Homemade Pizza in a Bag

Fancy a pizza kit from GalloLea Organics? It’s a homemade pizza in a bag. Gluten free or whole wheat, it makes a pizza in 30 minutes. Included is a round piece of parchment paper to build it on, and it goes into the oven on it, makes it easy. Great for kids/family/everyone that loves pizza! Delicious and organic. Thanks Susan […]

Send a Lifetoken

Lifetokens is a new and novel way to send a message. Online messages are attached to real physical tokens and delivered via old fashioned mail. Lifetokens have an image on the front and a unique code on the back which pulls up your message when entered back here at Lifetokens.com.

E-library at Taiwan Airport

Springwise: The e-library, based in Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, has four hundred titles in its collection — available in English or Chinese, and in ePub or Zinio formats — which can be read in the airport, but not taken away or downloaded onto the user’s own device. Set up by Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, the library is run by the […]

Cereal Boxes Come Alive

MIT Advertising Lab: eCoupled intelligent wireless power is so flexible it can actually be printed directly onto packaging. A low-cost enhancement to product packaging, printed coils allow real-time communication from the package to the store shelf, and then to the store’s inventory management system. Product quantities can be identified and tracked, expiration dates monitored, and new stock automatically ordered when […]

Exclusive Gift Picker

No idea what to buy? Or are you too busy or lazy? We have to acknowledge that there are million of reasons why we don’t shop for gift. It can simply be due to overcrowding at shopping mall, busy climbing corporate ladder or just being pure laziness to brainstorm about the gift. If you feel this way too, you will […]

Peanut Butter Museum

Reveries: A pop-up gallery in New York City is dedicated to the art of the peanut-butter sandwich, reports Marshall Heyman in the Wall Street Journal (3/5/11). The Nutropolitan Museum of Art, on Mulberry Street, is sponsored by Peanut Butter & Company, “a specialty sandwich shop on Sullivan Street, as well as a purveyor of such fine goods as white-chocolate flavored […]

Surprise Check In

Trendwatching.com: In November 2010, Dutch airline KLM ran an experimental campaign called How Happiness Spreads, where it employed a “Surprise Team” to give passengers tailored, unexpected gifts at the airport. Combining with location-based game Foursquare, as soon as someone checked-in at a KLM Foursquare location within its network of airports the Surprise Team went online to find more background information […]

Candy Bike

BornRich: Primate Frames – the uber-cool bicycle manufacturer from Down Under – has been consistently maintaining an impressive output for the past three years. Specializing in steel frames, the power house has now come up with a customized design for the female-specific bike blog Candy Cranks. A collaboration of female riders from around the world, giving insight to bike culture […]

In-Theater Bar

TrendCentral: While in-theater dining has long been appreciated in the few cities where it exists, the culinary cinema model is set to become more widespread as theaters provide menus replete with gourmet meals, table service, and cocktail-permitting 21+ viewings. Take for example, Brooklyn’s new reRun Theater, which touts a full bar and gourmet snacks prepared down the hall at parent […]

Personal Phone Badge

PicturePhoning.com: Turn your phone into an interactive name badge. Instead of giving your new friend your printed business card, text them your virtual one. This action automatically places them in your online contact list and if they have a profile on contxts.com you both are connected. The mobile badge displays a user’s name alongside a QR code that when scanned […]