Iconoculture: It’s hard to speak pretentiously about terroir with secret sauce dripping down your chin. Los Angeles-based Learn About Wine’s Blind Date tastings pair a variety of respectable reds with beloved In-N-Out Double-Double cheeseburgers. The tastings are held on assorted Friday nights in a downtown loft and boast 20 one-ounce blind pours. Each night of the series features a different […]
Wine with Burgers
Reknit Your Old Sweater
Springwise: Each month, Reknit will unravel old sweaters and re-knit them into a different item; this January, it’s scarves. Consumers begin by choosing from two different scarf styles—each priced at USD 30—and sending their old sweaters to Boston-based Reknit. Then, “my mom will turn your old sweater into a new scarf,” as the site’s creator explains it. Visitors to the […]
Marbling Art on Stone
Hurriyet Daily News: Saadet Erciyas, a female entrepreneur, and her team are creating decorative products by using the marbling art on Turkish natural stone. As part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture events, she is preparing to display her products and sell them in museum stores. Her next goal is to market them around the world. According to […]
HP’s Store in Store Concept
AMEinfo.com: HP Middle East announced its new retail strategy in the UAE – HP Store in Store, which is focused on facilitating enhanced consumer experience and interaction. This unique concept has been implemented in the UAE and a 4th store was launched in Dubai Mall at Jacky’s this month. HP’s Store in Store is, as its name suggests, a mini […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 97
Square Payment Square is a mobile app that lets you start accepting payment cards immediately with no contracts, monthly fees, or hidden costs. With Square, you can read payment cards from any device with an audio input jack…. Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 97 >>> – Self Cleaning Coffee Table – ‘You and Me’ Clock – Ritmo: iPod for Babies […]
Other Lab
Inc.: Other Lab founder Saul Griffiths has made a fortune applying way-out mathematics to inventions large and small, including robotic kites, insulation inspired by origami, and the carbon-emissions calculator WattzOn. Other Lab is not an easy business to define. You might call it an incubator, though Griffith avoids the term because of the stink it obtained during the dot-com boom […]