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 […]
Reknit Your Old Sweater
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 […]
Smartclean Detergent from Method
CoolHunting: Eliminating waste in more ways than one, Method’s powerful new laundry detergent makes washing “smarter, easier and greener” with its “smartclean” technology and precise pump. With its extremely concentrated patent-pending formula, Method packs enough suds into one small package to clean 50 loads of laundry. Requiring just four squirts, the ingenious pump delivers an easy way to always add […]
Get a To-Do Tattoo
Short term memory? Trying getting this temp tattoo. The To-Do Tattoo kit includes 12 graphic “To Do” forms that you can apply to your body wherever it’s most convenient (or creative) and a skin-safe, washable-ink gel pen. You’ll never again have to make lame excuses for missing bowling night or your mom’s birthday.
SmartyRents Straight to Your Door
SmartyRents offer a variety of educational video games for children from the ages of 9 months to 10 years. The “Netflix” of educational games has several rental packages available to allow you to find the best package to fit the needs of your family. Maybe you have several children at different age levels or with different game systems and need […]
Tank Fantasy
TrendCentral: You don’t have to join the armed forces to test out these monster machines. In the UK’s Northamptonshire lies a farm where no flesh and blood animal roams. Instead, for a fee, you can drive one of over 90 massive, 50+ ton beasts of steel. You can also crush cars, fire 18th century muskets, and “offroad” through various courses. […]
MacBook in Old Leather
CrunchGear: Here’s something that’s custom and unique for protecting your Mac Book – the BookBook. Based on the concept of hiding in plain sight, the BookBook case resembles an antique leather-bound book. Of course, the BookBook is hand-distressed, but instead of it happening over years, it happens rather quickly in order to make it a marketable product. Still, once the […]