Geeksugar: So this geeky bracelet is not Hermès. It’s also not $567. Instead, this Tetris Bracelet ($70) is pretty cool and while exceptionally geeky, it’s not unwearable. Maybe it’s the disco lover in me, but lucite jewelry always manages to charm me. All I need is the perfect outfit of primary colors to wear it with. The Tetris Bracelet is […]
Reminiscence of Tetris Game
Celebrity Fashion Spotter
Coolspotters is a online service that makes it easy to discover and buy the products, brands, and fashions being used by your favorite celebrities – in their real lives, and in movies and television. Until now, the only glimpse you’d get into the product choices of your favorite actor, athlete, musician, or other public figure was from a page in […]
SmartSwipe Safe Online Shopping
SmartSwipe is the new, smarter, more secure way to shop online. The SmartSwipe (by NetSecure Technologies) is the world’s first truly secure personal credit card reader. When you install SmartSwipe, you can swipe your credit card at your home or office computer just like you would in a store. Plug the SmartSwipe into your computer’s USB port, go shopping to […]
Handheld Portable Toaster
Crave: We’ve covered silly-slash-interesting concepts before, but I’m not really clear on how I should feel about this handheld portable toaster by Korean designer Been Kim. You apparently run it over your bread like a fancy butter knife and it toasts that side in your hand. An LCD readout on the back gradually tells you just how toasty your toast […]
The Gold Mattress
BornRich: Italian mattress maker, Magniflex, is taking the concept of “luxury sleeping” to a whole new level with a bedding line made out of the precious metals, gold and platinum. The Gold Mattress from the house is made with a 22-carat gold yarn cover and features the company’s patented Memoform Core, which adapts to the shape of the body with […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 84
DIYbio Hub Ever wanted to play with your own genome? When you read about the latest genetic engineering tools do your fingers itch with anticipation? Do you look around the library, the pub, or the community center searching for your fellow biohackers? Look no further, intrepid gene-explorer, the Do-It-Yourself Biology movement has found a home at DIYbio.org….. Continued in BIZNESS! […]
Artsy Flu Masks
JoshSpear: What would you do if you were an out of work art director with some free time and you wanted to help fight the Swine Flu epidemic plaguing Mexico (and looking pretty grim all over the place)? Irina Blok decided to get creative with some fashionista surgical masks. Fashion Surgical Masks [JoshSpears]
Organic Sunscreen
Babygadget: Vivesana is a new organic sun care company that is the first 70% organic baby sunscreen product on the market. They also use exclusively US-grown organic ingredients and domestic, sustainable, BPA-free packaging and the tube is convenient for toting around. The best part? It doesn’t go on greasy or smell like pina coladas. With ingredients like Ginkgo Biloba Leaf […]
Inspire Taking Coach Bus
Inhabitat: Swedish advertising company, Acne, put together a rather eye-catching advertising campaign for Flygbussarna, an airport coach bus service, to inspire individual car drivers to take the coach bus instead. An installation made up of 50 wrecked cars resembling a Flygbussarna coach bus was placed next to the highway leading to the Swedish airport. Acne used 50 cars to emphasize […]
DIYbio
Singularity Hub: Ever wanted to play with your own genome? When you read about the latest genetic engineering tools do your fingers itch with anticipation? Do you look around the library, the pub, or the community center searching for your fellow biohackers? Look no further, intrepid gene-explorer, the Do-It-Yourself Biology movement has found a home at DIYbio.org. From the humble […]