Plumen Light Bulb

The textbook of iPads, DVF hospital gowns, getting lost on purpose and more in our look back at the week on the web

The Plumen Light Bulb (years in the making) has an impressive form challenging the unattractive energy saving light bulbs most of us have in our homes.

Uniqlo Lucky Counter

The textbook of iPads, DVF hospital gowns, getting lost on purpose and more in our look back at the week on the web

LSN Global points us to yet another clever internet campaign by Japanese retailer Uniqlo, which encourages Twitter users to tweet about Uniqlo items, lowering prices based on the number of tweets an item gets.

Fix The Pumps

Gig with Pavement, narcotic sodas, high wire bicycling and more in our weekly top links

Darcy O’Neil covers the history of cocktails, soda jerks and pop from the pre-Prohibition days when cocktails were laden-filled with narcotics ( such as morphine,opium, heroine, and other neurochemicals) to the modern drinking days of the present in his new book, Fix The Pumps. Interesting facts such as cocktails being morning drinks instead of evening drinks in pre-Prohibition days are just one of many fascinating …