The Cool Hunter: It had to happen. As practically everything we use in the home – from TV sets to cell phones, ipods and computers – have shrunk in size and increased in efficiency, it was only a matter of time before the home itself became a transportable, order-in, pocket sized commodity. Ok, so it won’t fit in your pocket […]
My Home Outside
Monkey Business
BusinessWeek: It’s not safe coaching third base — or any base, for that matter — when the ZOOperstars are in town. Just ask the countless coaches who have been swallowed whole by 10-foot-tall Clammy Sosa, one of the most popular of the ZOOperstars. In the mascot troupe’s signature bit, the impressively tall inflatable clam clad in a Sammy Sosa jersey […]
Bitter Chocolate Toothpaste
Iconoculture: Minty fresh gone stale? Tired taste buds get a breath of fresh air with Breath Palette toothpastes. The polishes for pearly whites come in 32 unexpected flavors like Bitter Chocolate, Indian Curry, Sweet Salt, and Pumpkin Pudding. The cavity fighters, invented in Japan, scrub tooth surfaces with super-fine microbeads and break down plaque with Xylitol. All 32 flavors have […]
Super Pen
TrendCentral: This fancy pen does way more than just write. Packed with a tiny computer, camera, speaker and ink cartridge, the FLY allows users to do math, make music, play games, and schedule activities. When the user writes on special FLY paper, the pen’s computer recognizes what is written and performs the corresponding functions. The technology allows what is written […]
Facial Health Water
Ubercool: In case you haven’t noticed, water is everywhere, particularly the bottled kind. It’s such a hot commodity it has created a $46 billion market. In some countries, bottled water has even eclipsed beer consumption, and it could well overtake carbonated soft drinks as the world’s No.1 beverage. A notable water of late is BORBA Skin Balance Water ($34 for […]
Bluetooth Advertising
WSJ.com: assengers waiting to board a Virgin Atlantic Airways flight at London Heathrow airport may get an unexpected invitation on their cellphone these days. Under a new advertising program, transmitters are beaming out text messages to the phones of people walking by to ask them if they would like to watch a video-clip ad on their phone’s screen. The commercial, […]
Online Job Hunting
BizReport.com: Monster.com may grow up to be a dinosaur. That was my first thought upon seeing a new breed of online job sites shaking up the recruitment industry. Simply Hired and Indeed, upstarts less than a year old, are getting attention for their Google-like approach to helping people find jobs. They do for job listings what Google does for general […]
Easy Pee
DailyCandy.com: Men love to think women are jealous of them. Particularly when it comes to a certain appendage. Yeah. Uh, huh. Whatever you say, boys. In fact, the only occasion on which we experience such envy is when confronted with a nasty public restroom. And My SweetPee, a gizmo that allows you to “go” standing up, eliminates such unsanitary situations. […]
Moving Eulogy
Local6.com: A new company plans to unveil new high-tech tombstones with embedded flat screen monitors that would allow visitors to play memorial videos of the deceased, according to a report. Joe Joachim, who says he wants to be the Walt Disney of the funeral business, plans to unveil the Vidstone this year at the annual funeral directors convention. Joe Joachim, […]
Online Tutoring
BizReport: When students in Leslie Chernila’s English class at the Art Institute of Washington write an essay about the work of Garrison Keillor, she has them send it off to a critic halfway across the country before turning it in. The paper soon returns, complete with comments about structure and word choice. The service, offered by District-based Smarthinking Inc., is […]