Express Hospitality: The supermarket has become more than just a place to buy; it is increasingly becoming the place to hang out or unwind. Supermarkets are slowly replacing bakeries, becoming hangout zones for youngsters, where the cold drink is colder and the snacks are less cumbersome to manage. For men, supermarkets are taking the place of paanwalahs, where they can […]
Supermarket Shopping Trends
TextBuyIt Shopping
TrendHunter: Shopaholics rejoice! Let us do the dance of joy! On Tuesday Amazon launched TextBuyIt, letting people text the name of a product, description, UPC or ISBN to the numbers “262966” (which is Amazon on the keypad), so we can buy from our cell phones, including from inside stores. The service returns two results at a time, where you can […]
Surprise Yourself with SomethingStore
SomethingStore is a fun new website that will send you “something”, an item selected randomly among many things from their inventory, for $10 (free shipping) and you will find out what your something is when you receive it. It may be something you need, something you want or something you desire. A cool gadget, rare book, handmade necklace, reverse clock […]
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 […]
Update: ClayValet
Here’s an update on ClayValet (clayvalet.com), an online personal shopping service which we featured sometime ago. The Seattle-based company just recently debuted an improved site design and several anticipated features. ClayValet enlists real people to personally answer user requests. The service caters to people who don’t have hours to spend sifting through endless search results and comparing countless options. New […]
Polar Shelves
Babygadget: These Polar bear shelves have to be the ultimate in fun product design, though one has to ask if they’d look quite as good once stacked with random books and objects. Now, if you were enough of an obsessive to only store white-spined books on there, I could see the look really working. And having laid out over £2,000 […]
Simple Dog Vitamin
TrendCentral: Anyone whose family includes a dog knows that getting Fido to take his vitamins is even harder than getting the kids to eat spinach. Rather than having to shove a horse pill down your dog’s throat or “hide” it in its food only to have it spit out, these innovative new vitamins from OVN can be added straight to […]
Weather Forecast Umbrella
Crave: Sure, you can have the weirdest umbrella inventions, but none of these actually tell you when the rain is coming. Which is the whole point of carrying a brolly, right? Apparently, the Forecast prototype goes all the way back to 2005 and the idea behind it is really simple. The umbrella comes with a docking station which is able […]
Digital Photo to DVD Converter
Gadget Reviews: If you like digital photography, and want to show your pieces of art to friends or family, you would probably prefer to watch them in a slideshow on a TV screen than on a tiny camera’s display. Unfortunately, such task requires computer and some time to convert or select photos. This gadget will make this job a lot […]
Adjustable USB mouse
Popgadget: It really bums me out to see a nice idea being implemented on a piece of outdated technology. Take this palm-fit adjustable optical USB mouse from USB Fever, for example. It’s got a pretty ingenious “lengthening” component that allows the mouse to become up to 16 mm (0.63 inches) longer. This ability to “grow” makes the mouse a compelling […]