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Spotting Online Deals Together
Iconoculture: Online retailer service WujWuj is giving consumers an incentive to invite friends to buy online. The service facilitates group buys to drop the price of a product as more shoppers sign on to purchase it. WujWuj’s retail partners embed special widgets on their websites, each one showing a pic of a sale item and the price points per committed […]
Tasteful Merchandise Under One Roof
Time (Fashion Week): If Saint Germain and Avenue Montaigne seemed a little desolate on this sunny Saturday afternoon in Paris it might be because all the chic shoppers had migrated up in the Bastille neighborhood to check out Paris’s newest concept shop, Merci, which opened Thursday. I stopped in this afternoon before the Comme Des Garcons show and the place […]
Fast Charging Battery
ubergizmo: Researchers at MIT (where else) have stumbled upon a brand new battery material which is able to recharge 100 times faster compared to standard lithium-ion versions found in your computer or phone. Assuming further research and quantum leaps in development occurs for this new battery material, chances are we could be looking at cell phone-sized batteries that could be […]
Web 2.0 Classroom
physorg.com: Dr. Lodge McCammon and his team at NC State’s Friday Institute for Educational Innovation have developed FIZZ – a suite of tools that allows teachers to implement safe Web 2.0 environments in the classroom, similar to a private YouTube site for each school. Helping students solve classroom assignments is an important part of FIZZ, McCammon explains. However, there is […]
Cookbook for Kids
Star-Telegram.com: Given the recent global financial crises, it comes as no surprice that many families would be looking for budget-friendly activities for their kids while school is out. Open your own culinary school in the kitchen by exploring some of the recipes in these easy-to-follow cookbooks for kids. With these recipes, your family can learn new skills and travel the […]
Korean BBQ On The Wheel
Springwise: Restaurants on wheels have already come a long way, as upscale pizza, ice-cream and dessert trucks have joined the ranks of the Good Humor man and the hot-dog stand. Now the taco truck—a longstanding institution on the streets of LA—is getting a whole new spin thanks to Twitter and the infusion of some Korean spice. Launched last fall, Kogi […]
Toilet Roll Art Work
Inhabitat: Yuken Teryua’s work proves that discarded everyday objects can be re-invented into something elegant and beautiful. The Japanese artist crafts toilet paper rolls with a level of detail so that they adopt a new identity as delicately sculpted pieces — reminiscent of columnar wind chimes intertwined in the branches of a tree. ECO ART: Toilet Paper Roll Cut-Outs [Inhabitat]
The HBR List 2009
Harvard Business Publishing: The annual Harvard Business Review’s breakthrough business ideas is now out. This year, the list includes trends ranging from Africa to the economy, from Western Union to state capitalism, and from biomimicry to something called the IKEA Effect… HBR has also gone further to anticipate the context in which we would now read them. Thus some of […]
MobME
The Economist: One drunk driver, 32 traffic violations and 15 miscellaneous offences. A daily tally of crimes in Cochin, a city in the Indian state of Kerala, appears on the mobile phone of Sanjay Vijayakumar, the young co-founder of MobME. His firm, which provides “value-added services” for mobile phones, has outfitted the Cochin police with camera-phones. Instead of describing crime-scenes […]