BornRich: For those who are ready to splurge on a private jet-setting experience to celebrate the New Year in ultimate luxury, Air Partner proposes to Christmas 2010, the Jet Card, a card to climb with 25-hour flight to be used at will. The cardholder can plan a last-minute vacation anytime to use the actual flight hours, and aircraft availability is […]
Last Minute Jet Card
Fast Fashion
Fashism lets you sidestep fashion faux-pas by crowdsourcing other users’ opinions. Snap a photo, email it to the site, and get pinged back with comments and ratings from other users. People are doing this anyway — taking photos in stores and sending to friends for thoughts. This site hopes to create a fashion-conscious community to advise you on your wardrobe […]
Livescribe Smartpens
LATimes: Livescribe of Oakland sells a chip-powered ink pen equipped with a camera and audio recorder that’s designed to help people remember precisely what was said when they review their handwritten notes. It synchronizes its voice recording with the pictures it takes of the words as they are jotted down. If the pen is tapped on one of the scribbled […]
CO2 Absorbing House
CScout: Housing company Tostem has developed a new kind of ecological residence that takes in more carbon emissions than it produces itself. The Super-sustainable Model House Next+ Nagaiki Style is set for commercialization in 2011 and features a photovoltaic system, a solar heat pump for water heating, and LED and OLED lighting. In particular, new technology for the home includes […]
Jelloware: Edible Cups
Swissmiss: I just backed the JELLOWARE project over on Kickstarter. I am truly hoping that these ladies will raise their $10,000 to develop this fantastic idea further. I can only imagine how much fun these would be at a kid’s birthday party. Heck, even in our studio! Jelloware are biodegradable, edible (and vegan!) cups that are flavored to compliment the […]
Real Furniture; Real Ad
TrendBird: This week, Parisians and visitors to the city taking the bus will have a very different experience while waiting for their ride to arrive. From December 15 until the 21st, IKEA has tricked out the bus stops at 12 different stations throughout the center of Paris, focusing on areas that are heavily trafficked during the holiday season (such as […]
Chinese Breeze
Inhabitat: In hot and muggy urban Taiwan there’s two important things you need in a house – air conditioning and security. London-based ROEWU architecture came up with a clever green solution for a family home in eastern Taiwan that involves a beautiful bamboo screen wrap. The screen is a more aesthetically pleasing version of the steel security bars found on […]
Pay with FaceCash
Iconoculture: FaceCash, the innovative mobile payment platform launched by one of Facebook’s founders, is about to get a trial run in the real world. Select Subway restaurants in Southern California will be accepting FaceCash payments at the register beginning in November 2010. FaceCash is a free app for smartphones that operates like a funded debit or cash card. Its security […]
Dress Up Your iPads
The Cool Hunter: This would indeed be the best case scenario: You take your favourite gadget and dress it up in with your favourite colour. Monaco-based Case Scenario has linked up with Pantone and as a result, they are now able to make this scenario a reality. In their Case Scenario Pantone Universe collection for Fall and Winter 2010-2011, this […]
Holidays in a Box
Springwise.com: Offered under the Mumbai-based SOTC brand of global travel company Kuoni, Box Holidays are tangible, prepackaged travel offerings that can be purchased online or off the shelf in a participating retail store. Rather than having to spend time and effort researching options with a travel agent, purchasers can simply buy a Box Holiday, which features all the key details […]