a chance to express their feelings on camera.  This concept is about as close as most users on the web can get to an in-person customer service experience and could very likely make people feel better about getting their voice heard.  Zelo delivers all video messages recorded with Zelo on the website directly to any inbox that a site owner dictates.  Owners can review all the recorded messages at their leisure.  Any customers who have problems recording video on a site using Zelo should investigate to see if their webcams need PC repair. Read more »

Finding the perfect image for a website, brochure, or presentation is not as easy as it sounds.  Purchasing a unique image can take an excessive amount of time.  People can spend hours or even several days looking for exactly what they need on the web.  Cool product ImageBrief wants to make life easier for people looking for specific types of images to buy.  The team at this startup wants to utilize the unused photographs taken by many professionals to fill the needs of those hoping to find the perfect image.  Professional photographers often have thousands of photos that they have taken but never sold or posted to a portfolio.  ImageBrief gives photographers a chance to make money selling these pictures while helping others find the exact type of picture are looking for on the web.  People ask for specific kinds of photos on ImageBrief and photographers search through their past pictures to find appropriate matches.  If a user likes a particular image that a photographer submits, the two can then make the transaction for the image directly through the website.  Users should not hesitate to contact tech support if they have trouble viewing images offered to them through the site. Read more »