Babygadet: Oooh, imagine the possibilities. Spell a name or special message with letter buttons on bags, on coats, hats or even down a trouser leg – apart from anything else, your child will never lose an item of clothing again.
These’d also make a fun addition to a birthday card or as a little extra, attached to a gift. It might be worth buying a whole lot and keeping them in stock for special occasions.
The retro circus-style font makes these, for me, and the seller promises that she will mix colours, even if you have a repeated letter in your requested selection. Perfect.
Inhabitat: Prepare to be blown away: the latest addition to London’s skyline is a striking modern skyscraper that is heralded as the world’s first building with wind turbines built in! Nicknamed “The Razor”, the 148 meter-tall Strata tower is topped with a trio of turbines that will produce enough power to meet 8% of its energy needs.
We’ve seen skyscrapers studded with wind turbines before, but the Strata is the first building to integrate turbines directly into its facade. Developed and contracted by Brookfield Europe, the tower is a tricky engineering feat indeed, especially granted the gusty blasts of wind that construction crews had to deal with while raising it.
StarWars.com: Stride Rite Children’s Group will soon be launching an exclusive new line of Star Wars children’s footwear for Stride Rite customers, offering characters and themes from both the Star Wars movies and Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series.
The collection will soon be available in June 2010 at www.striderite.com. Retail prices will range from approximately $35-$54.
Ottawa Citizen: Now the third largest craft brewery in America, the New Belgium Brewery is a magnet for tourists and locals.
Inside the brewery, thirsty patrons crowd the bar and pick up thematic souvenirs such as technical cycling jerseys and bottle openers made from recycled bike chains.
The secret ingredient in New Belgium’s recipe is a dash of activism. The brewery sponsors a number of bike-related causes and events, the largest of which is an annual multi-city bike festival call the Tour de Fat.
The purpose is to spread the word about the myriad positive effects of biking, which include protecting the environment, getting fitter and gaining admission to New Belgium’s other cool creation: a summer bike-in movie theatre in the parking lot.
AdvertisingAge: A hot new social-networking service dubbed Bubbly, which is essentially a voice-based Twitter, is quickly gaining popularity among Indians. And thanks to Bollywood celebs being early adopters, Bubbly is growing virally and with virtually zero marketing spend.
Bubbly is the brainchild of 5-year-old mobile and social app firm Bubble Motion, which is based in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Its first product was BubbleTalk, a person-to-person voice-messaging service that, instead of SMS, sends mobile audio messages and has about 100 million users now.
TrendCentral: Bored with the sleek contemporary facade of your external hard drive? Etsy shop CentennialMerchant upcycles discarded VHS tapes into hard drives that can be displayed with geek pride, or camouflaged in a row of other tapes to keep your top-secret information under wraps. Offering up to 640 GB of unique storage, currently the hard drives are available in Star Wars and Top Gun editions, but CentennialMerchant will create custom designs by request as well.
Iconoculture: Lonely hearts looking for love online, but tired of registration-heavy dating sites and wary of total strangers, can tug on Thread for a Facebook-friend-vetted flame-finding alternative. Launched in September 2009 and currently in beta, the currently free Facebook Connect-powered service only requires users to fill out a bare-bones questionnaire to get started. Once up and running, users can easily browse other Threadsters sorted by degrees of separation from themselves. If someone looks appealing, users can ask a mutual friend for an intro or be gutsy and send the possible paramour a Facebook message directly.
TrendCentral: These seaweed chips from Maine Coast Sea Vegetables have become a popular mid-afternoon snack in our office. Although it does involve another pricey trip to Whole Foods, we think these chips may be worth fighting the lines and extending our budgets for. Unlike most savory snack foods, they have no added salt, yet still have a distinct sodium flavor thanks to the sea veggies’ natural mineral salts. They’re no substitute for a hijiki salad, but at least the guilt factor is far lower than that experienced after polishing off an entire canister of Pringles.
Cool Hunting: Designer Jonathan Nesci—whose Library Bookcase won recognition last year for his use of metal from Wallpaper Magazine—is back with a solo show entitled “The New” at a recently-developed design gallery in his hometown of Chicago.
Nesci explains that he designs his minimalist furniture to encapsulate mid-century aesthetics, and the matte white finish helps it to blend into its surroundings while adding a tasteful understatement. Drawing on everyday forms (a curb, a streetlight) the 31-year-old designer crafts his work using concrete and metal—industrial materials are as banal as his sources of inspiration.
Luxist: Exactly how long a bottle of wine keeps after it’s been opened is a question that has no easy answer, but Eurocave’s SoWine bar aims to extend the shelf-life of your half-empty bottles for up to 10 days. Designed as both a preservation and storage system it has two compartments, each with independent temperature control settings, and vacuum seal technology so you can keep a bottle of white wine and a bottle of red wine at the same time
The BBC is planning to invest £25m in children's TV programmes over the next three years, meaning TV Brackets and TV Mounts could be reaffirmed as positive assets to any modern environment.
LCD TV's, programmes and TV Brackets and TV Mounts have taken a battering in recent years with many suggesting that watching TV may encourage laziness. LCD TV's and therefore accessories like TV Brackets and TV Mounts have become staple additions to most homes, but our love affair with the LCD TV has been changeable. Click here for more info!
Babygadet: Oooh, imagine the possibilities. Spell a name or special message with letter buttons on bags, on coats, hats or even down a trouser leg – apart from anything else, your child will never lose an item of clothing again.
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