Engadget: Think Secret already had a pretty tight track record for accuracy when it came to Apple rumors, but getting sued by Steve Jobs and co. over a couple of product leaks just gave them some massive street cred, which is why we’re inclined to think they’re on to something when they dish out some serious dirt about the supposed […]
iPod Flash Will Have A Screen?
CES Unveiled
Gizmodo: Kevin Christley—Night before last was the annual CES Unveiled, a press-only party where journalists got a preview of the best of the upcoming products featured in the show as well as the winners of the Innovations 2005. The room was a bit small, but there were plenty of interesting finds, if you could squeeze past the huge crowd. AMD […]
The TV Strikes Back
USA Today: TVs are hotter than they’ve been in decades. Screens are getting bigger and brighter as they undergo their first major technological overhaul since the birth of color television in 1953. The highest-tech sets are so thin, they can be hung on the wall like a painting — and are vibrant enough to resemble one, too. Although early models […]
Personal Trainers Come With Hotel Stay
Yenra: Hilton has signed an exclusive agreement with Bally Total Fitness to provide hotel guests with access to more than five thousand certified personal trainers at Hilton or Bally locations in major cities throughout North America. In addition, Hilton’s Personal Performance Program includes enhancements to its in-room exercise options by offering an in-room mini gym designed by Bally at properties […]
Stressed? Try the Screambody
NewMediaBeijing.org: ScreamBody is a wearable space for screaming. When a person needs to scream but is in the office, classroom, looking after children, or in any number of situations where it is just not appropriate, ScreamBody acts as a surrogate lung allowing the person to let the scream out of their own body and into a body extension. ScreamBody silences […]
Biojewelry
We Make Money Not Art: Biojewelry, developed by Tobie Kerridge and Nikki Stott, combines biotech and design to give a new emphasis to debates concerning genetics. Biojewelry allows two persons to undergo a biopsy, in which each of them has a sample of their bone cells removed. The tissue is harvested in a lab, grown until a mass of bone […]
This Mobile Will Change Your Life
Textually: A new service launching this week lets people’s mobile phone rule their life. Subscribers to “This Mobile Will Change Your Life” receive SMS text message orders which they must carry out immediately, in Mission Impossible-style. Orders vary from the straightforward (“kiss the nearest tall stranger”) to the hazardous (“Walk into a police station, tell them you’re finally giving yourself […]
Starbucks Rolls Out ‘Chantico’
Metro News: ‘Chantico’, a new gourmet drinking chocolate beverage, will be offered at Starbucks shops in the United States and Canada beginning January 8, 2005. Described as ‘drinking a melted truffle’, the chocolate has an intense, full-bodied flavor and a rich, silky texture that builds on the tradition of European drinking chocolate. Unlike other Starbucks drinks, Chantico is only available […]
Life Can Be Easier!
Vital Concierge Services: Westside area residents and businesses now have the opportunity to free themselves of time consuming tasks. Vital Concierge Services is available to assist them in almost every manner possible. Today people are working longer hours, spending more time commuting and taking on additional workplace responsibilities, leaving considerably less time for their equally important personal lives. Vital Concierge […]
The Sales Comic Book
Anyone who sells for living can read true, often tragic, often side-splitting tales of sales-pitches-gone-bad in a new comic book that shows anyone who sells for a living what behaviors to adopt and what to avoid – in order to further their success in selling. Published by Sales Autopsy Press, this colorful 24-page volume, The Sales Comic Book, contains the […]