Fluent looks closer to the ‘future of email’ than I’ve seen in a while. Built by a a few ex-Googlers, it turns email from a list into a more newsfeedy interface. Looking forward to try this one.

Square has been at the forefront of financial services innovation wave. Aside from their dongles that allow just about anyone to take card payments, they’ve recently come out with a very slick solution called Pay with Square. The solution feels like a solid evolution of the over-awaited mobile wallet generation. Not only does it rid the merchants and the end users of the need to have an NFC-compatible device, but also enhances the transaction security though using photo ID instead of pins or signatures. The way it achieves this is by employing geofencing that alerts the merchants of the customers’ presences whenever they come within close range of the store, thus ridding the customers of needing to use their phones or cards whilst shopping.

I can’t count how many times I’ve looked for the ‘unsubscribe’ button in the emails that somehow wind up in my inbox. Well, once I get an invite from this bunny, things should hopefully get a bit easier. Unroll.Me is an email unsubscribe engine that crawls through your inbox and pulls up a list of your subscriptions allowing you to choose which one to keep and which ones to unsubscribe from. After you press unsubscribe, they will take care of the rest.

Handing over my email login comes with a twitch, but much like with Greplin and FollowUpThen, I’m willing to chance it to make my life that bit easier.

Small Demons is a project working on extracting more from the stories around us. With books consisting of rich tapestries of characters, places, events and more, Small Demonds aims (I think) to enable a new way of discovering new content through the subtle elements it contains. It sounds like a project of a magnanimous scale. Good luck guys, can’t wait to get my hands on that invite

This is ace.

Via @Quaaj + @sarabadr

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Lytro cameras will let you shoot first and then select which object you want to focus on. That’s right – after you shoot. The cameras will work by capturing a significantly higher degree of light than the current generation of cameras. You can get a feel of how this will work in their picture gallery, where you can click on any point in the picture to make it refocus. Can’t wait to see this in action!

Mapnificent shows you areas you can reach with public transport in a given time. It’s clever, useful & easy to use. Oh yeah, and so sold on Bethnal Green – again.

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[thanks swissmiss]