Live Smart Daily | A Smart Take on Daily Life
Live Smart Daily | A Smart Take on Daily Life
Can Sustainability Save the Midwest?
During the past few decades, small organizations promoting sustainable agriculture have been popping up and banding together across the Midwest to create a patchwork of information, support and tools for those interested in taking part in the sustainable agriculture movement.
Groups like the Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group and its lobbyist sister group the Sustainable Agriculture [...]
Dyson Airblade
Dyson’s futuristic Airblade hand dryer has been around for about a year. It seems awfully good on paper (faster dry time, more hygienic and increased energy efficiency over conventional driers) but we needed to see it to believe it. So, to test the Airblade’s claims, we installed a couple in our office. And after a [...]
Read more →Incase Slider Cases for iPhone 3G
For the finest in sleek, durable protection, the Slider Case for iPhone 3G is made of hardshell plastic and features a minimal wall thickness of 1mm. Interior rubber guardrails provide shock absorption in addition to impact and scratch protection.
Read more →ColaLife Campaign
ColaLife is a campaign to try and leverage the distribution muscle of a multi-national corporate institution to get life saving medicines to children in developing countries.
Read more →GoodBarry
Meet your newest friend, Barry. And as much as Barry wishes he was James Bond, he’s not. He’s just a regular guy on a mission to give business owners like himself a one-stop solution to build more successful online businesses. He found it frustrating to have a hundred tools for running his online business in [...]
Read more →The Chair
The chair is considered one of the paradigms of industrial design. Its reflection has been based, among others, in ergonomic, aesthetic, sociological, anthropological and economic analysis. Nevertheless the chair that is a part of east project takes into account an additional factor: the present invisible fields in the homes and places of work. These fields [...]
Read more →5-in-1 Shade by Innermost
The 5-in-1 Shade was created by Jette Scheib and Neels Kattendidt for UK-based design firm Innermost. 5 in 1 comprises 7 simple flat sheets of polypropylene. From these parts you can make any one of 5 pendant lampshades by combining 3,4,5,6 or all 7 of the sheets. You can make the big wide form with [...]
Read more →Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tuesday
The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a good display of shooting stars in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday.
Read more →The Perfect Pet Feeder
Pillar Pet Products a Seattle area company has introduced an upscale, programmable automatic pet feeder designed to appeal to the contemporary pet owner’s sense of style, while satisfying their desire to feed their pets responsibly and maintain their ideal weight. The Perfect Pet Feeder offers the following benefits: No measuring required – the unit can [...]
Read more →Water Bottle Warning
A recent New York Times article states that Canada is prepared to declare B.P.A. a toxic substance. B.P.A., or Bisphenol-a, is a primary ingredient in polycarbonate plastics like Lexan, classic Nalgene bottles, hard plastic cups, formula bottles, and linings of aluminum cans. (Nalgene recently announced that they will be phasing out the polycarbonate bottles which [...]
Read more →Rolling Stone Gets Smaller
With the Oct. 30 issue, which will go on sale Oct. 17, Rolling Stone, published by Wenner Media, will adopt the standard size used by all but a few magazines. Along with the change in size, Rolling Stone will switch to heavier, glossy paper and sleeker page designs, and it will be glued rather than [...]
Read more →Paint Chip Card Holders
Anyone need to know how to make a card holder? Well look no further. The guys over at Design Verb have a really cool DIY tutorial on how to make them from scratch.
Read more →Comsuming with a conscience – Wavyo Designs
Made from 100% recycled PET plastic bottles with a big ole earth friendly saying on the side for you to lug your stuff while showing your colors. Wavyo is a women-owned company started by three friends who love to create and are striving to do something to help the world in which we live.
$46.00 at [...]