The Vegetabrella from Japan’s Tokyo Noble is as green and wrinkly as a fresh head of lettuce, and the resemblance grows even stronger when it’s rolled up. Just be sure you leave the lettuce in the fridge and take the Vegetabrella along on stormy days or you’ll end up as soggy as an un-spun salad.
Sneeze the moment with a cute & clever Mt. Fuji Travel Tissue Case! The 100% cotton case designed by Tomohiro Ikegaya for Goodbymarket relies on users to provide the case’s one moving part: the tissue paper poking out from Mt. Fuji’s snow-capped summit.
Aston Martin Lagonda Limited, famed for its high performance GT sports cars favored by the likes of James Bond, reckons its future lies far to the east of MI6 headquarters in the garages of China’s rich and famous. The super-luxury 4×4 Lagonda SUV is expected to cost a pretty moneypenny and would likely leave 007 shaken, not stirred.
Kyoto Laundry Service announces "Hello Call”, Japan’s first coin-operated laundry voice information service. Got things to do and people to see? No problem, your machine will phone when it needs more detergent, more change or more repairs.
Facebook’s reversal of fortunes in such a short span of time has played
out almost like a modern-day morality tale. The fall-out of the social
network post-IPO, after such an enthusiastic build-up was telling. While it lined the
pockets of some (namely investment bankers), it deprived the 99
Percenters (or Dumb F*cks
as Zuckerberg so adroitly labeled them back in 2004) full-disclosure,
resulting in a subsequent short-fall on their FB investment.
Cross your heart and hope to… live? In an effort to ensure the often bumpy road to romance gets off to a smooth start, the Chinese city of Chengdu has provided a Love Zebra Crossing painted up in lovely red & white.
Is stuck pasta your kitchen nightmare? A Japanese dentist has created a stir with Kuru-Kuru Nabe (“Round and Round Pot”), a cooking pot with sculpted sides. Turn up the heat and watch basic thermodynamics go to work so you don’t have to!
Those waiting for the upcoming high-DPI
Asus tablet computer should not have to wait much longer.
We are currently living in the digital age, where seemingly advanced technologies from the past are slowly being rendered obsolete. One such technology includes those from the payments industry, where advancements in mobile wallets, which takes advantage of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.
I’m going to try to write this with a straight face…. The FridaBaby company, which I have just learned of, markets some very inventive and ‘curious’ products for babies so far. One is called the Snotsucker, which employs a mom (or dad) to suck the snot out of their baby’s nose….
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