Turning Your Wall Into a Work of Art

STLtoday.com: It’s easy enough to hang artwork on your wall, but have you ever considered turning your wall into a work of art? Beyond faux finishes, crown molding, chair rails, wainscoting and baseboards, new decorating techniques and products are giving three-dimensional grandeur to walls that is nothing but artistic. Maya Romanoff of Chicago, a textile designer and wallpaper master, said […]

Kabbalah and Energy Drinks

mcall.com: Combine medieval Jewish mysticism, a fizzy strawberry-flavored drink loaded with vitamins and a splash of holy water and you have the perfect fusion of two of the hottest fads sweeping the country: Kabbalah and energy drinks. Next week, the hip, the curious and the thirsty in the Lehigh Valley will be among the first consumers east of the Mississippi […]

Scientists’ Use of 3G

Mobile Digest: Orange tells us that its 3G Mobile Office card is being put to unusual use by scientists in the UK. Researchers over here are using the cards to let them access and control one of the largest fully robotic telescopes in the world based over in Hawaii. They can access the internet from their laptops to connect to […]

Puppy/Polar Bear Children’s Fridge

Gizmodo: A fridge so adorable that you could just eat it up is really the last thing you want when struggling with your diet [You actually wrote that? —ed.], but for the skinny crowd, Fujitronic makes a series of animal-styled mini-fridges. Available shaped as a polar bear or puppy dog, they feature an on-door LCD which can house a virtual […]

Hello Kitty Invades The Xbox

Engadget: Yes, it’s true. It was only a matter of time until Hello Kitty worked her evil magic upon this particular gadget, as she has on oh so many others. The Hello Kitty Crystal Xbox Console takes that definitively non-pink Xbox and converts it to its long-latent color scheme. During the promotional period the entire bundle comes with a Helly […]

Seeking Honey Bees

WorldChanging: Another great find from the Doors of Perception conference in Delhi: the Honey Bee Network, here in India. It is a network of people designed to find hackers and inventors from the countryside, the sort of people who don’t have two pennies to rub together but invent a coconut-tree-climbing machine so they can work better, or a man who […]

Toothbrush + Music = Tooth Tunes

We Make Money Not Art: Hasbro plans on launching a musical toothbrush called “Tooth Tunes” reports the WSJ. “When pressed to the teeth, the toothbrush renders a recorded riff from a pop star that lasts two minutes — precisely the amount of time dentists say children should spend brushing their teeth. How does it work? “The two-minute recording is stored […]

It’s Online Ads For Small Businesses

USAToday: “Heat-resistant coatings,” “high-temperature adhesives” and “machinable ceramics” aren’t even in the same league as “Britney Spears” when it comes to popular Web searches. But for Aremco Products Inc. of Valley Cottage, N.Y., they’re golden. That’s because the customers for Aremco’s high-temperature coatings and adhesives are typing those words into search engines such as Yahoo! and Google. To make sure […]

Solar Powered Bag

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 […]

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 […]