Most hotels today give guests a way to connect with them online before their stay, whether for making simple room requests or to shop ahead for items from the hotel's retail offerings. New York City's...
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Reflecting the fact that women make the majority of consumer purchase decisions these days, a number of companies have begun exhibiting signs of female fever, as our sister site trendwatching.com woul...
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Eager to keep up with the ever-increasing number of international fashion and style titles but pressed for time, readers are in need of a hand. Enter Distill, a new bimonthly magazine that brings toge...
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Using collaborative filtering to give consumers product recommendations based on the opinions of those similar to them has more or less become hygiene for retail sites ranging from Amazon to Netflix a...
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We wrote about on-demand airline DayJet on two different occasions before it closed its doors a few weeks ago. Now a new Swiss company is taking a different approach to private jet travel by making th...
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Earlier this year we covered customizable energy bars from Los Angeles-based YouBar, and recently a similar contender out of the Midwest crossed our proverbial path. Chicago-based ElementBars.com aims...
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No sooner did we cover two mobile bars that recently popped up in Singapore than one of our spotters alerted us to yet another pop-up innovation: a mobile spa that just launched at the Toronto Interna...
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Inspired by the way Wikipedia changed the encyclopedia with its online format and user-contributed content, a new digital dictionary hopes to change the way the world articulates and understands the m...
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Back in January we wrote about an effort at the Aéroports de Paris to provide travellers with light-therapy breaks to stave off jet lag during the holiday travel season. At the time we suggested it mi...
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Back in 2006 we wrote about the Venue VBOX, which uses shipping containers to construct portable retail stores, and now, from the same Singapore company, comes a similarly modular and transportable po...
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Amsterdam seems to be Europe's testing ground for no-frills chic, pod-like hotels. Last year, we wrote about Qbic, a hotel that uses bedroom-plus-bathroom cubes that can be easily installed and remove...
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Since moving its not-for-profit venture online in 1995, New York-based Green Map System has made online maps of sustainable initiatives accessible to keen greens everywhere. Its selection of hand-pick...
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Even as consumers spend more and more time online, they continue to crave the comfort of the printed page. MagCloud, a new self-publishing magazine service from HP Labs, is making the most of these co...
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Music fans can now participate in the music industry as never before, whether by funding and promoting their favourite bands or creating and selling custom mixes—to name just a few of the opportunitie...
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As part of a new brand-awareness campaign to promote its corporate spirit, Yahoo recently equipped a fleet of GPS-enabled bicycles with camera phones and sent them out onto the streets of major cities...
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Back in July, we wrote about a promising start-up that has developed an organic alternative to traditional insulation products. Ecovative Design's Greensulate (building insulation) and Negative Volume...
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Customization has already come to dresses and duvets, shoes and sleeping bags. For those who worried that there were limits on the products to which the concept could still be freshly applied, a new s...
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In a world populated by gadgets with increasingly varied and complex capabilities, there stand out a lone few that do just one thing really well. The iPod is one classic example, and earlier this mont...
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It was roughly a year ago that we first wrote about RedesignMe, a Dutch site that taps the collective wisdom of the crowds to improve consumer products. Now, reflecting the notion of the self as a pro...
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Although video games and laser tag are a popular choice for kids’ parties, getting the kids to venues can be more hassle than it’s worth. Back in January, Texas-based Games2u stepped in to solve this ...
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