RISEConf Top Picks: PITCH Semi-Finalists
RISEConf, for those of you who do not know is a large Startup/Technology conference held in Hong Kong every year, started by the same team behind Web Summit. Over the past 2 days I have had...
Beddit Smart Sleep Tracker Review
After a few weeks of having trouble sleeping, and dealing with the follow on effects of lack of sleep (poor focus, cognition, and performance the following day), I decided to check what options were available...
3 Ways to Overcome Decision Paralysis
Have you ever spent minutes looking around your kitchen, trying to decide what to have for breakfast? Those minutes of indecision is one of the most classic examples of how decision paralysis could be sapping...
The Future of Food? We Test Meal Replacement Aussielent
Earlier this year during Lucid Smart Pill product development, I was reading a review of the popular meal replacement making serious headway in the US; Soylent. You may have heard of, or seen this shake-like...
The Truth About ‘Sugar Free’ and Sugar Alternatives
Like many, I have a sweet tooth. Thankfully I'm not alone, given the huge amount of sugar consumed on average (66kg) every year in the USA. My girlfriend was trying to find a healthy alternative to lollies...
Don’t Be Duped, ‘Good’ Cholesterol is Healthy For You
You’ve probably heard or repeated one of the most overused food myths from the last 25 years; cholesterol is bad for you. It’s been blamed for heart disease, liver cancer, high blood levels and has...
Why We’d Love to Try the Emotiv EPOC
If you’re regular on Techcrunch or Wired, chances are you’ve heard of the company called Emotiv. They’re a bioinformatics company and inventor of the future-tech EPOC and Insight wearable devices. Emotiv is at the forefront...
Chemophobia: The Natural vs Synthetic Debate
Chemophobia is defined as the fear of chemicals & refers to the growing tendency for the public to be suspicious and critical of any man-made chemicals in foods they consume or products they make use...
Your Next Productivity Hack is Mind Mapping
Mind Mapping is a well known approach for drawing information in diagrams instead of writing it in sentences or making numbered lists. A Mind Map always uses the same basic format of a tree, with...