SittingAround.com, a Boston-based social network that connects parents with able and qualified babysitters, is giving a free Square dongle — the plug-and-play swipe-card reader that facilitates easy P2P payments via smartphone — to babysitters who sign up to be members of the network. That will allow parents to pay their sitters with credit or debit cards rather than cash. Nothing […]
Babysitters Network
Social Concert Footage
Vyclone’s special features are positioning it to become the video sharing site within the music category. The iOS app, which was released in May, was conceived as a way for music fans to share and compile footage from live performances. Smartphone videographers can upload up to one minute of footage to Vyclone’s server, where it’s then added to a pool […]
Make Anything A Computer Touchpad
MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century. Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. Firstly, clip two objects to the MaKey MaKey board. For example, you and an apple. When you touch the apple, you make a connection, and MaKey MaKey sends the computer a keyboard message. The computer just thinks MaKey MaKey […]
Home Within A Home
To accommodate the changing family structure, Lennar’s NextGen home is a multi-generational blueprint for privacy and independence. The “home within a home” designs vary in square footage and layout, but all feature two adjoining self-contained living quarters that share either a main entrance and foyer or a front porch with separate doors. It can be integrated into a home’s living […]
Allergen-Free Restaurant
Mon histoire dans l’assiette is a unique concept, a cooking style which is full of flavours, a menu which evolves with the seasons and is allergen free. All the dishes by the restaurant in Lyon, France are without 11 of the most common allergens such as gluten, eggs, lactose, peanuts, pitted fruits, soya, mustard, seafood, celery, sesame & lupin beans. […]
Green Fashion
Stevie Famulari’s Green Line Series consists of five plant-embedded garments that grow, flower and reseed themselves. Each gown and coat in her visionary collection contains over 5,000 living blossoms, including poppies, daisies and baby sprouts. Fashion Fauna [Cassandra Daily]
Blindry
Blindry is a brilliant window blind that turns into a fold-down laundry rack for drying clothes indoors. Perfect for small apartments, where floor space is often too limited to accomodate drying racks, the item brings multi-functionality to the new level. No wonder its designers, Kim Bobin and Ko Kyungeun, were awarded the prestigious Red Dot award for the concept. It is also an […]
Aero Seat
Ideal for your desk chair, living room armchair, car seat and more, the Aero Seat is a simple but highly effective tool for sitting comfortably and cooling down at the same time. Low noise and low energy, the battery-powered cushion funnels a cooling wind through the materials. Adjustable to high or low depending on how hot you feel, you can […]
Re:composed Furnitures
Springtime is turning trash into luxurious materials for their cool new line of Re:composed furniture pieces. Re:composed focuses on using waste destined for the dumpster as a base material for beautiful new decor. By fusing the two unlikely concepts together, Re:composed pushes individuals to consider conservation and the value of the trash they’d normally toss without a care. See all […]
The Adjustable Readers
Getting older can be quite a challenge. Once your vision starts declining, you need to have a whole host of different spectacles for different occasions. Now, this would be ok, except, your memory is probably not at its sharpest at this point. Save yourself the trouble of continuously hunting for your different pairs with the all-in-one Adjustable Readers. These amazing […]