Apparently Unilever is trying to invent ice cream that can be sold at room temperature then frozen at home. I personally think this is awesome. I’d happily store loads of tubs in the cupboard just in case.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/consumer_goods/article6807139.ece
Here’s an interesting story from the BBC. It’s pretty clear that the supermarkets reject fruit that doesn’t look good enough, but I suspect that this doesn’t have to do with the EU requirements. They want the best looking fruit so it sells better. So will these changes actually mean that funny shaped carrots end up [...]
When was the last time MTV Cribs went round a celeb’s house and they pointed out how few lights they had, and all the ways they saved energy? Probably, er, never. Usually it’s, ‘here are my 5 cars and my giant jacuzzi’. Which I guess, it what most people would like if they had a [...]
I wasn’t expecting Ecobuild to be quite so large. Ecobuild is a whole Earl’s Court-full exhibition devoted to green building. And a surprising amount of it was about windows.
I was hoping that I would be blown away by some new developments, but I can’t say I was. However, there was a lot of practical and [...]
Sometimes you find things where you least expect them. Take this forthcoming shop. You might expect the picture to come from the new Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush. Or maybe Bluewater? Well, it wasn’t either of those. I took this picture in a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I have to say that [...]
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