TrendCentral: These fusion workouts combine the intimacy of personal training with the challenge of boot camp-style conditioning in private, class-like settings. Each session targets the five key elements of a complete fitness program—strength & endurance training, flexibility, and balance & core work. Juliet Kaska, fitness guru and owner of L.A.’s Emerson Hall Fitness created these three-times-a-week-for-five-weeks programs exclusively for her […]
Fusion Fitness
Liquid Mag
Iconoculture: Step into liquid. Imbibe magazine covers everything from cocktails to wine to beer to juice to coffee to tea. The motto: All that’s fit to drink. The premiere issue of the bimonthly publication features hot chocolate and mezcal in Oaxaca, great hotel bars around the country, Trappist ales and organic wines. A handy guide to every imbibing opportunity will […]
The Nail Tattoo
TrendCentral: For London women tired of manicures every week or expensive and time consuming nail regimens, the latest and greatest is the nail tattoo. Using a super fine needle, the tattoo artist goes through the first few layers of your nail to create an extremely detailed image directly onto the nail. Fans are loving the intricate, as well as the […]
Quirky Nights Under French Skies
Telegraph.co.uk: You can stay in France in anything from a Yurt to an Airstream caravan. Ann Noon offers a guide. Yurts Squatting at the top of the Ardèche river gorge, overlooking some of the most rugged scenery in France, the Mille Etoiles encampment is home to 12 individually-designed yurts scattered throughout a peaceful oak forest. Handcrafted from different woods, each […]
The Window Cleaner
The Franchise Magazine: When Terry Mullins was searching for someone to clean his windows, he discovered that the traditional domestic window cleaner has all but disappeared. So, after two years of research and planning he has launched The Local Window Cleaner Ltd. “The market has always been there,” explains Terry. “What was required was someone to devise a system that […]
Slimming Toothpaste
Iconoculture: Hungry? Go brush your teeth. White Glo Crave Away and F.A.S.T. are two toothpastes that claim to curb hunger cravings with herbal formulas that signal the brain that the body has eaten. Consumers hot on the trail of a thinner body are happy to try new therapies that don’t involve eating less or exercising more. Whiter teeth and a […]
Beer Buddy
The GadgetStore: Can’t tear your eyes away from the match to pass your mates another beer? Simply slide the Beer Butler along the table and you can keep your attention on the game, because it will ingeniously stop when it reaches the edge without spilling a drop! Yes, this football shaped Beer Buddy is battery operated and smart enough to […]
In-game Advertising
The Gazette: High-tech spy Sam Fisher uses a Sony Ericsson phone to snap a picture of terrorists and sends it to home base. Then he reads his mission briefings on his PDA – personal digital assistant – from the same gadget maker. While Fisher may be fictional hero of Ubisoft’s Montreal-made Splinter Cell video game series, the tools he needs […]
Nu Mobile
TrendCentral: myNuMo is a new teen-oriented, online community with a similar model for user-created mobile phone content. The site offers users the tools to create and publish ringtones, wallpapers, and of course, videos. Members can then profit from their creations by uploading them to their own custom webpage within the site where they can then sell them by using a […]
Bite and Drink
sacbee.com: How many water bottles do you own? Probably more than you need, but the new 25-ounce CamelBak bottle comes with such a nifty cap design that you might consider owning one more. Actually, the bite-and-drink valve cover alone is almost worth the price. The rubber cover that slips over the hinged valve has a slit, so when you flip […]