Archive for November, 2008

Mike Chorazak’s kitchen is overflowing with candles, but not the rosy or cinnamon spice variety. His candles emit the smells of new car, pigskin and campfire — cool, manly aromas he packages under his own roof in Portland, Ore. “I wanted to take an established product and make it more fun,” Chorazak explains. “One morning I passed a home decorating store. It was just one of those perfect serendipitous moments and boom, an idea was born: Why don’t they make c…

Tucked inside the cab of a truck, windows closed, stereo blasting, Bluetooth plugged in one ear, keeping an eye on the traffic ahead, it’s a cozy little self-contained world. Too often blaring sirens fail to break through all of that. So some law enforcement, fire and emergency forces have added a new sensation to their “get out of the way” warnings.By adding a low frequency tone that matches the siren, a rumble is produced. Drivers who don’t hear the siren’s wail…

If only all cleaning were this fun. Artist Paul “Moose” Curtis has been making waves in his native U.K. for years by using water and cleaning solution to paint designs on dirty city surfaces. His “reverse graffiti” has attracted worldwide attention, and in April, he teamed up with Green Works, a line of environmentally friendly cleaning products, to do a large-scale art project in the U.S. Curtis settled on San Francisco’s Broadway tunnel, which 20,000 vehicles pa…