Would you wash your neighbours’ dirty underwear? Collaborative consumption has kickstarted numerous new businesses, but among the most intriguing is a project from two designers who applied the sharing concept to doing laundry, and won a Core 77 Student Award for Consumer Product. Hello by Fagor is a concept project, which combines two products: a… Read more
‘Today Airbnb introduced “Verified Identification,” a tool designed to ensure that a user’s online identity matches his or her offline identity. In an age of clinically insane YouTube commenters and fake Twitter handles and privacy snafus, when anonymity on the web is commonplace, it’s a tough nut to crack. But Airbnb believes it will help… Read more
Today in San Francisco, Airbnb announced the launch of Airbnb Neighborhoods. The new product allows users to find the experiences they want based on their interests and the particular parts of a city that that they want to stay in. Today, it’s coming online with more than 300 neighborhoods in seven cities. According to co-founder… Read more