Have you ever thought about which sense would be your worst to lose? For me, it’s sight. Blindness–living in a […]
5 Startups With Their Eye on Preventing Blindness
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Instagram Like Healthcare App Allows Doctors To Share Cases Worldwide
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Toronto-based clinical image and knowledge-sharing healthcare app Figure 1, described as an ‘Instagram for doctors,’ has raised $10 million in funding […]
Awesome Alert: MIT Researchers Develop A Biosensor Tattoo
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The field of medical science is continually making jumps forward. Despite individual attempts gaining controversy, the successes show us that […]
Philadelphia Based Biomedical Startup Is Attempting to Reanimate Life… Again
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Yes, friends, you heard it correct. It’s not enough that we can now 3D print life (technically it was a […]
Awesome Alert: 3D Printed Ovaries Have the Potential to Create Life
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If you’re at all a reader here on SnapMunk you’ll know that more than a few startups are pre-occupied with […]
Is VR The Magic Bullet The Healthcare World Needs?
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I’m on a tropical beach, gentle waves lapping the shore beneath the palm trees. “There is no past, no future, […]
Awesome Alert: Doctors Are Developing Odor Sensors To Diagnose What’s Wrong
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Did you know that every person has an “odorprint”? Very much like a fingerprint, it is a unique aspect made […]
Israeli Startup Furthers Medical AI For Radiology With $7 Million in Funding
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We’re quickly seeing medical startups emerge that are bringing modern technological methods to the hospital to assist doctors. It makes […]
Augmented Reality is Exploding – Here are 10 Up-and-Coming AR Companies Fueling the Fire
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Data suggests there will be 200 million augmented reality users by 2018. That’s a significant number of eyeballs immersing themselves […]
From Pharma to Table: Are Startups Really Fueling More Egalitarianism in Healthcare?
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The Internet was supposed to be the great equalizer in oh so many ways. Everyone can make their voice heard, […]
PeraHealth Is Helping Healthcare Professionals With Algorithms That Monitor And Assess Patient Condition
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If you asked any sane person how they’d like to die, they’re not likely to say “in a hospital with plenty […]
A Really, Really Affordable Hearing Aid Smashed Its Indiegogo Goal
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It is said the best technology is invisible. Korean outfit Olive Union set about applying that maxim to hearing aids, […]
Replacement Hearts: They’re Coming And Here’s Who’s Close
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Human health was a huge tech focus in 2016. Innovations focused on helping people monitor things like their diet, medication, […]
Awesome Alert: Meet BliTab, A Braille Tablet For The Blind
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Recently there has been a spurt in technology that makes other technology accessible to people with various disabilities. In some […]
A Portable Device & App That Identifies Pills and Their Uses
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We have a lot of help when it comes to tracking the contents of our food. Devices like the Nima […]
Yup, Someone Finally Made A Video Game Out Of Teeth Brushing
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Back in 2007, Dr. Yong Jing-Wang had a problem: his young son Charles hated to brush his teeth. In fact, […]
These Smart Socks Could Save Millions of Diabetics From Wounds & Ulcers
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There are a ton of cool wearables out there, but this one is going to blow your socks off (or […]
This Wearable Creates Fat Loss Programs By Analyzing Your Breath
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Fitness wearable for fat loss, anyone? Maybe you’d like the earphones that use artificial intelligence coupled with data from biosensors […]
A Voice-Controlled Wearable Enabling Movement for the Paralyzed, Brought To You By High Schoolers
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Science fair projects and teenagers seem to have become solid sources of full-fledged tech progress. Uday Parshionikar told us how his […]
Measuring Male Fertility With Your Smartphone
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For many men, the idea of visiting the doctor for a male fertility test can be kind of awkward, embarrassing and […]
Electronics Powered By Body Heat: A Smartwatch Is Just A Start
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If you’ve been living under a rock, or perhaps a really large iPhone for the last several months, you may […]
Habit Will Offer Personalized DNA-Based Diets Delivered To Your Door
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Dieting is one of the hottest industries in the world, filled with tens of thousands of products promising to help […]
This Web-Shaped Orthopedic Cast Lets Itches Be Scratched While Bones Heal
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If you’ve ever worn an orthopedic cast, you know that flexibility is not their strong suit. Especially when you’re itchy. That may change thanks to Cast21 and their 3D-printed, open weave cast that lets air and water in.
This Assistive Technology Lets Us Control Computers With Face Movements
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There seems to be more innovation in assistive technology than ever before. There’s also more money in it as a […]
You Can Buy Single-Occupant Smoking Booths For Office Cubicles In Japan
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Now that it’s getting colder out, smoking breaks are becoming a bit less pleasant for workers across the globe. Plus, […]
A Paralyzed Man Can Feel Touch Through A Prosthetic Hand
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In 2004, at 18 years old, Nathan Copeland broke his neck in a car accident. The injury left him paralyzed, […]
High Schoolers Are Designing A Cure For Seasonal Affective Disorder
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Winter is coming, and for the 30+ million Americans with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD, seriously?), that could mean low energy, […]
The Mint Breathalyzer Is a Portable Test for Bad Breath and Oral Hygiene
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Here at SnapMunk, we’ve touched on the topic of breathalyzers for alcohol, but now there’s one for oral hygiene and […]
Meet The Pillow That Just Cracked A Million Dollars On Kickstarter
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If you spend your nights tossing and turning, trying to find the perfect way to position yourself, a comfortable pillow […]
Will The Dr. Oz-Backed Life-Saving Smartwatch Survive Indiegogo?
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There are plenty of fitness wearables on the market today, however not too many are able to say they can […]
With A VR Medical Training Game, LIFE Tries To Save Babies’ Lives In Africa
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Due to a lack of widespread quality healthcare and on-the-ground, up-to-date medical training, 470,000 babies die each year in Africa […]
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know Sep 19-23
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Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
Microsoft Is Curing Cancer & BMW Is Making Shoes: Diversity You Can Depend On
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Fall is a time for branching out and embracing diversity. Companies large, medium and small are looking for new bounties outside […]
Shade Pursues More Accurate & Affordable UV Radiation Monitoring for Lupus Patients
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Targeted toward lupus patients, skin cancer sufferers and anyone else interested in monitoring their exposure to UV radiation, the Shade medical device and companion smartphone app is more than 25x more accurate than the similar device by Microsoft.
A Keurig for Cannabis: Pod Goes In, Vapor Comes Out
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CannaKorp, Inc. is a Stoneham, Massachusetts-based technology start-up company focused on simplifying and improving the experience for medical cannabis patients. […]
TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016: The Highlights
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TechCrunch Disrupt landed in the City by the Bay this week after making a pitstop in New York earlier this year. […]
Custom 3D-Printed Supplement Pills Will Control Quantity & Effect Timing
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Studies such as this one in the Annals of Internal Medicine have shown that many dietary supplement pills are ineffective […]
Technology That Stops Your Snoring Or Gives You Your Money Back
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Snoring is easily one of the most annoying habits in the world—unfortunately, it’s also one of the hardest to control. One company offers a […]
CRISPR Plays God With Our Genes, But First, Drought-Resistant Corn
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How do we feel about Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMOS)? Are they a health scourge that hides in plain sight? Are frankenfruits […]
Non-Invasive Device for Checking Vitamin Levels Vitastiq Crushes Crowdfunding Again
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When it comes to getting your nutrients, eating healthy is the best start. But once you’ve eaten, few people have much in the […]
Belli Award-Winning Smart Pregnancy Tracker Detects, Records & Analyzes Contractions
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The third trimester of pregnancy can be a trying experience for any expecting mother, especially with a first pregnancy, when almost everything is […]
Fighting Cancer With Crowdfunding
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Crowdfunding has given the world many products that might not have otherwise made it to market. Case in point, Emoji […]
The Condom Now Reinvented & Well-Funded with LELO Hex and Charlie Sheen
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What does it take to reinvent the condom? 70 years of capitalism? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a […]
Zipline, The Drone Designed To Deliver Medical Supplies In Developing Countries
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New drones from a company called Zipline will fly medical supplies to remote parts of developing countries. They use GPS technology to find their targets after being summoned by text message. It seems “the future of healthcare is out for delivery.”
A Biotracker Implantable In The Skin Just Got $7.5 Million In Government Grant Money
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Your fitness tracker counts calories burned and monitors heart rate? Pffft. That’s bush league. How about a tissue-integrated sensor implanted […]
Interviewing Founder Kevin Halsall of Ogo, The Hands-Free Self-Balancing Wheelchair
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This week we chat with Kevin Halsall, the founder of Ogo Technology and the inventor of a hands-free self-balancing wheelchair inspired by a Segway. The Ogo is taking crowfunding by storm and could be life-changing for people with disabilities. Plus, it’s just fun.
Here’s A Ring Designed To Track Calorie Intake And A Bunch More
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Fitness trackers are one of the hottest things out there. While helpful though, when it comes to calories, they often […]
Even If Some Science Says Brain Training Games Don’t “Work”, Can’t We Appreciate Them Anyway?
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The more than $1 billion dollar brain training games industry has suffered a few concussions lately. To be fair, the […]
Bikanta, The Startup Detecting Cancer With Tiny Diamonds
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They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but they can also be a cancer researcher’s best friend – and contrary […]
SIRUM’s Award-Winning Medicine-Matching Service Shows the Nonprofit Way to Startup Success
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Kiah Williams has gotten used to the limelight in the past year – or at least she should have, given […]
A Confluence Of Technologies Will Offer A Chance To Experience New Life
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Talk to Robert Stromberg and Guy Primus, two of the co-founders of the Virtual Reality Company, and you get a vision […]
The App Fighting Sexual Assault By Recognizing Screams and Auto-Phoning the Police
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Unfortunately, rape has been in the news quite a bit lately and it doesn’t seem to be going away. It’s […]
F5 Fitness App Launching in July To Help You Find Fitness Buddies
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Finding a workout partner with the same sports interest and athletic level may be getting easier with the “F5″ (Find Fitness Friends for Free” app launches in July. The app will connect users with other people looking to buddy up in any and all athletic endeavors. It may not be groundbreaking, but its user interface and broad selection of sports interests may give it the traction it needs.
Founder of the Week: Sarah Goodman of VitalSines
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The Vitals Birth Name: Sarah Goodman Nickname / Desired Superhero Name: The Goods Hometown: Toronto, Ontario (Been in Vancouver BC […]
Cubii Desk Elliptical: Might As Well Work Out While I Work, Right?
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Startup life can be tough. At any age and at any stage. It’s especially tough to find the time to […]
The Cutting Edge Anti-Aging Technology That’s Trying To Keep Us Young
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If eternal youth meant swapping DNA with a lobster, would you be up for it? And no, I’m not using […]
Prize-Winning Wearables Promise to Prevent Drinking and Driving
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In a bid from Challenge.gov to reduce drunk driving, these four companies received awards from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for their non-invasive wearables that measure blood alcohol content.
What Is Google / Alphabet Getting Up To In Healthcare?
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Most of us associate Google with its search engine, but Alphabet (its parent company title) is actually in the midst […]
Corevity Wants the Health Data We Track To Actually Be Actionable
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Health and fitness apps are the killer category in the wearables market; their growth is increasing 62% faster than the rest […]
TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2016: The Highlights
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From the Hackathon and its winning tool – a CMS with voice recognition – to the Battlefield and its winning startup – Beam and its SDK to integrate with Twitch – to the most interesting keynotes, here are all the highlights from 2016’s TechCrunch Disrupt in New York.
Maybe Get Naked, The 3D Fitness Tracker Mirror and Scale
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Most fitness tracker technology comes to us in the form of wearables, which makes sense since they focus on tracking activity. […]
The Nima Sensor Could Be Your New BFF For Gluten Free Living
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Ever feel that “Life gone cray” is the story of your mind and your body on gluten? You try to […]
The Startup Making Robots to Make Your Salads
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Casabots develops salad-making robots for restaurants, grocery stores, cafeterias and hotels. They’re great for efficiency and should make food production safer, reducing the risks of food borne illness by reducing human handling of food.
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know Mar 27 – Apr 1
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Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
The First Hands-Free Wheelchair, Ogo Hits IndieGoGo
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Ogo, now on Indiegogo, is a self-balancing wheelchair that lets users control its movements without having to use their hands. It’s not the only medical device hoping to improve accessibility and transportation for the disabled.
Human Data Project Matches People With Clinical Trials
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Human Data Project is a startup making it easier for people to find and participate in clinical trials fitting their medical profile while maintaining their privacy.
Cor Brings Blood Chemistry Testing Into Homes and Phones
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A new kind of fitness tracking device, Cor makes regular, at-home blood testing possible. Users press a cartridge to their skin for a blood test and drop it into the device. Results are processed in five minutes and sent to the smartphone app. The company founder has impressive credentials and funding on Indiegogo is exceeding the goal, but the results of clinical trials remain unpublished.
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know Mar 21-25
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Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
4 of My Favorite “Uber for ________” Services
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There’s on-demand healthcare, healthy food delivered to your door, hovering video cameras for hire, and cheap deals on last-minute hotel rooms. With this plethora of apps and startups focused on the on-demand, sharing economy, It’s good to be alive in the age of Ubers.
Quell Tries to Treat Chronic Pain As Easily As Medication
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Managing chronic pain has always been difficult and prescription drugs bring side effects and risks, but Quell is a wearable nerve stimulation device that works with an app to automate a more natural kind of pain relief.
The “Big” Apple Event: Everything You Need to Know
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The fan boys and tech press are thrown into a frenzy every time Cupertino sends out a call, and yesterday […]
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know Mar 14-18
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Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
Constant Therapy Is Bringing Brain Rehab To Your Tablet
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A new tablet app, Constant Therapy, provides cognitive exercises as a kind of brain therapy for people recovering from traumatic brain injury, strokes, aphasia, and other memory and cognition issues. With their recent series A funding, they are poised to disrupt the brain rehab industry.
Two Healthcare Startups Fixing Long Waits and High Costs
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Two healthcare startups, Doctr, out of Canada, and MD Save in the US, are building apps to fix the problems of long wait times for doctors appointments and expensive medical treatments.
3 Highlights from the Startup Grind Conference, Silicon Valley
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At the recent Startup Grind Global Conference hosted in Silicon Valley, over 3,000 founders and investors came to learn about […]
Self-Discrimination and The Effects of Stretching Our Genes
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Ever since we started watching movies like Blade Runner, X-Men, Captain America and of course, Sharktopus (I fucking wish I […]
Breakthrough Tech Offers Alternatives to Knee Replacement
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The most common reason for knee replacement in the United States is severe osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative, “wear-and-tear” type […]
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know Feb 14 – Feb 19
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Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
Aipoly Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help People See
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According to a fact sheet released by the World Health Organization in 2014, 285 million people in the world are […]
Code & Ethics: Uncovering Unknowns In Our Medical Devices
• 3 min read
Would you put your life in the hands of a programmer who doesn’t let you or the doctor see their […]
Is Genetic Testing The Future Of Mental Healthcare?
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As someone who has dealt with both anxiety and depression, I know firsthand that receiving effective mental health care can be […]
The Smart Water Bottle Space Is Filling Up Fast
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Water is a vital part of life, yet numerous studies show that most people in the US, from children and teenagers to the […]
When You Wish Upon a Startup: Disney Accelerator Opens Applications for Third Summer Program
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The Walt Disney Co. was a major media and entertainment innovator from its start, and it has successfully retained that […]
The SuitX Phoenix Exoskeleton Gets People Walking Again, Affordably
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Exoskeletons first made the transition from science fiction to feasible technology in military and industrial applications. These are domains in […]
Startup Suggestic Aims to Reverse Your Type 2 Diabetes
• 2 min read
Type 2 Diabetes used to be viewed as a permanent illness which couldn’t be reversed once developed. Modern research is […]
Upright Tries to Correct Your Posture 15 Minutes at a Time
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Among the startups that took to the Eureka Park floor at the recently concluded CES 2016 was Upright. The Israeli […]
Bloomizon Delivers Customized Vitamins To Your Door
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Even if you try following a healthy diet, many foods don’t have as many nutrients as you would expect. In the […]
Meditation Augmentation: Sync Your Brain to Your Smartphone
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‘ve always found meditation impossible. A sustained soft focus on absolutely nothing – the sort of zen that I imagine […]
Happy Napping – Neuroon Is a Really Smart Sleep Mask
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The average person spends around a third of their life sleeping. Just as you try to work efficiently, why not […]
20 Highs and Lows of CES 2016
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As most of you know, last week was CES 2016 in Las Vegas; the world’s most prolific consumer electronics show. […]
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know January 11 – January 15
• 3 min read
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
5 Internet of Things Startups to Watch Out For
• 4 min read
The Internet of Things revolution has been a long time coming, and we’re slowly but surely heading into a time […]
Wanna Quit Smoking? There’s a Case, Lighter and App for That
• 2 min read
Medication, patches, and lozenges – those used to be the primary ways people quit smoking. While effective, they’re expensive, and […]
SnapMunk’s Top 15 Articles of 2015
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2015 has been a very exciting year for SnapMunk. Over the last twelve months we’ve grown like crazy and that is all thanks […]
Curing Jet Lag With Light Therapy Through Your Ears
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I have a good friend who constantly travels to various countries for his job. His method for beating jet lag […]
ElMindA Is Demystifying the Brain with Data Analysis and 3D Imaging
• 3 min read
Genetic engineering and biotechnology, once the subject of science fiction works, is increasingly moving towards reality. Just take a look […]
Pills for Your Brain from Nootrobox, The Biohacking Subscription Service
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Do you remember that epically stupid movie Limitless? If you happened to miss it, let me give you a brief […]
Marijuana Startups: Burning the Bud from the Wrong End
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It has been almost a decade since marijuana—weed, pot, ganja, bud, the stuff that makes Family Guy bearable—was declared the […]
I, Digital Rendering: BioDigital Opens Up an API for the Human Body
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For most of its two years as a startup, BioDigital played its cards close to its chest. Though it worked […]
Five Technologies You Need to Invest In
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Self-Driving Cars There’s been a lot of talk in the news lately about self-driving cars, and many people are skeptical. […]
