DailyCandy: Greeting cards are so passé. E-cards? Totally tacky. Singing telegrams work only in the movies, and skywriting is bad for the environment. How in the world are you supposed to get your message across? Well, we’re spilling the beans. The style-setting Japanese have done it again, creating the perfect vehicle for all your well wishes: the message bean. Housed […]

dottocomu: TakaraTomy have come up with another great, wacky product in the Life Bank (Jinsei Ginkou), the riff on the coin bank that the 21st century has been waiting for. The Bank’s screen shows you the life of a stick man who starts out as a poor pleb in a cupboard-sized apartment and develops into a rich bastard lounging under […]

DailyCandy: Going for office sophisticate? Look the part in a sensible pantsuit and pumps. But lose the fake glasses and bun. (That’s more porn librarian.) If you really want to work it like Career Woman Barbie, you’ll need plastic accessories. Like Plastic People’s laptop cases. Custom made of vinyl, they look plastic (hence the name). They’re functional, with a half-inch […]

BornRich: Keep your beer cool in this Weber Chill Refrigerator that can be rolled indoors or outdoors according to your needs. The ultimate big-party cooler features a huge 1.6 cubic feet capacity, and can store 72 ice-cold cans of your drink or 48 beer bottles or 36 wine bottles as cold as you want. The roll-bar party-refrigerator is constructed of […]

Strange New Product: A new product called, “SquidSoap” is designed to teach kids good habits in washing their hands thoroughly. When you push down on SquidSoap’s dispenser, it shoots a small amount of black ink with the soap. You’re supposed to keep washing your hands until you remove all the black ink. It takes about 15 to 20 seconds to […]

Entrepreneur.com: Terry Feinberg was seeing red. “I can’t [count] how many times I went outside and found my garbage ripped apart in the street,” Feinberg says. He was tired of having pests and animals snooping around his garbage bags, so he decided to come up with a new type of bag that would discour-age them by both scent and color. […]

DailyCandy: You don’t smoke. You avoid the sun. Your bathroom cabinet is heaving with all sorts of antiaging creams. You’re waging a war against time. And it shows. But when it comes to the contents of your fridge, you’ve given up on the battle of the dates. It’s a time warp inside there — 2-month-old eggs alongside 2-year-old blueberry jam. […]

Strange New Products: A company called HydroSport is marketing a new water bottle that fits on your wrist. Described as a “Wrist Water Bottle”, each unit holds 5.5oz of water or sports drink, for a total of 11oz when you have one on each wrist. When fully loaded, the unique bottle weighs one-half pound, providing you with some additional exercise. […]

PRWEB: Cerealtop™ is a box lid made up of two parts and sealed with a handy dispenser flap. Made from food-safe plastic, Cerealtop™ has a clever slider system that means it can be adjusted to suit just about any box. These days, breakfast muesli and cereals come in every conceivable flavour and pack. Atmospheric advertising campaigns are created to promote […]

Orlando Sentinel: Forget those plain-Jane plastic bags for storing your child’s toys. Now, there’s an easy and practical way to store everything from building blocks to action figures. Neat Nets by Parents of Invention are colorful, mesh bags for keeping toys — or most anything else — orderly and visible. They are easy to stack and see through, so you […]