Spoonsisters: If Lasagna is your go-to dish for dinner parties, you’ll love this pan. Its three separate non-stick channels allow cooks to get creative. You can cater to the vegetarians and carnivores at one time in one pan; or make 3 separate night dinners from one batch, keeping each batch pristine and varying the ingredients in each channel. The width […]
Three-in-One Lasagna Pan
ABC Paper Cups
TheDieline: “ABC Paper Cup puts an end to the boring design of disposable paper cups, which are easily confused with one another and thus users often have to take a new one. The ABC Paper Cup makes it easy to remember your cup, because it has a unique design in 14 variations, including the alphabet from A to Z. Apart […]
Blissful Mixed
A wedding is a special but stressful event. When the couple come from two different cultures, it’s challenging to incorporate both sets of traditions. A growing number of wedding planners are helping out. Berkeley, CA-based ZahZoom Weddings helped Rachel Carroll, of Jewish faith, and Trinidadian Michelle Matt in their cross-cultural nuptials. The couple walked down the aisle to Caribbean steel […]
Baby-speaking for Foreign Language
Springwise: Learning a new language is often best achieved outside the classroom—when one is eating lunch, for example, or practicing one’s profession. Aiming to bring a similar philosophy to the education of children, Parisian Baby-speaking is an in-home childcare service that includes foreign language instruction in day-to-day activities. With services for children aged one and up, Baby-speaking was developed with […]
Kids Scooter
Babygadget: Living here in the UK, we don’t come across Amish-made goods as often as perhaps our readers in the states do – so possibly they hold even more fascination for us. Certainly I’d froth at the mouth with the desire to give this Amish-made scooter a turn. It’s not just the intriguing Amish label, either – it’s the colour […]
Community Art
Springwise: A splash of colour and design can go a long way toward beautifying a grey, ugly space, as Carspaze and Style-your-garage have already shown. Now aiming to do something similar for the slums of Rio de Janeiro through large, community-driven murals, the Favela Painting project also goes several steps further by incorporating training and employment for local residents. The […]
Skillfully Sculpted Swan Faucet
Born Rich: Most of us think that it’s a bit hard to find luxuries that suit the daily chores of our life, but the Swan Faucet with its elegant aesthetics and simple technology offers the utmost convenience in a graceful manner. Designed specifically for the modern country club, particularly for the club’s dining or ballroom restrooms, the Swan Faucet is […]
Newsboxes Re-designed
Inhabitat: Think the flyer boxes scattered across city sidewalks are uninspired? Check out these newsboxes transformed into eye-catching aquariums, terrariums, and even dishwashers by NY based The Street Is In The House — they might make you reconsider. We spotted these clever takes on the traditional newsbox at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair this weekend and were a bit smitten […]
Salad Spinner that Saves Lives
Inhabitat: When’s the last time you heard of a salad spinner that saves lives? Two Rice University students have transformed a simple salad spinner into an electricity-free centrifuge that can be used to diagnose diseases on the cheap. Created by Lauren Theis and Lila Kerr, the ingenious DIY centrifuge is cobbled together using a salad spinner, some plastic lids, combs, […]
Ice Jacket
Tell-me-first: Chill it to perfection with the Ice Jacket . Whether you’re pouring martinis or serving lemon drop shots, most guests agree that these libations are best when served at the coldest possible temperature. With the Ice Jacket, you can encase a bottle of your favorite spirit or other liquor in a dramatic layer of ice and chill the contents […]