UpTownBella: It’s a common problem for stylish women on the go—they have the cute outfit, the cute luggage…and the not-so-cute laptop bag. UpTown Bella ends this dilemma with a collection of laptop bags that combine fashion and functionality. Now savvy career women can tote their laptop, cell phones, gadgets, iPod, ID, and boarding pass with ease and style. Every UpTown […]
Stylish Laptop Bags
USB Bra
Chip Chick: USB connectors have been turning up everywhere these past few months – on beverage chillers, plastic frogs, and other unusual places. In recognition of this trend, a bunch of industrial designers got together and created an exhibit chock full of eccentric places to put a USB connector. For example they placed USB connectors on hand cuffs, a door […]
PetPocket
Iconoculture: A front pack for a furry baby? The PetPocket straps to a pet owner’s shoulders just like a baby pack, to tote Mr. or Ms. Fluffball wherever their adventures take them. For owners who can’t get enough face time with their furkids, it brings critters a lot closer to their heart than a carrier or a handbag. On-the-go pet […]
Winning Together
MutualWin: Today’s apartment complexes, gyms, credit card companies, vacation destinations, airlines, retailers, tax consultants and a wide variety of other businesses extend lucrative offers to encourage customers to refer friends to their business. A new Internet site, MutualWin, www.mutualwin.net, connects consumers so that they can take advantage of a wide range of referral offers, fulfilling the site’s slogan, “It’s a […]
Funeral Marketing
Marketing Magazine: Shakespeare in the Park plays, gospel concerts, bird watching, tree hugging, historical walking tours, jogging and picnics are not the first things that spring to mind when you think of cemeteries and funerals. But for Mount Royal Commemorative Services, on Montreal’s Mount Royal, it’s all part of bringing life to an industry long known for its deadly dull […]
New Medical Trend in China
Entrez PubMed: Chinese biomedical scientists are now developing a new approach to medicine by combining traditional Chinese medicine and Western biomedical science. This is the current medical trend in China. Some significant results have already been achieved. For instance, in treating fractures the traditional dexterity in coaxing broken ends of bones into alignment has been successfully adopted, and x-ray has […]
7UP Curvy
Indiantelevision.com: Clear lime brand of PepsiCo India, 7UP, has unveiled its curvaceous new packaging Curvy. Promoting the new packaging is 7UP’s popular brand mascot Fido Dido in company with Bollywood siren Mallika Sherawat. Says Pepsi Foods Pvt Ltd, India executive marketing director Punita Lal, “We are pleased to present the new 7UP ‘Curvy’ bottle which spells style, aesthetics & differentiation. […]
Golf Glamour
Springwise: Proving that every industry can benefit from innovation, Eye Candy Caddies’ mission is to make golf sexy. Similar to Models At Work, the temp agency that we wrote about last year, Eye Candy only works with models and other very pretty people. Caddies can be hired for GBP 150 and travel expenses, which covers 18 holes and an after-links […]
Caffine innovation
Bornrich: The Milan furniture fair contest focused on how the coffee rituals will evolve in the future. The first prize winner is the “Nespresso Card” that is a personal chipcard, which holds coffee preferences for registered individuals. The card enables you to access your favorite coffee anytime, anywhere. The second prize winner is an interesting concept of InCar coffee machine […]
Dream Homes
BizReport: Zillow, which provides free, anonymous home value estimates, has struck a deal with Microsoft Corp. to offer detailed pictures of homes using the software company’s “bird’s-eye” mapping technology. The technology, which is the same offering found on Microsoft’s Live Local mapping site, provides photographic search results that are, in some areas, close-up enough to make out individual cars or […]