Strange New Products: Borba, a manufacturer of cosmetics and skin care products, extended its line of “ingestible skin care” products with its new “Chocolate Clarifying Bar”. The zit-zapping confection contains Borba’s “Skin Balance Clarifying Aqua-Less Crystalline Powder” to remove toxins and improve skin clarity. The powder contains a cultivated bio-vitamin complex which helps the skin regenerate its natural support system. […]
Ingestible Skin Care
Diaper Bags
BabyGadget: Sure, you can just use plastic ziplock bags to organize your stuff, but I’m a sucker for nice packaging and feel a bit guilty every time I throw a ziplock away, no matter how often I try and reuse them. These attractive ziplock pouches are made from 100% cotton with mesh backing so you can see the contents at […]
Luxury Bed + TV
PORTALINO: What could be better than watching TV in bed? How about watching TV in bed on a TV that’s built into the bed? Using a wireless remote, you can activate the TV that rises out of the foot of the bed like a display-screen in some James Bond villain’s hideout. The TV is only 22”, but it should be […]
30 Million Solar Water Heaters
Reuters: Dusty Dezhou was relegated to the footnotes of Chinese history for centuries, known mainly as the place where a Filipino king died. Now, Huang Ming hopes hot water will help put it on the map. His company has earned a fortune manufacturing solar heaters, relatively low-tech rooftop devices which capture the sun’s energy to provide water for baths and […]
Washroom Fun
Uber-Review: It’s official, Sudoku has jumped the shark. Why read the newspaper during your washroom visit, when you can challenge your brain with Sudoku. As the site puts it, “if you make a mistake no-one need know, you can just flush it away.” Sudoku Toilet Paper [Uber-Review]
Repellent Ringtone
WashingtonPost.com: When it came out in Britain in December, the Mosquito sound system was supposed to be the sonic equivalent of a “no loitering” sign. Its annoying, high-pitched sound — which many adults can’t hear but most young people can — would act as a teen repellent. Now, teens are staging a worldwide rebellion: Downloading the sound, or another ring […]
Soccer Anywhere
BornRich: If you love to play soccer then now you dont need to content yourself with just soccer games meant for desktop table! You can actually play in your own soccer pitch anytime anywhere with Subbuteo Giant Inflatable Pitch! The football pitch is ideal for four-adults, so if you were thinking its meant only for teenagers or kids then you […]
MySpace for Cars
TechCrunch: We have social networks for just about everything these days. If there’s one for dogs and cats, why not for cars? Berkeley, California based Boompa is just that – a new web startup focused on car fanatics (and better yet, it isn’t ridiculous). The founders, Ethan Lance and Dave Snider, previously worked together at CNET before starting this company. […]
Beans in Toast
The Daily Telegraph: FOR those who find baked beans on toast just too messy to put together, help is on the way. Heinz has devised a frozen baked bean sandwich which simply needs to be heated in a toaster. Heinz chief Bill Johnson said the company needed to give people “new ways to use beans”. “If people take the time […]
Triple Scoop
JS Online: It’s summertime, and the livin’ is . . . way too hot to be easy. Fortunately, manufacturers keep churning out delicious new ways to feed these seasonal cravings. Can’t agree on an ice cream flavor? No problem – make three at once. Strawberry, chocolate chip or French vanilla? Ice cream, frozen yogurt or sorbet? Make all three in […]