The Paper Architect is a new book that take origami to totally intense levels. Armed with folding paper and a crafts knife, readers learn how to crate some of the world’s top architecture wonders out of paper — from the Taj Mahal to the Coliseum in Rome to a traditional Japanese pagoda. Authors Ingrid Siliakus [...]
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Low-Cost Luxe
Times may be tough — but you still gotta look good (or at least make an effort). Which is why we’re keeping an eye on the new (or at least new to us) website HAUTELOOK. The site is like an online sample sale — with ongoing 36 – 72-hour sales of fancy-shmancy brands (Gucci, Armani, [...]
Connected!
According to folks over at Wireless Intelligence, a mobile technology research firm, the world has just welcomed its four BILLIONTH mobile phone connection. Which means by 2013, the figure should reach six billion — roughly the same number as the Earth’s human population. With cell phones becoming ever cheaper and call usage and credit increasingly [...]
Rad Rashid
The Museum of Arts and Design in New York has just debuted its new Design and Innovation Gallery — a space dedicated to short-term shows by celebrated design minds. The space premieres with an assemblage of pieces by the Anglo-Egyptian-Canadian Karim Rashid in a show titled Totally Rad: Karim Rashid Does Radiators. The exhibition — [...]
Academy of Fun
Too bad we’re not visiting our home town, San Francisco, this week. On Thursday, its landmark-worthy California Academy of Science launches its Nightlife series — weekly nocturnal events featuring music, mingling and cocktails within its newly-designed Renzo Piano home. The series begins this week and lasts through October 29th. The good times run from 6pm [...]
Although we don’t personally drive, our vehicle-loving friends are certain to dig the new rent-by-the-hour service Connect by Hertz. Now in operation in New York, London and Paris, the scheme allows members ($50/year) to rent fully-gassed cars by the day or hour — from just $8.50 per hour, including petrol. The actual vehicles range from [...]
Smart Top
They might look like miniature gas pumps, but these nifty gizmos are actually new-design wine stoppers from Metrokane. Thoroughly multi-functional, the plugs not only keep your vino fresh, their color-coded gauges lets you know exactly how tight that seal actually is. Helpful!
Tele-Boarding
German national air carrier Lufthansa has launched a nifty new service for passengers on select intra-European flights — boarding passes via cell phone. The new technology allows flyers to receive a specialized bar-code directly to their cell phones which can be in place of conventional paper boarding passes. The service was launched on all domestic [...]