Iconoculture: Victor and Elvia Galindo first started selling chips and sodas to keep tire-shop customers out of the way. In 2004, Elvia turned that into a full-time restaurant. While Victor specializes in hubcaps and shiny custom wheels, Elvia specializes in tamales and sincronizada, a quesadilla stuffed with ham, avocado, cheese, green pepper and tomatoes. Now Victor’s Tires is more than […]
Meals And Wheels
Your Own Bag
FreshTrend: Pimp your bag with Timbuk2’s Build Your Own service. You can design your own messenger bag for your laptop or textbooks. Choose the size, material, colors and accessories that best suit you. Or if you’re looking to gift a Timbuk2 bag then check out their Bag in a Box which in essence is a gift certificate that anyone can […]
Ping Pong Not Doubles Anymore
FreshTrend: Inventor Secil Boyd’s latest creation may just take the game of ping pong to a new level. Boyd has successfully prototyped a new three player version of ping pong, cleverly named TriPong, that uses plexiglass “nets” to divide the table into three wedges, one for each player. Each wedge contains a neutral zone and a scoring zone, hit the […]
Celery Straws
Iconoculture: Duda Farm Fresh Foods in Florida has engineered celery stalks with hollow centers. These “celery straws” can flavor Bloody Marys through sipping or hold a hidden cream cheese or peanut butter surprise. Watch for the edible swizzle sticks to start appearing at restaurants and hotels soon; marketing to the home chef might come further down the road. An element […]
Google Patents
Reveries: Forever the word magnet, Google is hoping to piggyback off creative minds with its latest offering, Google Patent Search. Users of the free service can sift through more than 7 million registered patents. One can kill some serious time at www.Google.com/patents. Entering “The Motley Fool” spits back 19 entries. The patent offerings may not have the same kind of […]
Nicostopper
Popgadget: If smoking de-addiction is one of your new year resolutions AND you are serious about it, check out the Nicostopper from Fagor. The Nicostopper is an electronic cigarette dispenser in which you can fit a maximum of 10 cigarettes at a time. Once the ciggies are in, you program the intervals at which you would like to take a […]
Hug Shirt
Uber-Review: The Hug Shirt is perfect for people in love that are distant from each other, it basically offers the possibility to recreate a hug feeling and not on a virtual kind of way. The shirt works with Bluetooth + a Hug Me java software + a cellphone and in order for the other person to receive the hug, he/she […]
Chewy Birth Controls
Strange New Products: A pharmaceutical company, Warner Chilcott, announced today the availability of a new chewable birth control pill with a refreshing spearmint flavor. The product, called “Femcon Fe”, is billed as the first and only FDA-approved chewable birth control pill. The company says that one of the leading causes of oral contraceptive failure is not consistently taking these pills […]
Growing Clothes For Growing Kids
Iconoculture: Adjustable-waist pants solve fit issues width-wise, but Mom’s only recourse against growth upspurts and dryer-induced shrinkage used to be cuffs or cut-offs. Ziprips represent yet another practical solution from mompreneurs. Ziprips are a line of stylish adjustable separates that grow up (down, actually) with kids 1 to 6. Pants, skirts, dresses and overalls are designed with inserts that quickly […]
Scented Bus Stops
Strange New Products: Arcade Marketing Inc., in tandem with the California Milk Processor Board, is putting up a new type of advertisement at bus stops that emit the smell of chocolate chip cookies. The ad, which will be placed at five bus stops in downtown San Francisco, utilizes the company’s technology called MagniScent®, which disseminates smell via scent-infused adhesives affixed […]