Smart Car of America: Whether they’re squeezing easily into the teeniest of parking spaces on the cobblestones of Rome, whizzing about the narrow, crowded streets of Tokyo or on a highway near you! It offers you an utterly unique vehicle – one that’s exhilarating to drive, with luxurious appointments, and as responsive in its handling as it is responsible to […]
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Exploding Piggy Bank!
Japan Today: Toy maker Takara Tomy Co on Thursday unveiled its “Savings Bomb,” a piggy bank which “explodes” and scatters coins if users fail to save for a long time. The battery-powered toy — designed as a cartoon-style, ball-shaped black bomb with a skull and crossbones logo — lights up, makes a noise, shakes violently and scatters coins if it […]
Paper GPS
Springwise: Visitors to Sydney who want the scoop on where all of the best boutiques, cafes and galleries are need only point their browsers to Urban Walkabout to download attractive, pocket-sized walking maps in PDF form, complete with a detailed listing of shops and other attractions—for free. Maps are clean and concise and include information on buses, trains and other […]
Highly Priced Credit Cards
Born Rich: Gold and diamond covered business card is a cool way to show off your riches. Earlier, we saw the Hello Kitty gold business card and the Mitsubishi Materials Fine gold card and now, GK Power, a Seoul-based smart card maker and online game provider, has made a new high-concept card for the VVIP customers. GK Power has developed […]
Ccube: The New Age Communication
Ccube: Inspired by Thomas L. Friedman’s best?selling book, “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty?first Century”, Ccube was born to provide a solution to today’s #1 Web concern: privacy. In 2006, founder Mahesh Lalwani leveraged his 15 years of high?tech architecture experience to develop a social utility to extend opportunities for human interaction and provide a valuable […]
Young Entrepreneurs Win Again In Taipei
IT seems like the accolades just can’t stop rolling in for these young, enterprising students from Hwa Chong Institution. After bagging the top prize of $5,000 in the Youth Category of Start-Up@Singapore 2007, Agrotech has gone on to clinch the Best New Markets Award at the Global Talentrepreneur Competition 2007 held in Taipei. Their product, which revolves around plant care […]
Programmable Pet Dish
Coolbuzz: If you own a cute pet and fears about regularity of his routine meals in your absence, then you need something like ‘Intelligent Programmable Pet Dish’ on which you can ensure timely meals by programming up to four time’s meal on a digital programmable timer and self-opening food tray that will automatically serve the pet. On scheduled time it […]
USB-Powered Massage
Engadget: It’s not often that we see a USB-powered gizmo claiming to “relieve tiredness, muscle strain or even pain,” and considering that we can’t leave our posts even for a moment to see an actual doctor (a non-robotic one, at least), we couldn’t be happier about this development. The USB Far Infra-Red Pad gets all the power it needs from […]
Transportable Hair Salon
Springwise: Hair salons on wheels aren’t particularly novel anymore (to wit: Onsite HairCuts, which we covered last year), and most often they cater to office workers who spend their days in large industrial parks. Now UK-based HairPOD is picking up on that basic idea but bringing it out to the masses—wherever they happen to be—with quick, inexpensive haircuts on the […]
Ultimate Tailgating Trailer
Iconoculture: Tailgaters might tell you that the real main event is out in the parking lot, with Gameday Customs’ Ultimate Tailgate totally tricked-out tailgate trailer. The 5-by-8-ft. trailer holds a 26-in. LCD TV, satellite dish, generator, CD/DVD player, 10-gal. fresh water system, complete draft beer system, electrical outlets, a battery charger, a toilet, a spare tire and even — we’re […]