Shiny Shiny: Think back to all those times when your MP3 player / Phone / PDA has run out of battery with no plug sockets nearby to charge it back up. This $200 solar-powered bag solves the problem. The solar panel on the front charges up in sunlight (or indoors if you’ve got a couple more hours to spare) and […]
Solar Powered Bag
Boezels Toys
Popgadget: Developed by Dutch designer Twan Verdonck, the Boezels toys are specially conceived for mentally challenged children and adults. Each animal has unique characteristics and appeals to at least one sense (touching, smelling, hearing, seeing). Some can be cuddled, and others wrap around the body to cuddle you. Take a deep breath of the Reura snake’s relaxing scent and fall […]
Upside Down Gardening
The Green Head: Check out the new Topsy Turvy Upside Down Tomato Planter. Instead of planting your tomato plants in pots or in the ground, simply hang them up in the air, upside down, and eliminate the hassles of weeding, pests, hole digging, flimsy stakes and cages, and bending over to water, tend and harvest. The Topsy Turvy allows you […]
Wearable Hypertags
Netimperative: Mobile marketing company Hypertag has launched a wearable version of the infra-red and bluetooth tags previously used in interactive poster advertising. The wearable Hypertags will be aimed at field marketers, enabling them to send content direct to consumer’s mobile phones from a fully portable interactive tag. Hypertags are short-range wireless devices, which send information to mobile phones via infra-red […]
Alternative Searching
BusinessWeek: They aren’t the only ones coming to that conclusion. Increasing numbers of Web surfers are going to alternative search engines, which specialize in finding certain kinds of information or offering additional capabilities to well-known search sites. Though exact data is hard to come by, entrepreneurs say venture capitalists are sinking new money into search startups. Tech pundits believe that […]
Video Games to Sell… Books?
Businessweek: As video and PC gaming’s popularity skyrocketed in the past few years, our favorite TV shows (“The Simpsons”), movies (“Catwoman”) and comic books (“Batman”) were turned into games. Now, we are on the brink of a new era, it seems: Games publisher Atari just released a game based on a book THAT HASN’T EVEN HIT THE BOOKSTORES YET. That’s […]
New Bathroom Cabinet
infolink.com.au: The latest product to be rolled out in the Rifco product line is the Metro line of cabinets, using the unique design of a side opening in which the shelves slide from behind the attached, fixed mirror. The advantage of this is that the mirror reflection is retained while the user accesses anything from within the cabinet. All parts […]
Celebrity Smiles
Gannett News Service: Emulating A-listers such as Gwyneth Paltrow or Halle Berry is a snap: The latest celebrity-channeling accessory is a set of prosthetic choppers modeled after Hollywood’s most Chiclet smiles. Think of the snap-on smile as the white-enameled cousin to the press-on nail. Think of it as yet more evidence of a public firmly sinking its incisors into celebrity […]
Pogo Airline-Taxi Service
Forbes: It’s time for a revolution in business travel. The commercial airline business is going through another round of bankruptcies, route shakeouts and confrontations with unions. Having fewer airlines will exacerbate the already lousy service that makes so many people hate to fly these days–the long waits, the delays, the cancelations, the lost bags. Short flights aren’t worth the hassle […]
The Green Goat
Wired News: Hybrid cars, trucks and buses have already hit the road. Now, make way for the Green Goat, the world’s biggest hybrid. It’s a 2,000-horsepower locomotive that radically reduces fuel consumption and emissions of pollutants. The Green Goat is a diesel-electric hybrid in which the normal massive diesel locomotive engine is replaced by a 290-horsepower inline 6-cylinder diesel truck […]