The Bottom Line Book Club
There are a lot of coaches out there – business coaches, life coaches, social media coaches, coach coaches. But despite the numbers, it is surprisingly rare to find someone doing anything even a...
View ArticleNerd Merit Badges
Every niche, every interest group and every ‘tribe’ has its own in-jokes and humour. While ‘non-nerds’ might not get it right off, nerd merit badges are proving rather popular with the nerdier...
View ArticleRide Sharing Taxis in NYC
When I first moved back to my hometown the idea of black taxis running bus routes seemed a little odd. Local taxi drivers had purchased old black cabs and drove them from the city centre to various...
View ArticleMade in Ireland: BubbleBum Inflatable Car Booster Seat
BubbleBum, Derry UK regulations require children between 3 and 12 to use a booster seat when traveling by car. Unfortunately booster seats are cumbersome and uncomfortable plastic contraptions that...
View ArticleMade in Ireland: Sugru – Sticky Stuff for Hacking Things Better
Sugru, London OK, so Sugru is not strictly based in Ireland but the idea was dreamt up by an Irish student. Irish Product Design student Jane had an idea for a material that would help her “hack the...
View ArticleReadeo: Recreating Storytime
Storytime is one of those great shared experiences between a child and his parents or grandparents, that, in a perfect world, no child would go without. Unfortunately, this isn’t a perfect world and...
View ArticleMicro Gardens in Tin Cans
Micro Giardini are aluminum cans prepacked with seeds and ‘a growing compound’. Open them up, add water and a few weeks later you’ve got a miniature garden. The varieties on sale change throughout the...
View ArticleHU2: Vinyl Stickers as Quirky Domestic Art
Can stickers be art? Yes, stickers. The little pieces of paper or vinyl with sticky backs that you stick to things. Well HU2 seem to think so as they’ve created a series of vinyl wall stickers that...
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