Digital Lifestyle Magazine: Alloy Total Product Design has come up with The Polygon, a cool new concept phone. This one seems to resemble the Nintendo DS in terms of design, and while at times a bit too similar, the whole dual screen nature of the casing seems to go very well with the cellphone. A portable phone is supposed to […]

Bornrich: The Milan furniture fair contest focused on how the coffee rituals will evolve in the future. The first prize winner is the “Nespresso Card” that is a personal chipcard, which holds coffee preferences for registered individuals. The card enables you to access your favorite coffee anytime, anywhere. The second prize winner is an interesting concept of InCar coffee machine […]

Chip Chick: Those commercials with the animated M&M’s Characters are some of the cutest and most clever commercials ever created. RadioShack has a bunch of Plush M&M’s with an FM Radio inside. They each retail for just $4.97 and come with matching stereo headphones and a belt clip. These M&M characters are so irrestibly endearing, for just $5 how can […]

Iconoculture: Hop-on’s ChitterChatter cellphone helps parents keep kids on a long leash – and within their virtual jurisdiction. The affordable, age-appropriate tot-tracker uses GPS tech, text messaging and graphical, one-touch buttons to pinpoint little ones’ locations within 300 feet in under a minute. Parents pre-program the speed-dial phonebook with emergency and family contacts and can choose to block numbers not […]

Popgadget: Brookstone has these pillow speakers called (surprise, surprise) iPillow for those of you who like to listen to music in bed. Just plug in your mp3 player into the pillow. The pillow itself looks to be shaped more like a booster pillow with a visco-elastic foam interior and micro-suede on the outside. A zippered mesh bag holds the player […]

Shiny Shiny: Technology as fashion isn’t new. Years ago, I walked around with cannibalised computer chips dangling from bits of metal and called it “jewelry.” The rubberised, Imation Flash Wristband goes a step further by being not only wearable, but actually functional. Snap it off your wrist and plug it in to your USB drive for data access. The 256MB […]

The Uber-Review: Walt Disney is working on a multimedia player that selects songs based on the owner’s latest mood via wrist sensors. The sensors, measure and collects body temperature, perspiration and pulse rate to build a profile of what music or video to play. Based on the profile, the device comes up a song or video to match the mood. […]

Iconoculture: Who’s the fairest? Those gazing into the Conduit Group’s Daydreams mirror by designer Jason Miller find themselves in a beautiful landscape. Each mirror contains a digitally produced photo of an ocean or a forest. The scenes offer an escapist setting for the harsh realities of life in front of the mirror (and the harsher realities of rushing for work […]

Iconoculture: Big Mama is watching. MealPay.com enables parents to set up an electronic debit-card system that logs their kids’ cafeteria purchases and bans certain foods altogether. The ATM / debit-like card is accepted in 76 school districts in 24 states (CSMonitor.com 11.22.05). Kids use it to purchase food at the cafeteria, then parents can go online to track what and […]

The Cool Hunter: There are a number of companies carrying iPod, Blackberry and PSP cases at the moment but none as fine and in the distinguished class such as the current range out from Dunhill. Synonymous with elegance, style and sophistication, Dunhill continues to please with its range of cases. The selection comes in stylish skins and ultra fine leather, […]