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Anti-Theft Lunch Bags Fend Off Food Nabbers

Ah, the lunchroom thief.  Amazingly, every office seems to have at least one.  The Anti-Theft Lunch Bag is made to protect your food from all of the lunch stealers of the world.

Batter Blaster Creates a Healthy, Hot Breakfast In Minutes

Don’t you hate it that convenience food is usually great for your timeline, but horrible for your body?  It is nice to discover a rare convenience item that takes people’s health into consideration too.  Batter Blaster appears to be one such product. 

Freerider Skatecycle Brings More Freedom To Skating

A new name in skating/snakeboarding, the Freerider Skatecycle provides a unique form factor for freedom, speed and big air.

Avatars As Nerdy As Their Creators, Study Finds

Concordia University has discovered – surprise, surprise – that the character you make online acts a hell of a lot like you do in real life.

Social Media Goes GTL With Jersey Shore Facebook Game & iPhone App

Love them or hate them, MTV is utilizing social media to promote the second season of its reality hit TV show, Jersey Shore. This week, the network is hyping the much anticipated return of the guidos and guidettes with a Facebook game and an iPhone app.

Dogs Go To Pubs... Why Not Serve Them?

In Britain and Europe, people go to restaurants, bars, and pubs with their dogs.  In most places, dogs are allowed inside the establishments as well as outside on the patios.  Man's best friend is allowed to enter, but is not served by the restaurateurs. Until now...

Rock-Paper-Scissors... All In a Glove

Here's that excuse you've been looking for to play with yourself in public...

The Socializer Helps You Fake The Wide-Eyed Awake Look

Whether your late night was self imposed or the result of someone else’s wakefulness, the effect on your eyes is the same.  The Socializer by Elizabeth Grant is a new two step treatment to help combat the telltale signs of the late night enthusiast.

Social Media Asked To Do The Queen Of England's Bidding

While many a world leader has embraced social media over the course of the last few years, the Windsors at Buckingham Palace seemed to be the last hold-outs. With Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev and even dictators like Hugo Chavez having joined the social networking rank and file, Queen Elizabeth and her clan appeared to still be living in the 20th Century devoid of a tweet or an avatar. Apparently someone tipped off the monarchy ...

Training Wheels For Paddleboarding: Probably Useful, Definitely Geeky

If you can't make the cut on a stand-up paddleboard, a new set of SUP training wheels may be just the ticket to improving your performance.

Julbo Looping Sunglasses Are Always Right Side Up

Sunscreen, hats and sunglasses are all important for shielding delicate skin and eyes.  Small children may not love to wear this stuff, but they will be a lot happier in the long run for doing so.  Little sunglasses can be particularly difficult for young kids to master.  The people at Julbo have created a solution to the big infant/toddler sunglasses issues.

Hula Hoops Or Circus Props? Non! Le Deun's Pi Series Lighting

When it comes to lighting with LEDs, Le Deun Luminaires is a pro, having perfected the technology, and created low energy lighting designs with exquisite ambiance for 13 years.  The French company has created large hoop lamps in sizes and conformations that can be used decoratively and functionally anywhere in your home... but I'd still like to use just one to train my agility dog.

 


Eat Your Snacks At A Snail's Pace With The Popcorn Grabber

Mmmm...popcorn.  It’s not so bad on its own.  In fact, as snacks go, it is pretty healthy to eat plain, air-popped popcorn.  Really though, who does that?  The Popcorn Grabber, or Potechi no Te, is made to only grab a kernel at a time.

12 Eye-Popping Social Media Pillows - Because Every Geek Needs An Icon To Hug

... Detailed and cleanly drawn, the Craftsquatch icon pillow shells are made of soft fleece and the pillow stuffing is polyester making the pillows cuddly - squishable, but resilient enough to bounce back into shape.  Craftsquatch work is clean and sharp; the icons really stand out - so, in addition to being cushy, the social media and icon pillows are visually very striking.

 

 


Augmented Reality & Layar Give Rolling Stones' Fans A Lot Of Satisfaction

One of the oldest performing rock bands in the world is ironically the first to launch an Augmented Reality campaign with Layar for their latest album. Don't think the Rolling Stones are ready to hang up their electric guitars just yet - in fact, they're out-pacing some of the performing groups half their age by embracing one of the hottest new technologies of the day.

Jelloware: Edible, Eco(ble), Drinking Glasses Not Made From Jell-O

A quartet of sparkling young minds form a design consultancy called The Way We See The World. Their designs are so thoughtful, so fresh and alive, you feel like you could pick them off your screen and put them to use immediately.  And this is especially true for Jelloware, the edible, eco-ble (Okay, I made that word up.) drinking glass.

 


NYC's Top Five Clever Condom Wrappers For 2010

... The winning NYC Condom wrapper was by Luis Acosta from Queens, with 23 percent of the vote. Acosta's design, representing a 'turned on' power button of a computer, stood to do well with the voters who, as luck had it, voted from their computers.

 


A REAL Fish Story: Dutch Create The First Goldfish Hotel In The World

You've been boarding your dogs, cats, birds, and even snakes when you take a vacation; but now, if you're travel plans include Amsterdam, you can board your fish at the Goudvissen Hotel, the only hotel in the world exclusively for goldfish.

Yummy Dough Lets Kids Have Their Modelling Fun And Eat It Too

So we all remember that kid in preschool, the one who had to taste every craft (and sometimes non-craft) item that was available.  Anyways, one item that was always safe to eat was the modelling dough.  Just because it was safe though, does not mean that it was tasty.  Knowing that kids are going to try eating it no matter what, Yummy Dough was created.

Fruit Infusion Pitchers Create Flavored Water Naturally

We all know that drinking water is a necessity and most of us do not get enough of it.  Even though there are a lot of great health benefits to getting the proper amount of water each day, it can be hard to down so many glasses of plain, boring water.  For those who want to add some extra flavor to their water without adding anything processed or artificial there are Fruit Infusion Pitchers now available.