This dominancy detector table is a well designed, sound-sensitive tool which can be implemented into businesses, organizations, sales departments and work environments that require strong communication skills and interactions. The tool, called the 'Reflect Table', is used to detect which employee talks the most and dominates company meetings by monitoring the conversation and visually displaying the input on the table's color LEDs. The microphones in the table 'listen' to the conversation, display which member is currently speaking and of course, which member speaks the most. A smart way to cultivate business meetings and companies-making them more efficient and helping employers look out for the chatterboxes in their midst. Not to mention bringing awareness to blabbing employees that say a lot without making any point. Makes you wonder-Do actions really speak louder than words?

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Inhabitat: The Ecoist MTA clutch is a colorful and cute way to navigate city streets in sleek sustainable style. Made from 100% repurposed NYC subway maps, this wristlet clutch is perfect for urban jaunts and lightweight toting. A trash-to-treasure accessory such as this is not only an eco-friendly way to repurpose materials, but also serves as a streamline, incognito way to stash personal belongings!

Strong, sturdy, and water resistant – clutch accessories never functioned so practically while looking so chic. Crafted out of hand-folded, recycled NYC subway maps that are coated with cellophane, this zip-close and self-lined bag is perfect for a cell phone, keys, glasses, and an eco-lip balm.

SUSTAINABLE STYLE: Ecoist recycled MTA map clutch [Inhabitat]

Last year GOOGLE announced that it would be offering some exuberant amounts of money for the Lunar X Prize. There are several $5 million dollar prizes as well as the grand prize of $20 million, which ARCA is aiming for. In order to win the $20 million grand prize the ELL has to land, travel 500 feet on the surface of the moon, and send video, images, and data back to Earth.

Christopher Aceto currently heads Thottfield Inc., a small multimedia and communications consultancy based in Toronto, Canada. Always on the hunt for innovative and exciting ideas, his passion for the creation and production of ground-breaking technologies and services has granted him the opportunity to act as a creative consultant for various companies and industries throughout the world.

Nuebbo is a new digital and virtual business card holder for the Internet. The free service provides you with all of the benefits for which business cards were designed: Maintaining the creative investment in business cards, preserving the visual nature in our memory, with all of the advantages of being a 100% web application. With Nuebbo, you can access all of your contacts including updated details from any device with an Internet connection. Nuebbo card holder makes it easy for you to manage and locate your contacts.

Nuebbo

Ikea have done an amazing job of creating a brand that everybody considers when needing good quality cheap and cheerful furniture. We don't even have Ikea in South Africa, but we're still well aware of the brand even without mainstream advertising.

This guerrilla stunt using balconies in Frankfurt, which were made to look like storage boxes, is a cracker. In Europe, where space is at a premium - your balcony really does turn into valuable storage space. In South Africa it's often regarded as a convenient location for laundry

Ikea thinks 'out of the box' [CherryFlava]

The small firm offered large companies a solution to their problem -- how to dispose of wrappings that are tricky and costly to break down and recycle.

TerraCycle's products are starting to appear in large retail stores. And the firm expects their sales to help boost revenue.

TerraCycle Fashions a New Life For Old Wrappers [The Wall Street Journal]

Travel Channel GO isn't your ordinary mobile local search service - the Travel Channel Team likes to refer to it as your very own 'personal radar'. Not only does Travel Channel GO give you access to over 10 million local points of interest available right at your fingertips when you need to find something - but it also keeps searching for you as your travel from place to place. Just tell us about your favorite things and we'll let you know when they're nearby. For example, if you love sushi, Travel Channel GO will always let you know about the closest sushi restaurants no matter where you are in the United States, that's a critical piece of information (to locate any place, not just sushi restaurants) whenever you are in a new place!

Travel Channel GO

Elmidae is an eco-minded woman-owned clothing company that makes a line of women’s clothing using largely sustainable and organic fabrics, as well as hand printed textiles using strictly non-toxic water based inks. Every stitch on every garment is lovingly produced in the United States by woman-owned factories at honest wages. Celebrating the artistry and intellect of garment making, Elmidae offers a line that is a true departure from mass-produced clothing.

Elmidae
Profile on IdeaBlob.com

Elmidae is a finalist for June at the Ideablob.com competition where entrepreneurs and small business owners can share and grow their business ideas – and have a chance to win $10,000 towards fulfilling them. CoolBusinessIdeas.com will be highlighting some of the winning ideas weekly.

Carrie Bicycle Basket [TrendCentral]

Axitron is preparing to release it’s Axitron ModBook, a revolutionary slate-style tablet Mac that enables users to draw and write directly on the screen. Until now, with the exception of using a Wacom Tablet, Apple has not introduced a tablet style notebook for their OS X platform.

The Axiotron Modbook boasts a 2.1GHz+ of processing speed, 1GB+ of memory, and the full-range of Apple MacBook connectivity via Ethernet, USB, FireWire®, Bluetooth and AirPort® while running the OS X v10.5 Leopard platform. The tablet is also equipped with a built-in iSight camera, optical drive and internal GPS.

Axiotron’s innovative design and manufacturing process integrates an Apple® MacBook® computer, state-of-the-art Wacom® pen-enabled digitizer technology and Axiotron’s own proprietary hardware and software components into a complete tablet solution, the Axiotron Modbook.

Christopher Aceto currently heads Thottfield Inc., a small multimedia and communications consultancy based in Toronto, Canada. Always on the hunt for innovative and exciting ideas, his passion for the creation and production of ground-breaking technologies and services has granted him the opportunity to act as a creative consultant for various companies and industries throughout the world.

Pulchra is the first beauty contest devoted exclusively to objects. The contest is open to everyone, free of charge, and the winner will receive a prize of 10,000 Euros. The Pulchra catwalk is a parade of one hundred objects that are part of our everyday life and history. Of these one hundred objects, Pulchra will invite participants to vote for the ten most beautiful items to be sent into the future as messengers of the culture of our time.

The public can vote from January 30th 2008 through December 31st 2008. At the closing of the voting, the hundred objects chosen for the contest will be ranked on a scale of one to one hundred, according to the number of votes received by each of the items. The top ten items on these rankings will be the winners of the contest. The winner of the voting competition will be the person whose votes matched most closely the rankings of the most-voted-for objects.

http://www.pulchra.org

Now Get Married in Space [NewLaunches.com]

TrendBlog: Nike has launched a large-scale pan-European mobile marketing campaign in which it unveils a customization service called Nike PhotoID, which invites Nike fans to submit their randomly cellphone-taken pictures with brilliant colors to the company. The service will then analyze and withdraw from the pictures two dominant colors, make customized sneaker designs and send pictures of the designs back to the photographers, who can choose either to keep them as wall paper or order the personalized shoes.

Nike PhotoID [TrendBlog]

Popgadget: This portable photo printer looks like a Sanrio lunch bucket for kids, which is perfect actually, as it gives off the impression of something light and easy to carry (which it is). The compact Canon SELPHY CP770 photo printer is one of the newer additions to Canon's SELPHY line of compact photo printers, and seems made for that person who is just so impatient to print photos that he/she must print while the party is still going on.

The actual printer is the top part of the bucket; the basket space is used to store your paper and other supplies. Comes with an A/C cable, but with an optional Canon battery pack, you can take this anywhere. When you're ready to print, you can either insert your camera's memory card into one of the slots on the printer, or print wirelessly from your Bluetooth-enabled camera phone. Maximum paper size is 4x8. Big buttons, large display for previewing your photos (2.5" TFT display), and automatic red-eye correction make this very user-friendly, even for grandma.

Print photos during your picnic with Canon SELPHY CP770 printer [Popgadget]

Banging away on a musical table might just be the way to enhance your social life. The Rumba Series created by 'Musical Furnishings' allows you to design your own drum table with "interchangeable and rearrangeable percussion inserts" so that you can have a musical bash with a bunch of people sitting around a table.

Musical Furnishings is definitely on to something-perhaps an innovative type of group therapy or simply a spicy new way to connect with your family and friends. A refreshing alternative to petty chatter and small-talk, it can also help you develop some rythm skills. Which is why I can clearly see drum-table jam sessions becoming the next social trend. Bye Bye Scrabble?

Video link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3wA_nLJD-UE

TrendsSpotting.com is a trends agency focused on developing exciting tools for Trend Spotting. We follow current trends and are constantly looking for new ones. We specialize in trends research and the social media. Dr. Taly Weiss, TrendsSpotting CEO, is a Social Psychologist, with extensive experience in branding strategy and marketing research. Feel free to explore our trend spotting tools on www.trendoScope.com.