Shoebox Dwelling: This versatile piece of furniture, called Tokotoko, can perform several roles in your home. It can serve as a side (or bedside) table, as a stool, or it can even be stacked to create a modular shelving unit. Made from natural walnut, the item comes in two colors, which can be alternated for a visual impact. It’s a […]
Versatile Furniture
Modular Wall Plants
Inhabitat: Spotted over at Pot-ted, we completely fell in love with this awesome DIY idea that turns cinder blocks into a spectacular wall for succulents (we admit the puppy did us in too). To make the wall, Pot-ted designer, Annette, took a set of 12? cinder blocks, arranged them to her liking and then set them using Liquid nails as […]
Facebook Grocery Shopping
Springwise: What makes AaramShop particularly interesting, in fact, is its Facebook application, which lets consumers shop through its service on Facebook as well. Now in beta, AaramShop offers neighborhood retailers a free online storefront on its multivendor site. Consumers use the service by shopping online for groceries and then selecting the participating retailer they prefer in their area; currently, New […]
Moodagent Music
Trendwatching: Moodagent automatically analyzes and profiles a user’s music collection, and then creates playlists of their favorite tracks to suit their mood, distinguishing songs by sensuality, tenderness, joy, aggressiveness and tempo. Innovation Extravaganza [Trendwatching]
Scribble on Your Clock
Popgadget: Whiteboards are useful for remembering to complete certain tasks and clocks remind us when we need to do them, so why not merge them together in a big whiteboard clock! It seems a bit strange that there’s so much more space for whiteboard scribbling down the left-hand side of the clock, but I’m sure that won’t stop it being […]
ReMakes Placemats
ReMakes eco-friendly placemats are made from reclaimed billboards and movie posters. Each one-of-a-kind set of four placemats is randomly cut and selected from the same poster. The placemats help preserve the environment and reduce landfill, while bringing an artistic and unique look to your table.
Curated and Crowdsourced Radio
TrendCentral: Curation and crowdsourcing are the key concepts behind Jelli, an app that offers choosy listeners a collective, collaborative radio experience. Jelli provides a centralized portal for preexisting radio frequencies, putting a station’s playlist on display and giving listeners the opportunity to vote songs up or down in the rotation. This democratized approach takes the radio DJ out of the […]
Three Extra Minutes
Popgadget: If you just can’t help being late, then this wall clock from Italian clock maker Diamantini & Domeniconi may just be for you, as it grants you an extra three minutes every day. Well, kind of. The OnTime Wall Clock is specially designed so that the end of the hand points to three minutes in the future. However, we […]
Out of Office Adverts
Springwise: Saatchi & Saatchi hit upon the idea while planning for the paternity leave of art director Gustav Egerstedt, and tried out the concept by selling Egerstedt’s out of office reply to digital production company B-Reel. “This out of office autoreply is brought to you by B-Reel,” the message begins. “Gustav Egerstedt is on paternity leave and has sold his […]
Spicy Candy Watermelon
Bhut Jolokia is hot! It happens to be the hottest pepper in the world and the company Bhut Pepper, based in Brooklyn, New York has introduced its sweeter side with their Bhut Jolokia Spicy Watermelon Candy. Here’s what you need to know. The Bhut Jolokia, aka “the ghost pepper,” scores over a million on the Scoville spiciness rating scale—the highest […]