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NewsJuiceTank Combines iPhone Cover and Charger
Eliminate the inconvenience of a dead phone with JuiceTank, an iPhone cover and charger in one.
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NewsWallit App Allows Tagging Sans Spray Paint
Leave your virtual mark on a physical place with Wallit, an augmented reality app.
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NewsThe Scrubba Cleans Your Laundry in a Pinch
The Scrubba Wash Bag is designed for the traveller who wants to stay clean while packing light.
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NewsPhysicist Uses Lasers to Create Rain
Using his new environmentally-conscious technique, Jérôme Kasparian creates rain.
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NewsArtist Creates Large-Scale Sand Art
California artist Andreas Amador covers his local beaches in beautifully organic sand carvings.
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NewsThe Creators Project Blends Art and Tech in San Francisco
The Creators Project provides techie-minded artists with the means and exposure to commune and create.
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NewsThe Eight Best Glamping Experiences Near Auckland
Sometimes you just need a hot bath beneath a star-drenched sky.
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NewsFive of the World’s Weirdest Hotels
These hotels will ensure that the destination will be just as exciting as the journey on your next holiday.
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NewsThe Seven Best TED Talks So Far This Year
With a new TED Talk posted every weekday, there is certainly no shortage of brilliance shared on the TED site.
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NewsMan Flies Using Custom-Built Wings
Jarno Smeets achieves his life-long dream of flying by creating a bird-like contraption.
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NewsFacebook App Helps Set You Up With a Roommate
Avoid an awkward, or downright hellish, living situation by finding your roomie on Facebook.
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NewsGypsy Wagons Offer a Bohemian Home Design
Get away from it all with a romantic and whimsical home-on-wheels.
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NewsInstagram to Unveil Hipstamatic Partnership Today
Two iPhone photo apps are set to announce their photo-sharing partnership.
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RestaurantOdette's Eatery
Shed 5, City Works Depot, 90 Wellesley Street
Between the lively chat, the excellent dishes and plotting how to run away with all the tableware, we had a wonderful time.
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BarEverybody’s
7 Fort Lane, Auckland
This pun will write itself. Everybody's has something for everybody. But mostly, it's got a jaw-dropping array of modern European fusion and cocktails made to measure.
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CafeThe Botanist
90 Wellesley Street, Auckland
City Works Depot's cafe/bar/plant nursery fusion cafe.
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RestaurantBurger Burger
136-138 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby
It seems the world of the burger has seen the line between professional eatery and burger takeaway joint become blurred.
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RestaurantHallertau
1171 Coatesville Riverhead Highway, Riverhead
A country restaurant in the best sense of the word.
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RestaurantMexico Ponsonby
164 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby
If you put ‘Mexico’ into Google maps you might be told that you’re approximately 11,000km away. The great news is Google maps are wrong.
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RestaurantMasu
90 Federal Street, Auckland
Contemporary Japanese restaurant Masu proves a culinary force to be reckoned with.
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NewsNYC Phone Booths Incorporate Libraries
John Locke repurposes Manhattan phone booths into mini-libraries for the benefit of passersby.
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NewsSpotify Music-Streaming Service to Arrive in Australia
Tap into a huge music library, containing millions of tracks, and share them easily with Spotify.
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NewsBuilding Design Created with Post-it Notes
Yo Shimada and students construct a massive building-like design made entirely out of neon Post-it Notes.
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NewsGo Glamping in a FieldCandy Tent
These tents feature a wide range of designs, each with its own personality.
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NewsNokia Seeks Patent for Phone Feedback Tattoo
Nokia may soon introduce tattoos with magnetic ink to alert the user to incoming phone messages.
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NewsJung Von Matt’s Minimalist Lego Cartoon Characters
Some of the world's most iconic cartoon characters receive a wonderful makeunder in Lego form.
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NewsTiniest House in the World to be Auctioned on eBay
Jay Shafer's Tumbleweed XS House, now available through online auction, squeezes full domestic functionality into an incredible 6 square metres.
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NewsIKEA Launches Fully Furnished Prefab Homes
IKEA and Ideabox, a U.S. architectural firm, have teamed up to create a line of fully furnished, prefabricated houses.
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NewsIconic Brand Logos Reworked by Hipsters
Ever wondered what the world would look like if it was run by hipsters?
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NewsHomeless People Used as WiFi Hotspots at SXSW
BHH Labs introduces Homeless Hotspots, a controversial homeless employment initiative, at Austin's SXSW Festival.
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NewsTheatres To Usher In Live Tweeting
The last bastion of the phone-free two hours, the theatre, might be about to crumble.
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NewsPee-Powered Restaurant Pops Up in Melbourne
Joost Bakker introduces Greenhouse, his 100% recyclable restaurant to Melbourne's Food and Wine Festival.
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NewsVivid Ideas 2012 Program Announced
Vivid Ideas is the creative part of the extravaganza that is Vivid Sydney, and this year it's bigger than ever before.
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NewsAn American City Hoping to Change its Fortunes with a Font
In an effort to create a new visual brand for Chattanooga, Tennessee, the city considers adopting a custom typeface font for city media and signage.
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NewsRobots Provide Sweet Rewards for Social Media Popularity
When you receive a mention or a retweet, Olly and Molly will release a treat or a scent, respectively.
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NewsUnfold Your Own Personal Island
A folding, portable recreational island, designed by Henry Ward, is being brought to life by British naval architects.
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NewsGreenbutts Filters Turn Cigarette Butts into Flowers
A 100% natural alternative to traditional, chemical-laden cigarettes.
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NewsSaught Jewellery Supports Sustainability in Post-Conflict Countries
From the remnants of war, Saught helps people in war-torn countries design and create wearable art.
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NewsDress Up your Laptop and iPad in Vintage Clothing
Computerwear allows gadget lovers to protect their laptop and iPad with repurposed vintage clothing.
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NewsMakoto Tojiki Brings the Intangible World of Holograms into Reality
Utilising thousands of LED lights and optical fibres, the Japanese artist creates futuristic celestial-like sculptures.
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NewsThe World’s 11 Most Colourful Cities
Many charming little towns throughout the world have put this idea into practice, painting their buildings in bold and bright colours.
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NewsVictoria Park Market’s New Platinum Sports Co.
After 22 years in their old Victoria Park Market premises, the much larger new space is situated inside the market in the original 100-plus year-old Destructor building.
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NewsA Bookmark Which Follows Your Reading
For the inner bookworm in all of us, French designer and inventor Oscar Lhermitte has come up with a way to make torn, dog-eared pages a thing of the past.
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NewsNew York’s Iconic Water Tanks To Become Public Art
The Water Tank Project aims to raise awareness about water sustainability in a whimsical urban makeover.
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NewsThe Sydney Opera House Now Comes In Lego Form
As part of their Architecture Series, Lego has released a model of the Sydney Opera House for you to build yourself.
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NewsMercedes-Benz to Integrate Apple’s Siri Technology in Vehicles
Mercedes-Benz drivers will soon be able to send text messages, listen to music, change radio channels and update their status on social networks.
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NewsNew Volvo Designed With Exterior Airbags For Pedestrians
In what they claim to be a world first, Swedish automobile company, Volvo, has created an external airbag on the front of the car to protect pedestrians if there were to be a collision.
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NewsMatch The Perfect Alcoholic Beverage To Your Music
Drinkify makes sure you'll never drink alone again.
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NewsDesigner spotlight // Sheryl May
For three months twice a year, kiwi designer Sheryl May lives in the pandemonium of fashion Mecca, London where she contracts herself out to a variety of internationally recognised labels, including the very prestigious, Burberry Prorsum.
