Springwise: Although nothing beats fresh fruit, and apples and bananas are conveniently packaged by nature, sometimes consumers favour something even easier. E4B (“Easy for Busy”) steps up to the challenge, packing the puree of multiple fruits into portable pouches. E4B’s mango flavour, for example, contains 2 mangos, 1 apple, half a banana, and no artificial additives. Packaging was originally developed […]
Mangos and Apples for Busy People
Fit & Fresh
Providence Business News: Stories about the trials of eating healthy at work led MEDport, a Providence product development and design firm that also markets, distributes, warehouses and manufactures consumer health care products, to try to find a solution. “People told us they like to take salads to work,” said Larry Wesson, president of MEDport, which employs 15 people in the […]
Robot Tutors
AP: Lying in his hospital room, on a mattress designed to protect his fragile skin, 13-year-old Achim Nurse poked his bandaged fingers at an orange button on what looked like a souped-up video game console. Half a second later, in a social studies class discussing the Erie Canal, a 5-foot-tall steel-blue robot raised its hand. “You have a question, Achim?” […]
Shredding Scissors
Gizmodo: Save electricity by shredding your unwanted bank card applications manually with these Shredding Scissors. Combining the power of five scissors with one blue handle, these make short work of old credit cards and Christmas cards. You could even cut your kid’s hair 5 times as fast. It is available from Japan for 2,010 Yen ($17). Shredding Scissors [Gizmodo]
Dual Screen Cellphone
Digital Lifestyle Magazine: Alloy Total Product Design has come up with The Polygon, a cool new concept phone. This one seems to resemble the Nintendo DS in terms of design, and while at times a bit too similar, the whole dual screen nature of the casing seems to go very well with the cellphone. A portable phone is supposed to […]
Meal Assembly
Springwise: The concept has exploded in the past year. Entrepreneurs across the US have started their own dinner assembly stores, and the field’s leader, Dream Dinners, has expanded from 49 locations . Though they vary in style, all of the dinner assembly companies offer essentially the same service: customers schedule a session online, picking meals from a monthly menu. Customers […]
Authentic Cigars
Iconoculture: Care to smoke dessert? Forget about those artifically flavored, sugar-soaked drugstore stogies of yesteryear. Young smokers are sucking up a more dignified breed of cigar, with sophisticated aromatic essences of exotic fruits, herbs or crushed coffee beans subtly infused into the tobacco. Drew Estate’s ACID line contains flavors like Extra Ordinary Larry and Kuba Kuba, which contain varying degrees […]