Sharing

ekko Audio has designed a means of sharing hi-res audio wirelessly between four or more listeners. The system's base station can be connected to any audio source, then transmit high quality audio to one or more battery-powered receivers for a shared listening experience.​

We all get caught in downpours without an umbrella every now and then. For students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, however, that will no longer be a problem. A kiosk from a new firm called UmbraCity is offering automated umbrella loans that are free for 48 hours.

Tools like email and instant messaging have made it easy for us to share information with people around the world. It can still be overly complicated to share something with people in the same room as us though. Google Tone allows users to share URLs with computers that are within earshot.

Headphones enclose the user with his or her music, and block out the world around them. Wearhaus aims to change that with its new Arc headphones, that promise to allow users to connect with each other by streaming music to other Arc wearers.

An invention out of Finland is designed to make transferring data between devices a lot easier. The inTouch system allows people to use a special ring, bracelet or even a "smart fingernail" to transfer data between laptops, tablets, and smartphones with just a touch.

Bike-sharing programs are a good idea, particularly for people who occasionally find themselves in need of some last-mile transportation. It’s pretty doubtful, however, that such people are always going to be packing a bike helmet. That’s why the HelmetHub helmet vending machine was invented.

Sharetapes is a new Australian company that is attempting to recapture the age of the physical mixtape by launching a line of NFC and QR enabled mixtape cards.

The file-sharing site The Pirate Bay has added a new "Physibles" category for the sharing of 3D printable digital designs.

Sobi is a new bicycle-sharing system, that uses GPS and a mobile phone app for locating and reserving bicycles.

Daimler has launched a new version of the Smart Fortwo, designed specifically for the car2go car-sharing program.

The Infinitec IUM stick shares content from your laptop to any device with a USB port within its wireless range.

car2go, the innovative car sharing program first seen in Ulm, Germany, has launched in Austin, Texas, where a pilot will initially see 200 vehicles made available 24/7 within the city to a select group of city employees and their relatives.