The Boston Globe: When it comes to your home’s interior, few things are as aesthetically offensive as radiators. Radiators clash with decor schemes and, if they’re old enough, they hiss and clang to boot, especially these days when it’s frigid out. Moving them is rarely an option and some radiator covers do little to help the problem, seeming only to […]
Heat up your Decor
Green Leafy Building
Inhabitat: Lately we’ve seen some incredible projects that make great use of the insulating and air-purifying benefits of green walls. The latest to strike our eye is this clean-lined office surrounded by the rolling Bío Bío hills in the center of Concepción, Chile. Conceived by Enrique Browne Arquitectos, the building makes extensive use of locally-sourced materials and is enveloped in […]
Wine Bottles Dipped in Chocolate
PR Web: With the economic climate tight this year, consumers are witnessing retailers going the extra mile to get their business this Valentine’s Day. One wine retailer, Cellar360, approached nine international winemakers and one sports legend to sign their wine bottles for gifts and is even dipping wine in chocolate. Called the “Signature Series”, Cellar360 is offering a collection of […]
Urban Bike-Sharing
Springwise: Urban bike-sharing is coming to North America in the form of Bixi, the new high-tech public bike system developed for the city of Montreal. Bixi follows the standard bike sharing principles: users take a bike from a stand, ride it to where they want to go, and drop it at another stand when they’re done. To make the concept […]
Home stylists
Iconoculture: 2009 style and trim trend: Go stealth? As consumers go to great lengths to stretch their dollars, home hair-cutting parties are an accessible option. Private coif parties aren’t new, but a struggling economy has caught stylists illegally accepting evening shifts, offering up lovely locks for fewer bucks. Some stylists report an uptick in consumers asking for these “under-the-table” deals. […]
Funky Feet
Inquirer.net: SURE, baby shoes are cute. But the truth is, babies aren’t supposed to wear shoes until they’ve learned how to walk. Rianna Roces-Trinidad and Sheryll Ang-Tiong, the mom-entrepreneurs behind Proud Mama, discovered this fact online. “We’re very proactive moms. We spend a lot of time on the Internet, reading articles. One of the things we learned online is that […]
Waitrose Giving
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 […]
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 […]