Suntimes: Want a treat to go with your Starbucks coffee but can’t afford the 490 calories in a slice of iced lemon pound cake? The coffee chain this week added a “petites” line of bakery treats for under 200 calories and priced $1.50. The tiny lemon squares, caramel squares, cake pops (bites of cake on sticks, like lollipops), mini cupcakes […]
When Small Indulgence Attracts More
Mini Urban Boutique Drive-In Theater
It’s the world’s first boutique drive-in movie theater created for the urban generation! The Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In concentrates on indie films, art house, cult, Gen X/Y, childhood favorites, and drive-in classics. It requires less space and is more exclusive, more personal, and more intimate. A new drive-in experience is born right in the heart of Austin.
Homemade Pizza in a Bag
Fancy a pizza kit from GalloLea Organics? It’s a homemade pizza in a bag. Gluten free or whole wheat, it makes a pizza in 30 minutes. Included is a round piece of parchment paper to build it on, and it goes into the oven on it, makes it easy. Great for kids/family/everyone that loves pizza! Delicious and organic. Thanks Susan […]
Send a Lifetoken
Lifetokens is a new and novel way to send a message. Online messages are attached to real physical tokens and delivered via old fashioned mail. Lifetokens have an image on the front and a unique code on the back which pulls up your message when entered back here at Lifetokens.com.
E-library at Taiwan Airport
Springwise: The e-library, based in Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, has four hundred titles in its collection — available in English or Chinese, and in ePub or Zinio formats — which can be read in the airport, but not taken away or downloaded onto the user’s own device. Set up by Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, the library is run by the […]
Cereal Boxes Come Alive
MIT Advertising Lab: eCoupled intelligent wireless power is so flexible it can actually be printed directly onto packaging. A low-cost enhancement to product packaging, printed coils allow real-time communication from the package to the store shelf, and then to the store’s inventory management system. Product quantities can be identified and tracked, expiration dates monitored, and new stock automatically ordered when […]
Exclusive Gift Picker
No idea what to buy? Or are you too busy or lazy? We have to acknowledge that there are million of reasons why we don’t shop for gift. It can simply be due to overcrowding at shopping mall, busy climbing corporate ladder or just being pure laziness to brainstorm about the gift. If you feel this way too, you will […]
Peanut Butter Museum
Reveries: A pop-up gallery in New York City is dedicated to the art of the peanut-butter sandwich, reports Marshall Heyman in the Wall Street Journal (3/5/11). The Nutropolitan Museum of Art, on Mulberry Street, is sponsored by Peanut Butter & Company, “a specialty sandwich shop on Sullivan Street, as well as a purveyor of such fine goods as white-chocolate flavored […]
Surprise Check In
Trendwatching.com: In November 2010, Dutch airline KLM ran an experimental campaign called How Happiness Spreads, where it employed a “Surprise Team” to give passengers tailored, unexpected gifts at the airport. Combining with location-based game Foursquare, as soon as someone checked-in at a KLM Foursquare location within its network of airports the Surprise Team went online to find more background information […]
Candy Bike
BornRich: Primate Frames – the uber-cool bicycle manufacturer from Down Under – has been consistently maintaining an impressive output for the past three years. Specializing in steel frames, the power house has now come up with a customized design for the female-specific bike blog Candy Cranks. A collaboration of female riders from around the world, giving insight to bike culture […]