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For the woman who wants great performance and style, Giro has come up with what they're calling the most technically advanced snow helmet made yet. The Giro Sheer helmet boasts of plush detailing, an amazing fit and being extremely lightweight. What sets it apart is its "In Form Fit" engineered technology that provides the most comfortable and accurate fit in a matter of seconds. Along with the dial at the base of the helmet that lets you adjust tightness to your own comfort and the vertical tuning feature, you can even fit any goggles and head shape with relative ease.
The Thermostat Control feature allows for temperature adjustment to make sure you're always feeling fresh. Super cool vents make for great circulation and cooling effect by drawing stale air out and pulling cool air in. Its Stack Vents, meanwhile, guarantee to keep your goggles clear and fog free all…
StringDrive, a company based in Hungary, claims that the current bicycle designs together with the drive chain and gears placed on one side makes the ride an asymmetric riding experience that might just be inefficient. And as such, the company StringDrive has announced that they might have created a new and better technology that will give riders a smoother and better ride in the form of their StringBike.
StringDrive's StringBike uses two similar drive units that run in opposing directions on either side of the bike. The drive unit's arm swings back and forth when the pedals are turned that in turn pulls a set of steel ropes placed conveniently on either side of the bike, which causes a drum and the rear wheel to rotate.
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If you've ever wanted to build a custom bike fit exactly to your needs and wants, Trek's Project One just might be the thing you're looking for. The Trek Project One Custom Bike Program allows you to turn your biking ideas into reality by letting you customize your own set. Building your own bike is now at your fingertips in three easy steps:
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The Surly 2011 Long Haul Trucker Deluxe is your do it all bike. The Long Haul Trucker Deluxe can be setup as a commuter, cyclocross or for other off road cycling.
Ultimately, the 2011 Surly Long Haul Trucker Deluxe is an exceptional traveling bike that is suited with 26″ wheels and S&S Couplers (also known as S&S Machine Company's BTCs – bicycle torque couplings).
Available to the public Spring 2011 with a retail price of around $1,000.
If you're looking for a lightweight cycling jacket, the neon cycling design of Louis Garneau Stratos 2 Jacket is one to look into. This jacket ensures comfort for all women cyclists. With its lightweight, breathable and weather-protective design, this cycling jacket is ideal for any rides under unpredictable weather.
The inner collar of Louis Garneau Stratos 2 allows for great breathability and ventilation. With its highly breathable fabric and underarm vents, moisture transfer is easy. It also has elastic wrists and a drawstring waist.
The Louis Garneau Stratos 2 Jacket for women is tailored with micro air fabric that is light, breathable, water resistant, and windproof. Its fabric is also mesh air-dry fabric. Its front two-way zip has an inner flap and chin guard that serves as protection against the elements as it provides maximum ventilation without zipper rub. For better visibility and plenty of storage, its back pocket has…
Wilier Bikes showcases its 2011 line-up with some updated models and new additions to its existing roster of bikes. The Cento Uno Superleggera gets updated with new special edition colors to commemorate the victories of Cunego and Petacchi on the Giro d'Italia.
The Izoard XP still follows the same tubing and design as that of its predecessor, however, its carbon composition now has an outer layer of UD carbon fiber. Another upgrade is to have the fork curved to make the Izoard XP be more stable and perform better.
The La Triestina is a new aluminum model with a profile similar to that of the Cento Uno series. Triple butted tubing and smooth welding gives it a sleek and lightweight finish that promises quality performance.
Wilier also created a new commuter series called the Weekend Line. It has six new bike models, namely the Montegrappa, Bassano, Marostica, Asolo, Rossano and…
Urge Bike Products brings to 2011 the Down-O-Matic helmet. Dubbed to be the "Big Brother" among other helmets in the 2011 line, the Down-O-Matic comes with big circular vents on the front to keep airflow at its maximum. The vents have grids and the overall composite fiber construction brings the weight-protection ratio at its optimum.
Th inside of the Down-O-Matic is softly padded. Comfortable and removable, the pads can be washed to avoid gathering of sweat, dust and grime.The visor uses the Flex System technology to help protect the rider. If something hits the visor, it flexes to fall off away from the rider's face.
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Tweebay.com, a recently launched site, uses the connectivity of Twitter links with an optional selling and buying format through auctions or 'buy it now' functions.
I am test driving Tweebay today. I added one book; it seemed easy enough to post a listing. It's ground floor, but I will report back if it develops into the next best thing since sliced bread.
Grass doesn't grow under my feet, and I love to share.
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Sometimes I get the impression that fans of the Canadiens don't like Zdeno Chara or the rest of the Boston Bruins all that much.
The video below didn't do much to change my thinking.
Hurray, he got hit in the face with a puck!
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March 31, 2010
Old Fruit Jar Apps
Well-known as a DIY, food-preserving container, the mason jar was also the "universal machine" of its day. (In the same way that a computer or an "iPhone" is today's universal machine.)
With its standardized closures, the mason jar served as the default platform for many 19th Century, third-party apps.
While we've already covered some of the more novel applications—(See: Mason Jar Mousetraps and Minnow Traps)—kitchen-related tools like egg-beaters are the more obvious application. (…and butter churns, mixers & coffee grinders, etc.) Inventors developed and patented lots of these
attachments—adding additional functions to the humble, "open source"
If specialized, stand-alone kitchen-appliances hadn't led us away from this concept, we might all have more kitchen counter space today.
Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design
March 30, 2010
Can Bag
Even if you weren't around to order this pop-art-accessory "can bag" from Campbell's Soup in 1969, they can sometimes still be found. The one on the right was for sale on Etsy, but I believe it's been sold. Photo of 1969 ad on right is from Pink Ponk's Flickr Photostream. (See also: Campbell's Soup Radio)
Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design
March 29, 2010
Medtronic Makeover
We've covered diabetic supplies packaging and Medtronic branding before. Having recently noticed that the 10-pack cartons for Paradigm insulin pump "reservoirs" have undergone a package redesign, I thought a "before & after" might be in order. Small "before" photo, on left; large "after" photo, at top of page)
First thing I noticed—and it's a strike against the earlier package—was that it was very hard to match up the fronts with the backs, mainly because, with the old carton, it was difficult to say for certain which side was the front and which side was the back. Both cartons appear to use the same die-line, but things have been switched around. (Where the tear-off strip used to be at the bottom, it is now at the top.)
The new carton uses blue rather than purple as a second ink color. They went with a photo of the reservoir/syringe rather than the previous diagrammatic illustration. All the technical info, address, UPC, etc. is now confined to one side which is unambiguously the back. No more lifestyle photo, which I'm fine with. (I had earlier questioned the purpose of 'lifestyle' photography on their device packaging since it's not as if insulin pumps or their supplies are point of-purchase consumer products.)
One mysterious element that I didn't, at first, understand: the 1-2-3 trash can symbol. Initially I assumed that the numbers, 1 and 2 were each contained in a symbol representing the Sof-Set blister packaging below. Sof-Set "Infusion Sets" are compatible with (and connect to) the reservoir syringes contained in the new carton, so it's reasonable to imagine that there might be some reference to them on this package, but what could it mean? Throw away your empty infusion-set packs? In my 2008 post about diabetic supplies packaging I had lamented the amount of diabetic trash I was compelled to produce. But why two infusion-set packs? These things are used one-at-a-time, so throwing away two of them together makes no sense…
(Medtronic mystery, solved, after the fold…)
March 26, 2010
The CardTalk Cardboard Record Player
Further clarification on the cardboard record player: the earliest patent I could find for this concept appears to have been J. Jauquet's "Pocket Speaking Devices" (on right) filed in 1953. Another more complicated, manually-operated, foldable record-player was J.S. Weiner's "Sound Emitting Device"—patent applied for in 1967. The more recognizable version of the concept (on left) was from the "Record Player" patent of Max Meier-Maletz, applied for in 1972.
Global Record Network (GRN)—the Christian Missionary organization that was most responsible for the relative success of this version—claims that development of this design began around 1964. They call it the "CardTalk" and used it, not for music, but for religious indoctrination. The CardTalk was prominently featured in a documentary film about the history of GRN.
(3 cardboard record-player patents, after the fold…)
March 25, 2010
Soda Can Hair Rollers
On left: a still from Lady Gaga's 2010 "Telephone" video; middle: a still from Ashanti's 2008 "Good Good" video; on right: a still from Maluca's 2009 "El Tigeraso" video
I didn't have any sisters growing up, but when I was a kid, I vaguely recall hearing that teenage girls were purportedly using tin cans of various sizes—(coffee cans, grapefruit juice cans, soup cans)—as hair rollers. This off-label use for used food containers was apparently never well-documented with photos. In those days, the running cultural joke was how terrible women looked whilst beautifying themselves. (See the Heloise column at the end of this post.) I'm guessing that most teenage girls in the 1960s did not want their pictures taken while their hair was up in cans.
Three recent music videos, however, hark back to these economical, improvised hair-rollers, but with a significant cultural difference. What was once just an ad hoc technique for achieving a desired hair style—has now become a style in its own right. The idea of someone embracing the "hair-up-in-rollers" look—(a look that some would regard as collateral damage, at best)—owes quite a bit to abstract expressionism. Just as the abstract expressionist painters of the 1950s rejected the artifice of representational painting in favor of "showing the process"—(brush strokes, drips, etc.)—Lady Gaga, Ashanti, and Maluca are, in a sense, just showing the process of their respective beauty regimens.
There's a strong undercurrent of Pop Art here, as well, given that these three performers are electing to wear branded consumer packaging as hair accessories. Lady Gaga looks a little wan in her Diet Coke rollers, which reportedly were like the ones her mother used to wear. Ashanti looks a bit prouder in her set of green (beer?) can rollers. Maluca, on the other hand, is positively fierce in her golden* soda-can headdress. She alone wears hair rollers (of various sorts) throughout the entire video. Ashanti's and Lady Gaga's videos both feature lots of consumer packaged goods, and both coincidentally feature Wonder Bread.
The conceptual underpinnings of some new postmodern consumer glamour? Whereas tin-can hair-rollers may have been used in the 1960's it was generally some flowers that you were supposed to be sure to wear in your hair. 50 years later, it's the cans.
More celebrity soda-can rollers, after the fold…
March 24, 2010
Things Inside Brock Davis's Refrigerator
In designing packages, we usually think in terms of how a product will look "on the shelf" — but this is surely an unforeseen angle.
Part of Brock Davis's 2009 "Make Something Cool Every Day" project: "One piece of creative work made every day for 365 consecutive days."
Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design
March 23, 2010
Playstation Clothing
PS Clothing: brand development and package design by GR/DD. Surprisingly subtle and retrained packaging for video game clothing. (In contrast to, say, X-box)
(Another photo, after the fold…)
March 22, 2010
Record Cover = Record Player
Now that hardly anyone owns a record player, record jackets today must also serve as their own record players. Hence: audio firm, GGRP's
brilliant "cardboard record player" promotion.
Thank to Breno, who commented on the Dieline version of this post, we now know that this particular record-playing cardboard package was actually developed in the late 1960s by GRN, The Global Recording Network, a Christian missionary organization. (More about their CardTalk: here)
Using this package for GGRP's promo was apparently the idea of Geoff Dawson, associate director
at Grey Vancouver
who handled GGRB's re-branding. The self-sufficient packaging makes a
very low tech, yet audio-capable record player. According to Dawson,
"It's actually shocking how good the sound quality is."
The new promo pack also has its own 1950s-style promotional video.
Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design
March 19, 2010
Toilet Paper Tubes
Tube-shaped toilet paper dispensers. A cross-category, package-related consumer product?
Maybe, as with Oldenburg's giant toothpaste tube, there's some subliminal identification at work here. (toothpaste extrusion = bodily excretion?)
A product line, the manufacturer hopes to extend: from toothpaste to shampoo to cartoon licensing…
Novelty bathroom accessories like these will inevitably also contain a certain gag gift gestalt. The Coca Cola Zero tube, however, struck me as particularly odd: it's soda, packaged in a toothpaste tube. Only it's not really soda, it's toilet paper! Get it?
Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design
March 18, 2010
Floss 'N' Cap and Prior Art
Top: a 2004 product photo demonstrating Aquafresh's new "Floss'N'Cap" feature (with SmithKline Beecham's patent drawings); bottom row: photos from Cloudberrynine's Flickr Photostream
GlaxoSmithKline's floss-dispensing toothpaste tube cap (Floss'N'Cap™) made a big splash in 2004, taking home a number of coveted packaging awards.
SmithKline Beecham is the assignee on a number of patents around this time, but it would be a mistake to imagine that the idea of putting floss into a toothpaste tube cap started there.
The earliest patent that I could find (below) was J.K. Frazer's "Toilet Article" (Patent filed in 1921 and granted in 1924.) Another very credible effort was A.D. Siewert's "Ligature Dispensing Cap." (Patent filed in patented 1925 and granted in 1927.) There are quite a few others.
I happen to see that there have been some "allegations of patent infringement asserted against its Floss-n-Cap™" but GlaxoSmithKline appears to have prevailed in court.
(More great floss-cap patents, after the fold…)
March 17, 2010
Submerged Toothpaste Tube
From the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean: a Japanese A Korean* toothpaste tube, retrieved by the MAR-ECO Project and cast in epoxy by artist, Gøril Walllin. (See also: Plastic Soup)
Part of the "Deeper than Light" exhibition, now on view at The Smithsonian.
*Thank you to Howard for setting us straight about the tube's country of origin!
(Photo of the artist, after the fold..)
March 16, 2010
Giant Toothpaste Tubes, Art & Dental Hygiene
One of Claes Oldenburg's "Giant Toothpaste Tube" sculptures. This one from 1964 is at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Much has been made of the sexual symbolism and anthropomorphic qualities of these artworks. Oldenburg, himself, commented on how "some people" took it as a metaphor for his own spent creativity—(as in: all used up)… "The first tube, made in Venice, California, in 1963 seemed to some people an unconscious self-portrait…"
In the context of contemporary art, the more obvious connection to draw from a giant toothpaste tube is to paint tubes. There are a surprising number of artworks drawing this parallel between dental hygiene and artistic expression. Between toothpaste tube and paint tube… Between toothbrush and paint brush… Between toothpaste and paint. Yesterday we touched on the patent history of toothpaste and paint tubes. Today: some art history.
In 1959, Jasper Johns—(also known for his bronzes of paint brushes)— made a small bronze sculpture of a toothbrush with 4 molars in place of bristles, entitled "the Critic Smiles."
In 1968, Richard Hamilton, did an answering work entitled "The Critic Laughs" updating the concept with dentures and an electric toothbrush.
More recently Kelly Walker has made artworks using toothpaste as paint, even mentioning the brands in titles like "schema; Aquafresh plus Crest with Whitening Expressions (Regina Hall)". (He cites Jasper Johns as an influence in this short video interview: here)
(A couple more "giant tubes of toothpaste, after the fold…)


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Occidental College will host the 4th Annual Student Multifaith Conference on Saturday, January 31. This year's theme is Exploring Vocation, Spirituality and Social Justice Across Religious and Spiritual Traditions.
Students Honor Dr. King With Service
More than 200 Occidental College students, faculty, alumni and staff made their way to over 15 locations across Los Angeles on Saturday, January 24 to weed and plant gardens; canvass neighborhoods; and clean, repair and paint, as part of the College's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
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Expert Roundtable: The Future of Digital Signage
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Bennett Liles
Three insiders weigh in on the state of the industry.
Cahoy: Digital signage is always placed in high-traffic and highly visible areas. In the time of a crisis, what better way to alert the masses? Every organization is looking to maximize their investment and utilize technology for dual purposes. While we hope no one ever needs to use the alerts features of our software [Rise Display Network], it is great to know that if something happens, a university, mall, office complex, or any other type of business can quickly and efficiently get the notice out.
Is the advertising market warming up to the idea of allocating budgets on digital signage?
Chow: I believe the advertising market is re-evaluating digital signage as a focused media for advertising, because today's consumers are Internet-savvy. They're used to viewing information on the go — from their cell phones to their notebook PCs. Digital signage is just another extension of this method of communication.
Weber: Currently, advertisers remain cool to the idea of digital signage as an effective tool. Our target market is not the Wal-Marts and Best Buys of the world, rather consumer-focused businesses with less than 100 locations. We have been approached on several occasions for geographical advertising networks — placing monitors in various hotels, resorts, restaurants, and attractions — to promote themselves and other businesses. None have been launched because it seems as though there is a chicken-and-egg effect in play. Advertisers don't want to invest in these networks until there is sufficient saturation and providers, or end-users don't want to invest until they get a substantial advertiser base. Hence, a stalemate and the networks don't move forward. I believe that when saturation occurs in a specific market, either vertical or geographical, then the advertising market will warm up to digital signage. However, it will most likely take a significant investment by a provider to accomplish this. To date, there simply aren't enough screens to make it attractive.
Cahoy: Buyers are more sophisticated now and advertisers are looking for new ways to reach people at the point of purchase. Digital signage is still young, so it isn't proven, but I think trends have shown that advancements like pop-up blockers, TiVo, XM radio have altered the way people are introduced to products and new brands. The advantage of digital signage is it is prominently placed at the point of purchase or in highly visible areas where you are standing and waiting so you are forced to look at it for entertainment. What better way to educate than at the point of a sale or when you have a captive audience in a waiting room or queued up in a line?
Are users receptive to getting free or discounted displays in return for having advertising taking up a majority of the screen?
Chow: Yes, end-users are receptive to anything that is free, however, subsidies for digital signage through advertising dollars is still a fairly new concept. It is definitely an interesting business model, which more of our resellers and their end-users are asking about. Making a profit on this through advertising subsidies requires advertising expertise — you can either hire this type of expertise or contract it out.
Weber: Various markets seem receptive to the concept — C-Stores and universities, for example — however, the advertising network is not sufficiently established to make free or discounted displays a reality. The limiting factor at this point actually seems to be the lack of the middleman to bring advertisers and end-users together. We've talked to a few providers, but their screen count is quite low. They simply don't have the financial backing to deploy the number of screens necessary to attract major advertisers. It will take someone willing to make a significant investment to make this concept work. Major advertisers want eyeball counts similar to that of more traditional advertising mediums, and to do so, a provider will need to install screens by the hundreds — if not thousands — to capture the attention of advertisers.
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London 2012: Even 'Honoured Guests' Kate And Wills Need Security Badges For Olympic Park
Kate and Wills managed to secure a pair of Olympic passes for the Games (they must have applied through the lottery), with the couple enjoying a succession of events from the cycling to the dressage.
They particularly enjoyed Chris Hoy's gold winning perforce in the velodrome on Thursday evening, sharing a celebratory hug.
Are Prince William and wife Kate the coolest royal couple ever?
Yet security at the Olympic Park is tight, so much so that even the future king and queen need to display their Olympic passes at all times.
And here the "honoured guests" are, displaying name badges with the full title of HRH Duke of Cambridge and HRH Duchess of Cambridge.
A stern looking Kate
William's Olympic pass