easier Motoring: The irritation of nuts and bolts jammed in place by rust can be a thing of the past, thanks to car care specialist, Comma, and a new product which simply freezes components apart. The new product, named Frost Bite, has been developed by Comma’s scientists and uses a -30°C treatment to penetrate corrosion and release jammed components so […]
Frost Bite
Stationery Art Form
The Cool Hunter: For the executive who has grown bored with his Blackberry, and sick of his stapler, comes this rather over the top stationary revolution. These elaborately detailed, all metal staplers from Jac Zagoory. Designs come in Gorilla, bear, dragon, Lion and more. These excessive must haves are brilliantly made, and have turned desk accessories into an art form. […]
Mobile Specs Fitting
Digital World Tokyo: Glasses and contact lenses are noticeably big business all over Asia, so it’s no surprise to see a Japanese optician combining sales of spectacles with the venerable mobile phone. Glasses superstore Megane Top (literally, ‘Top Glasses’) has just started a handy service where browsers of the frame selection on their mobile website can go one step further […]
Face The Music
Cool Hunting: Imagine an online social network that provides free, on-demand online music but without the legal anxiety of peer-to-peer networks. More interactive than conventional internet radio, though not as gratifying as Napster was in its glory days, Jango is a New York City-based music site with a large database of songs and artists and is instantly addictive. Now in […]
Young Entrepreneurs Win Again In Taipei
IT seems like the accolades just can’t stop rolling in for these young, enterprising students from Hwa Chong Institution. After bagging the top prize of $5,000 in the Youth Category of Start-Up@Singapore 2007, Agrotech has gone on to clinch the Best New Markets Award at the Global Talentrepreneur Competition 2007 held in Taipei. Their product, which revolves around plant care […]
Programmable Pet Dish
Coolbuzz: If you own a cute pet and fears about regularity of his routine meals in your absence, then you need something like ‘Intelligent Programmable Pet Dish’ on which you can ensure timely meals by programming up to four time’s meal on a digital programmable timer and self-opening food tray that will automatically serve the pet. On scheduled time it […]
USB-Powered Massage
Engadget: It’s not often that we see a USB-powered gizmo claiming to “relieve tiredness, muscle strain or even pain,” and considering that we can’t leave our posts even for a moment to see an actual doctor (a non-robotic one, at least), we couldn’t be happier about this development. The USB Far Infra-Red Pad gets all the power it needs from […]
GumDrops Boots
The Vancouver Sun: The name may be a beautiful maelstrom of cultures, but the newly opened GumDrops store is all about the Rainy City. For Australian Shanda Jerrett — originally born in Victoria, although her family emigrated Down Under soon afterwards –the name is a combination of gumboots (their word for rubber boots) and rain drops (and you thought it […]
Transportable Hair Salon
Springwise: Hair salons on wheels aren’t particularly novel anymore (to wit: Onsite HairCuts, which we covered last year), and most often they cater to office workers who spend their days in large industrial parks. Now UK-based HairPOD is picking up on that basic idea but bringing it out to the masses—wherever they happen to be—with quick, inexpensive haircuts on the […]
Ultimate Tailgating Trailer
Iconoculture: Tailgaters might tell you that the real main event is out in the parking lot, with Gameday Customs’ Ultimate Tailgate totally tricked-out tailgate trailer. The 5-by-8-ft. trailer holds a 26-in. LCD TV, satellite dish, generator, CD/DVD player, 10-gal. fresh water system, complete draft beer system, electrical outlets, a battery charger, a toilet, a spare tire and even — we’re […]