When someone asks how you’re feeling, the typical response is somewhere along the lines of, ‘Oh, fine.’ Not convinced this was true, pharmaceutical company Help Remedies decided to dig a bit further and find out how people were really feeling. Tracking weekly state-level sales data for eight of their over-the counter-products (ranging from anti-nausea to [...]

Consumers are becoming more socially conscious. A Nielsen survey released in March found that 46 percent of global consumers are willing to pay extra for products and services from companies that have implemented sustainability programs. Nielsen defines those consumers as socially-conscious consumers. The survey found that 76 percent of socially conscious respondents said they look for opinion [...]

For millions of people in the developing and underdeveloped countries the only source of light is the Sun and once the Sun sets in the west their lives become dark. Inspired by the Sun and it’s never ending desire to give light to people, Iceland based light installation artist Olafur Eliasson has come up with [...]

Cops aren’t known to be the coolest, calmest public officers in the world and a cop who’s patrolling the streets in the skin-frying summer time is likely to lose his cool. However, a Swiss materials company called Empa has come up with a way to keep police officers cool through the summer using Coolpad technology-based [...]

This article titled “Five reasons not to buy Facebook shares” was written by Dominic Rushe, for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 16th May 2012 18.22 UTC On Friday, Facebook will finally become a public company. The hotly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) will be the largest tech company share sale ever and is expected to value the [...]

If you thought stand up comedians experiencing writers’ block were the only people who were obsessed with things found in a bathroom, you might want to try conversing with a sanitary ware designer. Not only have big sanitary ware brands invested gazillions of dollars into coming up with “new and improved” designs to make the [...]

It’s been almost exactly two years since New Zealand-based ‘maker’ Mike Grobelny first set out to make an alaia and over a year since he posted his accomplishment in an extremely thorough time-lapse video, but it’s worth a belated post because the project is as relevant as ever. Not to mention the fact that it’s [...]

This article titled “Ethical living: whatever happened to acid rain?” was written by Lucy Siegle, for The Observer on Saturday 12th May 2012 23.03 UTC I agree that planet green has a tendency to be a little one-note. For a long while it’s been singing a plaintive song (more of a wail, actually) about climate [...]