Sell Gold At a Party

Springwise: As the weakening economy causes purse strings to tighten, consumers are increasingly looking for new ways to earn a little extra cash. Enter My Gold Party, which facilitates Tupperware-style parties focused on helping guests sell their unused gold. Launched earlier this year, My Gold Party sells all the equipment minipreneurs need to host parties in which guests can sell […]

Adrenaline Charity

Iconoculture: Who needs a guide book to travel? The Adventurists, a U.K.-based company, challenges folks to live on the edge of adventure and humanitarianism. First, Adventurists organizes a team, grabs a car or motorbike and hustles sponsorships of at least £1,000 ($1,973) per team. Once this is arranged, they take off on a rally-style tour (think Cannonball Run through some […]

Death Note? No, Its Death Watch

Have you heard to the one of the most popular Japanese comic Death Note? A powerful Notebook with the ability to cause the death of a person in an accurate timing written beforehand. Now, we have a Life Index Watch, a concept developed for a Timex competition that keeps track of your remaining days based on personal biometrics. Sounds cool […]

Data Locker

DVICE: Maybe you’re a spy or you’ve got schematics for the next hot gadget locked away on your hard drive, but either way you’re going to want to lock your files down. That’s where the DataLocker Drive Enclosure comes in. The DataLocker is an enclosure so you’ll have to supply your own 2.5″ SATA hard drive, which is the standard […]

Flying Wind-Turbine

Inhabitat: The higher up in the air you go, the faster wind travels – so naturally the further from the ground a wind-turbines gets, the more efficient it can be. Thats why the idea of a flying wind-turbine is a such a win-win (or win-wind) proposition. Combining wind power with floating blimps, Selsam has been hard at work expanding the […]

Speaking Roses

Speaking Roses invented a process that has revolutionized the floral and greeting card industries forever. They have created a method of transferring images and messages onto fresh-cut flowers without harming or shortening the life of the flowers. This refreshing twist on both flowers and greeting cards enhances the emotional response in both the giver and the receiver, and has garnished […]

Soda Can Advertising

Snellville (Atlanta), GA USA. A Ukrainian inventor, Johan De Broyer has conceived the idea for a re-sealable aluminum soda can featuring hidden advertising messaging. The idea was developed/designed by Robert Davis, Davis Advertising Inc. of Snellville (Atlanta), GA USA. K Mac McClintock, Advercan (Dallas, TX USA) is handling messaging technologies and representation. The ingenious new “Soda Seal®” can appears like […]

Cheap Solar

Inhabitat: Energy company Sunrgi recently announced an astounding new solar system that will break our grids free from the fossil fuel lockdown. Their Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics promise a low-cost, high-efficiency system with an incredible projected energy pricing of 5 cents per kilowatt. This breakthrough puts solar on par with the cost of coal, natural gas, and other non-renewable energy sources. […]

Green Liquids to Make Your House Clean

Trendwatching: In an ECO-ICONIC world, visibility counts, for big and small products alike. Which, in the case of cleaning products, means exposure will start the moment others check out your shopping basket or cart. Will that bottle of washing-up liquid scream ‘green!’? Some examples: New-Zealand-based Beauty Engineered Forever produces a range of environmentally-friendly household cleaning products from natural ingredients and […]

Wear Your Child Designers Bag

Iconoculture: Forget refrigerators. Fashionistas can hang their kids’ finger-painting masterpieces on their arm, with a custom bag from Scribble Couture, which displays the artwork on stylish purses. ‘Rents (or doting grands) submit an original doodle or digital scan to Los Angeles-based bag designer True Cross, whose embroidery artists stitch the drawing on an oversize leather tote, canvas bag or cute […]