Easy Packing Cubes

Cool Tools: These nylon zip-up packing cubes vastly simplify travel of all kinds. I’d used ziploc bags, net bags, and many other sub-containers, and couldn’t imagine why anyone would pay $10 or so for a nylon box with a mesh lid. Now I always use them. They aren’t cube shaped, but more of a lunch-box flat rectangle shape. Because of […]

Luxury Coasters

BornRich: Carbon fiber creations seem to be getting all the attention these days. We have seen carbon fiber being used to make toilet seats, but I never thought someone would think of the same for the coasters. The luxury edition coasters from Black Badger Advanced Composites are precision CNC-milled and are made of solid titanium and carbon fiber. There is […]

Smories for Kids

Babygadget: Have you – or, more importantly, has your kid – discovered Smories yet? It’s a website with a simple premise: adults write short stories and kids read them straight to camera. The concept was born from a long overland trip in Africa, during which one of the founders’ kids filmed herself reading stories for the other, to the prolonged […]

BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 103

Be a Job Prize Hunter Jobprize allows job seekers to offer a “prize” to in-the-know employees to refer them to and help them land a job. Anyone can go to http://www.JobPrize.com and post a profile about his or her background. What makes this different from other job search sites? Job seekers pay a prize to employees in companies with openings…. […]

A Better Way To Tip

Where’s My Tip is the “cashless” way to tip the doorman, bellhop, housekeeper, valet, the concierge, and just about anyone who helps you out when you travel. Where’s My Tip members no longer need to carry cash everywhere they go. Instead, members hand out the convenient tip cards then pay tip requests online at their leisure. How does it work […]

Orange Pedal Power

TrendCentral: They may not be world champions of soccer, but the Dutch are still an authority on bikes. Not only do they produce stylish bikes, but they continue to lead the world – in spirit, if not in the raw numbers of China – at using the bicycle as their primary mode of transport. Thus, we were delighted to learn […]

Safest Power Strip

Can you believe it? Holding a metal tweezer and sticking it into an outlet of a power strip while water is pouring over your hand and the whole power strip without getting shocked and all your electrical appliances are still operating? Wet Circuits is the first consumer power strip that is water resistant. It is also designed so that even […]

Color Clips

Here’s a new twist to the undeniably simple, but super useful, paper clip; clips in the shape of numbers from zero to nine. Use them to triage your piles of paper, or just to add a bit of fun to desktop, filing cabinet or briefcase.

Be a Job Prize Hunter

Jobprize allows job seekers to offer a “prize” to in-the-know employees to refer them to and help them land a job. Anyone can go to http://www.JobPrize.com and post a profile about his or her background. What makes this different from other job search sites? Job seekers pay a prize to employees in companies with openings that match their profiles. The […]