BusinessWeek: Airline flights are one of the few situations where you find yourself wedged against a total stranger for hours at a time. It might as well be someone you like. With that in mind, a new Web site, AirTroductions.com, aims to match like-minded fliers for business networking, book discussions, romance — whatever it is you want from a seatmate. […]
Social Networking in the Sky
Immortalized Leaves
DailyCandy: The apple may not fall far from the tree. But what about the leaf? Different story entirely. Tossed by the winds of chance, wrangled by the rakes of fate, the delicate foliage of autumn cannot know its destiny. With any luck, however, it will get immortalized on a pillow, tablecloth, or stationery by Inleaf Designs. The company adorns linens […]
Lego Disks
Influx Insights: Young French designer, Ora-Ito who is being hailed as the country’s new Mr. Starck, has just designed a playful new stackable hard drive for Lacie The hard drives are shaped like Lego bricks and come in various different colors. Lacie had worked with Porsche design in the past and Maxtor had made some effort to bring a more […]
Closer to the Consumer
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: Lynne Robinson’s home in Bellevue is like any other — ringed in flowers and shrubs, full of the sounds of a happy family of four. But inside, an experiment is unfolding. They call it reality marketing — a deliberately provocative term that evokes Big Brother as much as any tawdry reality television show. But in the Robinson home, […]