BambooInvoice enables anyone to:

• Add/edit/delete clients & related contacts,
• Create invoices for clients, send them via e-mail, generate PDFs or print them, and
• Define the payments made to the system to follow them

Also, a reports feature displays a financial snapshot of the given period.

Features

• You are in control. BambooInvoice sits on your server. Its your data. You never need to trust your invoicing data to anyone else, and you can get it out of the system easily.
• BambooInvoice is easy to use, and easy on the eyes.
• BambooInvoice is actively used and developed.
• BambooInvoice is built atop modern coding standards. Its a XHTML-strict, WAI conforming, CSS using treat!
• BambooInvoice is internationalized. Currently it is available in English, French, German, Dutch, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Swedish, Italian, and Estonian with new languages being added all the time.
• Built on the excellent CodeIgniter project.
• BambooInvoice is released under the GPL.
• You’ll be the coolest kid on your block if you use BambooInvoice

Requirements

BambooInvoice is built using PHP 5 and needs a database (MySQL and MySQLi 4.1+ are known to work, and drivers are included for MSSQL, Postgre, OCI8, SQLite, and ODBC). In order to generate PDFs, you’ll need the DOM extension enabled.

Check out the website here!

A pocket-sized laser device that emits a full-size functional QWERTY keyboard – that will work on any flat surface. That’s really cool and fascinating! This cool stuff is created by i.Tech, there are both wireless and cable version available.

Below information comes from i.Tech website:

Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard (BTVKB) is the world’s first wireless Virtual Keyboard that lifts wireless mobile communications to a new height. Not much bigger than a match box, this astonishing device projects an infrared image of a full-sized keyboard onto any flat surface. Users can then type on projected keys as if typing on conventional keyboards. It can be linked to mobile phones, laptops or PDAs via Bluetooth, giving users all the benfits of a keyboard without the bother of having to haul one around.

Key Features:

• Full size wire-free QWERTY keyboard projection at the touch of a button
• Pocket-sized for convenience
• Adjustable sensitivity to suit your typing style
• Adjustable keyboard sound
• Conserve battery life with adjustable settings
• Works with compatible Bluetooth devices (Check Compatibility List)

Specifications:

• Bluetooth specification v1.1 class 2
• Supports Bluetooth HID and SPP profiles
• Detection rate of up to 400 characters per minute
• Battery capacity: up to 120 minutes continuous typing
• Dimensions: 90 x 34 x 24mm

There was no lack of technological innovation represented among the 1100-plus Design Lions entries this year, but in awarding the Grand Prix to Nike’s “Paper Battlefield,” the 2009 jury saluted a platform that dates back to the tenth century — the silk screen.

Created out of McCann Worldgroup Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, Paper Battlefield is a series of posters created by and featuring the teenage stars of the Nike Basketball League. The posters were designed to capture the energy of basketball competition as well as promote the games. Photos of the top ten league players in action formed the templates for the posters. The players themselves were then invited to a studio to create custom poster designs — silk screening the images on top of one another in various combinations. As the case study video and the judges noted, “the posters became the battlefield.”

The design jury, lead by Sylvia Vitale Rotta of Team Creatif in France, cited the campaign for its simplicity, its culture-spanning communication power and for embodying the marketer’s brand values. Jurors also lauded the effort for pushing the idea of what a poster can be. “It was a new way of approaching poster design,” said Jennifer Morla of Morla Design in San Francisco. “It was socially distributed design process,” said juror Marc Shillum of R/GA. “It allowed the players to experiment and to have a battle as they would on the court.”

The design jury was reasonably generous, awarding a total of 22 Gold, 23 Silver and 37 Bronze Lions. Among the four U.S. Gold winners: the Nokia Vine brand identity/mobile application from R/GA, Fallon’s social media aggregator, Skimmer, a Buick style guide from Leo Burnett Chicago and Sapient’s interactive touchscreen vending machines for Coke. The U.S. won 11 Lions in all.

Gold Lions also went to BMW’s Kinetic Sculpture from Art+Com Berlin, which has scooped up a host of prizes this year including a Black Pencil at D&AD. Germany won 12 Lions in total, making it the most awarded country in design. The Zimbabwean’s Trillion Dollar Campaign effort, which won the Outdoor Grand Prix, was also awarded a Gold Design Lion.

The design winners list is notable for the number of ad agencies credited versus design companies per se, and many of the winning entries do tend, as they did last year, to originate more in the advertising than the design space.

Vitale Rotta said the overall calibre of entries was high in this the second year that Cannes has recognized design as a category (and entries in the design category were actually up this year, in contrast to awards entries in general which have dipped with the economy).

There were three other entries in contention for the Grand Prix said Vitale Rotta, though a cagey jury wouldn’t reveal their identities. In selecting Paper Battlefield, the design jury seemed to echo other Cannes juries’ predilection for simplicity over technical virtuosity or category-busting innovation. “We liked that it was actually kind of low tech,” said one of the design jurors. “It was just full of life and joy and energy. If we could have taken one thing home with us, that would have been it.”

source from: http://creativity-online.com/?action=news:article&newsId=137550

The 500 color pencils are remake. Older versions were sold in 1992 all over the world. Then they were sold out.

Each color have its own name and story behind. If you order this product, you’ll get 25 color pencils each month. After 20 months, you will get all of them. And the price is ￥1,800 per month.

Check the beautiful color here: http://www.felissimo.info/contents/colors/zukan/index.html

Manish Arora is the latest Swatch spot, directed by Transistor Studios.
http://transistorstudios.com/index.php?deep=IDproject117

Challenge:
Design a business card for an environmental consultant.

Solution:
Business cards are usually made of paper. But using paper, even recycled is not good for the environment. To avoid this issue, the solution was to not print any card at all, but to create a rubber stamp and then “recycle” anything that is at hand (carton paper, cigarette packs, napkins and other wastes) into business cards.

Results:
The new “business card” communicates clearly what this professional offers” clever new ways of recycling, saving money and protecting the environment. More than a card it’s a piece of communication.

Agency: Fischer Portugal, Lisbon
Creative Director: Diogo Mello
Art Director: Marco Martins
Copywriter: Rafael Pitanguy

There are 4 different sprayfaces, and each mode has a K name, they are:

‧ KOVERAGE (green) – for a traditional, everyday shower with maximum water coverage that is perfect for the morning shower routine
‧ KOTTON (yellow) – streams a layer of dense, soft, enveloping downpour of relaxation that caresses your skin
‧ KOMOTION (pink) – a drenching spray that delivers an exhilarating, circular pattern to refresh the senses after a tightly-wound day
‧ KURRENT (blue) - provides a focused and invigorating massage spray to target tired or aching muscles

Flipside sells US$107 currently.

Real product image:

Philips is creating some pretty creative and cinematic mini-movies to promote their various products. Watch an online mini-movie which promotes “the real cinema experience at home with state of the art picture and sound quality in all Philips TV ranges”.

Watch the mini-movie here:
http://www.cinema.philips.com/

More pics come here… click below…

Well……these two aren’t solar light, they are rechargeable table lights/lanterns.