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Meet #Mizu, world’s first personalized restaurants menus by @Tiwaash #Food #Dublin #iOS

Hey folks, we have something special for the foodie lovers in Dublin. We were approached by a dynamic guy, who was bubbling with new concept and ideas to help people find where and who offers, what they are looking for… Curious?? Well we were too to know what exactly Youssef Sarhan, Designer and Co-Founder Mizu had in his mind.

Read on to know what’s here for people who love to eat out from Mizu.

What is Mizu?
We all have a very different taste and diets. Some of us love chicken, some of us think it’s boring. Some of us love pasta, some of avoid it while others prefer to stay vegetarian. So, here is where this new idea of Mizu came up.

Well, Mizu is a new mobile app for iPhone which understands your taste and diet.

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When you download Mizu, you tell the app what you do and don’t like to eat – this helps Mizu understand your taste and diet and match you with great nearby food. “Think of it as a dating app for food, the perfect relationship” says Youssef.

Once you’ve told Mizu what you do and don’t like to eat, Mizu shows you a list of great nearby restaurants – complete with opening hours and directions. Isn’t that great? Mizu is being your Personal Assistant to your taste buds.

When you browse a restaurants menu on Mizu, dishes are presented in an order which matches your taste and diet. So, this makes finding the perfect dish super fast. Say for example, if you like chicken, chicken dishes are filtered to the top, and if you don’t like pork, pork dishes are pushed to the bottom. This is great for customers and businesses. Everyone wins! You know what and where you want to eat and businesses know what to offer to you.

Mizu comes with a learning algorithm, which gets better the more you use to make it offer you the best options. Mizu also integrates your social networking sites where you can share the dish or it even allows you to rate or comment on a particular restaurant, so your friends and family know what you liked our didn’t like at the particular restaurant.

Mizu is a totally unique concept, nobody is doing anything like this in the food-tech space yet.

Mizu is a start up based in Dublin, Ireland and they are looking for expansion and proposals. This wonderful app is exclusively available to iOS at the moment, which can be downloaded here. We wish the team a very good luck for the future.

Let us know your on this revolutionary experience of browsing restaurant’s menu in the comments below or tweet us using #TechBuzzIreland.

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Add Magnetic charge to your smartphone with ZNAPS By @VicenteA_George #Startup #Znaps

Looking forward the hassle of taking care of the charging socket of your smartphone when it lacks wireless charging, ZNAPS offers a really simple solution.

ZNAPS is a specially designed magnetic adapter for your mobile devices, one that can easily change the way you charge.

The trick is made by the two parts of the adaptor, the first part that goes in your phone socket and the second one that goes over your cable plug.

ZNAPS supports charging as well as data synchronization and it’s designed for Lightning cable, Micro-USB and USB Type C cable which makes it compatible with almost every piece of portable tech you have.

Let’s take a look a what it offers:

Lightning / Micro-USB / USB-C Support

Easy Plug / Unplug: The magnetic connection Connect and Detect your phone instantly.

Reversible: You can “plug” the cable on any side.

Data Synchronisation

Charge Indicator:  Small hidden LED to indicate charging status.

Cable Protection: Protection for the cable connector head.

Minimal: It’s so small that’s compatible with almost any smartphone case (maybe some Trident or Otterbox cases may present problems due to the charger flap)

Affordable: The base price point is $9

Waterproof: Prevent water damage at the phone socket.

Yes! you read that right, it makes your phone waterproof! Well sort of, what it really makes is block liquids of any kind from entering the phone socket.
The ZNAPS Connector has a silicone ring that does the work of preventing water from getting into your phone port.

Another special features it has and worth the notice are:

Is Micro-USB 3.0 compatible.

Supports Quick Charge 2.0.

and last but no least they also add a Keychain Case to carry two adapters and two connectors with you.

But enough talk! Take a look by yourself:

Right now the guys at ZNAPS are about to finish their Kickstarter campaign but you can still grab some early promotions that goes from $9 with One (1) ZNAPS combo (connector+adapter) all the way until $480 with 10 ZNAPS combos + 10 Keychains and more stuff

To do that you can go HERE

Are you going to “Change the way you Charge”? Let us know in the comments sections bellow, or Tweet us using #techbuzzireland

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#SipSup – A Mobile connected glass serves you your favourite drink, but also your favourite moments. #Kickstarter

SipSup, the uniquely designed social glassware, launched a Kickstarter campaign today. The 42- day Kickstarter campaign has a funding goal of $30,000 that will be used to begin mass production and app development.

 

Using a specialized NFC chip (for Android phones) and Visual ID (for iOS phones) to enable communication between a smartphone and the SipSup glass, users can drop and view photos and videos that commemorate idyllic life moments. Our ever-present smartphones have changed photography. They are always with us and we can now capture every single moment of our lives. What smartphones also changed is how we look at our photos.

 

“It’s funny how I carry all these photos in my pocket and I almost never look at them” Miha, SipSup co-founder.

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“Dropping” captured moments easily into a SipSup drinking glass inspired the team to create a base that resembles a ripple effect, like a drop falling into water. After many prototypes and testing, the glassware was created with a tall, curved shape, designed to fit naturally in the drinker’s hand. SipSup can be used for coffee, smoothies, a cold mojito, or the iciest craft beer. SipSup glasses are uniquely designed in collaboration- tion with local Slovenian glassworks, Steklarna Hrastnik.

 

All glassware from the company has a Vitrux certificate, which guarantees that products from can be washed up to 3,000 times in a dishwasher without retaining a single scratch. The glass is free of heavy metals and yet achieves brilliance of the crystal. Backers for the Kickstarter campaign could receive a multitude of exclusive gifts, including original, custom prototypes that had the SipSup chip in the bottom of the glass instead of the side.

The final version of the glass contains the SipSup chip on the side, displaying the SipSup logo, which increases visibility and ease of use when uploading photos and videos. For more information on SipSup, or the Kickstarter campaign, visit SipSup.me

 

 

The SipSup app is free and will be available for Android and iOS devices, however, you can access the app only with a SipSup drinking glass.

Using a specialized NFC chip (for Android), or visual ID (for iOS) within the SipSup logo on the drinking glass, users can drop photos to be recalled in the future via SipSup app. Using the SipSup app, you can choose favorite photos and videos that you’d like to keep personal(private folder), or share (public folder) it with anyone who taps your SipSup glass.

Post-it feature is created for so your friends, family or other visiting guests can interact with you. They can leave you private messages on the photo only you will be able to see.

 

Connecting tradition with modernity. SipSup glasses are crafted in collaboration with local Slovenian glassworks, Steklarna Hrastnik. SipSup glasses have Vitrux certificate, which on the basis of research of independent laboratories guaranties that products can be washed up to 3,000 times in a dishwasher and remain without a single scratch. The glass is free of heavy metals and yet achieves brilliance of the crystal.

 

So now having some drinks with friends and family can be fun and you can share.Head over to kickstarter now right away and support SipSup

 

 

 

#Twitter adds autoplay video feature on web and iOS by @Tiwaash

Changes are good specially when they are done to simplify our actions and that’s what Twitter has done today with the videos. Twitter has been working constantly to improbe the user experience and also to do do away with the number of taps. Twitter said

Today, it’s become even easier to enjoy video on Twitter. Now native videos, Vines and GIFs will begin to play back automatically. So you can keep up with the action without missing a Tweet and get a better sense of what’s been shared instantly.

Once you tap the video, sound will turn on and the video will continue to play in an expanded view. If you turn the video to landscape mode, the sound will automatically turn on and the video will expand to fill the screen. Although you have ultimate control through your settings. You can choose to revert to the previous click-to-play experience all the time or simply have videos autoplay only when you’re connected to wifi.

This feature is made available to users on the web and iOS, Android users will get this feature soon, but there is no news for WindowsPhone users.

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Apple testing Ad Blocking feature for Safari by @Tiwaash #Apple #iOS

Annoyed of the popping ads on the web pages?? Well you might soon have a solution to it with a blocker built into the Safari browser both on the iOS 9 and the Mac OS X El Capitan versions. The new functionality allows apps to give Safari rules about blocking cookies, images, other resources, pop-ups and other content.

Anyway, the content blocking functionality is present in the developer beta of iOS 9 and will be in Mac OS X El Capitan too. Blocking apps will be allowed into the app store later this year.

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New Generation Musical Instrument – Oval hits #KickStarter by @Tiwaash #Music #StartUp #MusicalInstrument

Technology is evolving at the fastest rate ever since humanity was introduced to it helping us do our work with ease and in a more sophisticated manner and today we are here with something very innovative, thanks to the innovations in technology we have Oval. Sound confused? Read on…

ABOUT OVAL:
OVAL is a new generation electronic musical instrument which allows you to play, learn and perform music with any sound into it.
The Oval is both an electronic musical instrument and an open-hardware music controller linked to a smartphone, tablet or computer. It allows you to change and create sounds and is also a tool for playing and learning music, sharing your compositions and performing live.

DO YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT?
Inspired by the HandPans family of acoustic instruments, the Oval provides total freedom to create sounds and it’s a tool geared towards music learning and performing.
There are more ways of enjoying music besides listening. You are never too old or too young to experience the awesome feeling of playing an instrument and creating music. We believe that learning music should be fun and that you can play an instrument right away. The Oval speeds up your music learning curve, leveraging the power of technology, gaming and sharing with others.


Ovalsound was founded in 2014 by Ravid Goldschmidt and Alex Posada in Barcelona (Spain), to provide everyone with the opportunity to find a way to express themselves musically, pushing the boundaries of traditional music to new ways of interaction.
Most traditional instruments are linear, think of a guitar, a flute or a violin. The handpan is meant to be performed in circles. The interface doesn’t have a beginning or an end, so you can join musical notes together in a fluid way. The notes have a radial position and are equidistant from the Ding, the central note that sets the tone of the scale. No matter how you play, you are able to perform beautiful melodies every time.


The Oval takes the design, ergonomics and musical qualities of the handpans as an inspiration to create an electronic instrument that can be as simple for a beginner to start exploring music as a means of expression, and as complex as a professional musician wants to make it, as it allows to change sounds and scales, layer samples, real time looping and go wherever the imagination takes you.

SPECIFICATIONS:

  • The Oval is ergonomically designed and can be played in many ways. Highly sensitive, intuitive, easy , durable and (children-proof) resistant!
  • The external case is made of Solid Surface composed by natural materials –minerals like bauxite, marble and quartz–, natural resins and acrylic.
  • Carefully designed, the Oval is light, portable, durable, minimal, simple and energetically self-sufficient.
  • Easy as a backpack, you can get an additional case beautifully made of wood to take it comfortably anywhere you want and never leaving your Oval at home.
  • Designed, engineered and made with care in Barcelona.

WITH OVAL : PLAY, LEARN, SHARE, CREATE: IT IS ALL IN YOUR HANDS

Grab your Oval right now from Kickstarter capaign I’m pretty much exited about this wonderful project, so all the musicians out there check this awesome gadget.

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Add the dreamy “back button” to your iPhone6 or 6+ with the guys of @Smart_Halo By @VicenteA_George #Iphone6 #haloback

One of the many reason why I’m not a big Apple fan is hardware, specially the lack of the back button, I don’t like all my apps to run in the background.

Well, that particular reason is about to be useless thanks to the guys of Halo Back and their “Smart Screen Protector”.

The guys of Halo Back have been working on this for the last four years and they finally have it.

I have pretty big hands and even I have some troubles to reach the upper left corner of phone; I know that IOS has a “Back gesture” and the “Double tap on the Home Button”, but I always found way more easier just have it right where it should be.

This “Smart Screen Protector” is unique on its territory, besides protect your phone from even explotions (it was really cool read this) it add the only thing that all your Android and WP friends always make fun of you,

THE BACK BUTTON

But let’s take a look to what are they offering us:

How it works? is much easier than you think:

Our fingers conduct electricity, which is used to trigger the actions on “capacitive touchscreens” (the one that all phones have) and the guys of Halo Back, added a circuit layer to traditional glass screen protector.

It helps to lead current when you press lower left corner of the screen, so that’s how the “new back button” works.

Here’s an example of how to install and use one in your phone:

Here are the specs:
Compatibility: iPhone 6 | iPhone 6 Plus
Crystal Clear: High-grade tempered glass provides ultimate clarity. Its nano coating repels natural skin oils making Glass simple to keep clean and looking great.
Height: 130mm | 150mm  Width: 59mm | 69mm  Depth: 0.21mm  Weight: 6g | 8g

As you can see they have thought a lot about it, and you can help they dream (and if you’re like me, yours too) to come true on our beloved Kickstarter for just $17.

And it will be nice taking in consideration the estimated retail price of $49

If everything works as it should it would be awesome! (and I’ll have to stand my Iphone friends for ages…)

You can order your HERE

Let us know what do you think of this new “Smart Screen Protector” in the comments or Tweet us using #techbuzzireland

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#MixRadio exits beta and is now availabe on #Android and #iOS #Streaming #Music #MixRadioLive

MixRadio fans will know that its been in beta for some time now on Android and iOS but not any more,its now available to download direct from the store.Up until recently its been always available on Windows Phone,today that’s now changed its cross platform.But it will always remain on Windows Phone unless MS change that so its not forgot its loyal Windows Phone fans from where it all began.

“We will also continue to deliver a great service to existing users on Windows Phone,” says MixRadio CEO Jyrki Rosenberg. Also today they have announced a partnership with HTC to integrate with Blinkfeed.

What is MixRadio – MixRadio is the perfect FREE app for music lovers who like to discover fresh new tunes every day. As you listen, MixRadio learns the artists you like, giving you a PERSONALISED experience. The more you listen, the better it gets. So, with a whole world of songs out there, you can spend more time listening and less time searching.Enjoy playlists custom-made to your unique taste from our library of over 35 million tracks. Play them in high quality audio to experience them at their best. Then download your favourite mixes to listen OFFLINE without the hefty data charges!Discover your perfect playlist with My Mix
– MixRadio learns what you like, to play new music you love
– Select a handful of your favourite artists
– Heart a track as it’s playing and we’ll learn about what you like
– Discover fresh new tracks intelligently tailored to your music tastes, as well as hearing old favourites.Thousands of handcrafted mixes
– Curated mixes put together by a host of global music gurus from around the world
– Personally ordered and suggested based on what you like
– Everything from the latest charts and party soundtracks, to genre specific mixes.

You can even listen offline!
– Download your top mixes, go offline and avoid data costs
– Swap your offline mixes when you feel like a change
– Keep the music flowing wherever you go with access to hundreds of tunes

Let your friends in on your winning mixes. Share them via Facebook and Twitter to show off your skills.

(Download Android) (Download iOS) (Download Windows Phone)

Now backup your #WhatsApp messages and images on Google Drive by @Tiwaash #Messenger #App

Ever wanted to keep a backup of your chats with friends or family on WhatsApp ??? Well if you really wanted to, there is a reason for you to be happy. The developers at WhatsApp have been hyper active in the past few days. They rolled out the voice calling feature earlier and now have given the users an option to back up their messages on Google Drive with the latest update.

Currently under testing WhatsApp now allows the users to backup and restore their conversation history and media to Google Drive. To activate Google Drive as a backup option, after installing the new updated version, users need to provide access to the Google account. Users can then select the frequency of backup and even whether the backup should be on Wi-Fi only or Wi-Fi and cellular networks. The service currently backs up only conversations and images, videos are not included.

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