Concept Bag

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 […]

BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 108

Mac Farm Old MacDonald isn’t the only one who has a farm. For one day only, so does McDonald’s. The world’s largest fast-food company today is partnering in an unusual 24-hour tie-in with the year-old, wildly popular FarmVille social-media game… Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 108 >>> – Being Opportune About the Shake-up – KFC Go Recyclable – Billiard Dining […]

Wallets to Wear

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 […]

Impulse Buys Enabled by Amazon.com

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 […]

Exotic Vine Wine

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, […]

Wear a PeaceBOMB Bracelet

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 […]

The Money Machine

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 […]

Clean IQAir

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, […]

LED Skin

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 […]