NY times: Over the last few years, though, Mr. Fluevog hasn’t just been presenting ideas about shoes and style to customers; he has also been soliciting ideas from them — encouraging brand enthusiasts to submit their own sketches for leather boots, high-heeled dress shoes, even sneakers with flair. He posts the submissions on his company’s Web site, invites visitors to […]
Linking with Consumers
Ingestible Skin Care
Strange New Products: Borba, a manufacturer of cosmetics and skin care products, extended its line of “ingestible skin care” products with its new “Chocolate Clarifying Bar”. The zit-zapping confection contains Borba’s “Skin Balance Clarifying Aqua-Less Crystalline Powder” to remove toxins and improve skin clarity. The powder contains a cultivated bio-vitamin complex which helps the skin regenerate its natural support system. […]
Washroom Fun
Uber-Review: It’s official, Sudoku has jumped the shark. Why read the newspaper during your washroom visit, when you can challenge your brain with Sudoku. As the site puts it, “if you make a mistake no-one need know, you can just flush it away.” Sudoku Toilet Paper [Uber-Review]
Soccer Anywhere
BornRich: If you love to play soccer then now you dont need to content yourself with just soccer games meant for desktop table! You can actually play in your own soccer pitch anytime anywhere with Subbuteo Giant Inflatable Pitch! The football pitch is ideal for four-adults, so if you were thinking its meant only for teenagers or kids then you […]
Liquid Mag
Iconoculture: Step into liquid. Imbibe magazine covers everything from cocktails to wine to beer to juice to coffee to tea. The motto: All that’s fit to drink. The premiere issue of the bimonthly publication features hot chocolate and mezcal in Oaxaca, great hotel bars around the country, Trappist ales and organic wines. A handy guide to every imbibing opportunity will […]
Slimming Toothpaste
Iconoculture: Hungry? Go brush your teeth. White Glo Crave Away and F.A.S.T. are two toothpastes that claim to curb hunger cravings with herbal formulas that signal the brain that the body has eaten. Consumers hot on the trail of a thinner body are happy to try new therapies that don’t involve eating less or exercising more. Whiter teeth and a […]
Beer Buddy
The GadgetStore: Can’t tear your eyes away from the match to pass your mates another beer? Simply slide the Beer Butler along the table and you can keep your attention on the game, because it will ingeniously stop when it reaches the edge without spilling a drop! Yes, this football shaped Beer Buddy is battery operated and smart enough to […]
Meal Assembly
Springwise: The concept has exploded in the past year. Entrepreneurs across the US have started their own dinner assembly stores, and the field’s leader, Dream Dinners, has expanded from 49 locations . Though they vary in style, all of the dinner assembly companies offer essentially the same service: customers schedule a session online, picking meals from a monthly menu. Customers […]
Authentic Cigars
Iconoculture: Care to smoke dessert? Forget about those artifically flavored, sugar-soaked drugstore stogies of yesteryear. Young smokers are sucking up a more dignified breed of cigar, with sophisticated aromatic essences of exotic fruits, herbs or crushed coffee beans subtly infused into the tobacco. Drew Estate’s ACID line contains flavors like Extra Ordinary Larry and Kuba Kuba, which contain varying degrees […]
Scene-synchronized Scents
Iconoculture: Watch and sniff? Specially equipped Japanese movie theaters are enhancing the cinematic experience with scene-synchronized scents. The Fragrance Communication system uses NTT Communications’ seat-mounted machines to release preprogrammed aromas. The fragrant feature will make its big-screen debut at showings of Terrence Malick’s The New World, a retelling of the love affair between John Smith and Pocahontas. The film’s “fragrance […]