Cool Tools: Vanity postage. This pretty-easy-to-use website will generate official US postage stamps featuring a photo or illustration of your choosing (works well with iPhoto for instance). When the service was first introduced two years ago it was abused by clever pranksters — my favorite hack was a Unabomber postage stamp. The Post Office shut the program down. The service […]
Your Own Photostamps
Convenient Reading Chair
Popgadget: The Bibliochaise is book storage with a difference. Apart from the fact that it has a higher than average creativity quotient, the Italian designers, nobody&co have thrown in an added utility factor by creating a literal “arm-chair library.” With the Bibliochaise, you can pick off your books right from where you are seated. Because this chair-cum-library is designed to […]
Babyplanners Services
Springwise: As Babyplanners state on their website: “your dedicated babyplanner takes care of all aspects of life concerned with the upcoming arrival: we help you decide what you need and when you need it.” Think sourcing the best baby carrier, create the baby’s bedroom, or pre-selecting and arranging birth prep or parent confidence classes. Babyplanners offer two programs: the ‘Good’ […]
Video Production On Youtube
Iconoculture: Entrepreneurial young South Florida Latinos post their creative homemade videos on YouTube.com. Four Latino twentysomething friends starred in a video they produced on the cheap called “Cuban Churro Salesmen,” a comedy which became YouTube’s second-most-watched comedy video within 24 hours of its appearance on the website. The friends’ company, Four Awesome Guys Studios, has filmed seven improvised shorts. The […]
Food Design
Cool Hunting: Minale Maeda’s “Table Manners Collection” is a clever exploration of the intersection of formal dining and fast food. Toasted directly onto a grilled sandwich, the porcelain pattern lends the refinement of fine china to eating on-the-go. Other works by Mario Minale and Kuniko Maeda, the duo behind this Rotterdam-based design studio, include t-shirts printed with a tablecloth pattern—for […]
Wearable Computing Devices
BornRich: If you want to be always equipped with your favorite personal computing devices all-the-time without carrying any external baggage then, how about walking down the street wearing all of them in a special outfit. Well, if you quiet liked the idea then you dont have to go on looking for a Bond-tailor to get one, the Electronics and Telecommunications […]
Indoor Skate Board
Popgadget: No more yelling “Stop riding your skateboard in the house!” or “You just ran over the cat — go outside!” With the Tuck n’ Roll upholstered vinyl skateboards, you can safely cruise the hallways . The site calls it “sculpture you can ride” and I wouldn’t disagree. Hang it on your wall and call it an “installation.” They also […]
Doggy Diapers
Strange New Product: The STA-ON diaper harness is used to keep diapers on dogs, whether young puppies, untrained adult dogs, or elderly incontinent dogs. The idea is the invention of Dorrie Krenkel, who grew tired of diapers that kept falling off of her dachshund, Bucky. The harness is intended to work with babies’ diapers (you just poke a hole to […]
Garden Offices
Springwise: For everyone who’d like to escape office politics and the daily commute, iscape manufactures and sells purpose-built garden offices. Both are multi-use outdoor living spaces, but the Miana was specifically designed to be used as an office. Every garden office comes complete with integral electrics and includes sockets and lighting. The buildings are designed to fall within UK permitted […]
Guitar Shirt
we make money not art: Scientists at the CSIRO’s Textile and Fibre Technology division in Australia have woven electronic sensors into a T-shirt (the WIS – the Wearable Instrument Shirt) so that it can be played liked a real guitar. Movements by the wearer’s arms are mapped and beamed by radio to a computer which interprets them and turns them […]