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Springwise choice: Top 7 innovations from 2018

The Springwise team have selected their favourite innovations from 2018, featuring dynamic and transformative ideas across different sectors to help stimulate creativity, growth and success in your business. From packaged consumables for the mind to fighting textile waste, high-tech to low-tech – reminisce on the highlights of this year’s most creative advances in modern technology.

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Tech Explained

Tech Explained: Smart Tags

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Eco and Sustainability

Media partnership helps British communities clear up waterways

A multi-organisation effort has resulted in a boat made entirely from waste plastic that can help clear up still more plastic from rivers and waterways.

Agriculture & Energy

Startup uses blockchain and IoT to improve food transparency

A startup is using blockchain technology to collect and share data on entire food supply chains.

Advertising and Marketing

Smart dress proves sexual harassment in clubs

An ad campaign has adopted the viral trend of social activism off the back of #MeToo.

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Nonprofit & Social Cause

Low-cost artificial leg is made from recycled plastic

Using recycled plastics to create an artificial leg has made such prosthetics more readily available for amputees in developing countries.

Retail

Australian startup streamlines loyalty programmes for retailers

A startup is streamlining the traditional reward scheme process into one app for both retailers and consumers.

Mobility and Transport

Ride-sharing app acts as throwback to traditional hitch-hiking

Hitch-hiking has modernised with a technological face to help people travel long distances with ease.

Financial Services

Fintech platform eliminates card fees for spending abroad

A fintech company is now offering an effective zero percent fee on foreign exchanges.

Science and Natural World

Healthcare platform is powered by genomics and big data

China-based health tracking platform has partnered with a range of leading biotech companies to offer individuals insight into health trends based on their own genomics.