Mindings: Connecting the Disconnected!

More than ever, families are separated by distance, continents even. This often causes sadness for elder parents, and guilt for offspring who have “flown the nest”—particularly if there are young children involved who grandparents aren’t seeing often enough; if the family member lives alone; or if they are in poor health.

We regularly keep in touch with our friends with text messages, email, tweets, picture messages… If only we could keep in touch with our less tech-savvy family so simply.

Mindings enables you to send personal, captioned photos, text messages, calendar reminders and much more to a digital photo frame: instantly from your mobile phone.

Mindings connects families by enabling effortless, regular, personal, and meaningful contact.

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Mindings wins top startup award!

Mindings was one of five tech start-ups who emerged as winners of the Cambridge Wireless Discovering Start-Ups 2011 competition, on 8 December.

At the final pitching event twenty competitors presented in front of a packed Cambridge University Queens College theatre, judged by senior representatives from companies including Microsoft, RIM, Nokia, Qualcomm Ventures, Innovacom, Broadcom, Orange, O2 Telefonica and ARM.

The other worthy winners were Advanced Balance Systems, Blu Wireless, Qiqqa and Proxama.

Photo credits: Alan Bennett, Media Imaging Solutions

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Mindings in the Press

Mindings has recently been well received by the press.

“The Next Web was at the PowerOfOne conference in early November…it was Stuart Arnott‘s pitch that really caught our attention.
It really is a great concept, one that really resonates with me, and no doubt with millions of other people around the world.
Mindings connects families in new ways, and could transform telecare”
The Next  Web (Paul Sawers)

“Elderly relatives not on Facebook? There’s Mindings for that…”
The Guardian (Stuart Dredge)

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Announcing ‘webMindings’!

1.  Use that computer Mum and Dad never switch on.

Or, one of the several you probably have kicking around your house.

2.  Connect it to the internet.

Phone up BT or whoever and get them some broadband – you’ll visit more often!  Alternatively, ask their neighbour if you can leech some of their broadband  - 50% of UK homes have it… A MiFi dongle will do also do the trick.

3.  Get our webMindings App.

We’ll be offering a FREE trial for WebMindings Beta testers. By recycling an old PC and using WebMindings, you can benefit from Mindings NOW!

We’ll be looking for Beta testers in early 2012. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for details!

Join our Facebook Community

Mindings will be launching soon, but in the meantime we have a Facebook community at www.facebook.com/Mindings that’s just starting to kick off.

We want you to tell us what Mindings should do.

•  Read about Mindings developments, related issues, and take part in the discussion.

•  Read what the media are saying about Mindings.

•  When Mindings launches, our Facebook community will be the first to know.

•  And, don’t forget to “Like” us and help spread the word!