Live Smart Daily | A Smart Take on Daily Life
Live Smart Daily | A Smart Take on Daily Life
Run Away! Run Away!
That funky smell isn’t the café, it’s your date. Yes, you’ll go visit Uncle John, but the stories about his career in aluminum siding can go on for hours. Sure, it’s part of your job to entertain the client, but do you really have to spend the whole night listening to Lumberjack Karaoke? Get Me [...]
Read more →Quiksilver Makes First Recyclable Watch
No product completes its life cycle without consuming or polluting. The consumption of natural resources is inevitable and is the source of environmental impact. Therefore, it is important that we work to improve the ecological characteristics of every product. A selection of low-impact and renewable materials were used to design The RAY:
• Real ebony wood [...]
Medieval Churches Solar Powered Nanotech Pioneers
Painting glass windows with gold nanoparticles offers a way to purify the air, say researchers. Zhu Huai Yong, an associate professor at Queensland University of Technology’s School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, highlights the fact that glaziers in medieval forges were the first nanotechnologists who produced colours with gold nanoparticles of different sizes. Zhu says [...]
Read more →iBasket Automated Washing Machine
Sporting an all clear body, this cylindrical washing angel is programmed to trigger washing once a specific weight is accumulated. With an automated time feature, it niftily cleans your unclean collection. Built-in air refresh system removes the yucky odor, too. Without making any noise, once done with its job, the basket flashes the LEDs fixed [...]
Read more →Do You Really Need Those Expensive Audio Cables?
For most of us, including many hard-core audiophiles, sound is subjective. We’re usually much more concerned with what is playing (“turn that noise off”!), rather than the esoteric specs of how it’s being transmitted in the pristine audio atmosphere of our cramped one bedroom apartment. And yet, every time we go to the electronics store [...]
Read more →Energy Vampire
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve heard the rumblings about saving energy by turning off electric appliances when you’re not using them. That means REALLY turning them off, not just hitting the “Off” button. Ever wonder how much you’d save? (thanks to GOOD magazine and MAKE)
Read more →SAY IT AIN’T SO, COLONEL MUSTARD!
All things must change, and Hasbro’s venerable game, Clue, is no exception. For you ancients who fondly remember, “Professor Plum in the Conservatory with a knife”, there’s a newer cast of characters, rooms, and weapons to deal with. Beginning this fall, gone are the pipe, revolver, and wrench, replaced by the dumbbell, trophy, and poison. [...]
Read more →Smart Travel Tips
Not much fun to fly these days, is it? Well, if you still want to (or have to for business), you might as take advantage of what help is out there. Got your ticket? Then find your airplane and make sure you’ve got the best seat you can over at Seat Guru. Now make sure [...]
Read more →The Guide to English
When you’re talking, writing, or texting between friends, you can misuse and misspell words, or use the wrong punctuation. We have put together a collection of sites that will help you out along the way.
Read more →Holeder Earphone by Yoonsang Kim
It fits snug in your ear, easily loops together around your neck when not in use, and somehow prevents bacterial growth which is 700 times more concentrated in regular ear buds. If it weren’t just a concept, would you buy one? I know we would. Designer: Yoonsang Kim
Read more →Lilypad Floating Ecopolis
Vincent Callebaut, a visionary Belgian architect has come up with his proposal ‘Lilypad, A Floating Ecopolis‘ as a solution. Lilypad, a prototype of auto-sufficient amphibious city is a true amphibian – half aquatic and half terrestrial city. It will be able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants. The floating structure of the Ecopolis is directly inspired by [...]
Read more →Creativity With Newspaper
A beautiful use of newspapers by creating a public installation which highlights the environmental result of yesterday’s news by Sumer Erek for Creative City.
Read more →The Future Of Books
The Future Of Books – by Kyle Bean, an illustrator, designer & maker of ‘things’. Presently Kyle is studying Illustration at the University of Brighton.
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