Virtual grocery stores have been popular in Asia long before we considered launching them here in America. Thanks to internet grocer Peapod, cities across the U.S. will soon have virtual grocery stores in hundreds of commuter rail stations in Boston, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.
St. Louis’s Helix Center Biotech Incubator welcomes its first two tenants after opening this June. The 17,000 square feet center offers space to early-stage life science firms in need of labs and offices.
Chicago Ideas Week returns this October, transforming the Windy City into a global hub for new and innovative ideas from some of the biggest minds in business, science, arts, and technology.
Instead of helping college students maintain the friendships they already have, Fliksee is looking to provide busy students with a new resource for meeting other people on campus.
Chicago agency Mirza Minds is set to launch a funding campaign on Indiegogo this week, pulling in support for its latest product that will help fight global epidemics such as starvation, cancer, aids, and more.
In the wild west of mobile payments, Kuapay is building a mobile wallet that looks to tap the world’s many cash transactions and “commoditize electronic payments.”
What ever happened to the Space Elevator, every science fictionist’s guilty pleasure, and a once promising venue to bring the masses to space?
Tian Long Wang, an electric engineer working out of Princeton, New Jersey, set out to create the most affordable telepresence device so far — one that works with the smartphone everyone already has in their pocket.
Here is another episode of our animated series ‘Teensy Tweets’ by the creator of the hilarious “Goodnight Burbank” TV show, Hayden Black.
The founder of Gluejar, a New Jersey-based startup, is promoting a rigorous campaign to “unglue” or “make a digital book free to read and use worldwide,” thus eliminating cost barriers still felt in many poor communities.
