A third of all food produced globally gets thrown away each year. A smart gadget in the battle against waste is the NutriBullet – perfect for using leftover fruits to make smoothies. NutriBullet Balance, £149.99, Nutribullet.com
My top tech and business picks include: This Week In Startups, by Jason Calacanis; Pivot, with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway; How I Built This with Guy Raz; and The Twenty Minute VC.
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I love Mimica Touch, a gelatin-based packaging solution that shows if food is spoiled or not – so you don’t need to rely on inaccurate sell-by date labels. The premise is simple: if the label feels smooth, your food is fresh; if it’s bumpy, you shouldn’t eat it.
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Be My Eyes A free app that connects blind people with sighted volunteers for visual assistance through a video call.
Giki This helps to make your shopping sustainable – all you have to do is scan a barcode and see which badges have been awarded.
GoodGym Looking for reasons to get fit? GoodGym will hook you up with people who need help with tasks. So you can run to meet a group to help with community projects, or to visit an older, isolated person who’d like a chat and a cup of tea, then run back.
Olio Surplus food can be shared, not thrown away.
Thrift It will collect your best second-hand clothes, photograph and upload them to its online store, and donate the proceeds to your favourite charity.
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The future of transport is incredibly exciting – I can’t wait for driverless cars and the ‘hyperloop’, which will transport passengers in pods at speeds of 760 mph, revolutionising how we travel.
One way to combat air pollution is Airbubbl, which purifies the air inside your car. £249.99, Airbubbl.com
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Most of us use an internet search engine every day. A simple way to do some good is to use Ecosia.org, a search engine that uses profits to plant trees – 60 million so far, and counting.
The September issue of British Vogue co-edited by HRH The Duchess of Sussex is available for digital download now on the App Store and for Android, and on newsstands.
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