Over the holiday, I found some cool articles and items to share. The first is from bicycling magazine: Flight of the Pigeon. It’s a lengthy and informative read about the most popular/communistic bike in China.
A traditional Flying Pigeon weighs about 50 pounds, comes only in black, has one speed and is barely stoppable with its push-rod brake. Yet, if you’re like most cyclists in North America, as soon as you hear about the bike you mull over the idea of owning one to use as a townie, commuter or grocery runner.
For some reason, I could see Clear riding around on one of these. I wouldn’t mind one myself. Then, Business 2.0 had an article on the Chumby. This is a techy item but full on awesome.
Introducing the chumby, a compact device that can act like a clock radio, but is way more flexible and fun. It uses the wireless internet connection you already have to fetch cool stuff from the web: music, the latest news, box scores, animations, celebrity gossip…whatever you choose. And a chumby can exchange photos and messages with your friends. Since it’s always on, you’ll never miss anything.
Some of you might use personalized pages like Google’s. Well, imagine the personalized page in a small wireless device. This project was started by a group of hackers, so they encourage creativity and people to do new things with it. It’s not out yet. And, they’re probably working on a default setting or easy customization for consumers.
Business 2.0 also highlighted Enviga.
Enviga is a Nestea carbonated canned green-tea drink being jointly marketed by the Coca-Cola Company and Nestle Switzerland. According to Coca-Cola, Enviga burns 60 to 100 calories per three 12-oz.(330 ml) cans.
Carbonated Green Tea? Yeah, it sounds a little scary and I think it might be. They use Green Tea to promote the product as if it’s natural, but ya know it cant be. It’s suppose to burn more calories than what you take in by drinking it. I’ve heard that drinking ice water has the same effect, yet, I am still intrigued.
ceej said,
January 15, 2007 @ 6:58 pm
I’m not so sure about the Enviga. I’m thinking it’s just another drink to add to the multiple list of energy drinks currently on the market. Many existing energy drinks claim antioxidants and increased metabolism. This one I think is no different. Something I would think would be interesting is knowing what the placebo was in the study. They never said. Was it another energy drink, beer, milk, juice?
BTW Mers you are correct in ice waters effect for burning calories. Drinking ice water requires your body to warm it and thus burns calories.