Walking through a local Foot Locker makes us wonder: how do some of these shoe designs ever make it past the design stage? Are there people that actually demand these designs? Take a look through Bleacher Reports 50 ugliest basketball shoe designs and it’s easy to see that sometimes bad decisions make its way into […]

Monthly subscription packages were a big hit in 2012, it seems like a new one was popping up each week. Some of our favorites from the past year were Quarterly Co., Samplrs and Birchbox. The principle is quite simple, they scour for the best products, you sign up and every month a new package of […]

We have a special place for startups and ideas that give a piece of their revenue to bettering the world. Entrepreneurs that think of creative ways to pursue their passions while helping solve global issues should be applauded and we want to applaud the founders of HeadCase Sound. With the drive to bettering the world […]

The latest from Chrome Experiments that is worth sharing made us wonder: will there ever be a way to successfully collaborate on music with instruments on a professional level? Jam with Chrome takes a stab at it with a fun, intuitive and easy to use interface, but is hardly the best platform for the Rolling […]

This clever calculator app solves math problems with numbers and words. For example if you entered “20% off $50k” Soulver will give you the answer “40,000.” Using words with numbers lets you give context to your calculations, mimicking how we think about math in the real world without overwhelming us with spreadsheet programs and calculators. […]

Like many of us the creators of the newly launched Wanderous iPhone App realized that there are many marvelous un-explored places just blocks from where we live. We can spend years living in the same place, continuing in our same routines, but somehow be complete oblivious to the amazing things around us. That same problem […]

Artery lets you sell anything you can put into your Dropbox. The simple to use and setup e-commerce site automatically creates previews of the images, audio and video you want to sell and buyers pay with their credit cards. They charge 10%, plus 2.9% + 30¢ of each sale for card processing and you keep […]

If you’ve been screaming at the theatres this Halloween, creepily enjoying Paranormal Activity 4 or went to watch Hotel Transylvania with your little one’s you probably shared your thoughts, likes, and dislikes on Twitter or Facebook. But did your friends seem to care? Maybe you’ll need to find some new cinema loving friends or do […]

It’s astonishing how much of our everyday uses are highly dependent on cheap oil. The food systems in our culture are without exception, and evolved over the last 30 years that is also centralized and fragile. More so then ever we face obstacles and challenges never seen before and will only be more overwhelming in […]

CacheTown is a mobile app that takes the world around you and turns it into an augmented reality video game – with plenty of opportunities for promotions and advertisements for brands. “Our mobile application is bringing marketers’ promotions to life on mobile devices while driving highly-targeted local traffic to specific locations using its technology,” says […]