BusinessWeek Online: Kathy Walsh was just 16 years old when her hair began falling out. She’d then fashion her own beehive wigs and decorate them with strings of pearls. In black and white photographs from back then, her hair looks a foot tall. After years of struggling with the problem herself, she finally decided to open up her own wig […]
Turning Hair Loss into Gain
iSkin eVo2 Wildsides
Gizmodo: The new iSkin eVo2 Wildsides are everything I hate about “hip” product design: gaudy colors, ridiculous X-treM advertising, gimmicky glow-in-the dark features, a naming scheme that sounds like it was first carved by ballpoint on a 7th-grader’s notebook (Verve! Rebel! Diva!), and a price ($35) that far outweighs the amount of thought or effort that went into their creation. […]
Social Life Of Brands
PSFK: Call it lifestyle marketing. It’s not enough for a company to just sell you a product any more. The goal, today, is for you to live the lifestyle any given product is supposed to represent – and for that company to create and cater to that lifestyle. The Toronto Star says, “It’s a major shift from designing advertising campaigns […]
Tools For Radio Waves Hunters
We Make Money Not Art: Oren Horev , Myriel Milicevic (who had worked also on the Zone project) and Marcos Weskamp designed the Amazing All-Band Radio, three innocent-looking devices that allow users to hunt short, medium and long radio waves from the comfort of their home. The antenna of the Microwave Boombox captures the high-frequency signals of wireless communication devices […]
Back Seat Gaming
We Make Money Not Art: Backseat Playground , developed by John Paul Bichard, Liselott Brunnberg and Oskar Juhlin at the Interactive Institute in Stockholm, is a mobile gaming research project that will enable kids to play with the world outside their window from the back seat of a car. This augmented reality game uses a digital compass and a GPS-receiver […]
PetsMobility PetCell
Gizmodo: The PetsMobility PetCell is only a concept for now, but the patent-pending collar could be great—if you don’t mind spending a lot of extra cash on your pets. The idea is simple: it’s a cell phone and GPS unit on a collar, with its own private number. Using caller ID, it automatically picks up when an approved number calls, […]
Electronic Arts and ESPN Sign 15-Year Deal to Sell Games
The New York Times: Electronic Arts, hoping to shore up its eroding dominance in the sports video game market, said yesterday that it had signed a 15-year deal giving it the exclusive right to use the ESPN brand in games. Under the agreement, Electronic Arts, the largest independent video game publisher, will pay $750 million to $850 million for the […]
Take a Seat
Entrepreneur.com: Spending an uncomfortable afternoon in an airport inspired Mark Eberhardt, 51, to come up with a relaxing way to wait for a flight—he imagined how nice it would be to sit in one of those fancy massage chairs he’d seen before in high-end stores. With a background as a stockbroker, however, it was a challenge for him to modify […]
Patients Put on Thinking Caps
Wired News: Any geek worthy of the moniker has dreamed of connecting his or her brain directly to a computer for blissful freedom from keyboard and mouse. For quadriplegics, that ability would give life a whole new dimension. If people with physical handicaps could control a computer by just thinking, they could also operate light switches, television, even a robotic […]
Monster Fueled by Caffeine
Wired News: Delicious Monster is the Mac software company behind the hit Delicious Library, a program for cataloging collections of books, movies and games. The software is selling like hot cakes and has garnered rave reviews and awards, yet the company’s headquarters is a Seattle coffee house. Co-founded by graphic designer Mike Matas and programmer Wil Shipley, the company’s first […]