Category: Apps

  • Vindome | Uncrate

    Vindome | Uncrate

    Stocks. Bonds. Cars. Precious metals. Real estate. There are lots of ways to invest your money. Vindome offers a new option: fine wine. The fastest-growing asset offering, it’s also among the most sustainable, with the grape vines sequestering an impressive amount of carbon each year. In addition, the product is packaged in collectible glass bottles,…

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  • Cinemin Turns Photos and Videos into Clever Illustrations and Animations

    Cinemin Turns Photos and Videos into Clever Illustrations and Animations

    The newest app from Tinrocket offers lots of control for quick and fun creations Captured in Cinemin by Josh Rubin Cinemin is a new app that allows you to capture or import photos and videos and apply real-time effects that transform them into line, color and motion animations. Presets are available for quick color and…

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  • Vinovest | Uncrate

    Vinovest | Uncrate

    Fine wine returned 13.1% in 2022, outperforming S&P 500, Bitcoin, and even gold, while rare whiskey returned 395% from 2013 to 2023. Vinovest is making this widely untapped resource more accessible to everyone. The online platform allows beginners to create or expand their portfolio with assets in wine and spirits for a fraction of the…

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  • Valentine’s Day 2023 – COOL HUNTING®

    Valentine’s Day 2023 – COOL HUNTING®

    Valentine’s Day is for celebrating love—between romantic partners, pals, pets or yourself. Whether you’re opposed, ambivalent, oblivious or obsessed with the holiday, treating a loved one to something special can be an undeniably satisfying experience. This year we are focusing on love from the inside out, and while self-care isn’t a shop-able product, indulging in…

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  • Flighty Makes Air Travel Less Stressful – COOL HUNTING®

    Flighty Makes Air Travel Less Stressful – COOL HUNTING®

    Ideal for frequent flyers and aviation enthusiasts alike, Flighty launched a few years ago and we’ve been using it ever since to prepare for and navigate our travels. The app is free to download and to use in order to track basic flight information, but there’s much more—from inbound flight-tracking to taxi wait times at…

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  • Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator for Pixel

    Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator for Pixel

    Teenage Engineering and Google collaborate to enhance the Pixel experience with a Pocket operator upgrade. The app allows users to create music videos by adding visual effects, patterns, and sounds to recordings. They can even make their own tracks by layering sounds and beats for a custom mix. The drop is available for Pixel 5…

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  • Link About It: This Week’s Picks

    Link About It: This Week’s Picks

    Pulling water from the air, sending art to the moon, raising funds for people in Ukraine and more New Low-Cost Material Can Pull Buckets of Drinking Water from the Air Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin developed a low-cost gel film that can pull multiple liters of drinking water from the air—even in…

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  • A Healthcare Delivery App That Benefits Nurses and Patients – COOL HUNTING®

    A Healthcare Delivery App That Benefits Nurses and Patients – COOL HUNTING®

    In Mexico City and Bogotá, residents can order healthcare services—namely clinical lab tests for pregnancy, STIs and COVID-19 as well as vaccinations—through an app called Rappi, which directs a nurse to the user’s home to perform the required treatment. Tests are then taken to the lab and results are received within the next 24 hours.…

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  • Revolv AR Vinyl Vizualizer | Uncrate

    Revolv AR Vinyl Vizualizer | Uncrate

    Revolv AR isn’t a game-changing app. It’s not out to disrupt any established industries. But it is technically impressive and a lot of fun. It uses iOS’ robust AR support and sonic analysis to dynamically visualize the sound of vinyl records in real-time. The app tracks the record’s movement as well as the stylus to…

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  • Doomsday Alarm Clock | Uncrate

    Doomsday Alarm Clock | Uncrate

    Climate change. War. There are lots of potential dangers that could wipe out humanity. The Doomsday Alarm Clock lets you choose one to awaken you. Developers Steven Nass & Peter Henningsen have coded in uncomfortable facts about a variety of potential world-ending scenarios, including super volcanos, runaway AI, global warming, asteroid strikes, and the ever-popular…

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  • Composer Trading Platform | Uncrate

    Composer Trading Platform | Uncrate

    Robo-advisors build millions of algorithms that conveniently buy and sell stocks systematically. The downside to this method is all human emotion is removed from investing, and customization is non-existent. But with the launch of Composer, the automated trading platform puts investors in control. Users can choose from dozens of pre-made investing templates and click, drag,…

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  • The Outbound Collective App Makes Exploring The Outdoors Easy – COOL HUNTING®

    The Outbound Collective App Makes Exploring The Outdoors Easy – COOL HUNTING®

    The phrase “get back to nature” sounds simple in theory but in practice knowing how to explore the outdoors is more complicated than just walking outside. There’s the matter of knowing where to go, whether that means looking for the best ski slopes or a hidden spot with a nice vista. Then there’s the matter…

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  • Chrome OS Flex | Uncrate

    Chrome OS Flex | Uncrate

    Old, outdated laptops and devices rejoice — Chrome OS Flex is coming to the rescue. Google’s Chrome OS Flex follows up on Cloudready, a cloud-based operating system by Neverware that was acquired by Google. Chrome OS Flex uses the same codebase as Chrome OS in a lightweight software package, giving new life to old hardware…

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  • New Platform Remane Empowers People with Curly and Kinky Hair – COOL HUNTING®

    New Platform Remane Empowers People with Curly and Kinky Hair – COOL HUNTING®

    When Ariel Lee—who co-founded Remane, a haircare journey platform specially dedicated to Afro-textured hair—was in college at the University of Texas, fellow students began coming to her to do their hair. “One girl was asking me to braid down her hair so she could slap a wig on it,” she tells us. “When she came…

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  • Restflix | Uncrate

    Restflix | Uncrate

    Getting enough sleep is an essential part of our health but between TV, social media, and the current pandemic, it’s hard to shut your mind off at night. Restflix is here to lull restless minds to dreamland with a whole arsenal of snooze-worthy content. The sleep streaming service offers over 20 channels filled with hundreds…

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