Crave: For consistent 15 percent tipsters living in municipalities with a 7.5 percent dining tax, generating the perfect 15 percent tip is as simple as doubling the tax. If that’s not you, Oh Arithmetic-Challenged One, you’ve got a bum deal. (See below for a quick computational technique.) It’s for this set, and for diners who frequently split a bill, that […]

Grand-illusions: Offer someone this teaspoon to stir their tea – as soon as they dip it into the hot liquid, the spoon bends through 90 degrees! The liquid does not need to be boiling – the spoon will also bend if placed under the hot tap. Part of the handle is made of Nitinol or Shape Memory Metal, which ‘remembers’ […]

Advertising Lab: “A Japanese company Tuesday unveiled a new device that will allow people “speak” through their ear so they can use their mobile telephones in noisy places. The device — named “e-Mimi-kun” (good ear boy) — doubles as an earphone and a microphone by detecting air vibrations inside the ear, developer NS-ELEX Co. said.” What a wonderful idea! This […]

Business Edge: If you’ve ever stood in front of your closet trying to figure out what to wear for an important meeting, a new high-tech wardrobe invention might be just the thing for you. The “smart wardrobe” keeps track of when you wore an item, where you wore it, and can even tell you when your clothes need to be […]

Mobile Weblog: The rampant growth of green or eco-friendly companies and the move of many Internet marketers to go “organic” are strong indicators that the trend now is to go natural. In what way do you think the mobile industry can go organic? Say hello to team BioVolt, a group of MIT students who applied the concept of biomass or […]

Gizmodiva: If you are living in Japan then consider yourself as a lucky skunk for endless reasons. But today’s reason for believing your self to be fortunate is that you won’t need to buy a fresh loaf of bread every second day. All you got to do is stuff your kitchen cabinets with Canned Bread that are sold from the […]

Video Email is a revolutionary new way in how we communicate with one another. In our personal lives, we send out an average of 15 emails per week. In our business lives, the company as a collective group sends out hundreds if not thousands of emails. The pre-existing emails encompass two methods to communicating: text and pictures. Studies show that […]

EARTHtimes.org: Pay By Touch, the leader in integrated biometric authentication, personalized marketing and payment solutions, today announced that four separate retailers will pilot its internet-based Rapid Enroll kiosks to facilitate loyalty program customer sign up. All four will be live by the end of August. Replacing the traditional paper-based enrollment process which is timely and error-prone, the sleek in-store kiosk […]

CoolHunting: Taking advantage of the fact that digital cameras see a broader spectrum of light (i.e they see more colors) than human eyes Kameraflage takes digital photography to a new level. Engineering text or designs in these invisible colors into objects creates displays that are invisible to the naked eye yet can be seen when imaged with a digital camera. […]