TrendHunter: Do you have what it takes to hunt down treats from the McDonald’s menu? Advertising agency DDB Stockholm has created this interactive McDonald’s billboard game where you hunt for treats. The billboard game has the viewer attempting to capture an image of McDonald’s menu items with their camera phones. If the viewer manages to successfully take a picture of […]
Catch a Sundae from McDonalds
Salad Spinner that Saves Lives
Inhabitat: When’s the last time you heard of a salad spinner that saves lives? Two Rice University students have transformed a simple salad spinner into an electricity-free centrifuge that can be used to diagnose diseases on the cheap. Created by Lauren Theis and Lila Kerr, the ingenious DIY centrifuge is cobbled together using a salad spinner, some plastic lids, combs, […]
Chocomize Your Own Chocs
Chocomize is the first company in the US that allows customers to create their ultimate chocolate bars. You start out with your favorite chocolate base – dark, milk, or white – and then add up to 5 of over 90 ingredients to your very own chocolate bar. It’s chocolate made just the way you like. There’s a large variety of […]
Ice Jacket
Tell-me-first: Chill it to perfection with the Ice Jacket . Whether you’re pouring martinis or serving lemon drop shots, most guests agree that these libations are best when served at the coldest possible temperature. With the Ice Jacket, you can encase a bottle of your favorite spirit or other liquor in a dramatic layer of ice and chill the contents […]
Meet The Raffle Dog
Raffle Dog is a website that offers free online prizes sponsored by companies. Its main goal is to give users a free prize without any strings attached and to recreate the sense of excitement similar to the raffles in the old days (or the 80’s). Raffle Dog is currently offering different raffles every week for local and national companies. The […]
App-etites on the Rise
Iconoculture: App store enhancements are making it easier than ever for consumers to supe up their smartphones. The iTunes Store now has a “Give a Gift” feature just for apps. It allows users to give iPod Touch and iPhone applications and games to friends via email or an actual gift certificate. Developed by Vitrue, the new App Store Facebook page […]
I Ride My Own
Born Rich: Known as the daddy of all motorcycles, Harley-Davidson motorcycles remain constant throughout the ages even with the varying styles and trends, however, for all those who are able to say “I ride my own,” this customized limited edition by the Catalan designer Custo Dalmau is sure to make your ride stylish and colorful. The designer has revamped the […]
Connecting Consumers with Furnitures
Springwise: London-based Made.com aims to bring original design to the masses by removing middlemen from the process and connecting consumers with furniture makers directly. Along the way, it strives to cut prices by 50 to 80 percent, it says. Consumers begin by browsing through the many items on Made.com’s site; represented there are the works of a variety of young […]
Light Touch Interactive Projector
Light Touch is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. It frees multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, allowing users to interact with that content just as they do on their hand held devices – using multi-touch technology. Light Touch has Holographic Laser Projection (HLP) technology inside which creates bright, high-quality […]
Dream TV Machine
BornRich: Auton, known for its TV Lifts, has been doing well to conceal our plasma and LCD TV screens in cabinets at the touch of a button, but it has grown better in this hide and seek business with its latest creation — the Dream Machine. With its seamless and simple to operate ways, Auton’s Dream Machine slides your TV […]