Sonomanews.com: Sonoma’s new Scandinavian Trends offers a bright assortment of gifts and collectibles as sweet as a Christmas kringle. Launched earlier this month by Danish natives Chris and Merete Bendtsen, the shop brims with Norwegian trolls, Swedish linens, bright Danish paper mobiles, Finnish glass, Skagen watches and hand-knit Norwegian cardigans to warm up the coldest Greenland elf. The store also […]
Scandinavian Trends
Mashed Music
WBOC.com: Mash-up Music: it’s a trend that gives new meaning to the term “music mix.” It’s taking two different songs – and mixing them together. One popular one these days is the blend of Alicia Keys’ vocals for her song “Karma” with the music track for the song “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder. Wyclef Jean of the Fugees says mash-ups are […]
Laundry Rug for Lazy Bums
Iconoculture: If you can’t fight the sloth, embrace it. Making up for – not necessarily fixing – our bad habits gives lazy homeowners a fun Ready, Set, Go! kick. Wahoo! There’s an easy cleanup cure for dirty undies and socks littering the floor. Laundry Rug turns a lazy schlub’s messy habit into a carefree lifestyle choice. And unlike the Undy […]
Kitchen’s Helper
We Make Money Not Art: Peter D’Alessandro’s Magnetic Mixer is a concept for a kitchen work surface and mixer. The work surface is embedded with magnets and a heating element, when the magnetic mixer is placed on top a revolving magnetic field is created. The result is that the hands free device starts to stir and/or heat food seemingly unaided. […]
Two Minutes Mobile TV
InternetNews.com: It’s the end of attention. The few crumbs of spare attention anyone has left over from the barrage of daily media will soon be eaten up by “video snacks,” little chunks of content delivered to cell phones to fill those awkward moments when no one is calling, texting or e-mailing us. On Thursday, SmartVideo Technologies announced a content deal […]
Personalized Postage Stamps
SignOnSanDiego.com: Have a great photograph of yourself you’d like the world to see? Maybe a picture that proves you really did reach the top of Mount Whitney, or catch a 50-pound King salmon in Alaska, or hang glide over a beach in Rio. Wouldn’t that photo make a perfect postage stamp? Make it happen. Now anyone can join the ranks […]
Movie Goodies on Cell
Phonemag.com: This summer, moviegoers walking through theater lobbies in three cities might have felt a sudden vibration in their cell phones, the work of a nearby Bluetooth promotional kiosk. Last month, 20th Century Fox signed a deal with Loews Cineplex Entertainment to distribute movie trailers, ring tones and pictures through kiosks in three Loews theaters, in New York, Los Angeles […]
Cool Packaging
Yahoo! Finance: Wooed by flashy advertising and promotions, kids are now drinking three times more soda than milk. Not surprisingly, childhood obesity rates also have tripled in the last 20 years, and schools are leading the charge to provide healthier food and beverage options to students. New milk research suggests that simple marketing and product improvements can help students choose […]
Male Business
Springwise.com: More beauty-based ideas, of the Metrosexual kind no less (ah — how 2004), as male beautification continues its waxed & plucked victory march. Male grooming salons and spas are seeing brisk business (as Springwise reported before). Men now make up 29 percent of all spa goers, according to the International Spa Association, while many European spas even report that […]
Scrolling Belt Buckles
Independentcollegian.com: A new accessory has wrapped its way around the waists of New York City’s trendsetters. Scrolling LED belt buckles in vibrant colors allow hipsters to display personalized messages in rhinestone-studded frames. The battery-powered buckles hold six programmable messages of up to 512 characters, according to Alex Ressi, an online scrolling buckle distributor in Manhattan. Some distributors sell entire packages, […]