That perfect campsite always sits three miles down a rocky trail your minivan can’t handle. You spend weeks finding the ideal spot away from crowded campgrounds, then discover the dirt road needs more ground clearance than your Pacifica has. Your neighbor’s SUV tackles the same trail easily but his family of five...
Mushroom mycelium toy kit lets kids grow own eco-friendly toys
MYMORI’s Mushroom Mycelium Toy Kit is changing the way families think about toys, learning, and sustainability. This unique kit gives children and adults a chance to grow their own building blocks using mushroom mycelium, the thread-like roots of mushrooms, instead of traditional plastic. Designed with all ages in...
BBH singapore’s innovates country’s water-soluble unthinkables! chewing gum
BBH Singapore innovates Unthinkables! chewing gum Chewing gum is famously banned in Singapore. To mark the nation’s 60th birthday, BBH Singapore has introduced what could be the country’s first legal chewing gum: a product called Unthinkables!. It looks, tastes, and chews like gum, but is made without a gum base...
Video Game Mixes Cleaning Movement with Horror Genre to Sell Consumer Products
Now that video games rival TV shows and movies as entertainment, so too has product placement crept into them. The in-game ads have been suitably gamer-targeted: Monster energy drinks, Subway sandwiches and Cup Noodles have featured in games like "Final Fantasy XV," "Death Stranding" and "Uncharted 3." Now Japanese...
Sculptural House Numbers by Dutch Artist Reinoud Oudshoorn
In 2008 the Olympian Quarter, a new 900-unit residential neighborhood, was under construction in Amsterdam. Seeking something special to distinguish the neighborhood, the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts commissioned Dutch artist Reinoud Oudshoorn to create the house numbers. Oudshoorn was something like a graphic...
Six N. Five’s Startling “Umbral,” an Art Piece Where the Real and Virtual Intersect
Here's a rock sitting on what appears to be a mirror. In fact, beneath the mirrored glass is an LED panel. Called Umbral, the art piece was created by Barcelona-based artist Six N. Five, a/k/a Ezequiel Pini. "Umbral (2025) is an intention to continue exploring the delicate boundary between the digital and the...
Abxylute 3D One To Bring Glasses-Free 3D to Handheld Gaming
Remember when the Nintendo 3DS felt like magic, letting you see depth and dimension without wearing those clunky red-and-blue glasses? The technology was impressive but limited by tiny screens and processing power. The rumored Abxylute 3D One handheld takes that same glasses-free 3D concept and scales it up...
MB&F collaborates with artist Yinka Ilori for colourful trio of M.A.D.1S ‘Grow Your Dreams’ watches
The horological marvels from MB&F are way beyond most of us. Thankfully, now M.A.D.Editions is making the complications and watchmaking superiority of an MB&F readily available for the mid-segment takers. Hovering around the $3,000 mark was the previously announced – and only the second edition – M.A.D.2,...
1950s petrol station wins photo of the year at architecture photography awards 2025
former petrol station wins photo of the year The Architecture Photography Awards 2025 (APA 2025) announces its winners across 20 categories, presenting a survey of how photographers around the world interpret the built environment. From Icelandic churches and Sicilian cloisters to futuristic alpine huts and thunder-lit...
New designs mirror shifts in UK tea market
The tea aisle is reinventing itself as some consumers turn away from the mainstream builders’ brew in favour of quality black teas and healthy herbals. In 1974, the average UK family shop included 68g – around 30 tea bags – per person. By 2023, that had dropped by two thirds, according to government figures. Now a...