UK Designer Mikael Metthey could potentially become God in the eyes of the world’s children with ‘Pox Teddy’ – a concept toy that if successful, could eliminate the need for syringed vaccinations. (Needle Day was always the most dreaded at school.) This smart little bear exposes kids to a virus in order to foster their [...]
Yahoo’s latest offering to the world is a site by the name of startwearingpurple.com. It’s a promotional attempt on the company’s behalf to convince the world how youthful and cool they are — in short, by trying to own this ‘zany’ colour. UK’s Cadbury does a much better job at laying claim by leveraging purple’s [...]
Sotheby’s announced last week that in one day, UK artstar Damien Hirst raised more than $125 million at auction. It’s a new world record for an auction day of art offered by a single artist. (The previous record was held by a day of Pablo Picasso in 1993, which raised a mere $20 million.) The [...]
As the financial engine of the world begins to screech to a near-cataclysmic halt, one Japanese company has found a way for people all over the world to save their money reliably. ‘Facebank’ works its magic in a way that the ‘green-worm-coming-out-of-the-apple’ bank never did. Available in a variety of colours and looks and textures, [...]
If it appears you won’t be able to make the trip to Venice for this year’s Future of Science World Conference (the fourth annual), here’s a taste of what you’ll be missing. A trio of entrepreneurs will be unveiling their plan for turning the Sahara Desert into a huge source for renewable food, water and [...]
Well we’re colour people so we can’t possibly ignore something like this. Cymbolism.com is a new website that attempts to make an emotive correlation between certain English words and the hues at which they hint. Visitors to the site are shown a word and then vote on which colour they believe best represents the featured [...]
It’s not known exactly when we started naming our weather systems but hundreds of years ago in the West Indies, hurricanes were often named after the Patron Saint of the day on which they hit land. The current system is an annual set-list of names that repeats every six years. If a storm is particularly [...]
Fresh off the Olympics, it’s a good time to look ahead, not to 2012, but to 2016. Four candidate cities are currently in the running to take on the responsibility of hosting the sporting world for two weeks, eight summers from now. Each of them released their Olympic logos last year, but not all cleared [...]
Everyone knows the pleasure of discovering that someone else loves something you do. Be it Family Guy, or NPR, or a Cinnamon Dolce Latte from Starbucks, there’s a hint of serendipity that occurs when a common fave is voiced. The people that invented Brand-Mates.com know this and they developed a dating website based on the [...]
Every day in Japan, students across the country eat lunches prepared by the school they attend, following a tradition that began in 1890. These meals, called ‘kyushoku’ are now proving popular in fast-food restaurants and taverns, not because the food is so delicious, but rather because they give Japanese citizens a chance to reflect upon [...]
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