The VanCouver courier.com: T&T Supermarket is celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Dog in style this month. Walk into any T&T right now and you’ll be greeted by a blaze of red and gold, as the stores gear up to celebrate Chinese New Year-which this year includes a more polished offering of T&T’s popular table-ready, takeout Chinese New […]
Chinese New Year Takeout
Fresh New Storage Solutions
DEXIGNER: LaCie kicks off 2006 with 6 new storage products designed to help people easily manage their digital lives. Fresh new LaCie solutions for 2006 are Lacie Little Big Disc, Lacie Rugged Hard Drive, kwarim, LaCie Two Big, LaCie mini Hard Drive & Hub and LaCie Slim DVD+/-RW. LaCie has again teamed up with world-renowned designers including Neil Poulton and […]
Escapist Blending
Iconoculture: Who’s the fairest? Those gazing into the Conduit Group’s Daydreams mirror by designer Jason Miller find themselves in a beautiful landscape. Each mirror contains a digitally produced photo of an ocean or a forest. The scenes offer an escapist setting for the harsh realities of life in front of the mirror (and the harsher realities of rushing for work […]
What’s In The Handbag
BBC News: The contents of a woman’s handbag have long remained a mystery – often even to the owner – but a new design offers to shine a light on the problem. A solar-powered handbag designed by a student from Brunel University promises to make finding keys and other items at the bottom of a bag easier. The handbag, dubbed […]
Organic matters
Iconoculture: Mothers of Organic – otherwise known as M.O.O. – is an online beehive of pro-organic moms. The maternal healthnuts share info and inspiration about how to raise healthier, happier kids and steer clear of pesticides, preservatives, and pollutants. The all-natural network was created by farmer-owned food label Organic Valley. Nutritionists, organic chefs, wellness experts, and celebrity activists (like Raffi!) […]
Eat Easy
Iconoculture: Big Mama is watching. MealPay.com enables parents to set up an electronic debit-card system that logs their kids’ cafeteria purchases and bans certain foods altogether. The ATM / debit-like card is accepted in 76 school districts in 24 states (CSMonitor.com 11.22.05). Kids use it to purchase food at the cafeteria, then parents can go online to track what and […]
Cars, Many Years From Now
The Independent: Fine. I’m feeling absolutely fine, because the jet lag has worn off and I’m at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show. Honda is feeling fine, too. “Fine Technology, Fine Times, Feel FINE!” is its motor show motto. And there’s more fine-ness at Toyota, in whose Fine-X you can discover that “Ecology and Emotion meet in a fun-to-drive time in […]
Graffiti Ads
BizReport.com: The images are painted directly onto building walls in urban areas, graffiti-style. Wide-eyed kids, portrayed in a stylized, comic-book rendering, pose with a mysterious, hand-size gadget. One licks his like a lollipop. Another is playing paddleball with the thing. What looks like artful vandalism, though, is really part of a guerrilla marketing campaign for Sony’s PlayStation Portable, a device […]
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 24
CoolBusinessIdeas Newsletter Issue 24: 17/12/05 – 31/12/05 New Business Ideas/Opportunities Featured In This Issue: DESIGN Walking Music The Digital Sound Bag lets you slip your personal music player into a clear acetate pocket and plug it into built in speakers. Custom Walls Single Tapete (‘singles wallpaper’) sells photographic wallpaper, featuring photos of whoever/whatever. FASHION Custom-ers Made Consumers spend hundreds of […]
Josh, In Search of Cool
DenverPost.com: Picky, picky, Josh Spear. He’s the prince of particular, the satrap of selection, the chief of choosing, this 21-year-old occasional University of Colorado undergraduate with a unique passion for the things that please him. When Spear likes something, he posts it on his popular blog, joshspear.com. What happens next? The thing gets noticed. About 5,000 people a day come […]