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, […]

Quirky Boutique Hotels

stuff.co.nz: It’s a trend pre-dating the global slowdown: big hotel chains are moving into the quirky boutique sector to tap into a niche of profitable growth. What’s not clear now is how many can succeed. Hotel revenues have fallen sharply since last October and shares in hotel groups in Europe fell by more than 30 percent in 2008 as investors […]

LEGO Gadgets For Starters

The Gadgets Weblog: A new line of LEGO branded gadgets will be hitting the streets this summer. The MP3 players and cameras will not actually be made of LEGO bricks, but they will look like it and include real LEGO pieces so that the devices can be customized. It makes sense; if a kid dropped a digital camera and it […]

Watch The Green Cloud Grow!

Inhabitat: During the week long installation, local residents were asked to consume less, unplug their electrical appliances, and then watch the green cloud grow! HeHe explained; “No other space, network, grid, community could better represent a city and it’s activity as a whole. The physical dimension of the Salmisaari site, inhabits a special position in Helsinki; physically, visually and metaphorically. […]