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While the state of the economy is having a negative effect on most areas of the retail sector, more than a few industries are experiencing an uptick. Time examines recent trends in consumer spending, discovering that products and services that fulfill needs like escapism, inexpensive luxury and stress relief are reaping the most benefits.
Though it’s [...]
A few days ago The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, announced that it has been sold to the Swedish software company, Global Gaming Factory X AB for almost 8 million dollars. According to a Pirate Bay blog post, the surprisingly influential owners of the piracy site will be passing the reigns to the [...]
US News and World Report examines some of the contributing factors that have lead to a general decline in many of America’s malls, once the stalwarts of suburban prosperity and convenience. One interesting note from the article is the underlying (and accepted) notion that malls have “natural lifespans,” owing to changes in consumer habits, architecture and [...]
PepsiCo has opened the first ‘green’ plant in the industrial center of Chongqing, China. Meeting the standards of the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), it is the first of six planned plants over the next two years. The plant uses over 35 water and energy saving designs and utilizes [...]
PSFK recently caught up with Karen Bard, the Pop Culture Expert over at eBay. Her insights were a follow-up to our recent coverage on the creation of instant nostalgia.
Hoping to offer those in a currency panic a way to offload their rapidly devaluating cash, TG-Gold-Super-Markt is installing vending machines that dispense 1 gram, 5 gram and 10 gram gold bars and coins. A prototype released in the Frankfurt Airport charged $42 for a tiny single gram of gold. The vending machine’s prices are [...]
As many magazines go the way of the dodo, other publications are staying strong despite industry woes. A recent survey of listings on eBay show that people are actively sharing issues of their favorites, even from recently defunct magazines.
Domino Magazine, which folded earlier this year, fetches prices across eBay well above the original news-stand price. [...]
Membership, reward and loyalty cards are available from almost every major merchant and now there may be an easy way to lighten your wallet or purse load. CardStar is an iPhone app designed to store and retrieve cards which can be scanned from the barcode the app creates from your reward number. The merchant list [...]
The Sacramento Bee has a Google Map that helps you see which parts of America should come out of recession first - and which last. The map was made with projections from IHS Global Insight that forecasted when each metro area will return to employment levels seen before the recession. You can drill down to [...]
London based Wilkinson Gallery is hosting Artworks That Ideas Can Buy, a project by Italian artist Cesare Pietroiusti through July 2009.
All the artworks exhibited in the show are for sale, but the public can’t buy them with money. Instead, valuable and original ideas can be exchanged for the art.
Visitors are invited to leave comments, opinions, [...]
The folks over at Good Magazine created an unsurprisingly clean and clear graph to put the recent bankruptcy of GM in perspective over the past two decades. The design is a collaboration with Always With Honor and a full sized version can be found here.
[via Good Magazine]
Wired recently interviewed Shane Meadows, the British film-maker, about shooting his new project named Le Donk in only five days. Meadows hopes the short shooting schedule will enable the film to focus on more minute details of the story and force the production team to come up with crazier ideas. Meadows teamed up with Warp [...]
NonCents is the work of a group of design students from the University of Washington. They have created an exhibition that uses interactive parking meters and an indoor display to explore reasons why the penny should be removed from circulation.
The Wall Street Journal recently delved into this issue when it published an article about the [...]
This last Wednesday, we were able to attend TED @ State—a US State Department sponsored TED conference. The one-day conference is the result of the Global Partnership Initiative, which is, in the word of Hilary Clinton, designed to reflect the State Department’s “opening its doors to a new generation of public-private partnerships.” Basically, the conference [...]
Broadcast on China’s CCTV national television, “Win in China” (赢在中国) is the world’s largest and most lucrative business plan competition. With over $5 million in prize money, the TV show pits 120,000 entrepreneurs competing to win $1.5 million dollars to invest in the winner’s business plan.
The documentary, produced by Robert Compton, follows the TV show [...]
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