Walk the talk - bike business

I noticed how the Copenhagen City Council had placed a rest stand for people bicycling in town. I love when it's not all talk about how city life is much greater if everybody bikes. They actually try to improve the conditions too. Great job. Don't know if it gets more people to bike. But it certainly proves that they are serious about getting the Copenhageners to use their bikes rather than cars.

The text on the foot rest in Danish is something along the lines of "Hi biker! Rest your foot here... And thanks for using your bike in town!"

Offline magazines in the 21C

An interesting attempt of bringing the offline magazine into the 21C

The re-usable water bottle

"We might think 2€ for a bottle of water in a café is expensive but in fact they are 2€ spent on not drinking a coke". This argument is the only one I've heard that makes me understand why water bottles have been so extremely popular in recent years. Next obvious step is someone taking action against the immense waist of plastic used to serve this need. MySigg lets you customize your own water container with 144 bottles and 44 lids to create what they hope might become the next big thing - the re-usable water bottle.

Spin wash

Quite a different spin! A shower and a bathtub in one. Spin it around and you have a nice sit in bath. It looks good and is definitely quite a new perspective on the old bathtub.

It's got to be free, baby!

Most businesses better get used to it - their products got to be free in the future! In the era of the internet it's simply not possible to host a business that doesn't give away it's products for free either to get attention or to have it's profit out of some other source as advertisement. Take the music industry. They're still trying to fight off the pirats on the internet who share and download all their music among each other. In Denmark TDC, the largest internet provider, has bought the rights to offer all its customers free downloads of some one million songs from their internet. Or have a look at the news papers - completely free! Ryan Air, the European flight carrier, is aiming at free plane tickets in the future too. 

Male discrimination

Apoteket, a Swedish state-run pharmacy chain, has been sued for male discrimination. When they began to sell over-the-counter sex toys this summer barely an eyebrow was raised. Now they are filled with sexual discrimination because they don't have any erotic toys for men. Apoteket was told to have a "misguided and untrue view of sexuality whereby a woman with a dildo is seen as liberated, strong and independent, while a man with a blow-up vagina is viewed as disgusting and perverted". Apoteket's spokes person has replied that there's a general lack of erotic toy products of a similar good standard for men on the market.

Virgin + google = virgle!

The founders of Virgin and Google, Richard Branson and Larry Page, have united in a project to inhabit Mars in a hundred years. Project Mars starts out in 2014 and you can sign up here!

Projector for your iPod movies

Optoma has made a projector no bigger than an average mobile phone. It can be used with iPods, mobiles, digital cameras. It's meant to help people share contents from their handheld devices.

Eco porn

Fuck for forest donates its profit to projects that makes the world a better place. A hilarious and brilliant alternative to the number one biggest seller on the internet - porn!

Make it easy!

A one switch on and off button to turn off all those electrical appliances that are just standing there using a bit of energy for no reason. Simple, easy, intuitive, and we might even save a few pennies at the end of the month this way.