Iconoculture: Watch and sniff? Specially equipped Japanese movie theaters are enhancing the cinematic experience with scene-synchronized scents. The Fragrance Communication system uses NTT Communications’ seat-mounted machines to release preprogrammed aromas. The fragrant feature will make its big-screen debut at showings of Terrence Malick’s The New World, a retelling of the love affair between John Smith and Pocahontas. The film’s “fragrance […]
Scene-synchronized Scents
Hook Them Up
CoolBuzz: You hang your clothes on a laundry pole after washingsun dries your car once you wash it…but what about your shoes and sandals? One cannot hang them anywhere. However, if sandals are somewhat like these Hook sandals, I do not think there’s gonna be any hassle drying them too. These come with a highly functional hook that helps them […]
iPod Bag
Chip Chick: The Burton Solar Amp Pack is designed to compliment your iPod. It has an integrated Apple iPod control system with a SOFTswitch control pad on the shoulder strap. It also has a molded iPod storage pocket, a shoulder strap headphone port, padded and ergonomic shoulder straps, and it even has a side-entry compartment to store your laptop. The […]
Nike+iPod
Gothamist: Two of the biggest brands in the world came together today in New York to announce a partnership for a new product. Nike and Apple – who wasn’t content just with opening a store on 5th Avenue – announced the Nike+iPod – a wireless system that can track your running progress and allow you to choose a “PoweSong” to […]
Toothbrush Tech
Gearlog.com: Leave it to the folks at MIT to develop high-tech…toothbrushes? And not just any toothbrush, but “toothbrush toys promoting good dental hygiene.” Instructor Barry Kudrowitz’s Toy Product Design course created protypes of kid-friendly toothbrushes and toothpaste dispensers to get kids excited about dental hygiene. Tough job, huh? They actually came up with some really cool stuff. Entries include a […]
Loincloths
Mainichi Interactive: Loincloths are being marketed by the Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo’s Ginza district as a feature product for the summer months ahead, it has emerged. A boom in the sale of loincloths has been seen since last spring, and in just half a year the department store has sold about 5,000 loincloths — roughly 25 times the normal […]
Tilted Soup Bowls
Chicago Sun-Times: Willie Jacobs, a 69-year-old retired machinist, was doodling on a napkin while rehabbing from a heart attack when he came up with the concept for a tilted soup bowl. Seven years later, with a patent and mold in his possession and a manufacturer under contract, Jacobs and his wife, Linda, now find their product listed in one of […]
Funky Campers
Springwise: In keeping with today’s mobile theme, Escape Rentals is a New Zealand camper rental company that sets itself apart by letting artists turn camper vans into art on wheels. Taking something slightly dull – a camper – and turning it into something fresh, Escape Rentals is attracting travellers who are tired of mass tourism and looking for a more […]
Fieldvertising
Brand Infection: Here’s one for Switzerland’s airline group Swiss Air, created by Artfield (website in german), a company shaping agricultural land into art but also advertising. Using fields between 50.000 and 100.000 square meters the company can create characters of up to 100meters length while only using natural colors and elements. Pretty crazy but hey, this works perfectly next to […]
Melting fats
Blissworld: Want the ‘outside’ skinny? This new water-resistant broad spectrum sunscreen actually helps you fight the look of fat while lying on the beach! With exclusive sun-activated spheres that release the visual slimming effect of caffeine molecules when you need them most— while baring the better part of your birthday suit in the sun—in a non-greasy spray formula of hydrating […]