Added 13 April, 2013
All that’s required is a transit pass showing you’re a registered Tallinner, and the city’s buses, streetcars and trams are yours for free. The free-ride scheme is the brainchild of the capital's mayor, Edgar Savisaar, who wants to reduce congestion and pollution while alleviating expenses for the city’s poor. A recent opinion poll commissioned by...
Added 12 April, 2013
As high end hotels fall all over each other trying to one-up the next with the latest cool accessories, The Mark in New York City is debuting a hotel-branded MacLaren baby stroller designed in the hotel's signature black and white stripes for high rollers with tots in tow. The sell to guests is that they can leave their strollers at home, and not...
Added 1 April, 2013
Things looking like other things is an enduring trend that will be with us for the rest of our careers. This faux ice cream sandwich phone case is a good example. The case is made of a silicone rubber and the image is created using special heat activated inks that print to a high gloss permanent finish on special metal plates that wont fade or...
Added 30 March, 2013
We are often asked about the difference between a trend and a fad. Trends are differentiated from fads primarily by longevity. While fads may come and go as quickly as a "flash in a pan," trends are longer lasting and often herald more permanent cultural change. While fads can be fun, only trends are stable and enduring enough to move...
Added 29 March, 2013
Created in Macau, China, by Cubeworks Studio, a design firm that specializes in Rubik's Cube art, used 85,794 of the childhood puzzles to create a mosaic over 13 feet high and 200 feet wide. The mosaic depicts the skyline of Macau, featuring various tiled images of key landmarks in the special administrative district. The piece will stand on the...
Added 19 March, 2013
Every once in a while we see a new hotel or experience that requires its guests to unplug from modern life. Camp Grounded in California is just such a place, designed for grown-ups to be kids again. Designed as a nostalgic 1970's boy scouts camp, their off-the-grid weekends feature everything from stargazing, hiking, creative workshops and writing...
Added 19 March, 2013
Coke's "happiness project" has already seen other innovations with vending machines, including a machine in Singapore that you can hug, and a machine in Turkey that gives you a Coke if you can prove you are a couple. Next up?
Vending machines capable of connecting users in two distant places who will actually be able to see each other and "touch"...
Added 17 March, 2013
We are seeing a nonstop host of products that ironically combine the old and the new in one device. Talk Dock is one such product, made in the form of a telephone receiver and doubling as a dock and charging station for a mobile phone.
Added 14 March, 2013
In the 18th century, London’s West End was filled with members-only clubs that were exclusive to upper class British gentlemen. Today, a similar trend is emanating from the UK capital and resonating all the way from Minneapolis to Majorca, where modern women are turning the tables on their male counterparts with female-only clubs.
London-based...
Added 7 March, 2013
We have already seen gloves with special fingers that let you use your touch screen without taking them off. Now the BB Tech Screen Cleaning Throw blanket offers users convenience of a screen cleaner right at your fingertips: a microfiber edge that's perfect for wiping gadget screens.