Trendhunter: Beautiful Vending, a UK company, has released a hair straightener vending machine. Their site describes, “We all know how frustrating the British weather can be, the rain, wind and even the heat can cause perfectly styled hair to ‘frizz’ and ruin the best night or day out. The saviour of bad hair days has arrived, the Straight Up machine […]

IHT: Samantha Taube stepped out of the MGM Grand hotel and casino into the bright sun to walk to the parking lot. After a short distance, she approached a trailer, entered, sat in a dentist’s chair and had her teeth cleaned. “If you know Las Vegas traffic these days, you know what a benefit this is,” said Taube, who trains […]

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. […]

Iconoculture: Hungry? Go brush your teeth. White Glo Crave Away and F.A.S.T. are two toothpastes that claim to curb hunger cravings with herbal formulas that signal the brain that the body has eaten. Consumers hot on the trail of a thinner body are happy to try new therapies that don’t involve eating less or exercising more. Whiter teeth and a […]

Gearlog.com: Leave it to the folks at MIT to develop high-tech…toothbrushes? And not just any toothbrush, but “toothbrush toys promoting good dental hygiene.” Instructor Barry Kudrowitz’s Toy Product Design course created protypes of kid-friendly toothbrushes and toothpaste dispensers to get kids excited about dental hygiene. Tough job, huh? They actually came up with some really cool stuff. Entries include a […]

Blissworld: Want the ‘outside’ skinny? This new water-resistant broad spectrum sunscreen actually helps you fight the look of fat while lying on the beach! With exclusive sun-activated spheres that release the visual slimming effect of caffeine molecules when you need them most— while baring the better part of your birthday suit in the sun—in a non-greasy spray formula of hydrating […]

Entrez PubMed: Chinese biomedical scientists are now developing a new approach to medicine by combining traditional Chinese medicine and Western biomedical science. This is the current medical trend in China. Some significant results have already been achieved. For instance, in treating fractures the traditional dexterity in coaxing broken ends of bones into alignment has been successfully adopted, and x-ray has […]

News & Star: For those dismayed by Anita Roddick’s “sell-out” to L’Oreal and who have sworn never to darken the Body Shop’s doorstep again, the hunt is on for alternatives. There was a time when “ethical beauty” was a bit of an oxymoron. To be ethical, it seemed, a product had to be worthy, unglamorous and look and smell as […]

Israel21c: The first thing most people probably feel like doing after talking with Theodore Welt and Jonathan Weisberg is brushing their teeth and cleaning their tongues. It’s not because they’re disgusting or anything, quite the contrary. It’s just that the two founders of Israeli company VeriFresh Ltd. are very persuasive and descriptive when talking about their line of futuristic products […]

Iconoculture: WristClinic, made by Ireland’s Telcomed, monitors vital signs with a wireless wrist-top device that measures everything from body temperature and blood pressure to oxygen saturation and one-lead EKG. Patients activate the WristClinic at preset times, using icons on the LCD menu to transmit data to a telemedicine call center or an automated Web-based databank, where it’s stored for later […]