Yenra: Ball Corporation is launching a new advertising medium that allows beverage can tabs and ends to carry customized messaging. The laser-incised beverage can tab is a solid, colored tab that provides space for a small billboard for brand identity and advertising. The use of state-of-the-art computer and laser technology provides messaging flexibility, making it possible to engrave letters, numbers, […]
Differentiated Cap Tabs
Spice Up Your Life
Iconoculture: Advanced palates require complex and compelling flavors, and striking new presentations of age-old ingredients will inspire many cooks to try new dishes. Velissa Van Scoyoc doesn’t think zesty spices belong in boring jars. Her Gusto! Spice Cakes are colorful blocks of “visual aroma” that inspire cooks to spike dishes with exotic seasonings and flavor infusions. “I wanted to renew […]
Casual Gaming
NYTimes.com: Far from the bloody streets of “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas,” and light years from the deep space, run-and-gun menace of “Halo 2,” lives Flo. She is the cartoon-cute stockbroker who chucked it all to operate a modest diner that is the centerpiece of a highly successful yet relatively low-budget video game called “Diner Dash.” The staff of GameLab […]
Little Boutiques
StartupJournal: On a recent trip to the local mall, Suzy Lee ran her usual errands, shopping for her two children at Gymboree and buying makeup and a few basics at Neiman Marcus. But before leaving, she made a slight detour to Talulah G, a boutique with a name most shoppers wouldn’t recognize. The independently-owned shop, which opened at the Las […]
O-Synchronized
O-Sync: Recovering your mobile contacts automatically and seamlessly into your phone* is a breeze with O-Sync’s Free Over-the-air Contact Synchronization service. O-Sync interplays between the Web and your phone wirelessly, enabling you to backup and perform synchronization of your phone’s mobile contact database, anytime anywhere, without cables. That’s not all, Hot Link with your mobile contacts by inviting them into […]
Stroll-dating
Telegraph: Purveyors of speed-dating, the frenetic method of finding love through dozens of noisy three-minute encounters, will have you believe it is responsible for thousands of relationships, more than 50 marriages and at least six babies. The events are thought to generate up to £5 million a year and about 4,000 people a week take part. But for the 15 […]
Vending Machine for Beers
ThePublican.com: A vending machine for bottled beers and RTDs aimed at pubs, bars and nightclubs is being launched by a young entrepreneur. Michael Bowes, a 23-year-old from Glasgow, is the man behind BarHand – a “robotic” vending machine which aims to relieve the pressure on busy barstaff. BoozeBox, a similar vending machine, was launched in March and received criticism on […]
Barhand
Iconoculture: Long waits make nights out a drag for patrons, and impatient patrons make nights a drag for waitstaff. Dispensing convenience keeps guests and staff cheery. Elbows, curses, sneers … Just another night queuing for drinks. But Barhand could bring that to an end. The torqued vending machine’s robotic arm dispenses bottled brews, cutting queues and easing staff burdens. Barhand’s […]
Shopping Haven
Trendwatching: Yub.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Buy.com, calls itself the world’s first shopping social network, with a mission to “provide word-of-mouth on the web, filtered by trusted relationships.” Partnering with the likes of Sony, Apple iTunes, Target, Gap, Linens ‘n Things and Footlocker, its virtual mall offers 3.3 million products. Yub customers share their opinions on purchases and everything […]
Simple Phones
Mobile Digest: It might seem odd in an age of 3G handsets offering video calling, music playback and even TV, but Vodafone is getting back to basics. Announced on Friday were the first pair of mobiles in its range of handsets titled Vodafone Simply. Made in France by Sagem, the new phones (the VS1, a silver, stylish handset, and the […]