I’m more and more amazed of products imitating the Apple iPod look, even though they’ve got nothing to do with the company from Cupertino. Below are some W5 Carcare Air Fresheners that come in 3 flavors: “Oriental”, “Exotic” and “Ocean”. Want more? I found a great list of weird forms and shapes here.
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KitchenAid started in 1919 with the legendary stand mixer and over the course of 90 years they have released many other great products, like the KitchenAid Knife Sets. Here’s a clever advertisement for one of their products.
The new Heinz Ketchup Packet is pretty smart. You can either tear off the cap to squeeze it onto your burger or peel back to dip your french fries.
A little more than a year has passed since Apple opened the doors to it’s AppStore back in July 2008, and the amount of love and hate alike in blogs all around the internet is showing the huge impact it had on the mobile applications market. After jailbreakers invented the process of providing additional software during the first revision of the iPhone, and, back from what was just a handful of apps at the time of its official release, the AppStore has grown ever since, encompassing over 65.000 apps by now, increasing this number day by day at a very high rate.
Something has been slowing down the growth, though. And surprisingly enough, that “something” is no one else but Apple itself. Read Post »
It all started with a visit to my favorite bar where I saw those stylish speakers hanging down the ceiling. Shortly thereafter I got the Grundig Audiorama 9000 as a gift and was amazed. Such expensive speakers as a gift – one of those speakers costs around $700(!) – and unlucky me hasn’t got any amplifier to actually use them.
When Palm announced their upcoming Palm Pre Smartphone the whole internet spoke about it. Positively.
If you want to know why, here’s the full video presentation from CES.
After having watched the video I can say the Palm Pre (facts) kicks iPhone’s ass in terms of usability, multi-tasking with flipping applications, seamless integration of the cloud, checking the calendar while on the speaker phone, unobstrusive notifications. Wow!
Burger King launched a new brand of perfume today called Flame by BK.
“The Whopper sandwich is America’s favorite burger. Flame by BK captures the essence of that love and gives it to you. Behold the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat.”
The perfume itself is apparently for sale for $3.99 but sold out.
Why limit wine, that has so many different tastes to just one boring container, e.g. a bottle?
This is what German company hauswein.de thought and decided to trade the bottle for the box. Beautifully designed it suits the product well: emphasis on the content not its packaging, easy to store and hard to break. Now if the wine tastes as good as the box looks, they have achieved a perfect match of simplicity and quality.
People who want others to laugh at them should order the Evian facial spray. Evian sells a useful useless product called “Mineral spray” for around $10. Apparently it revives, e.g. moisturizes your face. Duh, obviously it revives your face, it’s water! The question is if you want to pay that much money or just go to the restroom.
Italian police will be using a special weapon to fight delinquents and traffic offenders: the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4, a car with 560 HP and maximum speed of around 190 MPH. Not to forget the price of $200,000. Is it the world’s fastest police car too?
Steve Ballmer selling Windows 1.0
After watching this video it is clear he hasn’t changed his attitude or technique of selling. :)
… you know it must be Apple Inc. Picture taken in the Missouri School of Journalism (via Digg)
I just read on TechCrunch that Digg’s founder Kevin Rose has some good inside information on the upcoming iPhone.
According to Kevin there are two models coming up, 4 GB and 8 GB, priced at $249 and $449. No word on whether they’ll be shipping an unlocked version of the phone, but Kevin says Apple is adding both GSM and CDMA radios into the iPhone, making it truly carrier-independent. The device will have a slide out keyboard, a touch screen and two batteries (one for the MP3 player, one for the phone).
It was in February 2006 when German Marketing-expert Jürgen Alker came back from the UK with a new business idea: smoothies.
A smoothie is a blended non-alcoholic beverage made from natural ingredients, usually fruits and juices but sometimes other natural flavors such as chocolate or even green tea. Smoothies and juice bars started becoming popular throughout the United States in the 90’s where Jamba Juice is the largest smoothie bar franchise, with 533 stores and sales reaching $345 million in 2005.
So what’s special about selling smoothies you say. Well first of all, there are no real smoothies on the German market yet and unlike following the usual and secret path of bringing a product to market he did a lot of things differently. Most importantly he created a blog and let everybody to participate in developing his vision: Hello! Drinks.
Funky, dumb, cool(?) gadget by Sony in cooperation with Skype: a mouse-phone, eh phone-mouse, hm.
The Sony VAIO VN-CX1 functions just like any optical mouse, but when you press a small button on the side it transforms into a VoIP phone. Unfortunately not wireless, not that cheap (83$) but maybe still handy.
Why have 2 devices when you can have 1?
Because I don’t want to be tied to my PC? :-)
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