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Domino's Japan Brings Back Heart-Shaped Pizza for Valentine's Day
2012-02-11 06:00:00 Feed your passion this Valentine's Day with a heart-shaped pepperoni pizza from Domino's Japan. This year, Domino's has partnered with Italian confectioner BABBI to ensure pizza-sharing couples get their just desserts. Now that's one sweet deal!
CHILL CUBES
2012-02-08 19:04:00 For those of you that enjoy your drinks on the rocks, but absolutely detest a watered-down libation, we present Skybar Chill Cubes. These stainless steel badboys give you all the benefits of cold ice without the H2O. Grab a pair for $40 and say goodbye to watery drinks forever. Cheers to that!
ALIEN DRINK
2012-02-01 19:00:00 Here's an awesome drink recipe that we came across. Granted, warnings from our source guarantee a "make-out session w/ your toilet," we just couldn't resist! For one, we've never seen anything that looks quite like it and that's reason enough for us. So without further adieu we present to you The Alien Brain Hemorrage Shooter--a unique mixture of peach schnapps, Bailey's, grenadine and blue curacao. Peep game!
SALT PEPPER SWITCH
2012-01-30 18:56:00 The good folk over at Fred & Friends have designed this nifty salt and pepper dispenser that draws inspiration from the ubiquitous ON/OFF switch. For the digital foodie in all of us. Only $12 USD here. We likey very much!
King Orange: World's Largest Oranges Successfully Bred in Taiwan
2012-01-28 06:01:00 It's good to be the king... the King Orange, that is. A new, supersized hybrid orange developed at Taiwan's Agricultural Research Institute is not only the world's largest, it also offers majestic overtones of sweet and sour citrus flavor.
Girl Scout Cookies Go Hi-Tech - Find Cookies NOW!
2012-01-23 01:59:00 It?s Girl Scout Cookie time (or almost time depending on what part of the country you?re in) and unless you know someone who is in the Girls Scouts of the USA the problem is always about finding them before they?re gone. Well GSUSA has solved that problem this year with help from technology.
COLLAPSIBLE CUTTING BOARD
2012-01-17 05:46:00 Progressive International has designed a cutting board with a savvy addition. Their Counter Edge Cutting Board features a detachable side bin that's perfect for collecting unwanted bits or separating chopped goods. Kitchen warriors can snag their very own for $24.99 USD here.
PHONE STACKING
2012-01-12 18:00:00 While we do admit that cellphone tech posts do make their way around here pretty often, this one's a little different. This one's actually about avoiding your phone, especially during dinner with friends. It's called "phone stacking" and here's how it works: everyone places their cellphones facedown on the table (you can stack them for more suspense), then the rules are simple, first person to pick their's up to check for missed calls or messages pays the tab. Sounds easy enough, right? Go for it on the next night out with amigos. We pretty much guarantee a fun time!
WINE CORKCICLE
2011-12-27 17:26:00 The holidays are usually a great time for wine, but sometimes serving and maintaining a chilled bottle becomes more of a chore than a pleasure. Enter Corkcicle, a reusable icicle made specifically for wine bottles. At $23 USD a pop and the capacity to keep a bottle chilled for 45 minutes or more, you'll wonder how you ever served cold wine without it!
Groundbreaking Research Supports Calorie Reduction As Key To Healthy Aging
2011-12-20 10:00:00 It has long been known that calorie restricted diets have positive impacts on better mental and physical health, but now a team of researchers at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Rome have discovered the molecule that is triggered by caloric restriction. CREB1 is the molecule and, once activated, it triggers another group of molecules linked to longevity - the sirtuins.
KEEP CUPS
2011-12-19 07:25:00 Presenting KeepCup, an environmentally-conscious and barista-friendly way to lug your daily coffee around. The BPA-free reusable cups replace those non-recyclable (plastic lined) paper ones that we're so used to buying for a morning brew. They're available in three microwave and dishwasher-safe sizes: 8 oz., 12 oz., and 16 oz: in completely customizable colorways.
SUSHI DREAMS
2011-12-12 18:22:00 85 year-old, Jiro Ono, is Japan's greatest sushi chef. He is the only chef to have ever received three Michelin Stars for his craft. Now his son (and understudy) is preparing to follow the same path. There's honor, there's passion, and there's pressure--three intriguing themes that lace filmmaker, David Gelb's, Jiro Dreams Of Sushi, slated for release in March of 2012.
DOMINO'S GLOBAL PIZZA PARTY
2011-12-09 16:20:00 Domino's pizza chain turns 51 this week and to commemorate the milestone the company is throwing a global pizza party for customers in 19 different countries. Today only, fans that log onto the Domino's Facebook Page will be able to take part in a special 50% discount off any menu-priced pizza. Nice! Expect tons of deliveries this Friday evening.
$2 SUBWAY SANDWICH
2011-12-05 15:14:00 American sandwich franchise, Subway, is siding with cash-strapped customers this holiday season, as it plans to sell its Meatball Marinara and Cold Cut Combo subs for $2 ($4 footlong). While the "value meal" concept isn't anything new for them or competing food chains like KFC and Taco Bell, the company's plan is to convince consumers that they're getting more bang (and calories) for their buck, noting that a $2 meatball sub of 480 calories breaks down to 1$ per 240 calories worth of sandwich.
China Farms Out Human Milk Production
2011-11-23 17:08:00 Human milk? At my supermarket? It's more likely than you think, thanks to China's genetically engineered cows.
Campbell's Noodle Chicken, the Cup Noodle Without the Can
2011-11-21 21:00:00 Cross Campbell's classic canned Chicken Noodle Soup with Japan's iconic rehydrate-able Cup Noodle ramen and what do you get? Campbell's Noodle Chicken, of course, and you CAN get it... but only at Japanese Costco stores.
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Do Obese Persons Lack The Guts To Lose Weight?
2011-10-26 10:00:00 Determination. Willpower. Courage. Overweight people need all of these characteristics. But what they may need most is guts. Their guts may not be communicating certain messages to their brains, like "We're full! Stop eating now! We can't hold any more! Now, studies conducted at the Imperial College London suggest that there may be a solution to this problem.
Polar Bear & Penguin Ice Cube Cups Raise Environmental Awareness While Cool
2011-10-26 06:01:00 Global warming poses grave consequences for polar bears and penguins. Raise awareness of their plight while you raise your glass... cleverly chilled with global warming warning ice cubes from cups conceived by Japan's Atsuhiro Hayashi.
China's Gift-Givers Prefer Prepaid Vouchers Over Gift Cards
2011-10-19 16:31:00 With gift cards coming under increased governmental scrutiny, prepaid gift vouchers have emerged as a favorite way to give gifts in China. They make perfect sense, too: why buy a heavy box of perishable mooncakes when you can give a gift voucher that's just as valuable?
Double-Edged Frozen Food Knife Cuts Cold Turkey and More
2011-10-15 06:01:00 The innovatively designed CHIC Frozen Food Knife from Japan makes short work of ice-cold meats, poultry, seafood, bread and more thanks to its wickedly sharp, double-sided molybdenum-steel blade.
American Farmers Eager to Fill China's Rice Bowls
2011-10-06 06:01:00 Rice rice baby! China could take a big bite out of the U.S. trade deficit if they open their markets to American rice exports. It's taken years of patient and persistent negotiating but rice farmers in the United States are so close to victory they can taste it.
Advertising's For The Dogs Says Beneful Dog Food
2011-10-04 10:00:00 What input does your dog have on your choice of dog food? Absolutely none, if you ask me. But Nestlé, maker of Beneful Dog Foods, has other ideas. Beneful ads are now being aimed directly at European canines. U.S. dogs are next, you wait....
CHIPOTLE GOES ASIAN
2011-10-03 20:03:00 Chipotle Mexican Grill has opened up a brand-new concept restaurant in Washington D.C. called the ShopHouse. The experimental eatery will offer an Asian-influenced twist to the classic Chipotle food model, giving patrons their choice of bowls or sandwiches which can then be accompanied by meats, tofu, rice, veggies, herbs, and curries. We can totally see this new piece of the franchise going places--our stomachs being one of them!
PALO MAMAJUANA TEA
2011-01-17 19:24:00 While popularized and recognized mostly as an indigenous Dominican rum, the history of Mamajuana is far from just that of a libation. Just ask the makers of Palo, a new vitality tea, and they'll tell you all about the 16+ herbs that brew into their non-alcoholic version of the medicinal tonic. Move over Snapple, hello Palo!
Cup Noodle Style Finnish Salmon Soup Warms Up A Japanese Winter
2011-01-17 07:02:00 Japan's popular Acecook brand introduces 'AIR ACE' Finnish Salmon Soup' to fight winter's chill. You'll Lapp it up!
MixerMate Gives Your Hand Mixer Tornado Power
2011-01-16 06:52:00 The funnel shape of the MixerMate is meant to speed mixing/whipping time with a ?tornado-like action?. The website says that mixing time can be reduced by up to 30 percent using this bowl. The bowl is made to be used with a hand mixer and will not only cut down mixing time, but will also reduce or prevent mess.
Chopstick Tree Art Sculpture Helps Make a Point
2011-01-15 23:03:00 In another effort to encourage people to use reusable chopsticks the China Environmental Protection Foundation has sculpted a chopstick tree and handed out reusable chopsticks.
Breville Milk Cafe Perfectly Froths Your Cappuccino
2011-01-15 07:57:00 If you are a coffee lover there is nothing quite like waking up with a hot cup of your favorite brew or kicking back with friends while enjoying a specialty java drink. The allure of coffee seems to be partly about the drink itself and partly about the experience. The Breville Milk Cafe reportedly heats and whips milk to just the right consistency for your beverage of choice.
Burger King Stuffs Its Steakhouse Burger
2011-01-15 02:00:00 January 17 is not just the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday this year, it is the day Burger King has chosen to introduce its Stuffed Steakhouse Burger. This alone is in poor taste.
Sex Hormone Links Coffee Drinking & Reduced Risk For Diabetes
2011-01-14 05:00:00 Coffee drinking has been shown to impact risk for type 2 diabetes inversely in several of the latest studies. Now, epidemiologists at UCLA have discovered how the two are connected? It's a sex hormone!
Pac-Man Pastry From Circle K Japan Celebrates 30 Years Of Video Gaming
2011-01-13 19:21:00 Hungry for some hot arcade game action? You're 30 years too late on the latter but Japan's Circle K Sunkus convenience stores have got a little something to satisfy the former.
Four Loko Booze Becomes Eco-Friendly Ethanol Fuel
2011-01-11 22:20:00 Discontinued and dangerous high-alcohol, high-caffeine beverages, like Four Loko, are being repurposed in an interesting way - ethanol fuel. It's estimated that four cases of 23.5-ounce cans can be used to make a little bit more than a gallon of ethanol fuel.
Placebo Chocolate Medication: Business Believes Chocolate Is The Solution T
2011-01-11 05:41:00 Placebos can be just about as effective as real medications, according to studies so there's one wise individual has now put together a unique product line based on this idea. It just happens to be made of an ingredient that's believed to save the world anyway.
REMAPPING THE WORLD
2011-01-10 17:57:00 American illustrators, Rick Meyerowitz (National Lampoon) and Maira Kalman (The New Yorker) are strong supporters of the idea that mapping the world around us is no longer a thing of bureaucracy or the elite. The two's Culinary Subway Map is a foodie's (or attention fiend's) reinterpretation of the New York City MTA Subway Map. It leads many of us to consider the range of possibilities concerning how we all psychologically "map" out our worlds. Happy mapping!
8 Philips Products Receive 2010 Industrial Design Awards
2010-10-28 06:00:00 This year, six of Philips' eight Good Industrial Designs just happen to make great holiday gifts, if they can be found for sale. Most of them are so new, that they haven't reached all of Philips many markets. But if you know an infant, a mother, an elderly person, someone who loves to cook, watch TV, or needs motivation to exercise, you'll find a new gift here.
I Can See Your Halo ? And It Looks Toasty
2010-10-26 00:00:00 From designers Burcu Bag, Amalia Monica & Vinay Raj Somashekar comes the Halo flexible toaster concept.
World's First Cheese Billboard
2010-10-24 23:19:00 A giant advertising billboard made from 110kg of cheese has been revealed in Covent Garden, London -- bizarrely to promote broadband internet services.The 5m x 4m cheese sculpture features an image of Speedy Gonzales the cartoon mouse (the only link to cheese we can think of) and the text "Super Speedy Broadband."Virgin Media say the billboard is made from 10 cheeses and took food artist,
By: Believe OR Not
Social Media Shopping Deals Space Goes Self-Serve With Groupon?
2010-10-24 16:07:00 On the heels of posting "Social Media Deals Space Goes Ape with JungleCents" and the already crowded space of online shopping deal sites, Groupon is said to be launching its latest feature called Groupon Stores - an option that will allow businesses to created Facebook-like self-serve pages where fans and friends can follow and access discounted deals from a specific brand.
"ToMA" VODKA
2010-10-22 17:24:00 New contender in the premium vodka category, ToMA, is a bottle to be reckoned with, literally. From its unique flat-side design, a functional homage to the sloped furniture of it's Dominican heritage, to its logo's phosphorescent "glow," the ToMA aesthetic demands attention, culture, and luxury. What else can we ask for in a vodka? We're sold!
Cake Face | Cake Decorating | Cake Designs
2010-10-19 21:07:00 Cake Face designers Created by artist Ashkan Honarvar, these ideas Reconstructed Cake Faces are both Awesome Birthday Or Wedding Cakes gruesome and delicious.The art pieces were inspired by the inevitable sufferings that come with violent wars. These faces represent the soldiers from the first world war, who suffered the horror of mutilations to their faces. Check out the featured gallery to see
By: Believe OR Not
World's Longest Enchilada
2010-10-19 11:55:00 World's longest enchilada measures in at 230ft They must have big appetites down Mexico way - the world record-loving nation has created a colossal enchilada. The good people of Iztapalapa cooked up a 230ft-long, almost one and a half-ton enchilada which is now an official Guinness record. The massive concoction was made of corn tortillas, white onions, green tomatoes, serrano chillis,
By: Believe OR Not
WINTER BOURBON
2010-10-12 19:03:00 Need to stay warm this coming winter? The spirits experts over at Knob Creek have a feeling that you might, and that's probably why they age their 9 year-old bourbon in charred American white oak barrels--the secret to a hickory, maple flavor, and packing a mean 100 proof punch! Looks like Santa's arriving early this year, and possibly staying later!
Largest Omelette | Omelette Recipe
2010-10-11 06:24:00 world's largest omelette : Turkish chefs set a new world record for the world?s largest omelette Recipes during World Egg Day events in capital of Ankara.How To Make Omelette was cooked in a giant fryer which is 10 metres in diameter. During the event, 65 cooks whisked 110,010 eggs to cook the omelette of 4,400 kg. It took 2.5 hours to cook it.Carim Valerio of the Guinness Book of Records
By: Believe OR Not
$12 for $25 Worth of Food and Drink at Wishbone
2010-10-07 17:12:00 Another great offer from Mamaloot today! $12 will get you $25 worth of Southern food and drink at Wishbone! This is a great offer for a great restaurant!Click here to check out today's Mamaloot. ...
Where Food and Drink Meet in Napa: The Culinary Institute of America at Gre
2010-07-30 03:06:00 Believe or not, there is more to do in Napa than taste wine. During our recent trip to Napa, we visited the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, a cooking school in St. Helena that has opened its doors to the public for a variety of culinary experiences.While we were there, we received a tour of the teaching kitchen, dined on their terrace with incredible views, and tasted super-premium olive oils at their flavor bar ($15 a person). If olive oil isn't your thing, there's a chocolate tasting and a session on how to taste like a chef (both $10 a person). The CIA at Greystone also offers evening wine classes, which run $25 a person. A trip to the...
O?Noir Toronto: Dine In The Dark In The New Year
2009-12-20 05:30:00 It's about time to start considering what your New Year's resolutions will be this time around, and instead of pledging to start going to the gym or eating better (which you'll do, until February arrives); vow instead to try new experiences. If you're in Toronto, here's one great new thing to check out, but make sure you go with an appetite!
Will Google Purchase Yelp To Create Its Own Foursquare?
2009-12-19 14:23:00 Rumors are running rampant that Google is closing in on a potential acquisition of Yelp. Why would the Search Engine Giant consider such a move? Might a small savvy start-up like Foursquare be in its cross-hairs?
10 Last Minute Gift Ideas Under & Way-Under $100
2009-12-18 22:29:00 If you're like most people, myself included, you are not ready for the holidays. You still don't know what you're cooking for Christmas, you have nothing to wear to your in-laws, you haven't put up your tree, and you're just revisiting the Christmas gift list you made in late October. As I was going through my own list just this morning, I thought I'd share some of the neat gift ideas I found for last minute shoppers. They're for infants to elders, combine style, utility, and fun... and they range in price from $7.99 to $69.95 and are in stock to ship for Christmas '09 as of this writing!
Philly Kitchen Share: Rent A Professional Kitchen For Holiday Cooking
2009-12-18 06:48:00 There are businesses renting just about everything these days, including workspaces like offices, product testing areas and more. Now, a new company is offering a different type of space for people to work in when they don't have their own, and it's something that could come in handy this holiday season.
Big Eaters Don't Just Get Fat; They May Get Alzheimer's Disease
2009-12-17 05:44:00 Can you polish off this hamburger? How about two of them? Better watch out. The hormone that controls your appetite, leptin, is critical - not only to your weight, your percentage of body fat, your risk of diabetes and heart attack... Now, it has been identified as a major factor in Alzheimer's disease. |
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