Inhabitat: The Ecoist MTA clutch is a colorful and cute way to navigate city streets in sleek sustainable style. Made from 100% repurposed NYC subway maps, this wristlet clutch is perfect for urban jaunts and lightweight toting. A trash-to-treasure accessory such as this is not only an eco-friendly way to repurpose materials, but also serves as a streamline, incognito way […]
Chic Eco clutch
The ARCA Launch for the Google Lunar X Prize
The Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association (ARCA) has announced that it will be ready to launch it’s 92-pound rover called the European Lunar Lander within the the next few months. The objective of the launch is to float a balloon 11 miles above the sea, at which point a STABILO rocket will carry the payload to space. Last year GOOGLE […]
Travel Made Easy With Travel Channel GO
With the kickoff of the summer travel season, Travel Channel GO is now available for travelers everywhere! Now everyone can use this exciting new mobile service from the Travel Channel – whether you’re looking for the nearest museum while on a vacation or seeking out the nearest ATM in your own hometown, Travel Channel GO has you covered. Travel Channel […]
Axitron ModBook – The Apple Tablet PC
Axitron is preparing to release it’s Axitron ModBook, a revolutionary slate-style tablet Mac that enables users to draw and write directly on the screen. Until now, with the exception of using a Wacom Tablet, Apple has not introduced a tablet style notebook for their OS X platform. The Axiotron Modbook boasts a 2.1GHz+ of processing speed, 1GB+ of memory, and […]
Picnic Printer!
Popgadget: This portable photo printer looks like a Sanrio lunch bucket for kids, which is perfect actually, as it gives off the impression of something light and easy to carry (which it is). The compact Canon SELPHY CP770 photo printer is one of the newer additions to Canon’s SELPHY line of compact photo printers, and seems made for that person […]
Have a Social Jam-Session with the Drum Table
Banging away on a musical table might just be the way to enhance your social life. The Rumba Series created by ‘Musical Furnishings’ allows you to design your own drum table with “interchangeable and rearrangeable percussion inserts” so that you can have a musical bash with a bunch of people sitting around a table. Musical Furnishings is definitely on to […]
The UnoMoto Electric Commuter Device
An 18 year old prodigy from Guelph, Ontario has built what can only be described as a two-wheeled unicycle. I know it doesn’t make much sense, but when you take a look at this innovative bike you’ll scratch your head too. The bike incorporates a Yamaha R1 frame, side by side wheels and a Segway like gyroscopic technology. In 2006, […]
The First Radio Controlled “Tyre” In The World
TOSY, a japanese toy company believes it has found a product that has been overlooked by it’s toy-making competitors. Known for various robotic toys such as the R-Ball and their latest invention TOPIO, the ping-pong playing robot, the newest edition to their odd line of robotic toys is the R-Tyre. That’s right! It’s a robotic tire, similar to the R-Ball […]
Recycled Paper Lamps
Inhabitat: Paper is a marvelous material with a complex character – at times a vessel for banal documents and stale legalese, it is also capable of much more expressive forms with a bit of creativity. Case in point: these gorgeous recycled paper lamps recently released by Jordy Fu. Her cloud-sheathed creations break free from the two dimensional realm with dreamlike […]
Curtains That Do More Than Keep Out Light
Architect Sheila Kennedy of KVA Matx, an innovative architectural firm, specializes in the integration of solar-cell technology in architecture. Her team has recently designed the soft house, “a structure that can create close to 16,000 watt-hours of electricity by transforming household curtains into flexible, semi-transparent, solar collectors.” With recent advances in solar technology and the implementation photovoltaic cells in textiles […]