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Powerful Startups: Ameren Accelerator's 7 Latest Energy Innovation Inductees

automatic toothbrush kickstarter

The No-Hands Automatic Toothbrush That Has Raised Over $2 Million

Crowdfunded Smart Wallet Charges, Gives Wi-Fi, Has Theft Detection And More

Crowdfunded Smart Wallet Charges, Gives Wi-Fi, Has Theft Detection And More

Too Many Bad Habits? Just Taser Yourself With This Smart Device

Too Many Bad Habits? Just Taser Yourself With This Smart Device

Air Conditioning Assistant Takes Control To Save Money

Air Conditioning Assistant Takes Control To Save Money

New Crowdfunded Flavor Cup Tricks Your Mind So You Can Drink More Water

New Crowdfunded Flavor Cup Tricks Your Mind So You Can Drink More Water

New Cheesemaker (No We Aren

New Cheesemaker (No We Aren't Kidding) Earns Tenfold Its Crowdfunding Goal

New Device Converts Your Duvet Into A Dual-Temperature, Self-Making, Smart Duvet

New Device Converts Your Duvet Into A Dual-Temperature, Self-Making, Smart Duvet

New VR Handheld Camera Offers 360° Video in 3K Resolution

New VR Handheld Camera Offers 360° Video in 3K Resolution

The Creator Of The Roomba Has Invented A Gardening Robot

The Creator Of The Roomba Has Invented A Gardening Robot

New Crowdfunded Sleep Tracker Helps Your Sleeping Habits Without Touching You

New Crowdfunded Sleep Tracker Helps Your Sleeping Habits Without Touching You

DIY Electronic Kits Use Conductive Ink To Create Homemade Circuits On Paper

DIY Electronic Kits Use Conductive Ink To Create Homemade Circuits On Paper

Intelligent Camera Assistant Takes Complete Control To Give Perfect Shots

Intelligent Camera Assistant Takes Complete Control To Give Perfect Shots

Crowdfunded Customisable Travel Bag Organizes Your Items And Charges Your Devices

This Customizable Travel Bag Organizes Your Items And Charges Your Devices

Crowdfunded Resin SLA 3D Printer Promises Cheaper and Sharper 3D Printing

Crowdfunded Resin SLA 3D Printer Promises Cheaper and Sharper 3D Printing

Awesome Alert: Alcohol Tracking Wearable Tells You If You

Awesome Alert: Alcohol Tracking Wearable Tells You If You've Had Too Many Drinks

Crowdfunded Scuba Diving Gear Lets You Explore Underwater Without A Tank

Crowdfunded Scuba Diving Gear Lets You Explore Underwater Without A Tank

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Fuze Smart Card Has Raised Over $500K, Trying to Cash In Where Mobile Wallet Startup Coin Couldn't

An Electric Bike That Goes 12 mph and Fits In A Backpack

An Electric Bike That Goes 12 mph and Fits In A Backpack

Crowdfunded Universal Travel Adapter Is The Size Of A Battery

This Universal Travel Adapter Is The Size Of A Battery

New Beekeeping App Spots Pests And Infections That Destroy Bee Colonies

New Beekeeping App Spots Pests And Infections That Destroy Bee Colonies

Crowdfunded Armband Is Also A Heart Rate Monitor For Smarter Training

Crowdfunded Armband Is Also A Heart Rate Monitor For Smarter Training

Motorcycle Safety Device Calls For Help During A Fall And More

Motorcycle Safety Device Calls For Help During A Fall And More

New Crowdfunded Smart Garden Gives Users A Versatile Indoor Garden

New Crowdfunded Smart Garden Gives Users A Versatile Indoor Garden

This Anti-Theft Backpack Helps You Charge Your Devices While Protecting Your Data

This Anti-Theft Backpack Helps You Charge Your Devices While Protecting Your Data

Capture 3D Video Footage With A Camera That Fits In The Palm Of Your Hand

Capture 3D Video Footage With A Camera That Fits In The Palm Of Your Hand

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The World's First Hybrid Smartwatch Raised over Five Million in Crowdfunding

Crowdfunded Smart Lock Lets You Use Your Fingerprint Or Smartphone As A Key

Crowdfunded Smart Lock Lets You Use Your Fingerprint Or Smartphone As A Key

New Crowdfunded Small Mobile Power Station Can Power Your Fridge

A New Tiny Mobile Power Station Can Power Your Fridge

Submersible Underwater Drone Shatters Its Crowdfunding Goal

Submersible Underwater Drone Shatters Its Crowdfunding Goal

The World

The World's First Smart Boat Can Transform Into A Backpack, A Sailing Boat and More

New Wearable ECG Sensor Takes Health Monitoring to Another Level

New Wearable ECG Sensor Takes Health Monitoring to Another Level

A Portable Mini Camera That Allows you To "Stick And Click" Wherever You Want

A Portable Mini Camera That Allows you To "Stick And Click" Wherever You Want

A New Smart Device Lets Users Make Craft Beer While Sharing Recipes

A New Smart Device Lets Users Make Craft Beer While Sharing Recipes

Awesome Alert: Using Sonar To Turn Every Surface Into A Smart Interface

Awesome Alert: Using Sonar To Turn Every Surface Into A Smart Interface

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Sprimo, An Air Monitor Built To Help You Detect And Share Air Quality

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VoxEra Is Bypassing Roaming Charges By Connecting Through The Internet To Your Home

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Dadamachines, A Toolkit That Let's You Make Music From Anything

Uvolt Watch, An Analog Watch That Uses Solar Power Charges Your Phone

Uvolt Watch, An Analog Watch That Uses Solar Power Charges Your Phone

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Joto, The World's First Remote And Robotic Drawing Board

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The Sobro, A Coffee Table That Is Part Fridge, Part Smart Device

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Brixo Is Bringing Lego Sets To The Internet Of Things

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Smarke, A Smart Lock Designed To Control Access For Hosts And Property Managers

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Kancy Is A New Smart Device That Gives You Control Over Your Electrical Devices

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Eye Is A New Smartphone Case On Kickstarter that Merges Android, iPhone And More

Smart Speaker

Clarity's Touchscreen Smart Speaker Is Facing Off Against The IoT Big Boys

Headlight

Speednite Is Reinventing Night Cycling With A Smart Bike Headlight

Baby Monitor

Raybaby Is A Baby Monitor On A New Level By Tracking Infant Vitals

LAB BOX

LAB-BOX Is Making the Darkroom Portable For Traditional Photography

VR Camera

Huawei's VR Camera Offers 360° Photos, 8k Video, and Live Streaming

Plen Cube

Plen Cube, A Portable Personal Assistant Robot Designed To Unify All Of Your Devices

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The World's First Smart Turntable is Turning Heads on Kickstarter

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A New Wearable Helps Women Take Control of Their Ovulation Cycle

motherbox feature

The MotherBox Brings Remote Wireless Charging to your Smartphone

Solar PoweredWallet

A Slick, Trackable, Solar-Powered Wallet

Wassup feature

Wassup's On-demand Laundry Service Just Raised $3.2 Million

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MiiXR is a New Mixing Bottle That Does the Mixing for You

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Graviky Labs Is Turning Your Car Pollution Into Perfectly Safe Ink

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The World's Smallest, Longest Range GPS Locator Is Raising Some Big Dough

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SELFY's Smartphone Case Is Also A Camera Drone And Has Doubled Its Backing Goal

virtual reality job training

US Lawyers Are Bringing Virtual Reality To Courtrooms To Strengthen Their Cases

jobit feature

Jiobit's New Child Location Tracker Just Raised $4.2 Million

Naptime feature

A Smart Eyeshade That Helps You Control Your Naps

Moodo feature

This Smart Diffuser Lets You Customize The Scent Of Your Home From Your Phone

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4 Alarm Clock Apps That Will Charge You Money For Sleeping In

Pause feature

This Box Is Designed Only To Block Your Cell Phone Signal & Save You From Distraction

Zera food recycler feature

This Food Recycler Turns Food Waste to Fertilizer In 24 Hours

rocketbook everlast notebook kickstarter

Rocketbook's Latest Smart Notebook Just Raised Almost $2M, Their First One Hit $1.3M

Changhong feature

Changhong's New Smartphone Will Tell You the Ingredients of Anything

crushh analyses texts to determine how much people like you

Based On Texts, This App Will Tell You How Much People Like You

neighbor carpooling app for kids

Neighbor, A Carpooling App Just For Your Kids

heatsbox heated lunchbox

A Wireless Lunchbox That Heats Up Your Meal In 15 Minutes

snooperscope night vision smartphone

Wanna Turn Your Smartphone Into Night Vision Goggles? Sure You Do

smart toilet seat brondell on kickstarter

A Heated Odor-Filtering Smart Toilet Seat That Turns Toilets To Bidets

action blink skateboard from indiegogo

The All-Wheel-Drive Skateboard That Just Raised $1.3M On Indiegogo

qi aerista smart tea maker on kickstarter

The Smart Tea Maker That Just Raised Over $160K On Kickstarter

baby wearable and baby monitor neebo

Meet Neebo, The Latest In Baby Wearables As Baby Monitors

zei time tracking tool

This Is Probably The Coolest Time Tracking Tool Out There

testing male fertility with smartphones

Measuring Male Fertility With Your Smartphone

foldscope paper microscope

Foldscope: The 2000X Microscope That Folds Into Your Pocket & Costs Less Than $1

canvasdhomemodelscanner

This Tech Measures & Makes A Digital 3D Model Of Your Home By Pointing An iPad At Stuff

smart heated balaclava

This Smart Balaclava Warms Oxygen To Prevent Chest Infections During Winter Exercise

email marketing competitor research rival explorer

This Startup Helps You Deep-Snoop Competitor Email Marketing

prynt smartphone case instant camera

A Smartphone Case That Turns Phones Into Instant Cameras Raised Another $7 Million

cardiio heart monitor app

A Heart Monitoring App Can Detect Arrhythmia By Looking At Your Face

bonjour alarm clock artificial intelligence

Do We Need Artificial Intelligence In Our Alarm Clocks? Apparently, Yes

bike tires that never go flat

New Bike Tires That Don't Get Flat And Don't Need Air

theSPUDpop upscreenunfoldedinto"monitor

This 24-Inch Pop-Up Screen Collapses To The Size Of A Book And It's Crushing On Kickstarter

smartphone chargers from TYLT VU

8 Game-Changing Chargers For Smartphones & Other Electronics

robotic chessboard with artificial intelligence by Square Off

This Chessboard Moves Pieces On Its Own So You Can Play Anybody In The World Or Nobody

Vigilante app symbolized by eyes in a dark sky

An App Called, "Vigilante" Launched To Open Up The 911 System And Promote, Well, Vigilantism

DNA testing kit for Habits diets program

Habit Will Offer Personalized DNA-Based Diets Delivered To Your Door

Skunklock bike lock

The Bike Lock That Sprays Thieves With Barf-Inducing Chemicals

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When Tools Are Cool: The 17-In-1 Pocket-Sized Talon From Tactica

cars in the HOV lane detectable by the Xerox vehicle passenger detection system

Xerox Made Technology To Catch HOV Lane Cheaters

PocketScan pocket sized scanner

Size Matters: Super Tiny Scanners & Printers Are Just Plain Cool

Japanese man smoking outside of smoking booth

You Can Buy Single-Occupant Smoking Booths For Office Cubicles In Japan

woman talks with a Toyota Kirobo Mini robot companion

Toyota Is Making Robot Companions; Should We Bring Back Tamagotchi?

wair anti pollution scarf

A French Startup Is Launching A Fashionable Pollution Protection Scarf

woman using the Mint breathalyzer

The Mint Breathalyzer Is a Portable Test for Bad Breath and Oral Hygiene

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Will The Dr. Oz-Backed Life-Saving Smartwatch Survive Indiegogo?

ATOM FLIYE electric skateboard/hoverboard with a fat middle tire

We Really Want To Ride This All-Terrain Hoverboard With A Fat Middle Wheel

smart bra wearable from OMbra

At Long Last, A Smart Bra To Optimize Exercise (And Other Things)

SCOTTeVEST jacket showing a diagram of its many electronics pockets and what can be stored there

If You Need A 29-Pocket Jacket With 2 Laptop Compartments, You're In Luck

GoProHeroBlackandHeroSession

The New GoPro Hero 5 4K Water-Resistant Cameras Are Worth A Look

Shade UV radiation monitor and smartphone app for lupus patients

Shade Pursues More Accurate & Affordable UV Radiation Monitoring for Lupus Patients

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Spent Enough On Your Baby Yet? Here's A Self-Driving Smart Stroller

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Technology That Stops Your Snoring Or Gives You Your Money Back

Sionsolar poweredcars

A Solar-Powered Car Got Crowdfunded & Plans To Sell for Under $20K

checking vitamin levels using the Vitastiq device

Non-Invasive Device for Checking Vitamin Levels Vitastiq Crushes Crowdfunding Again

bike with Beakor cycling safety gear installed

Beakor's New Cycling Safety Tech Is Wheally Wheally Tight

Monkii Bars portable fitness gear held in a hand

Monkii Bars 2, A Workout That Fits In A Pocket, Raised Millions in Crowdfunding

woman who has borrowed a dog

Have A Dog Day Afternoon: Borrow Dogs From Other Owners With Bark'N'Borrow

runner with STEPP fitness wearable

A New Fitness Wearable That Coaches You In Real Time As You Run

expectant mother wearing pregnancy tracker

Belli Award-Winning Smart Pregnancy Tracker Detects, Records & Analyzes Contractions

a frame makes items move in slow motion

This Frame Makes Real Things Look Like Beautiful Slow Motion

a cocktail glass floating on its magentic base

The Levitating Cocktail Glass Cleared Its Kickstarter Goal

smartphone camera lens on iPhone

5 Smartphone Camera Lenses To Make Your Phone Photos Pop

Prisma cold brew coffee machine

Prisma Promises Cold Brew Coffee In 10 Minutes or Less

Soylent Coffiest coffee drink and meal replacement

Edibles for Entrepreneurs: Soylent Puts Your Morning Coffee and Breakfast In One Bottle

a drone from Zipline flys on its way to drop medical supplies in Rwanda

Zipline, The Drone Designed To Deliver Medical Supplies In Developing Countries

fresh veggies delivered from GrubMarket

GrubMarket Farm-to-Door Marketplace & App Has Now Raised Over $32 Million

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Lift Levitates Your Smartwatch While Charging It

Alchema hard cider machine in use

A Machine To Make Homemade Hard Cider From Fresh Fruit In 2 Weeks

water over the head as personal climate control

Keeping Cool With The Latest Personal Climate Control Technology From Startups

amicable divorce app

Amicable App Attempts Clean Divorce By Guiding Dialogue & Auto-Drafting Agreements

ZEEQ Smart Pillow and companion iPhone app

AntiSnore Music Playing Alarm Clock & Sleep-Assist Smart Pillow Is Wide Awake On Kickstarter

Ori robotic furniture

Robotic Furniture You Configure, Move & Shapeshift With An App & A Button Press

Fizzics beer pouring system

Fizzics Is An At-Home Beer Tap That Turns Any Beer Into Draft Beer

Laforge smart glasses

Glasses With In-Lens Navigation, Notifications & Photo Taking: Fashion Tech For Your Face

Bagel smart tape measure

This Smart Tape Measure Has Raised Over $500K on Kickstarter And Still Going

BioRing wearable calorie intake tracker

Here's A Ring Designed To Track Calorie Intake And A Bunch More

bicycle navigation system and iPhone app Beeline

BeeLine Is A "Sense Of Direction" Handlebar Nav for Cyclists And It Ships In Fall

detecting cancer cells with diamonds inBikanta

Bikanta, The Startup Detecting Cancer With Tiny Diamonds

startup founder using Tinder for investments app

Tinder For Investments & Entrepreneurs - There Are At Least 2 Of 'Em

device to lose weight

Full Circle: Startups Want To Help You Lose Weight While You Sit Still

smart umbrella and connected app from Oombrella

This Umbrella Tells You When You Forget It And Sends Weather Updates When It's Going To Rain

the best chatbots

6 Chatbots To Check Out When You've Got Some Time To Kill

woman working for software testing startups

4 Software Testing Startups To Help You Ship Better Product

Selfie smart mirror app

Apocalypse Notification: There's A Selfie Mirror (That Actually Does A Lot More)

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It's A 3D Printed Transparent Electric Stradivarius Replica, And You Can Still Back It

laundry folding machine Foldimate

We're Going There: A $700 Home Laundry Folding Machine

Prepd Pack lunchbox and app

This Insanely Cool Lunchbox Raised Almost $2 Million On Indiegogo, And It Ships Next Month

apps to help you find a babysitter like Mary Poppins

Happy Thursday: Apps & Startups To Help Find a Babysitter

Sherlock bicycle anti theft snapmunk

A GPS Anti-Theft Bike Tracker Hidden in the Handlebars

interior design sketch

SwatchPop! Gives Custom Interior Design Consulting Remotely & Affordably

police car lightbar after issuing parking tickets

2 Startups Helping Us Fight Parking Tickets & Traffic Tickets

touchscreen monitor on a laptop using Airbar

AirBar Makes Almost Any Laptop Screen a Touchscreen

Meural digital picture frame and canvas

A Connected Digital Canvas of Infinite Art for Under $500

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson yelling at you to wake up

You Can Wake Up to Motivation from The Rock with Rock Clock App

hipster uses Where is Williamsburg app

This App Finds You The Hipster Area of Every Major City

Roccbox portable wood burning stone oven

Need A Portable Stone Floor Wood Burning Pizza Oven? Sure You Do.

paying bills the old fashioned way

3 Startups Making Bill Payments Feel Slightly Less Like Torture

student in drone race

Now People Are Racing Drones...With Only Their Minds

blank walls waiting to be filled with an art collection from startups

3 Startups To Help You Build Your Art Collection

designing slide presentations with Slidebean

Slidebean "One-Click" Slide Design Tries To Put New Spin On An Old Game

exercise equipment that can be used with the Gymtrack app

Gymtrack Is Changing the Gym Workout with An Equipment-Connected Virtual Training Platform

Ubifood app to prevent food waste

Canadian Startup Ubifood Fights Food Waste With Local Deals On Overstock

Halo athletic headphones using neuroscience to improve performance

Headphones Designed to Improve Athletic Performance with Energy Pulses

Inupathy smart dog collar

The Smart Dog Collar That Tries to Tell You How Your Fur Baby Is Feeling

Casabots robot salad maker

The Startup Making Robots to Make Your Salads

Hydra Lightcamplightpoweredbysaltwater

Add Salt Water to Charge Your Phone & Shed Some Light

Cor home blood test device and app

Cor Brings Blood Chemistry Testing Into Homes and Phones

Quell chronic pain management device

Quell Tries to Treat Chronic Pain As Easily As Medication

Leaos solar powered eBike

LEAOS, The First Self-Sufficient Solar Panel eBike

man making decisions about his career

80,000 Hours, An Automated Life Coach & Career Advisor

healthcare startups

Two Healthcare Startups Fixing Long Waits and High Costs

Startup Grind conference in Silicon Valley

3 Highlights from the Startup Grind Conference, Silicon Valley

Handing stranger phone with Wakie app

Wakie, The App That Facilitates Random Calls with Strangers

coelux skylights

CoeLux Lamps Look and Function EXACTLY Like Skylights

earthquake detection with MyShake smartphone app

Smartphones Can Now Detect and Warn Us of Earthquakes

software security for personal medical devices

Code & Ethics: Uncovering Unknowns In Our Medical Devices

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The Smart Water Bottle Space Is Filling Up Fast

SaloonBox monthly cocktail subscription

Mixing It Up With a SaloonBox Monthly Cocktail Subscription

Yourpersonalizedlifestyleprogramfortypediabetesreversal

Startup Suggestic Aims to Reverse Your Type 2 Diabetes

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Bloomizon Delivers Customized Vitamins To Your Door

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Wearables Had Its Moment, Now It's Time for Findables

Brewie home beer brewing system and equipment

Home Brewing Gets Automated and Super Easy with Brewie

children using LuminAID solar power lights

Helping Light Up Developing Nations with Luci and LuminAID

NeuroOn smart sleep mask

Happy Napping - Neuroon Is a Really Smart Sleep Mask

Latte art saying "Good Morning" made by the Ripple device

The Ripple Maker Lets Anyone Make Latte Art (Video)

person trying to quit smoking

Wanna Quit Smoking? There's a Case, Lighter and App for That

XXX sign marking smart sex toys

Sync'd Smart Sex Toys: The Future of Love Has Arrived

Sign saying Payday

Even, An App Alternative to Payday Loans

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Giving the Gift of Sight with an iPhone App for the Blind

Firefox OS for Mobile Lives On with Acadine Technologies

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ElMindA Is Demystifying the Brain with Data Analysis and 3D Imaging