Mio Destino Lingerie

So first Mio Destino showed you the amazing cat translator, now we bring you another amazing animal based invention– a dog phone. Whichever side of the age-old Cat V Dog divide you sit on (dog for me all the time) you can’t help but love the idea…read more

You’ve got to love the human race. Our ability to invent, create and examine is what has seen us rise to the very top of the chain. And on getting here we then invest in helping those poor creatures below us climb up too. The Cat Translator is an ingenious idea to ‘translate’ what your cat is saying through its meowing.

Apparently one of the phrases is…read more

Indie screen queen Maggie is the new face – and body – of Agent Provocateur. She replaces Kate Moss, a hard act to follow. And the raunchy campaign has definitely been provoking a variety of reactions…read more

Autumn has arrived, the air is cooler, a great time to get cozy in Le Monde d’Alba Coba Cappuccino Wrap Pyjamas.

Win Your Pair at Mio Destino this month!

Le Monde d’Alba’s beautiful, hand crafted, wrap-around cappuccino pyjama set with drawstring bottoms finished with a delicate aqua print. Perfect for home and stylish loungewear. Handmade in France, 100% sateen cotton – absolutely divine. Retail value £120.

Competition ends Oct. 31st, 2007. Enter today!

Of all the materials you wouldn’t want to put against your body, fish skin has got to be pretty high on the list. But now Thai entrepreneurs have developed a way of processing skins of tropical fish to make them into…read more

Celebrities seem unable to stay out of the news whether it’s for the right or wrong reasons. While I have some sympathy for Britney Spears, it’s hard to imagine how the same girl that so confused 15 year-old-boys when she appeared in “Hit Me Baby One More Time” would shave her head, then do a ‘comeback’ that brings nothing but derision, before being dropped by her management label.

Meanwhile OJ Simpson…read more

Or to put it another way…What is a ‘Pratt-Shelby’ knot?

It is said that the ‘Pratt-Shelby’ tie knot was invented by an employee of the US Chamber of Commerce, Mr Jerry Pratt. Mr Pratt had been wearing the knot for approximately twenty years before it came to fame. Its popularity can be attributed to… read more

What will the status of the Twenty20 World Cup winners be when they emerge victorious from the tournament this month?

It might sound an odd question, but think about how absurd it would be in any other sport. Imagine that six months after the FIFA World Cup, another tournament, also called the World Cup, was played with pretty much the same teams fielding pretty much the same players in a pretty similar tournament format with pretty similar viewing figures (both at the grounds and on the telly), but with 45-minute matches rather than the full 90.

I’m not questioning the existence of T20, because I love cricket…read more

A QR-Code is a form of two-dimensional bar or matrix code which was created in 1994 by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave. The code shown above is the QR code for Mio Destino.

The creators of the code wanted to produce a rapid decode and hence its name ‘QR’, Quick Response…Read more

Imagine if you won prizes for having sex. No, there’s no audience, or aging ‘comedy’ host with a catchphrase (‘Nice to see you, to see you nice’ probably wouldn’t be apt would it?) but there is the potential of a car or a TV…read more