Iconoculture: Airstream’s convertible RV, the SkyDeck, features a rooftop lounge with an entertainment center, wet bar, and beach umbrellas. It’s an ultimate party pad on wheels. For ultraluxe road warriors, every day has the potential to be a day in the sun. So why not live it up? The latest status symbol in the RV park? Cocktail parties up top, […]
Party On The Go
Marketing With Aroma
Trendwatching.com: Who likes to wait? Help consumers overcome boredom and throw in some empathy as well! Last year, Senseo Coffee Machines installed coffee machines at a number of Dutch bus and tram stops, offering waiting passengers a cup of fresh brewed coffee. Perhaps not the most spectacular TRYVERTISING stunt ever, but ten times more relevant to consumers than a billboard […]
Biographies Online For Future Historians?
Global:Ideas:Bank: In an age when e-mail and text messaging are making letter writing obsolete one program is fighting to create an online permanent record for future historians and biographers. The website www.libraryoflife.org is the brainchild of Stephen Forsyth who wanted a way to preserve the memory of his late brother, James. The project aims to record the names and biographies […]
Game of Life
Entrepreneur.com: Victoria Gatling, 36, started to notice a disturbing trend in her family’s funeral-home business: “They were burying more and more young people, [victims] of so many violent, senseless crimes.” Believing there was a connection between those violent crimes and today’s video games, this mother of game-loving children decided to take matters into her own hands. Starting with $50,000 from […]
The Ring That Wakes You Up Gently
We Make Money Not Art: One of my first stop yesterday at the Salone del Mobile in Milan was at Promise Design, New Design from Israel, at the Triennale. Tomer Sapir’s “Concept for a bedroom unit” integrates a table, a reading lamp and an alarm clock. The alarm clock provides a fresh awakening by synchronizing with the user’s sleep cycles. […]
Sensitive Vehicles To Help Drivers
we make money not art: Toyota is working with Stanford University and Affective Media for a few years to create a car that can read your feelings. The Pod concept car has headlights that fade from bright to dull and change color to indicate happy, sad or angry moods, depending on the driver’s mood. Affective Media CEO, Christian Jones, says […]
Fake Designer Bags For Real
PSFK: You see some pretty girls pulling their designer-label bags down the plane’s aisle these days and you just assume that they must be a fake. The bags, not the girls. Probably. The world is flooded with fakes and we know that it’s all but impossible to tell a real item from the fake. But now, Dutch design boutique Mind […]
Now They’re Cooking
Entrepreneur.com: After Helane Cohen lost her mother in 2000, the time she spent alone helped her identify the two things she loved most: children and cooking. It was then that this tech executive decided to leave behind a six-figure salary and launch Le Petit Cookery, a cooking school for children. Three months later, Cohen, 40, brought in good friend Steven […]
A Game Investigating The Rhetoric Of Fear Culture
we make money not art: Blowhard is a game, created by Ryan Schoelerman and Sky Frostenson, in which two players compete by breathing into a CPR mask, where a breath sensor translates cumulative respiration into the player’s current level of anxiety, shown on a screen in the same color-coded system used by the Department of Homeland Security’s Threat Advisory System. […]
Puppy/Polar Bear Children’s Fridge
Gizmodo: A fridge so adorable that you could just eat it up is really the last thing you want when struggling with your diet [You actually wrote that? —ed.], but for the skinny crowd, Fujitronic makes a series of animal-styled mini-fridges. Available shaped as a polar bear or puppy dog, they feature an on-door LCD which can house a virtual […]