Do you hate those online tools like Canvas and Blackboard- Enter Syllabye the new way to keep track of assignments and projects. This new platform is way easier to use than Canvas or Blackboard. The early Twenty year old innovators saw that there was a better way and decided to pursue the production of Syllabye. With this new platform students are able to keep better track of schoolwork and stuff that they need to do during the day. They have optimized the turn in process and made the user experience a lot easier. They are only at a small number of schools but they project that more colleges will turn to them after the frustration with other platforms.

Growing a garden can be a real challenge for many people. Either the weather isn’t right outside or they don’t have the time to take care of it to keep the plants alive. Founders: Alejandro Velez, 31, and Nikhil Arora, 30 of the Back To The Roots’ product, discovered in college, that mushrooms could grow on spent coffee grounds alone. With that in mind they created an indoor gardening kit! This kit is easier than ever to start your garden with. Boosting your personal confidence because HEY you CAN grow things and plants DO love you:) The company is now set to make over $5 Million this year on amazon sales alone.

Do you remember a couple of years ago when those Frisbee’s with LED lights on them came out a few years ago? This product takes that idea and rolls it into a completely new device. These new devices come in the form of a soccer ball. The way it works is as the ball gets kicked around and played with, it stores energy so that a built in LED light is able to light up. These are not your cheapo “turn the lever 1000 times flashlights that don’t shine bright.” These soccer balls store up kinetic energy to light the LED bulb in the ball that keeps shining.

This product has been distributed in Africa and other countries that can utilize these balls in the best way. The developer of this product is 28 year old Jessica Matthews. She saw a need and met it with this incredible product. She has other ideas in the works such as a jump-rope that also stores energy but provides more light with more LED’s. Another product she is working on is a stroller that can store up energy to charge phones and other electronics.

We see products like this being made available for the military, to charge their equipment. I am excited to see where this technology goes and what new energy creating products are made for the general public.

“Pass the aux” may soon be a phrase of the past. With a new app on the market called Juke, users can turn their phone into an SMS fueled music que. The developer of this app is 16 years old. His name is Rithwik. It is super easy to use and great for long car rides or studying. While to app is open friends can text the user’s phone number a song they want to hear and it will be added to the play que on the users phone. With this new technology college students no longer have to fight about what song to play next. Everybody gets a say as to what song gets added to the playlist. With the free version of the app each song gets played through YouTube. If user would like to pay for the premium version of the app they can utilize either their Spotify Premium or Google Play Music subscription so that songs may be played through those apps.

I think this is a great idea! I am excited for updates and improvements on the app, but from experience, the app works quite well. I do find Spotifiy’s ability to create a shared playlist more beneficial to me. Yet, I see a great future for this app. especially when it comes to coffee shops or even our SAC on campus. I believe that students will find this app useful. And eventually coffee shops and other businesses.