These are called bling band-aids. Wear them as jewelry. How to really turn your OUCH into BLING. Packaging : Three plasters in slide top tin. One with ice white rhinestones, one with rose and one with red rhinestones. sterile.

Recently Philips introduced the Daylight Concept Active Glass at their Simplicity event, here in New York. The unit transforms an entire wall into an interactive multi functional light screen. Although it will take at least 8 years before it hits the market it gives us a glimpse of what is coming. The interactive wall gives you total control on incoming light; for example, you can block out noise, change the lightning and even add foliage.

Kamal Mouzawak, young journalist from Beirut took the initiative to create the first famer’s market in Lebanon - the tradition of middle eastern souks didn’t survive the long war. Above that: he did it going organic. Three days a week people can shop for all sorts of fruit and vegetables grown in a sustainable way. It is also possible to find there juices, jams and bread. Souk El Tayeb also helps farmers with bureaucracy.

We’ve all heard of binging. Binge drinking. Binge eating. Binge shopping. The term is generally associated with overindulgence and has a negative connotation, but it isn’t always a bad thing. Introducing “binge chilling”: using one’s personal time in the most relaxed of manners desired, lazing about and re-enacting those post-exam college days by pretending all the stress is finally gone … until Monday, that is. We live in a technologically driven, always-on, always-connected society, and people who expend 110 percent during the week are finding new ways to decompress on the weekends. Today’s younger demographic in particular is inclined to relax by doing whatever they want for as long as they want, without guilt, whether it’s watching 24 back-to-back episodes of 24, playing virtual tennis on Nintendo’s Wii or updating profiles and catching up with friends on Facebook for hours on end.

Constrain city walks is a project/design/warning system led by Gordan Savicic.The corseted garment he created is equipped with servo motors and a WIFI-enabled Nintendo DS. If you put it on and go outside it measures the radiation around you. The higher the wireless signal strength of close encrypted networks becomes, the tighter the corset gets. Electromagnetic waves are controlling the chest strap, shaping their invisible architecture directly onto the body. Daily walks between home, work and leisure are recompiled into a “pain-map” which is fetched from GoogleMaps servers with automated scripts.

Dignity Toilet is a portable sanitation solution, ideal for refugee camps and developing countries. This product was designed by Canadian designer Mike Loveless and engineer Terence Woodside of Cooler Solutions Inc. and recently it was awarded by the Humanitarian International Design Organisation. For all the right reasons, this is uplifting human misery in a sustainable manner.

Solar Bottle is a low-cost container capable of disinfecting water for people consuming microbiologically contaminated raw water; based in the SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection) system. The PET container has a dual face: a transparent face for maximum UV-A rays collection and a alluminium face that absorbs the infrared sunrays augmenting the temperature and improving disinfection. The reduced thickness assists the transportation and the storage. The handle integrates the angular regulation needed to improve sun exposure depending in which latitude of the world the process is executed.
Solar Bottle was awarded with the First Prize of the INDEX Award 2007 in the Home category.Thanks to research by Design Labresearcher Giovanna Massoni.
What is then ‘design’? The image of the local people putting the bottles on the roof in order to get clear and drinkable water thanks to the solar warming up?
Or the creation of Alberto & Francisco needing western companies to buy into it and have their idea produced?
You can find much more examples of design and innovative cool technology in Jan’s magazine ‘Addict’. Also on www.addictlab.com

Although soul music icon Amy Winehouse chants no, no, no… recent fashion publications have been setting their shootings in rehab centers. Amy and her songs and her misbehaviour are big in Brazil, but people talked a lot about “Vogue” Italia showing the most important models of the now locked inside clinics, shaving their heads and looking for the horizon. “Harper’s Bazzar” did something similar with Chloe Sevigny, simulating paparazzi situations with the actress working up on her cleansing.