IconNicolson has a “social retailing” vision which means mashing up social computing and near-field communication technologies with youth shopping habits – to target young adult shoppers. As a part of…

PSFK has found some great video and audio recordings of the presentations made to the MIT Futures of Entertainment conference held in November 2006. Topics under discussion included Television Futures,…

Dasparkhotel is an experimental hotel in Austria which was converted into hotel rooms from drain pipes. Each room has – full headroom, double bed, storage, light, power, woolly blanket and…

VoIP comes to the cellphone with is a new piece of free software named Truphone. You will be able to make free or VoIP-rate from Wi-Fi hotspots places with your…

Two web giants has recently launched an “answer” service. One of the newly launched answering service is nownow.com. They have partnered with Amazon.com Company, Mechanical Turk, who has a community…

To stay competitive, many retailers (e.g. Amazon, Costco, Sears…) offer a 30 day price protection guarantee. It means that if they lower their price within 30 days of when you…

The last buzz about Wii is if it could begin a new generation of porn industry. “Wii Mote Strap” gives players the ability to give pleasure to computer women in…

TailoredMusic is an interesting concept that caught our eyes. We are already familiar with the personalized song that Jessica Simpson made, but this start-up takes it a step further. TailoredMusic…

Inspired from subway maps, Nowandnext and Future Exploration Network have produced a trend map. It shows some of the major trends into ten main categories, as well as the key…

Ultra reports a visionary new theatre concept named LivingRoomTheatre. They combine a European style café and lounge with a relaxing place to see movies. They says:Felix Martin, Ernesto Rimoch and…

PingMag has a piece up that examines interesting use of RFID in Mitsukoshi’s flagship store. They recently interviewed Masakazu Nishida, the general manager who leads Mitsukoshi’s RFID project, about their…

Philips Ambilight technology offers the new TV experience with light emitting from the left, right, top and bottom of the TV. In order to meet this experiece to millions, they…

YouTube has a test site just like Google Labs where you can try future YouTube technology, new ideas and features. They currently offer a trial of their streaming video chat…

LOST is a student project. The aim of LOST is to show how 7 million people connect to one another, and break the record for the game with the most…

Nike Trial Van is currently making pit stops at running events, roads and trails parks in Europe where interested consumers can try on one of over 1,000 pairs of running…