All parents know how hectic, time-consuming and frustrating driving around kids and teens can be. Especially when the apple of your eye is a socially active, extra curricular maven that’s super involved in everything. In cases like these, dad generally spends his mornings and evenings carpooling & driving to schools, friends’ homes, birthday parties, various youth centers, drama classes, karate, […]
Teaching Kids To Pay Up: The Dad Cab
Trends from Japan: Furry Pumas
Here’s a fuzzy friend that’ll keep you warm this fall: The Furry Pumas designed by Mihara Yasuhiro. Another Japanese style sneaker, only this time, the designer from Tokyo actually constructed “typical Converse Chuck Taylor’s but with horse hair covering the heel. Upon closer examination you can see that it looks like he constructed two different shoes and then just attached […]
A Real “Thinking Cap”.
Professor Alan Snyder believes that has devised a means to create creativity on demand. The “Thinking Cap” works by zapping the left side of the brain with with carefully targeted magnetic pulses. After a duration of approximately 10 minutes, studies have shown that people begin to display in creased levels of creativity, awareness and the ability to more accurately estimate […]
USB Multi-Cellular Phone Charger
The Gadgets Weblog: Sure, all of us have a cellular phone that needs constant charging. Some of us live in homes with several types of phones, so it would be good to have a charger for all of them. This is what the USB Charger from Brando is designed to do. This charger comes with eight different connectors: Motrola I, […]
Environmental Stewardship for FIJI Water
Inhabitat: Bottled water is anathema to many hardcore environmentalists. Taking water from the land and sky, putting it into containers made from oil, and shipping it around the world defies core eco-friendly values in many ways. Yet premium bottled water producer FIJI Water is aggressively marketing itself as green. You may have seen ads with the slogan “Our Promise, Our […]
Alt, Ctrl, Del Tea Set
Gizmodiva.com: All the geeks know how easy it is to stay glued to the computer and how hard it is to peel yourself away from it, be it work or play. Well, here’s something from MOD Design in Taiwan that might entice you to take a tea break and still feel like you are close to a computer. This nicely […]
The Nubrella Hands Free Umbrella
“Nubrella is no ordinary umbrella, it stops rain, wind, snow and extreme cold- and keeps your head, face and shoulders drier than ever. It offers more protection, guaranteed! Yet, nubrella went one step further and is changing the game forever. With nubrella’s new patent pending “shoulder straps” and “offset handle” you can now be completely hands free!” What else can […]
Creativeans Design Therapy (or: The Sqoosh Bench)
There are many schools of philosophy that lay behind intelligent designs. Beyond user centered, use centered or KISS design (keep it simple stupid), there’s that clever design based on the non-wasteful doctrine, that aims to construct a responsible product-one that utilizes all of its parts, including its packaging. There are designs built upon environmental considerations to help save mother earth […]
Pet Leasing for Vacations
Iconoculture: This may be taking the dog days of summer a bit too literally. Pouncing off pet-sharing programs like Flexpetz, the hospitality industry is offering guests a rather unique amenity: pet leasing. At select Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, guests can “rent” dogs for several hours. At Quebec City, Boston and Vancouver locations, dogs even have their own email addresses so […]
Spa Cleopatra Chair
Cool Hunting: Made from a single cut of high-density Italian limestone, it was surprisingly comfortable — for a rock. Even better, the Cleopatra Chair is heated using silicone-based equipment that bleeds warmth throughout the whole body. And believe it or not, limestone is a soft rock that actually has a bit of give to it. The deluxe chaise lounge is […]