Earlier this year we wrote about Ecolect, an online library of sustainable building materials aimed at making it easier for builders to be green.

There's no denying the value of a professional wedding photographer, but that's not to say that guests don't sometimes snap some gems of their own. Aiming to give newlyweds a place to gather all those amateur treasures, Olapic is a Columbia Business...

GPS technology is enabling all kinds of new products and services on mobile devices, so why not on "mobile" entities of the four-footed kind? Pets, that is—many of whom have a tendency to roam at least as much as the average cellphone user. Enter...

Airports and Twitter have one thing in common—they both create an ever more connected global village. Be that as it may, airports themselves can still be pretty lonely places while waiting to board. A French Twitter tool aims to remedy that: bored...

With the many items that can be customized today—from muesli to fabrics—the trend is still going strong. Case in point: Lip Balm Labz, a Canadian startup that lets consumers design their own lip balms. At the Lip Balm Labz store in Toronto's...

Regular Springwise readers may remember Lufthansa's MySkyStatus service, which lets air travellers get flight status updates posted automatically to their Facebook or Twitter profiles. Offering a variation on the same theme, mobile application...