TrendCentral: These simple canvas sneakers have been popular in China since the ’20s and have recently gained a small, cultish following Stateside. The shoes’ durability, comfort and flexible soles made them the choice footwear for Shaolin monks who wore them when practicing Kung Fu and Tai Chi. While they are still worn by martial artists, it’s their simple, classic style […]
Kung Fu Shoes
iReporting
Guardian: If you fancy being a journalist, there has never been a better time – provided you don’t mind giving your services for free. Dozens of websites now want you to report for them, especially if you have been involved in an earthquake or flood, or been on site during a campus massacre. Train and helicopter crashes, forest fires, robberies […]
Avatar Fashion
Iconoculture: Stardoll has been a big hit with denizens of virtual environments because the game enables users to dress up their avatars in an infinite spectrum of custom duds. Now Stardoll is partnering with Spreadshirt to bring some of those user-created designs into the real world. The partnership is in an experimental stage, but it could potentially allow any user […]
Preserving Old Memories
ScanDigital began with a simple question from mother of one of our founders. It was the 2006 holiday season and Mike Mothner was at home opening presents with his family. This year the gift that was the biggest hit was the digital camera Mike gave his mother. The wrapping paper hadn’t even hit the floor before she was busy lining […]
Baby Boomers Attitude Tees
BoomersWithAttitude.com is a new online tee-shirt store that’s devoted exclusively to the most exceptional generation in the USA today: the Baby Boomers. It features distinctive, unique Tee-Shirts and other quality apparel that further expands on what this already vocal group of over 70,000,000 people has been doing for 45 plus years, that is, Expressing Themselves … with Attitude. Simple and […]
Photo Phone
Crave: Ah, the elusive video phone. We’ve been hearing about that miraculous invention since we were kids, seeing prototypes displayed at Disneyland’s house of the future. But despite an occasional product on the market, visual telephony has yet to take off for the masses. So the closest thing we may be able to get is something like the new “GE […]
Instant BBQ
TrendHunter: Tons of lighter fluid is used to light BBQs in the US every year which contributes to toxic residue on the foods cooked. The Baja BBQ firepack is made of charcoal packaging (100% recycled biodegradable paper pulp) which quickly ignites by lighting from the bottom. The chimney holes provide the ventilation needed to produce hot coals. The contents are […]
Tune Your World Music Financing
Every artist has the same problem of obtaining capital for their next recording. Tune Your World provides the solution of applying micro-financing to the music industry. Tune Your World is an Open Source music project that enables artists and fans to co-produce new works of art and share in the creative process. Its groundbreaking approach is the creation of peer-to-peer […]
Futuristic Pivo by Nissan
The Nissan Pivo is a concept car by Nissan and is powered by a lithium-ion battery. The car is essentially a 360 degree rotating cabin on a chassis of 4 wheels, and hence eliminates the need for reversing and makes parking easier. RA, the Robotic Agent, one of the features of Pivo, establishes the driver’s frame of mind by monitoring […]
Child Author
Springwise: Tikatok is an online community any child can use to write and illustrate stories, share them with friends and family, and even print them out as real paperback and hardcover books. Children can create a book free-form, or they can use the site’s “StorySpark” templates to help them get started. Words and drawings are easily saved with a book […]