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[Innovator Video] Internet of Things: Got Milk?
Interactive design agency Teehan+Lax’s “Labs” has developed a milk jug and Android mobile app that alert you when you are low on milk in your refrigerator
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Can FarmersWeb Help Local Food Go Mainstream?
More and more restaurants, supermarkets, universities, hospitals, and food service providers are trying to figure out how they begin to source ingredients locally. FarmersWeb, a new wholesale management tool and online marketplace, aims to make it easier for local farms and wholesale buyers to connect.
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Insights from the NRA Show: Better Tech, Happier Customers & Fatter Margins
Most years there is a dominant tech solution at the National Restaurant Association Show (NRA). Not this year. This year, we saw a range of technologies clustered around a common theme: guest experience. Wait list management apps, tablets for table top ordering, and customer guest loyalty solutions are all new solutions to old problems — not just incrementally higher-tech versions of the same solutions.
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Infographic of the Week: Weight of the Nation & Obesity Prevention
A new report released Monday, “Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation,” by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health group of the National Academy of Sciences, outlines five obesity prevention actions that can accelerate societal-level prevention
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Investors
Investment Strategy- William Rosenzweig’s Plans for Food & Health Tech
[This interview is part of a monthly series of interviews with leading food and technology investors. Be sure to check out last month's interview with Ali Partovi.] Physic Ventures co-founder and Managing Director William Rosenzweig says the future is personalized food and health. The venture capital firm plans to invest in and support five to
R&D
R&D Concept: Horto domi- the Open, Arduino Controlled Garden
Horto domi is a new Kickstarter project to develop open source environmental controllers for raised-bed gardens enclosed within a geodesic dome
Hacking The Food System
Innovator Series: Mihir Desai of Cross (X) Species Adventure Club on Hacking the Food System [Video]
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In this Innovator Series Video, Mihir Desai of Cross (X) Species Adventure Club talks of using science in our everyday lives to hack the food system
Trends
2012 Food Trends Get Technical
Speculation on 2012′s food trends are everywhere, from the newest “ethnic flavors” to the next super berry. But more interesting are the ways experts see technology playing a role in the food industry and how it will help consumers in the marketplace. Over the past few weeks, Food+Tech Connect analyzed three important food+tech trends of
Recent Articles
[Innovator Video] Internet of Things: Got Milk?
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Interactive design agency Teehan+Lax’s “Labs” has developed a milk jug and Android mobile app that alert you when you are low on milk in your refrigerator
Can FarmersWeb Help Local Food Go Mainstream?
More and more restaurants, supermarkets, universities, hospitals, and food service providers are trying to figure out how they begin to source ingredients locally. FarmersWeb, a new wholesale management tool and online marketplace, aims to make it easier for local farms and wholesale buyers to connect.
Insights from the NRA Show: Better Tech, Happier Customers & Fatter Margins
Most years there is a dominant tech solution at the National Restaurant Association Show (NRA). Not this year. This year, we saw a range of technologies clustered around a common theme: guest experience. Wait list management apps, tablets for table top ordering, and customer guest loyalty solutions are all new solutions to old problems — not just incrementally higher-tech versions of the same solutions.
Infographic of the Week: Weight of the Nation & Obesity Prevention
A new report released Monday, “Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation,” by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health group of the National Academy of Sciences, outlines five obesity prevention actions that can accelerate societal-level prevention
Innovator Video: Food Startups Q&A
San Francisco’s growing Food and Tech community gathered together to explore the state of the emerging sector at the recent Food Startups Meetup, featuring industry leaders from: Foodily, AgLocal, Love With Food, Zerocater, Good Eggs and Shopwell
Dining on Data: How APIs Are Transforming The Way We Eat
APIs are transforming the way we eat. Whether it’s at home, or when you are dining out, consumers (and developers) are empowered like never before. The combination of a great user experience powered by valuable data will lead to some revolutionary new culinary apps.
Infographic of the Week: Organic Food & Beverage Sales Reach $29.2 Billion in 2011
Organic Trade Association forecasts for 2012 and 2013 indicate that organic food and non-food sales will continue to grow nine percent or higher annually
Innovator Video: Food Chain
While consumer demand for information about where our food is coming from and how it’s grown is increasing, thus far there has been relatively little interest in the people that actually harvest it. A new film project explores labor practices within the United States agriculture sector and how the role the policies of large buyers, particularly supermarkets, play in perpetuating these practices.
Food Book Fair: Food+Low-Tech Connect
New York’s first ever Food Book Fair is this weekend, May 4th-6th, in Brooklyn, at Williamsburg’s newly opened Wythe Hotel. The event is a celebration of food writing, reading, and eating and features a number of ticketed panels, free book signings, and other even more festive events. Our gracious host here at Food+Tech Connect,
Social Media For Restaurants Made Easier Through Burgers
Rev Ciancio demystifies 10 social networks, helping restauranteurs learn how to use these platforms to foster brand awareness, online engagement and better customer service
Microsoft Imagine Cup Finalists Tackle Real-Time Food Delivery & Livestock Monitoring
Two student groups tackling hunger and agriculture management challenges emerged as winners in the U.S. Finals of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Software Design Competition
Zokos Aims to Feed Hunger for Real Life Interaction
Zokos is a new startup that aims to make it easier for people to connect in real life – over food- by reducing what they have identified as the “barriers to entertaining.” Last week, the Brooklyn-based startup launched their first tool, a platform designed to help hosts manage an event and share the costs with their guests
Infographics of the Week: What 7.68 Million Food Ratings Tell Us About Our Eating Habits
Massive Health visualizes their key findings about when, where, what and who people eat with
Massive Health Analyzes How Healthy We Think We Eat [Infographic]
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Over the past 5 months, Massive Health has collected over 7.68 million food ratings from people in 50 countries. Today, they are releasing some of their key findings as a series of infographics.
Innovator Videos: 6 Ideas for the Future of Food
Food gets it’s fair share of bad press these days, and for good reason. Food+Tech Connect wants to help you explore new ideas for how information and technology can be used to change the status quo and accelerate food innovation
