The Original PotMaker: Roll Your Own

by Laurie Kay Olson

With spring comes time to plant. For plants that love the hot weather best their seeds may need to be planted indoors. To keep your garden extra "green" this year (and for years to come) you can recycle your newspapers into seedling pots with PotMaker^®. Once the plants are large enough and the weather warm enough you don't have to disturb the tender new roots. Just plant the pot in the ground and it will degrade naturally into the soil.

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This Summer's Number One Poop Throwing Game

by Bob J

With the warmer weather almost upon us, I can hardly help but be reminded of summers past and the lost innocence of childhood, when long into the evenings, the trees surrounding our happy home full with the raucous laughter of cicadas, my parents and I would challenge each other to a thrilling game of Doody Head.

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UN Reports on Killer Robots

by Katie Gatto

It looks like experts are starting to take the threat of killer robots seriously. A recent report, released by the U.N. Human Rights Commission has come out with some serious concerns about the use of Lethal autonomous robotics, or LARs for short. The report, which is more than 20 pages, make a series of suggestions on how to deal with the threats faced by LARs.

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Emergency Rice “Can” Be Stored Up To Five Years

by Steve Levenstein

Whether preparing for the apocalypse (zombie or otherwise) or merely stocking your post-Cold war bomb shelter, you'll be bowled over by soft drink can sized Emergency Rice rations from Japan. The manufacturer, CTC, designed the good-looking, no-nonsense packaging because hey – in an emergency no one has time for nonsense, amiright?

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How Torment: Tides of Numenera Kicks Traditional Morality Systems Aside

by Nicholas.Greene

Moral Choice systems have always been a bit of a sticky subject in gaming. Most of them tend to be terribly simple, and as a result, thoroughly boring. Torment: Tides of Numenera is looking to change this, with its revolutionary "Tides" system.

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Mugnificant! Top 10 Crazy and Funny Mugs

by Michael McParland

There is certainly no shortage of weird and wonderful food-related things to write about, but when a friend showing you a picture of a toilet-shaped mug results in a pig-like chuckle squeezing itself out of your lungs/nostrels, there is not much thinking left to be done. So here we go - a tribute to the 15 year old schoolboy/girl in all of us. I am talking, of course, about some of the world's funniest and craziest mugs.

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Retail Teller Machine: Concept Hopes To Make Cash A Thing Of The Past

by Beth Graddon-Hodgson

We'd all like to pretend that money doesn't make the world go 'round, but this is a business blog, and the reality is that each and every one of these unique business concepts require capital for development and operations. With that said, would you believe me if I said that a new business is hoping to reinvent the wheel and release society's dependency on cash? In fact, it is a concept that involves from a booming business that is all about money. With a little luck, the Retail Teller Machine (RTM) just might replace ATMs in the future.

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Marissa Mayer's Intuitive Search Meets Work Ethic At The Corner Of Bing & Yahoo

by Ron Callari

What's a $36 Million-Dollar lady to do after bailing from the world's largest search engine only to join the ranks of a bit player the likes of Yahoo? A player that was losing so much market share, it needed to enter a 10-year partnership agreement with Microsoft's Bing to stop the bleeding.

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Can Bitcoin Alternatives Save The Virtual Currency?

by dendory

Bitcoin is not the only virtual currency out there. Between Litecoin, Ripple, Zerocoin and so on, which will be the virtual currency of the future? Is Bitcoin able to stay the course, and gain its value back?

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Solve A Big Problem, Win The Verizon Powerful Answers Award (And $1 Million Bucks!)

by Arnold Carreiro

If you can solve a huge problem with the help of Verizon’s broadband networking, cloud storage, wireless capabilities or other technology in the fields of health care, education or sustainability, the communications giant will give you up to 1 million dollars to develop the idea.

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Talking Tissue Boxes Coming Soon?

by Katie Gatto

Are talking tissue boxes coming soon? Research being done by scholars over at Penn State shows that people who were confronted with a talking tissue box, one that made suggestions and blessed them, was a welcome thing by most people. The research is part of a larger project that shows how smart technology can be placed into our homes.

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Marketing Secrets You May Not Know About Twitter

by ModernMarketing

These days, it is important to market your web presence on Google, Twitter and Facebook. These are three of the most popular and widely used platforms that people use to market their business online. Twitter has a specific advantage over other advertising platforms that many people do not know about.

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Turning Ideas Into Products: Expert Tips For Invention Prototypes Part 3: Proof-of-Concept Prototypes

by Chris Hawker

In the first two installments of this prototyping series we examined the different types of prototypes and the different methods for making them. Over the next few articles we will spend some time talking about how to actually use prototypes as an inventor, both in the development and the commercialization processes.

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Interview with Tactical Haptics' Professor William Provancher

by Nicholas.Greene

At GDC 2013 towards the end of March, an organization known as Tactical Haptics revealed a rather revolutionary new piece of motion control technology. It's called Reactive Grip, and combined with tech such as the Oculus Rift, it could very well revolutionize the way we game. Last week, I decided to track down Professor William Provancher, Reactive Grip's inventor, for an interview about its creation and development.

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Organic, Vegetable Based Wee Can Too Finger Paints Make Creative Time Safe for Babies

by Kim Patterson

Created by two moms, Wee Can Too Finger Paints use vegetable and fruit powders and other plant based ingredients to take away all the worry so that kids and parents can completely enjoy finger painting time.

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Black Cat Stockings Are Really Cute And That's No Stretch

by Steve Levenstein

Hello kitten-knees! OK, that was bad and we feel bad, but these Black Cat Stockings from Japan are the purr-fect way to put some feline on your femurs.

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Rest Your Weary Arms With The Bubble Gum iPhone Stand

by Bob J

The iStuck bubble gum stand for iPhone is designed to keep people who might otherwise want to get their hands on your iPhone away, because they'll think there's a big wad of gum stuck to it. If you want to find out how to get your hands on this prestigious piece of hardware, read on...

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The Web Is 20

by dendory

20 years ago CERN created the World Wide Web. Now to celebrate, they are bringing back the original web pages at their original URLs for all to see, proof that no one knows how popular their inventions might become.

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Dairy Farms Get A Carbon Grade

by Katie Gatto

A look at how farmers and producers in the dairy industry are getting a new tool that is designed to help them to keep tabs on their carbon footprint. The databased, which is being let out by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy under the 2008 initiative known as the U.S. Dairy Sustainability Commitment, is designed to help producers to act more green.

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Bake Your Dog Panini With The New Dog Treat Panini Pan

by Lady Bee

Congratulations are in order to Holstein Housewares for the development of the Holstein Pet Treat Maker, a panini pan that makes perfect dog biscuits in 7 minutes. It's not available yet, but the specialized appliance will be ready for sale at HSN.com sometime in May, and here's what it will offer..

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