Cool Hunting

All Day Buffet Feast Conference
Exploring the ever-increasing way creativity in business impacts the world in a positive way, the All Day Buffet Feast conference explores this cross-disciplinary concept by celebrating the people who do it. With philanthropic speakers like poker player Annie Duke, grammy-nominated musician Kenna and athletic entrepreneur Brian Bordainick, to name a few, the roster makes clear that any type of person can effect change in...

Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City
, Landscape ecologist Eric W. Sanderson's decade-long Mannahatta Project, an exhaustive study and recreation of the Manhattan ecosystem circa 1609 (the year of Henry Hudson's arrival in Mannahatta), finally culminated in a sumptuous book and equally stunning exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. A project in conjunction with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Pentagram's Abbott Miller designed both the book and exhibition,...

Le Whif Chocolate Inhaler
Finally, chocolate is no longer a guilty pleasure. Le Whif, which just launched yesterday, combines chocolate and aerosol science with their zero calorie chocolate inhaler. Beginning in the spring of 2008 as part of a culinary art experiment executed by Harvard professor David Edwards and his students, the innovative concept moves "eating habits to their logical conclusion." While we've yet to actually try the chocolate,...

Switchgrass-Derived Bioplastics
Environmental tech company Metabolix recently announced that they have discovered a way to derive large amounts of bioplastic (plastics made from renewable biomass resources) by growing it in switchgrass, a common prairie grass. Their efforts are part of an increasing movement to manufacture alternatives to petroleum-based plastics by making biodegradable plastics out of renewable resources. The company uses the plant to create its own...