Stumbling Through

Welcome to Whitepod Resort

"Welcome to Whitepod!

2011/2012 winter season opening Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The field consists of Whitepod

15 pods, the pod-house (center pods) which includes the breakfast area, bar and relaxation
The Chalet Cerniers - Front & Main Restaurant
Chindonne pasture - a haven with restaurant
7 km of ski lifts with private

True concept of eco-tourism in the heart of the Swiss Alps, Whitepod is an incredible form of hotels, with a total comfort while fully integrating the environment."

Check out the photo gallery here - absolutely beautiful!

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Cool Hunting: Design

Cool Hunting: Design: "Armenia Papers
Biblical aromas from a 17th century incense maker"

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Gifts For Gadget Lovers

Gifts For Gadget Lovers: "Gifts For Gadget Lovers
Tech-centric highlights from our 2011 holiday gift guide"

Ultimate Ears

Developed in 1995 by Van Halen's touring monitor engineer and drummer, this line of earphonesranges from the simple $50 set for the daily commuter to the extravagant professional in-ear monitor custom-made to mold to your ear ($450-$1350)."

"Ray Solar Charger

Power your life on the go with pure sunlight from ray, a portable solar charger for digital devices. The handy contraption comes with a silicone suction cup and kickstand to harness solar power anywhere. Coupling convenience with responsibility, this is a sure win for conscientious gadget users."

"Ceramic Speakers Version 2

The second installment of SF-based industrial designer Joey Roth's ceramic speakers pump out massive sound in a simple package. Made with durable and natural materials like cork, porcelain and maple plywood, this classic set will enliven your living room for years to come."

NeatDesk Digital Scanner

Digitizing all kinds of clutter from tax returns to receipts to business cards, NeatDesk is a scanner-and-software combo that records and organizes your most essential information. The intelligent software is able to digitally categorize the content of your scans; in the case of receipts, it finds the date, payment type, purchase amount as well as other important details."

So much cool stuff!

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SUPER AMAZING

Cool Hunting: Tech: "Small Demons
Discover the "Storyverse" of real world places, music and movies from your favorite book"

" Taking an ambitious approach to filtering information online, Small Demons is a new site dedicated to opening up the worlds inside of books. Not just another search engine for what's inside your favorite novel, Small Demons collects and catalogs the millions of references to real-world and fictional music, movies, people, and objects that are found in literature. Your new favorite restaurant could be on the next page of the book you're reading, and Small Demons hopes to provide a place where you can draw meaningful connections between stories and everyday life. "

" The site uses both algorithms and human touch to make these links and open up what Small Demons calls a "Storyverse," or the expanse of details that support a good story. "A computer can tell us how many times a song appears in a book. But it can't tell us that it is the song that the couple dances to at the wedding reception or the song the jilted lover plays after being dumped. It can't tell you the emotional resonance of it. So we are going to be relying on librarians and authors and gifted amateurs to come in and help us fix and add and weight and evaluate all the data we are generating," says Richard Nash, the start-up's VP of Community and Content. "

" Founded by former Yahoo Product VPs Valla Vakili and Tony Amidei, the original idea for Small Demons came to Vakili while on a trip to Madrid and Paris. He also happened to be reading Jean-Claude Izzo's celebrated Mediterranean noir novel Total Chaos, the first book in the French author's well-known Marseilles Trilogy. Vakili changed the Paris leg of his trip and headed to Marseilles, finding himself enchanted by the fact that he was enjoying the same scotch and walking down the same streets as the protagonist in Izzo's book. The story in Total Chaos had a life beyond the page, and Vakili realized that many more books had the same experiences to offer. "

And this is what the site says:

"It all begins here. Suppose someone took every meaningful detail from all the books you love. Every song mentioned, every person, every food or place or movie title. And what if they did that for all the books everyone else loves, too. The ones you’ve never heard of. Suddenly you’ve got a whole world of seemingly random people, places and things, all gathered in one place.

Together they create something vast, wonderful and entirely new. A Storyverse. A place where details touch, overlap and lead you further. To new music to listen to. New movies to watch. Places to visit. People to know. And of course, new books to read. Getting started is simple. Just choose a book. See where it takes you."

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