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The shelf is so designed that once you fold a towel and place on it, the shelf becomes invisible.

Keep stacking the towels.

People will wonder what is holding them up.

Apart from the enigma of the design, what I like most is the simple sleek lines and the functionality read more »

Designed by Lupus Sabene, the Fabric Clock will redefine fashion.

You can keep customizing it to suit your mood.

The face of the clock has a piece of fabric that you can keep changing...blues for Monday, stripes for Tuesday... read more »

Every so often I see a parenting scenario that I remember to tuck in my feeble mother memory bank. These situations end up usually as parenting lessons for me – ones that I must remember to do, or ones that I really need to remember NOT to do. read more »

Along with working out and feeling good on the inside it would be nice to also look good on the outside. Unfortunately, with the decline in my fitness, my sense of style has diminished too. Naturally I've turned to magazines, friends, family and the ever so versatile internet for some help. Though all the tasteful tips and advice have been useful and appreciated, nothing has been more eye opening and entertaining as the search for style on the internet, be it my style or not. read more »

The Canny Collar was voted the Best New Product for 2006 by the Pet Product Retail Association.

This revolutionary, yes, it is revolutionary innovation is made up of a simple collar with a slip line that fits over the dog's nose and a lead that fastens behind the dog's head. read more »

Sometimes when in search for something, such as the remote control, what you find instead: your lucky pair of frog socks, 2 dollars worth of quarters and an unexpectedly good poem you wrote several years ago, makes your search all worth while. Whether you find what you were looking for in the first place or not it feels good to know that your search still lead you to something more exciting and possibly more valuable. A few days ago my day kind of went like that.

Reading from the About My Planet online green news, I came across a strange and funny picture of a person dressed in a Selk Bag. A Selk Bag is a wearable sleeping bag. read more »

How many times have you said mournfully, "I remember when I could open any jar." Or "When I was young I could lift 50 pounds with one hand" Or "Up until recently, I could eat anything I wanted and not gain weight?"

Wish you could turn your clock back?

You can. And not only that...

You can get highly personalized information about how to do it for free!

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Exercise whether it be: yoga, walking, running, aerobics or even martial arts, has always been a big part of my life. I've always found some way to stay fit, but at about every 2 years or so I hit a rut. I get distracted, perhaps bored, and I allow myself to allow work and my kids to keep me too busy to make the time to exercise.

It's been six months worth of distractions this time and very little exercise has been a part of my routine, except for the occasional sun salutation in my living room at night. In six months I feel like my body and mind have aged five years and not in a healthy kind of way. So now, I'm desperate and looking for ANYTHING to get me motivated and back in shape again, on a consistent basis. read more »

The Temperature Therapy Neck Pillow, is a soft polyester fiber pillow which has a removable gel cylinder at its core.

This gel cylinder works as the proverbial magic lamp. You want a cold compress on the strained muscle?

Just freeze the gel cylinder, insert it into the pillow and apply on the painful muscle.

Cool isn't it? read more »

What's the worst part of relying on WiFi to run your business? The unpredictability! Many stores and restaurants advertise as being WiFi-ready, but you never know until you show up whether or not it actually works the way you need it to, or worse, whether or not you have to pay! Enter FON, a Spanish company backed by the likes of Skype and Google to develop a community-based WiFi network that literally spans the globe. And with limited penetration in the U.S., FON presents a unique opportunity for enterprising minds looking to make a little money on the explosion of wireless connectivity. read more »

The Gamila Company has created a Tea Stick that promises to bring back the lost joys of tea drinking. Connoisseurs of tea will love this innovative new product. A slim, sleek stainless steel tube with perforations along its body, it is the ultimate infuser for tea enthusiasts. read more »

Tinchilla Instant Can Cooler

The Tinchilla Instant Can Cooler works with most 350 ml cans and gets them to ice cold from room temperature in under a minute.

All it requires are two AA batteries and as I mentioned a handful of ice.

The Tinchilla Instant Can Cooler works 240 times faster than a conventional fridge. read more »

Flatter has been designed to serve as a display for ladies' accessories like handbags and jewelry!

Being a woman Vanessa identifies with every woman's need of owning beautiful accessories. But she thinks it's a crime to put them away in cupboards and jewelry boxes, or beds and in drawers. read more »

Kavita Mathur, our Guest Blogger, is a public relations professional in the field of Education with a passion for communicating. Taking a much deserved break from her career to bring up her two children, she has gone back to her first love-writing - in her free time. She wanted to share her coolest gadget finds with the readers of AmericanInventorSpot.com.

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Well here is definitely a pen which can write away a fortune in a single stroke! The Limited Edition Mystery Masterpiece. read more »

So you've been holding out for that Led Zeppelin box set, not sure if you want to drop the cash or just start downloading from iTunes. Well imagine a black iPod nano with the Zoso logo emblazoned across and the whole catalog pre-loaded. Would that make the deal a little more tempting? A recent agreement between Apple and The Beatles may pave the way for just that sort of thing, and a whole new market for enterprising minds has been created. Read on to find out how... read more »

A furniture line which is made up of contemporary vernacular designs.

What?

Where?

How?

and Why?

I got looking and was hooked. All the furniture made by these folks is recycled; yes you got it right—-RECYCLED.

The company uses wastes from teak, steel, and plastic industries, to create contemporary lines with Asian carpentry techniques. read more »

Often when the need for a drink arises, most of us rummage through cutlery drawers or stands, look through kitchen counters in the desperate attempt to find the elusive, all important tool—the bottle opener. Ok, ok so you are the super organized type, who knows where everything exactly is…but this is for the “normal” mortals…

The Suck UK team needs to be congratulated for this cool, new bar accessory. A fridge magnet that doubles up as a bottle opener. read more »

Looking for a new beverage to help celebrate special occasions?

Our Guest Blogger, Aditi Simlai Tiwari, is a never tiring, full time mother of two and part time writer. She is always looking for newer things to do and new ways to do them in. She found some innovative food concepts that she wanted to share with readers of AmericanInventorSpot.com.

Here's her article: read more »

Got the middle-age blues.
Can't drive, forgot my drivers
Can't read, lost my readers
Gotta feel my way around the keyboard,
My whole life's just one big blur.
Got the middle age blues.

Dang glasses, wherever you are,
get lost! I'm gonna change my
eyes for a brand new pair! read more »