Trendwatching.com: Continuing the tradition of using shipping containers to house all things pop-up, a spotting from the Netherlands caught our eye. At the Lowlands music festival, jeans brand Wrangler offered festival-goers a much-needed service: laundry. At 18 meters wide and 9 meters high, the Wrangler Laundromat was hard to miss. People dropped off their mud-encrusted laundry and were sent a […]
Wrangler Laundry Service
YouMail Voicemail
MobileCrunch: YouMail, a free voicemail service, launched a new advertising program this week that will connect brands with mobile users through text-based advertising. This new feature will add youmail2.jpgshort, non-intrusive 40-character marketing messages to the text alerts users already receive when a caller leaves a new voicemail. YouMail users currently receive text messages alerting them to new voicemails which include […]
Tweens’ Social Network
TrendBlog: Moshi Monsters, a UK based social networking site aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 12 years old, might become Club Penguins biggest competitor “Tweens” can adopt and customize their very own pet monsters. The more they play with their monsters, the “happier” the monsters will be. At the same time playing games on the site earns […]
8-bit Icon Watch
Thoughts From The Sideline: You can always be sure that, the moment we come across a wrist watch that offers particularly innovative design, we’ll feature it here on TFTS, and few wrist watches come quite as distinctive as this Icon Wrist Watch that pays homage to the blocky 8-bit graphics from classic retro console games such as Space Invaders and […]
Taser Party
Iconoculture: They come in pink, blue, silver and black, but we’re not talking Tupperware. Taser C2s are in hot demand at home-shopping parties in Arizona, where instead of trading recipes, suburban housewives take aim at cardboard cutouts. “We have Tupperware parties and candle parties to protect our food and house, so why not have a Taser party to learn how […]
BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 61
Amazing Public Speaking Skill – The Hancock Manoeuvre As the story goes Hancock never really enjoyed public speaking. He was in fact more of a comic actor than a comedian. He had brilliant script writers on his radio and TV shows and was more comfortable speaking the words…. Continued in BIZNESS! Newsletter Issue 61 >>> – Climate Change Chocolate – […]
Thinnovation-Mac Airbook
Here is what everybody is talking about! The Mac Airbook! CoolHunter: The new year – the time for change – the time for resolutions – the time for the latest announcements from MacWorld in San Francisco. We oohed when Steve Jobs pulled the first iPod Nano out of the small pocket in his jeans. We counted the days until we […]
Climate Change Chocolate
TerraPass: Chocolate bars. They’re supposed to taste good, but can they also be good? We think so! Climate Change Chocolate bar is meant to educate while tasting great. It comes in a wrapper with 15 tips for lightening your environmental impact. These helpful hints teach you how to save energy by making small changes to your daily habits. And of […]
Go Dutch Easy
Crave: For consistent 15 percent tipsters living in municipalities with a 7.5 percent dining tax, generating the perfect 15 percent tip is as simple as doubling the tax. If that’s not you, Oh Arithmetic-Challenged One, you’ve got a bum deal. (See below for a quick computational technique.) It’s for this set, and for diners who frequently split a bill, that […]
Greensulate
Pennlive.com: Insulation is key to keeping your house warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It’s important to insulate well in order to reduce the amount of energy you use. The fiberglass traditionally used in insulation batting can irritate your skin, eyes and airways. Traditional insulation uses formaldehyde as a binder ingredient in the manufacturing process. Foam plastic […]