Posts Tagged ‘Trends In The US’

Chipotle Launches Mobile Ordering iPhone App

Earlier this week Chipotle, the burrito-centric Mexican(-inspired) grill, launched an iPhone application to order your meal from your phone and then pick it up once it’s prepared.  Users could find the nearest location, customize their order, pay fo…

NYC Resistor’s Tech Hacking Clubhouse

A recent article in the New York Times highlighted a really great organization called NYC Resisitor. It’s a group of tech hackers who have gotten together and created a workshop in downtown Brooklyn for all kinds of like-minded tinkerers to meet up,…

UPS Now Delivers by Bike

UPS has begun a pilot program to deliver packages by cargo bicycle instead of their classic boxy brown truck this holiday season. This experiment is currently being tested in Oregon, California and Washington as a cost cutting measure for the logistic…

The Rise of Scifi TV

What’s inspired the recent influx of fantasy-scifi TV programming? Here in the States, fantasy shows like Heroes, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, and True Blood claim a surprisingly large viewership, while creators continue churning out new pilots and se…

Casual Location-Based Dating via meetMoi

The online dating community has always been a vibrant patchwork of people seeking everything from a life partner down to a one night stand. Innovation in this market is often pursued by tough competition, but a new contender hopes to break away from …

Free (Fake) Copies of the New York Times

This morning, New Yorkers were gifted with free copies of the NY Times on the street – but they werent just any New York Times. They were copies from the future, dated July 4, 2009, and headlined with the long-awaited news: IRAQ WAR ENDS. The …

Wear Obama (or Marilyn or a clown) on Your Head

Walking down the street in Manhattans East Village last week, we did a double take when we saw a guy wearing a hoodie that had Barack Obamas face on it, so that it looked like his face was actually Baracks. Turns out that the hoodie is the cre…