The Uber-Review: Walt Disney is working on a multimedia player that selects songs based on the owner’s latest mood via wrist sensors. The sensors, measure and collects body temperature, perspiration and pulse rate to build a profile of what music or video to play. Based on the profile, the device comes up a song or video to match the mood. […]
Moody Player
Powerpuff Make-up Artists
The Sunday Times: Women have always treated the ladies like a no man’s land, a place where the barriers and bitchiness of womanhood come down and two strangers will bond over the texture of a Stila lip gloss, the pigment in a Nars blusher, or a simple, “I really like your top.” Given our ability to turn a lavatory into […]
Megastar Campaign
Yenra: The spring television and print advertising campaign for Candie’s will feature four celebrities: Singer, actress, megastar Hilary Duff; Grammy nominee Ciara; and actresses Michelle Trachtenberg and Samaire Armstrong. This is the first time the brand has enlisted four stars to appear in an advertising campaign. Past Candie’s spokespeople include Destiny’s Child and Kelly Clarkson. Hilary, Ciara, Michelle, and Samaire […]
Radical Cosmetics
BusinessWeek: For products as individual and personal as the look of your face, it is remarkable that cosmetics merchandising in the U.S. has remained stuck in its longstanding “look but don’t touch” tradition. On one hand, drug stores sell cosmetics in sealed-plastic packaging that require shoppers to buy things like lipstick without a chance to try it on. Alternatively, department […]
More than Laundry
Springwise: Slate is an all-inclusive laundry service for NYC residents available through the web. Customers sign up for a weekly flat fee of USD 50-60 (GBP 29-35/EUR 42-50), receive a Slate hamper, then choose a pick-up time. Which means no standing in line, no counting and itemizing, no financial surprises: Slate does the sorting, and determines which garment needs to […]
Fortune Cookies
inQ7money: Fortune cookies used to be found only in a few Chinese restaurants. Or seen in Hollywood movies. This delicacy was immortalized, for instance, in a 1966 film “The Fortune Cookie” starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Fortune cookies, which resemble the boat-shaped ancient Chinese gold ingots, are each imbedded with a strip of paper containing a prediction, lucky number […]
Fashion Plates
PittsburghLIVE.com: It is now possible for luxury-loving, label-conscious consumers to eat their meals from dinnerware created by their favorite fashion designers. In a time when when singers, actors, and media personalities ranging from Sean Combs and Gwen Stefani to Mandy Moore and Nicky Hilton have added the title fashion designer to their resume, it only seems natural that fashion designers […]
Compelling Ad
Yenra: ANI has appointed DZP Marketing Communications to lead the strategic development and repositioning of Atkins Advantage. DZP has designed a new national print campaign designed to articulate the Atkins Advantage: a unique nutrition advantage versus the competition: high fiber, high protein, vitamins, minerals, low sugar, and no trans fats. “Our new management has streamlined operations and built a foundation […]
Aged Wines in Few Seconds
Mainichi: Aging is the name of the game when it comes to fine wine. Top producers mature their brews in oak barrels; connoisseurs will keep a bottle in the cellar for years so they can savor the complex bouquet at its peak. For Hiroshi Tanaka, all that waiting is just a waste of time — and he says he’s got […]
Seeing The World
CScout: By connecting the real world with information from the Internet, users can explore geographical spaces with the eye of an insider. There is a huge variety of technologies which can be used to enable visitors to find their way around the globe. So far, most applications are used to tour museums, tourist sights or foreign cities. The most obvious […]