Josh Spear: Very nice. Clean lines, supple leather and a very smart concept make 6 p.m. by cncpt-first a high quality bag that can be built around your own personal style and mood. Each bag is simply created by two panels that can be chosen from a large selection of colors-materials. The bag is made from two separate panels that are unified by a white zipper. Choose the panel from a selection of materials and colors that best complement your style.

The 6pm Bag [Josh Spear]

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Springwise: There are many occasions in life in which carrying a wallet or purse is inconvenient, and yet there are also very few alternatives. Rather than storing money and keys in a shoe or — heaven forbid — an undergarment, San Francisco-based Rogiu LLC has come up with a much more stylish solution: bracelets and wristbands with a wallet hidden inside.

Launched earlier this year, Wallets2wear are available in numerous styles for both women and men, including a variety of fabric and beaded designs as well as watch-based and formal alternatives featuring silver beads or pearls. Regardless of the style, the inner side of each elasticized or Velcro-closed bracelet features a pouch capable of accommodating a credit card, ID, key, cash or even lipstick. Prices range from USD 12 for a sports wrist wallet to USD 150 for a freshwater pearl or sterling formal version.

Beaded and fabric bracelets hide a secret wallet inside [Springwise]

CNET: As if it weren’t already a breeze to spend money on Amazon, the retail giant’s updated Amazon for iPhone app just made it even easier to instantly shell out for wares. The latest version of Amazon Mobile, 1.2.8, contains a bar code scanner in its search screen. As with bar code scanners in other mobile apps, Amazon Mobile uses your iPhone’s camera to take in a product’s zebra-striped bar code. Amazon’s servers then find a match, and after you select the item, you can sign in to your account to purchase the product on the spot.

Amazon’s iPhone bar code scanner takes impulse buying to a new level [CNET]

Luxist: L’Esprit de June is an exotic vine flower liqueur created from grape blossoms. L’Esprit de June, also called June Liqueur, is created by combining the vine flower distillates of three different grape varietals with a grape spirit base in an effort to capture the essence of French vineyards in the springtime. All hand-picked and combined using French wine-making methods, Ugni Blanc flowers add flavors of pear and peach, Merlot flowers contribute aromas of wild strawberry and cherry, and Cabernet Sauvignon blooms bring notes of strawberry, raspberry, and violet.

L’Esprit de June Wine Blossom Liqueur [Luxist]

Josh Spear: Check out this incredible Kickstarter project and support it if you can. I’ve just now become an Executive Producer. The bracelets shown here (and highlighted in the video) are made from scrap metal left from bomb scraps in Laos. During the Vietnam War, the US military dropped more bombs on supply routes in Laos than it did on all of Europe during World War II.

They can be purchased for only $15. The Kickstarter project is to create a film documenting the process, the journey, and the work behind the rehabilitation there.

The peaceBOMB bracelet is made from Vietnam War-era bombs by rural artisans in a part of Laos heavily afflicted by the US bombardment during the Secret War, 1964-1973. We want to create video content that shows how, since the 70s, the artisans have taken a constructive approach to the devastation of war by repurposing bomb metal into spoons and, now, bracelets.

Peace Bomb Bracelets [Josh Spear]

FreshTrend: Change spends just as well as paper money yet we tend to neglect it, leaving coins all over our dressers, coffee tables, and car ashtrays.

Money Machine 2 answers that problem with a quick and easy way to sort, stack, and roll your change. You may be amazed at how much money you actually have when this handy sorter puts it all in one place. Rolls and batteries not included.

Get Rid of All that Spare Change [FreshTrend]

Cool Tools:Many of us live in environments or buildings where air quality is poor or downright unhealthy, and many airborne pollutants and allergens end up in in our lungs. Depending on your sensitivity, age and other factors, what you can’t see (bacteria, pet allergens, mold spores, dust, pollen, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), etc.) can hurt you. The smaller the particulate, the easier it can get into your lungs and cause problems.

I was introduced to the HealthPro Plus by my partner, who suffers from bad asthma and allergies. She had been using one for a couple of years and has come to depend on it to keep her bedroom in a breathable state. I got one for my place and immediately noticed the difference, from particulate in the air to the amount of dust collecting on surfaces. I had been using another mass market HEPA filter, but apparently it hadn’t been doing a thorough job at all (I live in an urban environment with rather poor air quality).

The HealthPro Plus is not just any air filter. From IQAir site: “IQAir’s HyperHEPA filtration is tested and certified to filter ultra-fine pollution particles down to 0.003 microns in size with a guaranteed minimum efficiency of over 99.5%. This is 100 times smaller than what is achieved with ordinary air filtration technology and 10 times smaller than a virus.”

IQAir HealthPro Plus [Cool Tools]

Inhabitat: While it may seem like tattoos are the norm now, no one has ink like this. A team from the University of Illinois led by John Rogers has devised a method to actually install LED lights under the skin. The research, published today in Nature Materials, saw the team develop flexible arrays 2.5 ?m thick and 100 x 100 ?m square which are currently smaller than any commercially available array.

In their research, the team printed circuits “directly onto a rigid glass substrate and then transferred them to an inexpensive biocompatible polymer called poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) to create a mesh-like array of LEDs and photodetectors.”

In short, the university team has allowed LEDs to be placed under the skin while allowing for stretching and twisting by as much as 75 percent. As the whole substrate is encased in thin silicon rubber, the ‘LED tattoo’ is also waterproof. The uses are numerous. As well as becoming the latest in tattoo evolution, sub dermal illumination could also aid in the monitoring of wounds, spectroscopy, colour-coding robots and photodynamic drug therapy.

Rogers said of his team’s research that commercializing the technology was “incredibly appealing” and he couldn’t wait to see the impact it has.

Implanted LED Tattoos May Become The Next Big Trend [Inhabitat]

Strange New Products: Tapi is a rubber adapter that fits onto the end of most sink and garden faucets allowing you to turn them into drinking fountains.

By squeezing the end, water is forced upwards.

Turn Your Sink Into a Drinking Fountain [Strange New Products]

Iconoculture: The Photo Album Story Teller lets consumers give voice to their prized pictures. The battery-powered device comes packaged with 500 individually coded stickers. Consumers append a sticker to the photo of their choice and then scan the picture with the Story Teller and record their say on the snapshot. The next time the device passes over the pic, the story will begin playing through its speakers.

onsumers across all demographics are embracing mobile tools that allow them to encode physical objects with rich new data sets, be they recorded memories or website links. The Story Teller is a relatively low-tech and senior-friendly take on the phenomenon.

Every picture (quite literally) tells a story [Iconoculture]