Playing Cards Of A Different Color

by Laurie Kay Olson

Is that weekly poker game with the guys (or gals) starting to feel just a bit lackluster? Have you tried just about every permutation of five card draw, seven card stud, and Texas hold 'em that you can think of? Perhaps it is time for a new deck of cards -- one that will really change the game. It will be tough for everyone to keep a poker face when they are trying to figure out their hand when it is all one color.

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Amazing Humidifier Is Actually Amazing

by Laurie Kay Olson

When the summer temperatures go up the air conditioning goes on and dries everything out, especially your skin and your sinuses. It can be hard to have a regular humidifier with you because they can be large and you always have to worry about mold build up. With the Amazing Humidifier you can have it with you and turn just about any bottle of water into a humidifier that plugs into your computer.

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Battle Of The Best Blenders: Reviews and Recommendations

by Michael McParland

There comes a time in every man or woman's life when chopping vegetable after vegetable becomes unbearably monotonous. Enter, one of man's greatest kitchen inventions, and reliever of stress world-wide, the sacred blender. But which are good? Which are bad? Which are okay? Here are three blenders which caught the eye. Take a look and see if they catch yours.

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Instant Pineapple Ramen: Pineapple Express In A Styrofoam Bowl

by Steve Levenstein

The new instant Pineapple Ramen from Tokyo's Papapapa-Pine ramen restaurant may not be as delicious as the fruitful noodle broth served up live and in person, but it's the next best thing to being there.

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Teen Makes Submarine

by dendory

A teen has created a submarine using household equipment and a $2,000 budget, fully equiped with ballast tanks, pumps and safety equipment. He says creating inventions is in his blood, and wants to turn it into a business.

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Program Your Own Bot (for Kids, and Kids at Heart)

by Katie Gatto

When it comes to robots for kids there are a lot of choices. Not all of those choices do much at all. One choice, that is not quite to market yet, is desided to help kids to program in a variety of ways. The programming runs from options with a graphic interface to C++ and JAVA based options.

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Gallium: Better Entertaining Through Chemistry

by Laurie Kay Olson

If you are one of those people (and you know you are) who likes to amaze you friends with little tricks and interesting facts then having a little gallium on hand is for you. It's a great conversation starter or ice breaker when you pull out a little piece of metal and use your amazing mental powers to turn it into liquid in the palm of your hand.

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Weed As A Brand: Starbucks Or Botwin Pot Stores? Fact Or Fiction? [Video]

by Ron Callari

After eight successful seasons on HBO, the acclaimed award-winning series, "Weeds" ended its run in 2012 with matriarch Nancy Botwin dealing in a world that finally legalized marijuana. With plot lines that followed a mother and widow of two children rise in the weed business, Nancy's chain of pot stores became so overwhelmingly successful by the end of Season 8, Starbucks was written into the script securing a bid to buy them.

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Simply A Set Of Very Cool Knives

by Michael McParland

Everybody likes to be the coolest kid on the kitchen knife block. So for those who have spent hours and hours in the kitchen slicing vegetables and thinking 'I wish my knives looked classier' here is the Deglon Meeting Knife Set. Want to see just what the latest kitchenware knife set has to offer? Walk this way!

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Eatwave Vending Machine: Freshly Cooked Food At The Press Of A Button

by Beth Graddon-Hodgson

Vending machines are awesome, in fact, people love to read about them more than any other business idea or technological device (according to a non-statistical, and completely subjective survey conducted by yours truly). Now Eatwave Vending Machine is shaking up everything we thought we could expect out of a vending machine. Vending machines have offered hot food for a while, but not like this.

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Your Computer Is More Powerful Than You Think

by dendory

Thanks to product binning, Intel is selling you parts that have been artificially disabled so that they would work slower than they otherwise could, simply to make you spend more on server products.

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NASA to Host Robot Contest

by Katie Gatto

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA for short, is looking for robots in some new places. The government agency is soon to host a bot competition at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The contest, which is looking for sample collecting bots, has been dubbed the 2013 Sample Return Robot Challenge.

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Pay To Play With Pretty Girls And Pros

by Nicholas.Greene

If you've ever gamed online, you're likely to have encountered at least a few terrible teammates. Most of you have probably learned simply to deal with them - shrug your shoulders and move on. If you've got a bit of spare change, there might be an alternative - pay for it.

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Going Green: Good Insects Vs. Bad Insects

by Laurie Kay Olson

There are healthy and safe ways to take care of the pests in your garden without resorting to poison. Let good bugs take over and get rid of the ones that are killing your plants. It is better for the environment and better for you -- and they are easily available for order to be shipped right to you.

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3D Printers Unite For Goodwill & Rad 3D Printing Tools Via Printers for Peace Contest

Win Cool 3D printer stuff from Printers for Peace Contest

by Arnold Carreiro

The concept of personal 3D printers has spread like wildfire, and Michigan Tech wants to make sure that the first things that people think of when the innovative product making platform is mentioned include harmony, joy and other peaceful goodies.

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Brain Powered Robots Coming to A Mind Near You

by Katie Gatto

A new team, of international scope, is working on a plan that is truly science fiction inspired. The team, which is both French and Japanese, is working to make robots that can be controlled with the human brain. The robots, which are still in the reserach, use blood flow to detect brain activity.

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Microsoft Contest For Southeast Asian Businesses To Upgrade From Windows XP, Globally Ends Support For XP In 2014

Microsoft will pull support for Windows XP in 2014, hurry up and upgrade!

by Arnold Carreiro

Are you still using Windows XP as your personal or business operating system? It’s 2013, for goodness sake! You’d better upgrade before it’s too late…

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Hello Kitty Reversible Plush Turkey Is Officially Weird

by Steve Levenstein

The Hello Kitty Reversible Plush Turkey is exactly what it seems to be: a soft Hello Kitty doll that, when turned inside-out, becomes a plush roast turkey branded with the Hello Kitty logo. It's officially weird for sure, and an official product from Sanrio to boot.

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Is This The Most Expensive Pen On Amazon?

by Bob J

At $48,000.00 you might think that the Omas Limited Edition Phoenix Fountain Pen is the most expensive pen on Amazon. And if you did think that you might well be right. If you're in the market for a new pen to craft the perfect letter, you may have come to the right place, at exactly the right time.

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New Fibertrap Technology Stops Bedbugs, Termites, In Their Tracks

Bed bug about to get caught in Fibertrap

by Myra Per-Lee

Like a spider's web stops a fly in flight, a patent-pending man-made fibrous web stops a bedbug in its tracks. Commercialized as Fibertrap, this material, created in the laboratories of Stony Brook University's Center for Advanced Technology in Sensor Materials, has tested effective not only for trapping bedbugs, but also for stopping termites in their tracks.

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