Shiny Shiny: Housework: bane of everybody’s lives. Fact. I mean, no one actually enjoys dusting and polishing do they? So this gadget is sure to bring much happiness: RoboMop is a battery powered 8.5 centimetre dusting machine, replete with electro static pad no less. It’s a strange contraption that looks as if the design team were visited by alien spacecraft […]
Robomop
Green Info
Iconoculture: DailyCandy with content that’s totally green? That would be Ideal Bite, a daily publishing website with an eco-friendly hue that intends to be “a good source of advice for real people leading busy lives.” Like the Lazy Environmentalist radio show and other down-to-earth approaches, Ideal Bite recognizes that people don’t turn green overnight, they do it one shade at […]
Nintendo Nth degree Toys
Gizmodo: Japanese collectible toys are generally cool to the Nth degree, especially when based on either whippy turds or video games. In the latter category comes a brand new range of build-it-yourself mosaics from TomyTec, all of which depict classic Nintendo characters. The ¥483 (US$4) dot-s packages consist of 250 colored pegs, a perforated board to plug them into and […]
Referral Economy
Springwise: Zubka, which launched recently, is hoping to shake up the British and European recruiting markets by creating a platform for hirers to tap into the social networks of active referrers. A referrer’s reward depends on the starting salary of the person referred, but is normally between 6 and 8 per cent, according to Zubka. Successfully placing someone in a […]
Feet Heaters
Shiny Shiny: God, if only I had seen this just a few short days ago, I wouldn’t be sitting here now in a pair of great big furry boot slippers, in a desperate bit to stop my feet falling off with cold. Or maybe not, actually. At $350, these feet heaters don’t exactly fit my budget, but if you come […]
Furoshiki Style
Compact Impact: The “furoshiki shiki” (furoshiki style) is made out of one sheet of semi-transparent vinyl “film.” This sheet is turned into a bag by folding it and making use of the adhesive qualities of the material. It is a practical material: easy to clean and when washed with soap the material regains its adhesive qualities. The transparency of the […]
No Fear Flight
Iconoculture: Place your bags in an overhead bin, fasten your seat belts and hand your kids over. Gulf Air’s Sky Nanny program is a complimentary service that gives parents and kids a more enjoyable in-flight experience. Trained nannies help on the ground with boarding and seat assignment; in the air with babysitting, meal service, games, activities and landing procedures. Every […]
Scrapblogging
Popgadget: Scrapblog is a Flash application that allows you to create digital scrapbooks. The intuitive drag and drop functionality allows you to add pictures, text, video and audio onto a background (which is also editable), and once it’s finished, you can print it, burn in onto a DVD, or export it as a photoset to Flickr. You can choose to […]
Touchscreen Menu
FutureWire: Bytes, a new cafe in the UK town of Canterbury (of Chaucer fame), is making a name for itself with its high-tech ordering system. Aside from helping Bytes save money on wait staff and menu printing, the touchscreens allow the restaurant to build a database of customer preferences, and to change items and prices on the fly. The touchscreens […]
Fruitree
Cool Hunting: Fruitree is a concept piece designed by Chia Shee Loh, Antonietta Fortunato and Elena Godenzi. They were motivated to solve the out of sight, out of mind problem with fruit that goes uneaten and spoils. The fact that fruit grows on trees does not go unnoticed in this design, where the results are both decorative and literal. Circulating […]