How does a brand from the pre-digital age that filed for bankruptcy in 2001 survive in the 21st century of social media and advanced gadget wizardry? They hire a pop icon who has created more buzz than when Madonna first uttered “Material Girl.” Lady Gaga, the 23-year old wacky fashionista might be considered this millennium’s Mae West on steroids but it looks like she’s landed a legit day-time job, just in case her ‘performance art’ persona falls out of favor.
Highrise residents frustrated by the inability to wash their outside window surfaces will love the Zatz ZA-1, the first magnetic double-sided glass cleaner!
In a recent blog, titled “The Secret Wars of Google & Apple…” there was inference that both Google and Apple were being secretive about their soon-to-be launched tablet and netbook this Spring. The term ‘war’ was used loosely to highlight how the two companies fight hard to keep their products under wraps before releasing any news to the public.
Now that Microsoft is reportedly going to show off their own slate/tablet computing device, the eReader vs Multimedia device “game” is on! eReaders like Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook and Sony’s Readers are fine for ‘reading,’ but if you want to multi-task, you’ll find they come up short every time. Apple’s soon-to-be released iSlate/ tablet and Google’s reported launch of a netbook, coupled with Microsoft, could initiate a technological shift as to which type of device is going to take center stage.
With the heightened popularity of hand-held devices in 2009, eReaders took the number one spot as the top gift item this past holiday season. And it appears even with the soon-to-be released Apple iSlate and the proposed Google Netbook nothing is going to stop Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook and Sony’s Readers from continuing to battle it out for market share.
If you’ve been dying to purify the air that surrounds your pet as he navigates your home, yard, and the world at large, then you can relax. The invention – the Ionizing Air Purifier for Pets – to end all allergic reactions and bad smells that irritate you and your pet is now available for your pet to wear 24/7 on an accompanying harness.
Foursquare, the young-upstart, game-like location-based social network has gained a lot of traction not only for its unique geolocation services, but also from the ‘freebies’ Mayors can obtain competitively on its API.
It’s a cell phone! It’s a shaver! It’s… a cell phone shaver? Indeed it is, and it’s great news for busy guys who wished their old RAZR phone was exactly that.
There is so much buzz about Apple’s new “tablet” launch in the Spring that you have to wonder what it will look like. True to Steve Jobs’ ‘trademark” of keeping his products a mystery until they officially launch, only a select group of designers and executives at Apple know exactly what design was selected for the device.
British designer Martin Smith has come up with the cleverest robot I’ve seen this year: an automatic Applause Machine! It’s not all decked out like a human, either. Who needs a human? All you need is a button and a pair of hands. See how it works….
