Category Archives: New Products & Gadgets

Highlighting new gadgets, tech innovation, products and services.

The Netflix of baby clothes

Posted on July 18, 2011 | Comments Off

Plum is a service that offers boutique baby clothes in the sizes you need as a monthly subscription-like service. All you do is send the clothes back when they get too small, and they’ll resend you some new clothes in the sizes you need. Think of them as the Netflix of baby clothes. Plans start at $16 per month. Visit www.plumgear.com to learn more. If you are using this already and want to share your thoughts, please share with us below.

Rentable Baby Clothes – Plum Gear is the “Netflix of Baby Clothes” (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)
Baby clothes for rent by the month (springwise.com)

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Posted in Love Parenting and Relationships, New Products & Gadgets, Random Stuff

Tagged baby, baby clothes, business innovation, children, clothing, clothing subscription, netflix of baby clothes, new mother, Parenting, plum

Google: What do you love?

Posted on July 13, 2011 | Comments Off

Google has a new feature that allows you to search across everything Google offers with one click. Type in something you love and every result is displayed nicely on a single screen. I’m gonna go see what comes up when I type “Grizzly Bear Attack.”

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Posted in New Products & Gadgets

Tagged Google, information, new technology, Search Engines, search technology, Searching, WDYL, web innovation

Minnesota team wins Red Bull’s Creation event

Posted on July 13, 2011 | Comments Off

Red Bull’s annual Creation event involved 16 teams from across the country who came together for three days of high stakes innovation with the city as their playground. A secret warehouse in Brooklyn full of tools, materials and hardware hackers were given the task of building a creation designed to move the weight of a person (100lbs) from point A to point B without using any fossil fuels. They had 3 days. The winning team is named 1.21 Jigawatts, and they are from Minneapolis.

They created a massive hamster wheel, wired into a mobile network, given its own phone number that could somehow receive up to 60,000 one-word text messages at a time. Once it received the text message, the hamster wheel would actually roll and perfectly print the word out along the ground. Grand prize – $5k. Pretty cool huh?

Thanks for the great pictures CoolThings.com and MaximumTech.

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Human Powered Text Message Printer Wins RedBull Challenge (textually.org)
Red Bull “Creation” Event: The Official Gear Diary Report (geardiary.com)
Red Bull Creation Spawns Wheelie Mobile, Spinning See-Saw, And Other Crazy Contraptions (techcrunch.com)

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Posted in Art and Design, Marketing & Advertising, Minnesota, New Products & Gadgets, Random Stuff

Tagged 1.21 Jigawatts, 2011 Red Bull creation event, Brooklyn, design, DIY, innovation, Minnesota news, Red Bull Creation event, Text messaging

Stolen Camera Finder

Posted on July 12, 2011 | Comments Off

Is your camera lost or missing? Has your camera been stolen? If so, stolencamerafinder can help you find out where it is now.

They claim that they can help to locate a missing camera by searching for photos on the web that have been taken by that camera.

Every photo you take with your digital camera contains hidden information about both the image and the camera such as the make, model and date. This information, called exif data, can also include a unique serial number which identifies your camera. Stolen Camera Finder crawls the internet searching for photos, collecting the serial numbers of the cameras that took them.

I guess pictures taken with phones are not saved the same way and cannot be located this way. I hope they work on this as an extension of their business considering most people are ditching their digital cameras and using their phones exclusively.

(via Bag of Nothing)

Stolen Camera Finder (edugeek.net)
Stolen Camera? StolenCameraFinder Might Be of Help (webpronews.com)

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Posted in New Products & Gadgets, Random Stuff

Tagged Camera, Digital camera, how to recover stolen property, lost and found tools, police tools, Serial number, stolen camera finder

Creating the sensation of textures

Posted on July 9, 2011 | Comments Off

image via Senseg

E-Sense is a new touch interface that simulates the sensation of textures and other touch feedback on virtually any surface including touchscreens. It was created by Finnish tech company Senseg. The core of the technology is the “tixel,” or tactile pixel, a special surface that emits a weak electrical field. When skin is exposed to the electrical field, all manner of textures and sensations can be simulated–sticky or smooth surfaces, even clicks or vibration. This could be used to produce the sensation of touching sand, silk, or water.

With accuracy down to the level of individual tixels, the technology allows for exceptional control of the produced sensation. Tactile feedback can be localized to individual areas enabling multi-touch user experiences. Since it is easily scalable to small and large surfaces with ultra-thin implementation, Senseg E-Sense can be applied to virtually any surface including the device’s cover bringing a new dimension of user experience.

Think of the uses. Awesome.

via The Next Web & Springwise

Illusions to send shivers down a gamer’s spine (newscientist.com)
New Touch Interface Uses Electricity to Simulate Textures & Sensations (laughingsquid.com)
Video: Smartphone Simulates Sensation Of Buttons On A Touchscreen (crunchgear.com)

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Posted in New Products & Gadgets, Random Stuff

Tagged E-Sense, ixel, Senseg, Tactile feedback

Shadow advertising by McDonald’s

Posted on July 6, 2011 | 1 comment

Ingenious use of the sun for a new advertising billboard installment for McDonald’s.

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Posted in Marketing & Advertising, New Products & Gadgets

Tagged cool ad, McDonald's billboard, mcdonalds advertising, outdoor advertising, shadow advertising, sun advertising

Defacing magazines

Posted on June 28, 2011 | Comments Off

When I saw this, it made me laugh. I used to love defacing magazines when I was a kid. Remember getting the TV guide in the newspaper on Sundays? I used to draw all over that thing. With every publication going digital, the small joys in life like this die. Too bad. (via 9GAG)