Springwise: Over the past few years, we’ve seen nearly every major clothing brand—from the Gap to Louis Vuitton—set up one or more pop-up stores, drawing attention to their product lines and to their regular retail outlets. In contrast, a Munich-based brand isn’t attempting to supplement its fixed-store bread and butter; Clemens en August’s only offline sales are through temporary outlets, […]
Planned Scarcity Collection
Simple Coworking Space
Coworking Rochester is a space that offers the best social elements of the cafe culture, with the stability of an office environment. When you step into Coworking Rochester you find other wireless workers and nomadic entrepreneurs sitting at big desks with proper lighting, in comfortable chairs, with bottomless cups of coffee, and a stable, fast, internet connection. You’ll also find […]
Pack A Chair in Your Pocket
Cool Hunting: It was just a question of time before someone came up with an iPad-ready chair, or we should say a “magical and revolutionary” chair. Vitra just introduced Chairless, a tool for sitting designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena. A simple and witty idea, the textile strap joined into a loop measures 85 centimeters in length and five centimeter […]
Recyclable Origami Lamp
Inhabitat: The latest lighting design from LZF Lamps puts paper swans to shame. The Spanish design firm used origami figures to inspire its giant, geometric pendant lamps, which debuted at this week’s Milan Furniture Fair. Not only are the lights arrestingly beautiful, they’re crafted from eco-friendly materials. Consumers can recycle the spiky, polypropylene domes once they are finished using them. […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 99
Smart Drive Kit Re-capturing the imagination of smartphone-loving Americans with short attention spans, Smart unveiled the Smart Drive Kit last month. This iPhone application effectively takes the place of an infotainment system like Sync, including internet radio…. Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 99 >>> – Take a Fiverr – Recycled Cassette Tape Neckties – Urilift – Baggy Winecoat – Handsome […]
Enable Group Buy on Your Website
SyncFu from Dejan Strbac on Vimeo. SyncFu is a tiny widget for your web shop. It aggregates price concerned visitors in order to achieve volume discounts on your offerings. The discount grows with the group size, proportionally to your previously given pricing. It’s an incentive based system, and as everyone gets the last price after your deadline, all participants virally […]
Take a Fiverr
Springwise: Fiverr lets anyone sell a service of virtually any type for $5. Those “gigs,” as they’re called, of which there are more than 20,000 already listed on the site, span the spectrum in focus and practicality. Many are much like what one might find on ShortTask—writing positive product reviews on a website, for example—but others venture into much less […]
Curious About Love
TrendCentral: The nuts and bolts of your latest romp can be recorded at Bedpost, a free site whose tagline is “Ever wonder how often you get busy?”. Bedpost is a personal web application that will give you some insight into your sex life. Users enter in details about their latest sexual encounter – when it started, how long it lasted, […]
Smart Drive Kit
Engadget: Daimler hasn’t had a sales success on its hands lately with its line of Smart cars, with sales festering after an initial boom. To try to re-capture the imagination of we smartphone-loving Americans with short attention spans, Smart unveiled the Smart Drive Kit last month and now, at the NY Auto Show, is giving it a proper demonstration. The […]
Recycled Cassette Tape Neckties
technabob.com: Alyce Santoro’s Sonic Fabric line of neckties not only look cool, but they should hold a special appeal for New Yorkers: they’re made using 50% colored thread and 50% cassette tape, and the latter has been recorded with “loops and samples collected on and under the streets of NYC.” Recycled cassette tape neckties: audible wear [technabob.com]