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[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.
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.
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
What Condé Nast’s Ziplist Acquisition Means for the Startup’s 6.5K “Partners”
What publisher Condé Nast has acquisition of Ziplist means for the future of their existing 6,500 food partner websites and blogs.
Innovator Video: Siansplan.com Aims to Simplify Meal Planning & Reduce Food Waste
Siansplan.com is a new a new meal planning tool designed to help families make cooking and shopping easy, fun and more efficient
Building Food Apps: The Importance of a Data Framework
While there are several ways technology can be leveraged to package information about food products and transform it into helpful information for consumers, a main component of any solution must begin with a strong, malleable framework for structuring and storing the data.
ScanAvert: The Future of Shopping with Dietary Restrictions
ScanAvert, a mobile application that helps consumers with dietary restrictions to choose safe groceries is much more than a mobile grocery advisor, allowing users to find and track their purchases based on their manageable disease or condition.
Innovator Video: Michael Pollan on Open Source Agriculture
In this video from his talk at The Long Now Foundation in 2009, Michael Pollan discusses the feasibility of genetically engineered crops designed to support sustainable agricultural systems
FAO’s Shiny New Agricultural Data & Information Sharing Tool
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recently released a new resource that will make its agricultural development strategy a whole lot easier. The Agricultural Development Assistance Mapping (ADAM) tool is a platform that gathers information from diverse databases about agricultural development needs, objectives, in-country activities, and funding modalities, and aggregates
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
Yummly’s Billion Dollar Digital Kitchen Platform
Armed with a dream investment team, and $6 million in Series A Funding, semantic recipe website Yummly is getting ready to build the world’s first ‘digital kitchen platform.’
From SXSW to the White House, Food Data a Trending Topic
It is clear that there is a real need, and a real opportunity, to use data to tell the stories of the food movement and to support advancements in agriculture, advocacy, science and health. Data is also a necessary tool for lawmakers to produce smarter policy that speaks to the needs of the people
