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Restaurant lets patrons make their own pancakes

When it comes to breakfast, consumers can already customize their own muesli and tea. For those in the mood for pancakes, however, there's now a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, that lets patrons create and cook their own pancakes, right...

Peer-to-peer platform for trading frequent flier miles

We've been writing about swapping marketplaces for several years already, with Uneven Feet—which facilitates the trading of single shoes—being the most recent example. Working on much the same idea—but this time for frequent flier points and miles—is the Global...

Enlisting the crowds to turn Times Square into Art Square

Demonstrating Broadway-sized ambition, a group of (mostly Dutch) bloggers and designers aims to turn New York's Times Square into a huge public art show. The goal of Times Square to Art Square / TS2AS is as straightforward as it...

$99 laptop aims to bridge the digital divide

The proverbial $100 laptop has been held up as an ideal for years, but until recently, no actual machine has come even close to that price. Now, however, there's the Cherrypal Africa, a 7-inch mini laptop that costs just...

Build your own bamboo bike in one weekend

Shoppers at Urban Outfitters can already design their own bikes in a rainbow of colours, but a new venture in Brooklyn takes that notion a step further. At Bamboo Bike Studio, customers actually build their own bamboo bicycles by...