TRENDWATCHING.COM: US-based Magnolia, a division of BestBuy, is turning the art of installing home theatres (from reclining seats and huge screens to sophisticated sound systems) into a branded, nation-wide business: “Magnolia is the new service that will customize your home theater [i.e. tell you exactly what to buy] and make it all work together [i.e. come to your house and […]
Easy Home Cinemas
Astronaut Miles
SPACE.com: Frequent flyer miles will for the first time be good beyond this planet, based on a new offering from Virgin Atlantic airways and its space-related sister company Virgin Galactic. Flying Club members will be able to convert their regular miles into space miles. To get to space, members will need to log 2 million miles down here. “A journey […]
The AeroPress Coffee Machine
gizmag: You’d think we would have already perfected the best way to produce a cup of coffee from coffee beans, but several years of research by Stanford University mechanical engineering lecturer Alan Adler (the inventor of the Aerobie flying disk which holds the world throwing record of more than a quarter mile) appear to have found a better coffee machine. […]
SMS and Date
Yenra: Predictive text software developer Tegic and love author John Gray offer the top-ten tips to help ensure a successful union of texting and dating in 2006. It’s no secret that text messaging is on the rise. In fact, even texting to share amorous thoughts is on the upswing, according to the first annual T9 Texting Outlook Survey. Sixty percent […]
Sightjogging
Italy Magazine: We are sure this happens to everyone all the time. You find yourself in Rome – just have a couple of hours at your disposal – and are not sure whether to spend them in the gym working out or sightseeing. Well – you don’t have to make that choice anymore! The ever resourceful Romans have come up […]
For Surf Or Saddle
canyoncourier.com: Whether you’re a child of the West, or the West Coast, you’ll feel right at home at Rock’n U Ranch, a new boutique in downtown Evergreen offering distinctive apparel to suit tastes from Manitou Springs to Malibu. “It’s L.A. style,” says owner Lisa O’Farrell. “Fun and funky.” It’s a lot more than that, though. Located on Main Street’s north […]
Resurrecting Drink
Although initially created as an anti-hangover elixir, Resurrect is now becoming a part of the daily diet for the health conscious individual. Formulated with over 19 vitamins and herbs, Resurrect has the properties to help detoxify your liver, aid digestion, neutralize intestinal toxins, and increase energy and endurance. These vitamins and herbs help detoxify the human body from all the […]
Pride Of Kashmir
Strategiy.com: This Season, shoppers in Dubai will be able to see and buy Shahmina shawls from stores of Pride Of Kashmir across Dubai. Shahmina is a variety of the finest Pashmina, with a very fine, 350- micron fiber. This new range is intended to replace the shahtoush; the finer than fine wool, which is banned because the goat that produces […]
Cardio Tennis
WashingtonPost.com: Tennis can be a great workout if you have skilled, competitively matched partners playing singles. For others, the game is more stop than go, sprinkled with cuss-muttering frustration: hit, run, whack ball into net, stop. Hit, return, re-return(!), stop, curse, hail taxi to retrieve errant shot, etc. Entertaining, yes, even social. But not a heart-rate booster. Cardio Tennis, a […]
Extraordinary Etsy
DailyCandy: Click. Scroll. Click. Scroll. Click. Scroll. Whoa, shopping online is, like, totally wild! Or — not so much. Which is why we are stoked to introduce you to Etsy, a new, experimental, and totally awesome website that challenges the norms of online shopping. Run by a group of computer whiz kids, the site offers indie designers the space to […]