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A regular email I receive is from the folks at Springwise.com:

New ticketing service guarantees sell-out gigs
	An innovative new ticketing service in the US, Ticketometer, hopes to eliminate the problem of poorly attended concerts by guaranteeing artists play to a packed audience. READ MORE...

‘Lab on a chip’ diagnoses HIV in 15 minutes
	The mChip device can quickly, easily and inexpensively perform complex HIV testing even in the most remote regions of the planet, requiring only a tiny drop of blood, obtained through a finger prick, to test for both syphilis and HIV. READ MORE...

Lid that enhances the flavor of takeaway coffee
	Mint Urban Technologies hope to improve the flavor of takeaway coffee with the Aroma Lid — a solution to the problem of plastic aftertaste and restricted aroma. READ MORE...

Wise Words with Keyis Ng
	Keyis Ng, 23, worked in the fashion events industry for over two years before creating his own events and PR agency, STORM, and launching FashForward.com in early 2011. The launch saw over 500,000 online viewers from a total of 90 countries watch Singapore’s 2011 Audi Fashion Festival. READ MORE...

Deals site scours the web for personally relevant offers
	Now in private beta, Chicago-based KoalaDeal is a free tool that uses information about the user’s interests and past purchases to find matching deals from the most popular deals sites. READ MORE...

New smartphone app to service conferences and events
	Launched in June by New Zealand company SmartShow Limited, the ShowGizmo app boasts a list benefits for organizers, exhibitors and delegates alike, aiming to build a community and a sense of connectedness around events. READ MORE...

Confidential lost & found tags help protect users’ things
	TurlyTag is a system of hard tags and stickers that lets users label their things without giving out personal details, using unique codes to identify the owners of lost items. READ MORE...

Service scans Twitter to help hotels find new guests
	Reach.ly monitors Twitter for mentions of planned trips and allows hotels to reach out to visitors who are heading their way. The free service begins when hotels register with the site via Twitter and indicate which cities they’re interested in. READ MORE...

Baby bottle mimics the breast and keeps air out of milk
	The Bare bottle is a new feeding system that’s designed to mimic the breast in virtually every way, including keeping air out of baby’s milk. Mimicking the breast has been the goal of just about every bottle design in recent years, but Bare may get closer than any other option on the market so far. READ MORE...

Social trip-planning site targets group travel with friends
	TripHuddle is a social trip-planning application that aims to make coordinating trips easier and more fun by helping people work together and share their travel information. READ MORE...

Online ‘relationship dashboard’ rewards loving couples
	San Francisco start-up Kahnoodle is aiming to use web and mobile technology to help couples stay together. Kahnoodle aims to combine empirically-supported and well-researched best practices with modern technology to “help busy couples build and maintain awesome relationships”. READ MORE...

Augmented reality app reveals the world’s hidden stories
	Colorado-based Tagwhat offers a look back into the past by revealing the stories associated with different geographical places. The stories pop up on top of real-life locations when users look through their phone’s camera, changing based on what they’re looking at. READ MORE...

News from global outlets, translated for English-speaking readers
	Aiming to bring more news reports from around the world before the eyes of English-speaking readers, French Worldcrunch selects, translates and edits content from top foreign-language outlets and delivers them online to English speakers. READ MORE...

On two continents, two indie mags turn out issues in 48 hours
	Two efforts are taking place this summer to produce an entire magazine issue within 48 hours. Both at Stack in the UK and at Longshot in New York, the issues are written, designed and edited over a weekend, relying on the help of the crowds to produce the final issues. READ MORE...

In Pakistan, garden pots made from old, recycled tires
	Australian UBeauty has launched a line of garden pots made by hand in Pakistan from old, worn out tires. The tire-derived planters are made by a former leather-crafting shop from discarded tires that are past the point of retreading, while any tread remaining on the tires is stripped and used for mulch. READ MORE...

New font designed for readers with dyslexia
	Dutch design firm StudioStudio has created a typeface that can be read by dyslexics more easily and with fewer errors. Recognizing that dyslexics tend to rotate letters as well as mix them up, Dyslexie incorporates numerous features to help keep such problems from occurring. READ MORE...

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