Sea Life Accent Lamps

The Sea Life Accent Lamps from Pottery Barn provide a hint of the beach life in your home. Crafted from pure white bone china for strength and translucence, these whimsical accent lights glow with shadow and light.

Find LocalHarvest

LocalHarvest is America’s #1 organic and local food website. The people behind LocalHarvest maintain a definitive and reliable “living” public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. The search engine helps people find products from family farms, local sources of sustainably grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact with small farms in their […]

Public Safety Urban Solution: The Interactive Moodwall

The Moodwall is situated in a pedestrian tunnel and interacts with people passing by, improving the atmosphere in the tunnel and making people happy and feel less unsafe. The interactive urban wallpaper was first installed in Amsterdam. It is 24 meter long and built out of about 2500 leds behind a ribbed semi-transparent wall. The Moodwall was suggested as a […]

Art + Nature

Inhabitat: While most of us are delighted by the idea of bringing the outdoors in, we are equally excited by the concept of bringing the indoors outside! These “lawnge chairs” get the job done. Designed by artist Lisette Spee in collaboration with architect Tim Van Den Burg, the playful seats are part of a series of lounge chairs created for […]

Indoor Gardening Fun

Cool Tools: Green Toys’ Indoor Gardening Kit all made their way into our home as gifts and then won us over across generational lines. They’re constructed of recycled milk cartons (high-density polyethylene), have a clean, attractive, colorful-but-not-garish aesthetic and are just shy of bulletproof. The gardening kit’s a pleasure because it requires parental involvement (for the recently post-toddler set, at […]

Rent or Swap Service

Springwise: Launched earlier this month, Creative Caravan is a property listing service for people working in the creative industries, devised to help film directors, make-up artists, painters, photographers, etc find a place to (sub)let or swap. The Australian service aims to make it easier for people who are constantly on the move find short-let properties at short notice, anywhere from […]

TV Dating

Shiny Shiny: Eastenders, Torchwood, the news and oh, that guy with the centre-parting who likes American Pie 1&2 ‘winked’ at you. Yes: meet the future. Match.com and BT are pairing up and bringing internet dating from the quite small screen in your bedroom to the rather larger screen in your sitting room, in an attempt to lure the millions looking […]

BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 88

Craft Your Own Game Fancy being a creator and seller of your very own game? You can now do so at The Game Crafter! There are no up-front fees, and no contractual obligations. Just design your game idea and components, set the price…. Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 88 >>> – Quest for the Last Cup Holder You’ll Ever Need […]

Taga 2 in 1 Stroller and Bike

The unique and innovative design of Taga combines a premium stroller with a bike to create a new multifunctional mode of transport, turning any typical journey into an adventure. Use Taga in the bike mode to travel around the city and on reaching your destination simply transform into a pushchair within seconds to continue your journey on foot. The 3-wheel […]

R2D2 Toilet Paper Dispenser

Topless Robot: R2D2 has done many things in his storied career. Carried Death Star plans. Slaughtered battle droids. Shot lightsabers out of his head. Served booze. But now, thanks to Japan, he can help keep your anus clean as this toilet paper cozy, which… I don’t know. I’m just too dead inside today to feel much of anything. I wish […]