The Yumemiru (translation: “see the dream”) iPhone app puts people in the proverbial director’s chair when it comes to their dreams. Before going to sleep, users can essentially script the images they’d like to see while sleeping, from among eight different fantasy scenarios (including, ‘flying in the sky’, ‘romance’, and ‘becoming rich’) designed to stimulate the astral plane. Users run the app […]

QR Lifeline will supply you with a card that once scanned via a smartphone bar code reader will supply all the information that medical personnel would require in order to give you the best medical attention immediately they arrive on the scene of an accident. Based in South Africa, QR Lifeline offers a registration service that is quick, easy, effective […]

The Lip Labz Koala is a scoop and serve machine not for ice cream, but rather lip balm. The sleek silver box delivers a variety of flavours (up to 30) in a small paper-sized footprint. The patron simply sucks up their chosen flavours and blasts them into a colourfly labeled lip balm tube. Within seconds the custom balm material freezes […]

Springwise: For many elderly people, leaving the house can become a challenge as their health deteriorates. Hoping to provide both physical support and emotional reassurance, we recently came across The Aid by Lithuanian designer Egle Ugintaite. As well as acting as an aid to walking, the cane, which recently won the grand prize in Fujitsu’s 2011 design award, also monitors […]

CScout: Recently Japan has taken a turn towards the DIY side of life with people opting to forgo spending on services and products seen as a luxury and instead attempting to create the same experience themselves within their homes. The “okomori beauty” trend, literally meaning “stay at home beauty” (a play on hikikomori, meaning a recluse who refuses to go […]

The Roller Shaper is a new generation health and fitness system that trains, tones and shapes the body, by aiding lymphatic drainage, without the need for vigorous exercise. Lymphatic drainage massage by Roll Shaper boosts the flow of lymph around your body. Lymphatic drainage massage boosts the flow of lymph around your body, refreshing your immune system and flushing out […]

Taking functional maternity activewear to the next level, Me2Roo introduces its debut collection of effortlessly chic and stylish clothing designed to transition and embrace the body through all stages of pregnancy.  Created to make expectant mothers feel good about themselves through “color therapy,” the collection includes an assortment of flattering bottoms and vibrant athletic tops, complemented with layering pieces that […]

TrendHunter: The 1Z from Continuum is a conceptual cigarette package designed to help smokers quit. The 1Z is designed to carry only one cigarette, two matches, and a stick of gum. The idea behind the 1Z from Continuum is that smokers are bound to relapse, but if you give them only one cigarette to smoke per pack, it will increase […]

Springwise: There’s been virtually no limit to the vending-machine innovations we’ve seen over the years, and in the latest spotting Swedish Green Cross is using its technology to sell non-prescription drugs. Perhaps even more interesting than its use of automatic vending however, is that it recently began running specials through location-based service Foursquare. With nine vending machines in three Swedish […]