Is Buffy, The Mobile Slayer, Facebook’s Ace In The Hole?

Being left behind on the mobile landscape has motivated countless
bloggers and techie prognosticators to cyberventilate as to FB’s future.
Based on an 11th hour stock devaluation by the company themselves (see
previous post, "Facebook’s IPO Morality Tale…"),
coupled with the claim the company can’t survive in the public sphere
relying solely on ad revenues, Zuck has ridden a roller-coaster of
criticism in one week’s time that has cast yet another shadow over the
world’s largest social network.


Lettuce-like Vegetabrella Turns Rainy Days to Salad Days

Lettuce-like Vegetabrella Turns Rainy Days to Salad DaysThe 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.


Mt. Fuji Travel Tissue Case Blows Its Top When You Blow Your Nose

Mt. Fuji Travel Tissue Case Blows Its Top When You Blow Your NoseSneeze 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.


Coin Laundry Calls When Your Clothes Are Clean

Coin Laundry Calls When Your Clothes Are CleanKyoto 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.


Chengdu’s Love Zebra Crossing: Street Hearts for Sweethearts!

Chengdu's Love Zebra Crossing: Street Hearts for Sweethearts!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.


Self-Stirring Pot Puts New Spin on Stove-top Cooking

Self-Stirring Pot Puts New Spin on Stove-top CookingIs 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!


Technology and the Future of Payments: Credit Cards and the Mobile Wallet

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.


Calling All Inventors! FridaBaby Wants Your Baby Product Ideas

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….