TrendWatching.com: British grocer Waitrose launched a locally-focused giving program that enlists customers’ help in focusing on issues closer to home. Waitrose’s Community Matters program assigns each store GBP 1,000 each trading month to donate among three local organizations such as community groups, schools or local divisions of national charities. Customers nominate the organizations to benefit, and Waitrose’s local democratic bodies […]
Waitrose Giving
Vegawatt: The Green Voltage
Springwise: Who said fat was bad for you? Vegawatt focuses on the upside of grease, turning restaurants’ waste oil into electricity and hot water. Vegawatt’s refrigerator-sized units are incorporated into a building’s existing system in the same way as a solar panel is retrofitted. After filtering a restaurant’s used vegetable oil, the unit combusts the refined fuel in a diesel […]
Single Spot Camping Site
SingleSpotCamping.com is a brand new started website. It offers all land- and lot owners to present their own “single-spot-camping”. The idea is – that anyone who owns a piece of land (it can even consist of your garage entrance) and think it would be fun using that spot, to welcome one or a couple of camping guests – can join […]
Understanding Mens’ Heart
Shiny Shiny: This Tamogotchi style device is designed to help us understand men. How you ask? Well, it comes with 100 pre-installed questions, like: ‘What phrase will make boys happy when said out of jealousy by their girlfriends?’ or ‘What type of hair style do men usually prefer their girlfriends to have?”. This is not a joke. Bandai has really […]
Ecocabs
TrendWatching.com: Pedal-powered taxis have been around for years, but Dublin-based Ecocabs has come up with a FREE LOVE twist: free eco-taxi rides throughout the city. Ecocabs are pedal-powered (but battery-assisted, when necessary) tricycles that can accommodate three people for emissions-free transit through congested urban areas. The brand-sponsored vehicles are customized with brand-specific colors and imagery, and drivers can also hand […]
iPill
Iconoculture: Open your mind wide! Dutch tech tank Philips introduced a smart iPill that monitors temperature and acidity as it travels down the digestive highway and drops its drug cargo right where it’s needed. It was developed to reduce dosages and side effects with targeted treatment. Packed in the plastic pill are a microprocessor, battery, wireless radio and the drug. […]
Tilly-Miss Vending Machines
Tilly-Miss Vending Machines hold 300 golf balls, each machine is available on outright purchase fully loaded with premium balls, all top name brands only. Each machine can be fixed and bolted to any area for safe keeping. Run out of golf balls on the green? Look out for the Tilly-Miss Vending Machines.
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 79
Fashion: Absurd is kind of normal now Little missmatched brings funky mismatched socks, pajamas and apparel to retail. By targeting the zany population that dresses extrovertedly and ignores standard fashion norms, this clever product… Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 79 >>> – Stimulant-Infused Snacks – I am Saint Nick – The Junior Shark Guiding Wheel – Unilever’s Sustainable Detergents – […]
Fashion: Absurd is kind of normal now
Little missmatched brings funky mismatched socks, pajamas and apparel to retail. By targeting the zany population that dresses extrovertedly and ignores standard fashion norms, this clever product actually makes the ‘normal’ folks wanna have a little piece of all that nutty fun while doing their daily clothes shopping. You know, get in touch with their crazy side… With an adorable […]
iGo iWrite
PR Newswire: Compleo, a social media consultancy based in Richmond, Virginia, has launched a unique web application on Facebook for travel fans, known as iGO iWRITE – the first travel series to be compiled completely online and then published in hard copy via the popular social network. The creators of this social media experiment, Sonali Shetty, a web 2.0 strategist, […]