Born Rich: eCrate is a modern take on traditional fido carriers from esteemed industrial designer Peter Pracili. The NYC artist has partnered with Sexy Beast to launch this revolutionary new egg shaped dog crate. The eCrate cage was constructed from 60 individually welded wires and collapses to half its size for easier storage when not in use so you can […]
Lovely Dog Crate
Winter Weddings
Appleton Post-Crescent: With a son in medical school, Brenda Kubasta says scheduling was problematic during prime wedding season, and even if they did tie the knot in fair-weather months, waiting wasn’t the couple’s forte. “It would’ve been in summer,” noted newlywed Kubasta, who wed husband Jim in December 2006. “The question we asked each other was, ‘Why wait?’” The pair […]
Artificial Surf
Guardian: Six-foot swells are set to break on the Thames at an attraction aiming to tempt the growing ranks of urban surfers to taste the “quintessential California surf lifestyle” in the unlikely surroundings of a disused dock in east London. From 2011, the world’s first outdoor artificial surfing machine will try to rival the Atlantic breakers of Devon and Cornwall […]
Wrangler Laundry Service
Trendwatching.com: Continuing the tradition of using shipping containers to house all things pop-up, a spotting from the Netherlands caught our eye. At the Lowlands music festival, jeans brand Wrangler offered festival-goers a much-needed service: laundry. At 18 meters wide and 9 meters high, the Wrangler Laundromat was hard to miss. People dropped off their mud-encrusted laundry and were sent a […]
YouMail Voicemail
MobileCrunch: YouMail, a free voicemail service, launched a new advertising program this week that will connect brands with mobile users through text-based advertising. This new feature will add youmail2.jpgshort, non-intrusive 40-character marketing messages to the text alerts users already receive when a caller leaves a new voicemail. YouMail users currently receive text messages alerting them to new voicemails which include […]
Tweens’ Social Network
TrendBlog: Moshi Monsters, a UK based social networking site aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 12 years old, might become Club Penguins biggest competitor “Tweens” can adopt and customize their very own pet monsters. The more they play with their monsters, the “happier” the monsters will be. At the same time playing games on the site earns […]
8-bit Icon Watch
Thoughts From The Sideline: You can always be sure that, the moment we come across a wrist watch that offers particularly innovative design, we’ll feature it here on TFTS, and few wrist watches come quite as distinctive as this Icon Wrist Watch that pays homage to the blocky 8-bit graphics from classic retro console games such as Space Invaders and […]
Taser Party
Iconoculture: They come in pink, blue, silver and black, but we’re not talking Tupperware. Taser C2s are in hot demand at home-shopping parties in Arizona, where instead of trading recipes, suburban housewives take aim at cardboard cutouts. “We have Tupperware parties and candle parties to protect our food and house, so why not have a Taser party to learn how […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 61
Amazing Public Speaking Skill – The Hancock Manoeuvre As the story goes Hancock never really enjoyed public speaking. He was in fact more of a comic actor than a comedian. He had brilliant script writers on his radio and TV shows and was more comfortable speaking the words…. Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 61 >>> – Climate Change Chocolate – […]
Thinnovation-Mac Airbook
Here is what everybody is talking about! The Mac Airbook! CoolHunter: The new year – the time for change – the time for resolutions – the time for the latest announcements from MacWorld in San Francisco. We oohed when Steve Jobs pulled the first iPod Nano out of the small pocket in his jeans. We counted the days until we […]