Springwise: Slate is an all-inclusive laundry service for NYC residents available through the web. Customers sign up for a weekly flat fee of USD 50-60 (GBP 29-35/EUR 42-50), receive a Slate hamper, then choose a pick-up time. Which means no standing in line, no counting and itemizing, no financial surprises: Slate does the sorting, and determines which garment needs to […]
More than Laundry
Fortune Cookies
inQ7money: Fortune cookies used to be found only in a few Chinese restaurants. Or seen in Hollywood movies. This delicacy was immortalized, for instance, in a 1966 film “The Fortune Cookie” starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Fortune cookies, which resemble the boat-shaped ancient Chinese gold ingots, are each imbedded with a strip of paper containing a prediction, lucky number […]
Fashion Plates
PittsburghLIVE.com: It is now possible for luxury-loving, label-conscious consumers to eat their meals from dinnerware created by their favorite fashion designers. In a time when when singers, actors, and media personalities ranging from Sean Combs and Gwen Stefani to Mandy Moore and Nicky Hilton have added the title fashion designer to their resume, it only seems natural that fashion designers […]
Compelling Ad
Yenra: ANI has appointed DZP Marketing Communications to lead the strategic development and repositioning of Atkins Advantage. DZP has designed a new national print campaign designed to articulate the Atkins Advantage: a unique nutrition advantage versus the competition: high fiber, high protein, vitamins, minerals, low sugar, and no trans fats. “Our new management has streamlined operations and built a foundation […]
Aged Wines in Few Seconds
Mainichi: Aging is the name of the game when it comes to fine wine. Top producers mature their brews in oak barrels; connoisseurs will keep a bottle in the cellar for years so they can savor the complex bouquet at its peak. For Hiroshi Tanaka, all that waiting is just a waste of time — and he says he’s got […]
Seeing The World
CScout: By connecting the real world with information from the Internet, users can explore geographical spaces with the eye of an insider. There is a huge variety of technologies which can be used to enable visitors to find their way around the globe. So far, most applications are used to tour museums, tourist sights or foreign cities. The most obvious […]
Easy Home Cinemas
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 […]
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 […]