The Vapur Anti-bottle($9) is a reusable BPA-free, foldable bottle that you can roll up when empty and stash back in your bag. There’s an integrated carabiner to help it hang around, you can freeze it full of water and it will even go into the dishwasher on the top shelf. It has a small label allowing the bottle to be personalized with the user’s name. Perfect for outdoor using. Priced at $8.95 each, or $29.95 for a four-pack.

"Unlike rigid water bottles, Vapur is completely collapsible. This means it goes more places and fits in tighter spaces than any other bottle. Whether you are hiking the trails, passing through airport security or visiting the museum with your family, Vapur makes water infinitely portable."

Website : http://vapur.us/products.php#

[likecool]

Kyobashi, Japan is home to 100% Chocolate Cafe, a cafe whose product focus is not on coffee beans or tea leaves, but the finest cocoa from around the world. 

They serve up 56 different flavors of chocolate from across the globe, from Madagascar to Mexico, Costa Rica to Cote D’Ivoire.  Their packaging is colorful, informative and simple– displaying a numeric value for each chocolate, the location of its birth and basic details about its flavor. 

Thanks to 100% Chocolate Cafe, Kyobashi is now very much on our list of locales to visit during our next trip to Japan.  We don’t expect to return without a serious case of chocolate withdrawal…

[thecoolist]

Put down that bow & arrow, Cupid, and pick up a slice of Domino Pizza Japan's "Happy Valentine Pizza"! The limited time, special edition pizza announced by the Japanese branch of America's huge pizza conglomerate is sure to be a hit with guys tired of the usual chocolate gifts foisted upon them every year by the opposite sex.

Heart-shaped pizzas aren't a new phenomenon - Papa Johns sold them (see ad below) around Valentine's Day of 2009 - but the concept should go over better in Japan where women traditionally are the gift-givers on Valentine's Day while men return the favor one month later on White Day.

The special Valentine's pizza features a heart-shaped regular crust topped with tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella cheese and pepperoni. No telling if it comes in a heart-shaped box, nor if it smells like teen spirit - sorry, couldn't resist.


Domino's Japan is offering this "pizza my heart" to customers who order from their website via the Internet or their cell phones only, and it will be available during the 5-day period from February 10th (Wednesday) through February 14th (Sunday) inclusive.

Customers in Japan will pay 1,300 yen (about $14.50) and the pizza comes only in Medium size. Hmm, what wine goes best with pizza? (via Enjoy Nikkansports)

[impactlab]

Everyone is talking about local food, farmers markets and like, cooking? Who has time for that? And really, is Michael Pollan serious with his Rule #2- "Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food." Why bother even having an MIT if you are going to think that way?

Make shows us how Marcelo Coelho and Amit Zoran of the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT propose a much greener, more efficient, waste-free process: Print out your dinner.