Iconoculture: Flu masks get some fashionista flavor with the creations of New Yorker Patricia Lamberti, who has taken her Fashion Flu Masks where no flu masks have gone before. Decorated with accoutrements like floral appliqués, leopard fabrics and satin ribbons, these protectors against pandemics strive to shed the shackles of postindustrial supply store. But let’s face it: A fibrous oblong […]
Fashion Flu Masks
Zooppa Video Ads
BizReport: A new website gives advertisers the chance to brief online video ad developers for considerably less than the cost of a production agency. It’s a win-win situation for advertisers on Zooppa, a new website launched this week. It is essentially a platform for paid, user generated video, with a twist. Businesses are encouraged to supply advertising briefs, including specifics […]
Smashing Darlings
SmashingDarling.com: We are an online community/marketplace for indie fashion designers and buyers. With a focus on helping independent fashion designers market their talents in new ways, SmashingDarling offers a unique experience for buyers, sellers, and anyone interested in fashion that thinks outside the mall. At SmashingDarling.com you sell it, we take payment for it, you ship it, and then we […]
Outer Skin for SmartPhones
Gadgetnutz: The new trend in SmartPhones (Windows Mobile ones, anyway) is to encase the brains of the phone in a nice, smooth and rubbery outer skin. The Blackjack, the Dash and the Black Motorola Q all have this nice feel to the outside. While it does seem to be more resistant to scratches to have this kind of outer case, […]
Allowance 2.0
TrendCentral: With much of tweens’ entertainment—and thus their spending—happening online and now even through gaming consoles (PS3 games cost $8 per download), it has become more difficult for parents to track what their kids are charging to their credit cards. A recent slew of “allowance 2.0” tween-friendly debit programs are giving tweens responsibility for their own spending and we expect […]
Maximum Protection Umbrella
Popgadget: American industrialists try to build better mousetraps, but northern Europeans apparently need better umbrellas. The SENZ Umbrella has been designed to directly fill a need – to prevent a strong wind from turning an umbrella inside out. The SENZ team has redesigned the umbrella to be both stronger and more aerodynamic. The asymmetric shape keeps the rain from hitting […]
Easy Veins
Shiny Shiny: Young and old, nobody likes needles. But we all have to put up with them from time to time, whether you’re doing ‘something amazing today’ by giving blood, or just having a plain old blood test. The Luminetx VeinViewer claims to make the process a bit less painful, by showing the needle-wielding nurse exactly where to poke to […]
Knork
DailyCandy: If it were up to you, you’d wrap yourself in pizza and eat your way out. But since there’s a little thing called manners, settle for a Knork instead. Inventor Mike Miller thought of the idea while eating pizza with his buddies. It dawned on him how to solve the problem of eating a pepperoni pie politely: Integrate a […]
I’m Not a Plastic Bag
The Independent (Online Edition): It’s just a bag. All right, so it’s a tote bag designed by Anya Hindmarch, the queen of Bagland. A bag that retails for £5 but is now changing hands for up to £200 on eBay. A bag so hot that it was chosen as the official goodie-bag for guests at the 2007 Vanity Fair Oscar-night […]
Tune-In Bed
Shiny Shiny: Remember when an iPod dock was a clever idea? Since then, we’ve seen iBelts, Inflatable iChairs, iProjectors, iLoo Roll, you name it. What on earth is next? Why, the Tune-In Bed, of course! This is no ordinary iPod dock! You can sleep in it! This is also no ordinary bed! It plays music from your iPod! Of course, […]