Grooveking Founders Featured All Over The Place!

Both founders have gotten a lot of press in the last week. I was lucky enough to corner both of them to find out what has been going on.

Doug and Brian, who are both entrepreneurs started RootPhi, a disruptive design firm about two years ago. Rootphi is actually the parent company of Grooveking. They have been working on a series of top secret projects....but have recently went public with one of them.

Doug and Brian have been designing eco-chic messenger bags with a collaboration with Timbuk2. The bags are made from a new material RootPhi calls Reclaim. The material is made from recycled plastic bags and according to Brian, has many applications.

RootPhi was recently featured on CBS Radio, PSFK, Coolhunting, Wired Magazine, and Metacool.

Stanford students beat eBay on Firefox toolbar

A group of design students at Stanford University have released an eBay toolbar for Firefox, myEBayFox, with some great bells and whistles. Besides basic search features, it removes external ads onthe site and allows users to see thumbnail pictures on ALL search items, even those sellers didn't pay for. An eBay toolbar has been long overdue. Users have petitioned for one on eBay discussion boards since October of 2005. Succumbing topopular demand, the eBay Developer's Program put a Firefox toolbar in the pipeline, but it seems that the Stanford students beat them to the punch. eBay can't be too enthusiastic about this toolbar since it cuts directly into its main sources of revenue: ads and thumbnail fees. But eBay users get a really good deal.