Lifestyle
Real Good Experiment
Blu Dot’s Real Good Experiment aims to track what happens to unwanted furniture when it is left in the street. They left 25 GPS tagged chairs on the sidewalk in NYC and sat back and waited to see what would happen. Watch the video to see what did happen.
The Most Dangerous Job in Vegas
Norm Clarke is a gossip columnist for the Las Vegas-Review journal. He cuts an interesting figure, part silver fox, part pirate, with a black eye-patch over his right eye. He covered Britney Spear’s quickie wedding and divorce and has been threatened by stars who’d rather he didn’t write about them. After all, what happens in [...]
Multigenerational Housing
Economic constraints mean that more families are having to live in multi-generational homes, according to Reuters. This most often involves elderly parents moving into a granny flat or graduates returning home after college. Does this mean real estate developers will start factoring this into their new-builds?
Making Over Carlisle Train Station
Carlisle’s railway station platform was turned into a lounge and garden area for filming for a TV ad for DIY store homebase. Commuters enjoyed the sofas and garden landscaping that they started a Facebook page to try to keep the newly made over station as it was. The number of fans has reached 8,000+ but [...]
Jamie Oliver does TED
Jamie Oliver has just won the 2010 TED prize, which comes with $100K and a ‘Wish to Change the World’, which, unsurprisingly, he’s dedicating to trying to educate people about food in order to try to reduce the amount of obesity in the USA, and he calls for government and corporations to take responsibilty:
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Gothic Kittens
Pennsylvania woman Holly Crawford is being prosecuted for selling kittens that have had their ears and necks pierced with metal jewelery to make them look ‘neat’. Read the full article in the Daily Mail.
Angry People Photos
I’ve often thought that the photos of wronged people in newspapers is a genre of its own, and it seems I’m not alone. Angry People in Local Newspapers ‘celebrates excellence in the field of local newspaper photography”, or in other words shows lots of people posing in improbable positions wearing pained expressions. The BBC website [...]
Biometric Monitor
The WIN Human Recorder is a Japanese biometric device that is designed to be worn on the skin on a day to day basis as it measures heart rate, brainwaves, skin temperature, velocity and respiration. It wirelessly transmits data to a mobile phone or computer where the data can be managed.
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Bravo’s Launch My Line
Bravo in the USA has launched an online tool to enable fans to enter their Launch My Line T-shirt design competition to tie in with Bravo’s latest fashion focused competition reality show in which ten entrepreneurs from a range of backgrounds are each paired with an established fashion designer who will help them design a [...]
Interactive Wedding ‘Ring’
GeekPhysical specialize in inventing interactive technological events, experiences and installations. Their latest invention is called Cold Feet and tracks the emotions of the bride and groom throughout the big day via a bouquet that contains blue and white fibre optic lights. The bride slips a bio-feedback ring on her finger which monitors whether she’s feeling [...]
