35 posts tagged “destination nation”
Philips is currently patenting a device that uses light to send hair follicles to sleep, making skin smooth for weeks at a time, without shaving or waxing. Researchers at Philips’ Lab in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, have found that short, weak pulses of near infrared light causes follicles to change from their natural growing state to a dormant state, known as the "telogen phase".
The Philips device uses light from a halogen lamp. Pulses lasting 15 milliseconds each are filtered so that only 600-950 nanometre wavelengths reach the follicles below. Moving the device slowly over the skin spreads about 15 joules of light energy onto each square centimetre.
A sensor can also be used to automatically adjust treatment intensity to suit different skin and hair types. Three treatment sessions, over the course of two weeks, reduces hair growth by 90%, Philips claims.
If your willing to actually give up your current provider for Cinular, try Celltradeusa.com or CellSwapper.com, services that help you transfer your contract responsibility to someone else and effectively walk away without paying a hefty penalty.
All you do is set up a profile listing details about your provider, contract, phone, accessories and any incentives you care to add. Then you wait to be contacted by a Celltrade user who wants to take over your contract.
In other words, it's a matchmaking service. The actual transfer of contract responsibility, with all its required credit approvals and completion of forms, is handled by you and the other party. There is a nominal fee of $15-20 to actually connect you with interested parties (though you can gauge interest in your plan before paying anything).
Two short weeks after I got my new computer last year, I was in L.A. traveling on business. After a long day of work, I went back to my room at The Standard Hotel, grabbed a overpriced, three dollar bottle of Orange Crush out of the mini bar and sat down near the desk to do some work. Sitting about 2-3 feet away from my new computer, I open the soda and it makes a bee line out of the bottle for the keyboard of my laptop. A mad dash for a towel ensued and in the end, I was without a working mousepad. The day it happened it was much more dramatic… my new computer, it was too late to go out and buy a mouse, I had a bunch of work I needed to get done…. All the usual suspects.
Since that night, my laptop has obviously never been the same. Something is lost when you have to unwind a mouse cord and plug it in every time you want to use the computer. In my L.A. desperation, I bought the first mouse I could find but recently I have been looking for something more portable.
I came across the MoGo Mouse X54 which is a business-card sized, 3-button Bluetooth-enabled mouse that stores and recharges neatly inside your laptop computer's ExpressCard/54 Card slot. MoGo Mouse X54 features a patent-pending, sleek design, and the benefit of state-of-the-art ExpressCard technology. The handy center scroll pad lets you scan documents with one-finger ease.
The X54 will not be available until June 2007 - in the meantime, they have a two button version available.
If you travel a lot, or makes lots of calls outside your timezone, and you are like me, you spend an enormous amount of time trying to figure out what time it is where. And if your like me, you usually calculate it wrong.
Moss has a great idea in their World Time Clock. This 12 sided clock has a city in each time zone placed along the outside which denotes the 12 o'clock marker for the city on the face.
Now if I could only remember what cities are near the 12 cities on the clock.
There are a million, zillion airline miles programs out there. Pick an airline and run with it. Years ago I picked USAirways as my preferred airlines. Not because they were superior in service or anything but I found myself traveling with them the most ... so I picked them - it wasn't really an educated choice but it works.
Anyways, USAirways has all sorts of programs available. The newest one that I found gives me miles when I use my debit card (or and card i designate) at participating restaurants. The best thing is, they have a ton of restaurants in their program so I don't have to choose my dining experience on who will give me miles. Instead, I use my debit card every time I eat out and at the end of the month I am delightfully surprised at how many miles I have automatically accrued.
Basically what I am saying is pick and airline and maximize every miles opportunity they offer.
Have fun, shop, eat good food and get free tickets. Sounds like a good plan to me.
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With all the hub-bub TSA puts us through, getting through security can be a royal pain. Gadgetduck.com has come up with a patented Scanner Bag™ designed to make that security debacle a little easier. In short, Scanner Bag™ is an at-the-ready stuff holder for all of that stuff you have to take off and take out of your pockets at security. No longer will you have to rush to find one of those plastic dishes or somewhere else to stash it all for its ride down the scanner belt.And, when your stuff emerges from the scanner at the other end, you won't have to rush to put everything back where it should be.
One word: brilliant.
We all know airplanes are breeding grounds for sickness. There is nothing worse than getting to your destination with the stranger in seat 12C's wicked head cold.
Rescue comes in the form of Flight 001 No Cooties Spray. This four pack travel spray is a blend of essential oils designed to aid in cleansing and purifying the immediate environment when dispersed in the air. Its anti-bacterial properties are effective against airborne microorganisms so the only thing you have to worry about having when you get off the plane is your luggage.
I have wanderlust really bad right now and unfortunately am too busy working on all the cool stuff we have going on at Destination to do anything about it right now. So my remedy will be writing about travel tips. Please, if you have any good ones of your own, send them my way!
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If the cold weather has made you long for the great outdoors, we've got something to hold you over… Our Adirondacks Daily Shampoo has a cool, woodsy oakmoss aroma reminiscent of shady oak trees and the dewy moss that lies below them. It’s a gentle, daily use shampoo that infuses the hair with a healthy shine
This shampoo thoroughly cleanses and revitalizes the scalp, yet gentle enough for daily use. It strengthens the hair and purifies the scalp.
Key Ingredients
- vitamin E leaves the hair with a lustrous shine and retains the natural moisture of the scalp
- wheat proteins nourish, moisturize and repair the hair giving it brilliant shine and manageability
- neem leaf, which is known extensively for its effects on the skin, treats and soothes the scalp
- citric acid prevents flakiness and mainatins scalp health
- panthenol strengthens and thickens the hair. Its also known for its revitalizing and conditioning effects.
Get some on our site Destination-Nation.com.
Between now and February 16th, 2007, add the words "VOX BLOG" to the shopping cart notes and we'll throw a free Big Easy Facial Moisturizer! This will make a great Valentines Day Gift!
Guess what's featured in Vegetarian Times' February issue..... that's right ... Destination!
