…Interest in the idea has been percolating. Links to his Web site, stencil1.com, began popping up on Internet sites last month after a write-up appeared on a blog, coolhunting.com/coolhunting. As a result, Mr. Roth has had customers from as far away as Kentucky, Florida, California and England, all of them now possessing the means to replicate a Williamsburg street corner in their kitchen… by Jake …
We don't usually think about cartoons having guts, but Michael Paulus does. Skeletal Systems is a series exploring the supposed structure of 25 different cartoon characters. The surface of the character is rendered on a hinged translucent panel that overlays a drawing of the skeleton. A genius idea beautifully executed.
…In late September, just after McQuade received an early sample of the Voltaic Backpack, he asked a friend, Graham Hill—who runs a "green design" weblog called Treehugger—if he'd mention the product. Start up the swarm! Within a few hours of Voltaic's hitting Treehugger, the popular CoolHunting blog mentioned McQuade's product, which got it seen by Joel Johnson, editor of Engadget competitor Gizmodo. Each step up …
