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• Brand Sanctuary™

  Posted on December 13th, 2011

  Written by sally

  Tags

  candy bar, co-branding, festive, holiday, iconic, mash up, paul frank

  Paul Frank & Nestle Crunch Get Cozy For Christmas

  

  The Holiday Season is a time for coming together.  Here’s two brands that are doing just that. “Nestle Crunch has partnered with fashion label Paul Frank on a limited-edition run of their 2.75 oz. chocolate bar. The official collaboration sees the traditional Nestle Crunch bar, a milk chocolate and airy crispies-concoction, decorated in a truly [...]

• Time Travel™

  Posted on September 29th, 2011

  Written by sally

  Tags

  convention, masters of the universe, power-con, shannon cottrell, she-ra, thundercats, thundercon

  The Power of Nostalgia

  

  Toys seem to feature heavily in the Time Travel™ wave. It’s not surprising really when you think about the nostalgia for childhood that they embody. And boy is nostalgia a strong feeling, with powerful connotations. I think Don Draper says it best in this clever mash up of him pitching Facebook’s new Timeline format! Watch [...]

• Pacifiers™

  Posted on December 29th, 2010

  Written by admin

  Tags

  blocker, browser, ex, filter, firefox, internet, Pacifiers™, Safety, sanity, web, well being, world filter

  A Comfortable Way To Disconnect

  

  Social networking can be so intertwining, especially when you fall in love. But what happens when you break up? That’s when all those connections can be so uncomfortable and messy—even torturous. There is a solution, and you’ll find it in the Pacifiers Wave. It’s called Ex-Blocker, and it promises to completely erase all of your web connections to your ex.

• Green Hot™

  Posted on December 8th, 2010

  Written by admin

  Tags

  amazon, amazon tote, cardboard, convenience, delivery, Green Hot™, reusable, Safety, seattle, tote, waste, well being

  Shopping & Shipping Green

  

  Amazon.com has always been a greener way to shop because your car stays in your garage the whole time. Now even the shipping is greener. Instead of all those boxes that pile up, Amazon has introduced the Amazon Tote to the Seattle area. Your order is delivered in a free re-useable tote.

• Time Travel™

  Posted on November 17th, 2010

  Written by admin

  Tags

  Belonging, google, google maps, historic, Historypin, photos, pictures, Safety, Time Travel™

  Snap Back

  

  Google Maps with Street View is an amazing advancement in technology that allows you to take a look at locations anywhere in the world. And if that wasn’t enough, now there’s a website called Historypin that mashes up those locations with old photographs taken at precisely the same spot back in time.

• Flexible Flux™

  Posted on October 13th, 2010

  Written by admin

  Tags

  alarm, banclock, bank, clock, design, Flexible Flux™, japan, money, Safety, saving money, wake up

  The Snooze Bank

  

  The snooze button qualifies as perhaps one of the original good news/bad news gadgets. The bad news is it’s time to get up. The good news is you get a few more minutes. Now in the Flexible Flux Wave, we have the Banclock pay-as-you-snooze device. To activate the snooze button, you have to drop in a coin.

• Brand Sanctuary™

  Posted on September 8th, 2010

  Written by admin

  Tags

  apple, Brand Sanctuary™, college, enrollment, freshmen, giveaway, ipads, macbook, pennsylvania, Safety, seton hill university, technology, Virtual Merge™

  Apple Gets Academic Approval

  

  Apple is breaking new ground every day as more people are seeing it as a brand they can trust to take them into the technological future armed and ready for anything. This fall at Seton Hill, incoming freshmen will be supplied with both an iPad and a 13″ MacBook laptop.

• Guarding™

  Posted on July 14th, 2010

  Written by admin

  Tags

  bad decisions, drunk, gaurding, mobile phones, Safety, self-destruct, sexting, technology, text messages, texts, tigertext, time delay

  Cover Your Texting Tracks

  

  If Tiger Woods had this app, he might not be in the trouble he’s in. It’s an app that sets a time limit for holding text messages and then wipes them clean from the original phone, the receiving phone, and the server.

• Pacifiers™

  Posted on June 30th, 2010

  Written by admin

  Tags

  blue lights, calm, color, crime, deter, japan, light, lighting, Pacifiers™, prevention, Safety, stations, suicide, therapy, tokyo, tracks, trains, well being

  Soothing the Suicidal

  

  What makes someone jump in front of a speeding train? Instead of trying to answer that complex question, one railway company has decided to take more preventive action against the dramatically rising risk both to people and property in Japan.

• Time Travel™

  Posted on June 23rd, 2010

  Written by admin

  Tags

  design, dr pepper, food, health, heritage, nostalgia, real sugar, Safety, soft drink, throwback, Time Travel™

  When Sugar Was Good

  

  The latest throwback soft drink, Dr Pepper made with REAL sugar, is a reminder of the power of the Time Travel Wave. It takes us back to a time when eating and drinking, and yes, even smoking, was just as unhealthy as it is now—we just didn’t know it.

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