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Branded Fruit – A service to get your brand printed on any FRUIT!

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The only limit to our creativity is our imagination. Branded Fruit is a true example of that.

Branded Fruit is a new kinda of creative service that offers to print logos, text, and graphics on fruits! Look at the featured image in which logos of brands like Twitter, Heroku, Mailchimp, SoundCloud and Stripe are printed on different fruits. Well, it’s an innovative & fun way for branding! Isn’t it?

Before Branded Fruit, who could have thought of printing on fruits? While the logos printed on fruits are not edible, these are designed by Branded Fruit in a way that doesn’t affect the taste and usability of the fruit either.

Currently, you can get your brand printed on a variety of fruits like bananas, mangoes, pineapples, persimmons, limes, beets, potatoes, eggplants, avocados (most popular for now!) and much more! Options are plenty great.

Big brands are using Branded Fruit service for promotional giveaways, events & providing healthy fruits to their stakeholders at the same time!

References: Branded Fruit, Image courtesy of Branded Fruit.

Palm – A Minimalist Phone of A Credit Card Size! But Why?

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Palm phone is a minimalist phone which is designed to be used as little as possible! In the tech world, where each mobile company is busy finding new ways to keep us hooked to our devices, Palm perhaps is the first phone which want us to cut our time on the phone.

Palm mobile, which is about the size of a credit card, claims to bring you out of your tech, back into your real life!

Palm works as a second phone, which syncs with your big smartphone. When you want to free yourself, you can just leave your big phone at home and go out with Palm!

Palm is water & dust resistant, has a 3.3″ HD display, 12MP rear & 8MP front camera, provides access to all play store & iTunes apps, has Face Recognition lock & has a ‘life mode‘ which eliminates all distractions.

Considering all the stuff that Palm offers, Palm appears to be just a smaller smartphone. Palm’s all smartphone features makes us wonder on how can it help in cutting our phone time and why anybody would like to have two phones. Do you have any idea? Do let us know via your comments.

References: Palm.

Why Boredom Is Necessary (Especially For Youngsters)?

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When our mind is free, we feel boredom. But in the world of technology, is there any time left when our mind is free & we feel boredom? We guess no! As soon as we’re free from work, we turn to our gadgets to play a game, scroll through our social media wall or just mindlessly surf the web! No free time, no boredom, just work & fun! This is the case especially of the young population who have not faced the pre-screen era & spent more than 2 hours a day on social media taking the facilities available today for granted. Well, boredom is not bad. It gives us time to have a look on the real world around us, have some meaningful thinking & have some peace for our mind. Being busy 24/7 is not healthy for our mind as well. Boredom is key to a creative mind. After all, our mind is most creative when we ‘Just Relax’, ‘Sit idle’ and ‘Do Nothing for a while’. So, if you want to maximize your creativity, learn to be bored! Boredom is one of the most important ingredient of being creative.

Source: The Guardian, Minute Crunch, Photo Thanks: PxHere.

Why People In Sweden Inserting Microchips In Their Body?

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Around 3500 Swedes have implanted microchips in their hands (somewhere between the thumb and the index finger). Want to know the reason? Well, that microchip can function as credit card, key card, ticket, wallet among other functions. Swedish train operator “SJ Railways” is the world’s first travel company to enable passengers to use microchip implants to validate their tickets. Each passengers membership number is stored in the chip & passengers are able to validate their tickets by simply holding out their hands for the conductor & get updates on their smartphone. Interestingly, since the chip is now integrated in the body itself, there is no need to worry about losing any card, wallet or tickets. No need for any cards, keys, papers! It’s all in your hands all the time! Isn’t it a smart move? Well, it is. It’s a part of Swedish belief that Swedes should try to improve & enhance biological bodies. And yes, they have done it!

Source: The Conversation.

Featured: Calm – Best App To Help You Meditate, Sleep & Relax

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Calm is the best meditation app which help you meditate, sleep and relax with its in-app meditation sessions available in the lengths of 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 & 25 minutes covering topics like anxiety, stress, focus, sleep et cetera. If you want to feel the calmness in your stressful life, Calm app can do the job for you. It also has dedicated sleep stories to help you fall into a deep & natural sleep. The app has many peaceful & soothing nature sounds, relaxing music featuring beautiful scenes of nature & breathing exercises to relax & calm your mind. A few tracks and short stories are free but premium version is required to fully unlock the Calm which is justified given the relief it offers!

Reference: Calm Website, Calm on Google Play, Calm on App Store.

How Swedish Spend Their Lunch Breaks Will Surprise You!

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In Sweden, people celebrate their lunch breaks partying! Yes. It’s true. That may be unusual for you but not for Swedish! After having lunch, Swedish hit the dance floor for a total of 60 minutes! The idea behind this unusual culture is scientific & makes perfect sense. Dancing exercise & distraction make people more enthusiastic & help them keep awake & energetic during post lunch working hours. So, if a coffee can’t do the job for you, adopt the new culture of “Lunch Disco” & feel a whole new energy when you return to your desk! One more thing… make sure that you do it Sweden way where drugs and alcohol are strictly forbidden! Simple water, sandwiches & fruits are good options!

Source: Slate, DW, Photo Thanks: Pixabay.