 Personalized Protein Powders - YouShake::Sick of boring protein drinks? Customize your own! YouShake Make-A-Shake is the protein power you personalize, so it will only have the flavours you like and be supplemented with the ingredients you need… [MORE] |
 Toys as Cleaning Tools - The Dust Bunny::Dust Bunny is a cute and fuzzy duster that not only makes cleaning fun, but can also influence kids to get excited about cleaning. The bunny is made from high-tech, high-pile microfiber which is very effective… [MORE] |
 Humanized Temperature Gadgets - The Lunar Baby Thermometer::Zen: it’s the best way to describe it. We’ve all had a parent touch our foreheads to see if we have a fever. Designer Duck Young Kong has wed the loving touch of a parent with technology in his uber-elegant… [MORE] |
 Anime Army Recruitment - China’s Sexist Soldier Ads::Judging by these ads, the Chinese Army is having trouble attracting virile young men (or lesbians.) On the other hand, they might be recruiting for officer training.
These Chinese Army recruiting posters… [MORE] |
 Antibiotics from Excrement - Muskrat Feces Contains Bacteria Killer and Insecticide::The feces of muskrats, semi-aquatic rodents native to North America, has been found to contain a powerful antibiotic that kills the food-poisoning Salmonella and Vibio bacteria.
Researchers at Pusan… [MORE] |
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 59 Reasons to Return to the Kitchen - From Funky Fridges To The Lean Cuisine Recall::The Lean Cuisine recall has a lot of low-cal dieters frantic, but perhaps this is a good moment for them to explore alternatives to frozen diet meals.
Nestle announced the Lean Cuisine recall for 900,000… [MORE] |
 Bee Venom Therapy - Pay-Per-Sting Treatments::This new craze in beauty treatments won’t just sting your pockets, it uses actual bee stings and it hurts like hell. They don’t say it does, but it must do. My eyes are watering.
It is a specialist clinic… [MORE] |
 Weird Wrist Relaxers - The Arm Carpal Massager::Talk about putting yourself through the ringer! Repetitive stress syndrome sufferers can get some relief with the Arm Carpal Massager. It looks and works just like the old-fashioned washing machine ringers.… [MORE] |
 Freaky Global Beauty Rituals - From Bird-Poo Facials to Placenta Shakes::Bizarre beauty trends can be traced back to ancient times, but still reign as supreme and shocking today as they ever were. From Bird-poop facials to mayonnaise skin cremes, these top secret beauty regiments… [MORE] |
 Sticky Medical Breakthroughs - Scotch Tape X-Rays::Researchers at UCLA have harnessed the power of Scotch tape to get X-rays. If the tape is rolled off its spool in a vacuum chamber, it apparently emits X-rays. The process works so well that the scientists… [MORE] |
 Bizarre Holistic Healing - Russian Urine Exported for Health Purposes::A website has started selling Russian urine for export to the U.S. armed with a slogan that reads “Russian Urine Against Doctor's Scalpel.”
The company has been established for eight tears and all of… [MORE] |
 Asanas for Animals - Crunch Gyms Offer 'Ruff Yoga' Classes::The ancient practice of yoga has always led to peace and enlightenment, but not even the masters could have expected that its modernization would apply as much to creatures with four legs as those of us… [MORE] |
 Tailgate Toilets - The Backroad Commode::This device is another one of those, ”I wish I would have thought of this” gimmick.
When hunters are wandering through the woods in search of Bambi’s brethren this fall, the last thing they will want… [MORE] |
 Free Healthcare 2.0 Services - CareFlash::When a family member falls ill, often times our lives are thrown into a tizzy. We do our best to balance trips to the hospital, learning about the illness, getting meals done, and updating friends and… [MORE] |
 Public Toilet Finders - Locate Lovely Loos at SitorSquat.com::As I've mentioned in previous posts, public toilets are places that I go to great lengths to try and avoid due to their unpleasant nature. However, this new public restroom finder website SitorSquat.com… [MORE] |
 Repeat Pregnant Men - Thomas Beatie Expecting Second Kid::Just five months after giving birth to a little girl, Thomas Beatie, the world’ first Pregnant Man, announced that he is expecting again.
Thomas Beatie told Barbara Walters that he is in his first trimester.… [MORE] |
 Urban Kayaks - The Transformer TRAK::Wired Magazine called it a 'freakin transformer.' How else could a shape-shifting, high performance, 16 foot kayak fit into a portable 4 foot bag? Through 10,000 years of R&D;from Inuit of the North.… [MORE] |
 Breast Feeding Addictions - Salma Hayek Won't Stop Nursing::According to internet buzz, Selma Hayek told Britain’s Style magazine that she is addicted to breast feeding her daughter Valentina who was born in 2007.
“I’m like an alcoholic. It is like, I don’t care… [MORE] |
 Free Botox For The Poor - Poverty Vanity in Brazil::If you live in Brazil and make less than $250, perhaps you're wishing you could get Botox injections. Well you're in luck! The Brazilian Society of Esthetic Medicine is offering free Botox injections and… [MORE] |
 The Obama Brand - Marketers Hope Public Will Say "Yes We Can"::Michelle Obama made a big splash with her fashions when she appeared on the view and Jay Leno. Although her fashion choices seemed to fizzle on election night, the Obama’s show more flair than any other… [MORE] |
 50 Celebrations of Nakedness::It’s very apparent that we love stories about people donning their full or partial birthday suits. After all, the human body is fascinating—especially when naked.
Advertisers capitalize on the nude body… [MORE] |
 Free Transsexual Surgeries - Prosthetic Penis Promotion in Sweden::In January, Swedish transsexual men (males born as females) can get undergo a prosthetic Johnson surgery for free from a certified plastic surgeon. The only catch is that the appendage comes only in the… [MORE] |
 Diagnosing Internet Addiction - China Suggests Psychiatric Care For Web Junkies::Think you might be addicted to the internet? China has officially given the first diagnosis for what it medically diagnoses as 'internet addiction.'
While we mentioned a few months back that there were… [MORE] |
 31 Earthquake Innovations For China's $585 Billion Economic Stimulus Plan::China has announced a $585 billion economic stimulus plan to help it counteract the worldwide financial crisis. Innovating through crisis is critical, and precisely what China intends to do with this spending.… [MORE] |
 Diabetes on Disney - Controversial ‘Hannah Montana’ Season Premiere Axed::The season premiere of ‘Hannah Montana’ was axed by Disney after it received a horrendous response from concerned parents who watched a preview of the episode.
The episode was called “No Sugar, Sugar”… [MORE] |
 Cigarette Art - Cancer Stick Flowers::Finally, a way for smokers to impress people at a party rather than irritating them (and their throats). A much healthier alternative to actually smoking a cigarette is using it to create a pretty flower.… [MORE] |
 Working Out for Charity - The Plus 3 Network Matches Athletes to Corporate Sponsors::When most people are on a budget, charitable donations are often the first expenditures to get axed. The Plus 3 Network, however, rewards athletic individuals by donating on their behalf to the charity… [MORE] |
 31 Massage Innovations - From Snake Massages to Kendra Wilkinson as RMT::Who doesn’t like a good massage? While most of go cross-eyed with relaxation and adore getting them, some, like Kendra Wilkinson, actually enjoy giving them too. Since we’re all not lucky enough to have… [MORE] |
 Political Fashion Influences - Tag Heuer Knocks Off Sarah Palin's Glasses::Sarah Palin and her Kawasaki eyeglasses either launched a new design direction in the eyeglass world, or Sarah Palin was right on the leading edge of fashion eyeglasses. I suspect the latter.
Sarah Palin… [MORE] |
 Public Health Interventions - Kerry Katona’s On-Air PR Disaster::Kerry Katona is a UK trainwreck celebrity. Formally in a girl band called Atomic Kitten, she is known for having the biggest sleaze in the world as a husband and her own MTV reality show.
A few weeks… [MORE] |
 Touchscreen Heart-Lung Machines - The Maquet Cardiohelp::Heart-Lung machines had less in common with the elegant functionality of normal hearts and lungs and more in common with machines. They were clunky, largely immovable, and difficult to operate.
MAQUET… [MORE] |
 Robotic Prescription Filling - 'Intellifill IV' Uses Barcodes::According to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academics, medication errors are the most common medical errors causing harm to at least 1.5 million people annually. Costs of these errors conservatively… [MORE] |
 One Breasted Mannequins - Breast Cancer Awareness Dolls::This effective breast cancer awareness campaign, created by advertising agency Memac Ogilvy in Dubai, saw a one-breasted mannequin placed at lingerie and swimwear boutique, Bare Essentials.
Breast self… [MORE] |
 Home Birthing Tubs - The Waterbirth Vessel::Giving birth is probably the most rewarding painful experience any woman will ever endure, but just because the end result is incredibly worth it, doesn't mean she shouldn't try to alleviate the pain.… [MORE] |
 Eco Aquatic Vehicles - The iDive Runs on Salt Water::Jet Skis sound like a blast, but the environmental damage they do makes them unappealing. The iDive by Serhiy Yevtushenko, however, could be the green solution: it was designed to run on salt water.
Although… [MORE] |
 The Ear Pressure Equalizers - Pain-Free Ear Travel::We've all been there: that awkward state when the pressure changes and your ears get blocked, and you try a variety of strange techniques, like trying to induce yawns, or plugging your nose and blowing… [MORE] |
 32 Running Innovations - New York Marathon Must-Haves::The New York Marathon has attracted quite the crowd this year, from athletes to celebrities like Ryan Reynolds and Howard Stern’s wife, Beth Ostrosky.
The event actually attracts quite the VIP following,… [MORE] |
 Revolutionizing Intravenous Nanotechnology - Self-Powered Microbeads::One of my favorite movies when I was growing up was Fantastic Voyage, where five people (one of whom was Racquel Welch) and their submarine-type vessel were shrunk down so they could be injected into the… [MORE] |
 Medical Science Breakthroughs - The Autonomous Artificial Heart::Well-heeled heart disease patients have a new lease on life with the development of the world's first fully-functioning autonomous artificial heart. While its $192,000 price tag is steep, its incredible… [MORE] |
 Swiping Cards For Better Health - Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR)::If you are using a computer right now, (and while I do not believe I have psychic powers, I do believe you are using one right now), the technology that is used to read your hard drive may soon be used… [MORE] |
 Brainwave Modifying Chairs - The Mood Boosting 'Sonic Lounger'::If you ask me, the Sonic Lounger for Taiz Design looks a little gruesome, more torture than pleasure-centric, but the designers say the benefits it offers are definitely interesting.
The apparatus uses… [MORE] |
 Self-Heating Meal Packs - MREs for Soldiers, Firefighters and Emergencies::Instant meals have gone from microwave TV dinners to incredibly high tech foods that can heat themselves.
Meals Ready to Eat (MRE) are high energy, 1,200 calorie, packages developed for soldiers, medics… [MORE] |
 Diet Wonder Drugs - Tesofensine Could Double Weight Loss::A new diet wonder drug has just been tested and shown that it can double the weight loss in obese people when compared to other approved drugs. These promising findings were carried out by Danish researchers… [MORE] |
 Cell Phones for the Blind - Nokia knfbReader Mobile::This incredible Nokia cell phone could revolutionize communication for blind people. While the phone only costs $600, it's the $2,400 software by KNFB Reading Technologies Inc. that will bring independence… [MORE] |
 Social Networking for Healthcare - HealthWorldWeb::HealthWorldWeb provides users the chance to rate local doctors based upon the care they provide. The rating system is broken up into more than just a few simple questions. Doctors are reviewed and rated… [MORE] |
 11 Full-Figured Celebrations - From Jennifer Hudson to Big Body Painting::Jennifer Hudson is emerging as a source of inspiration for grieving families worldwide, but this plus-sized diva has been a living example of full-figured beauty in the entertainment industry ever since… [MORE] |
 Weddings on Portable Beds - 1000 lb Man Gets Married::The world’s heaviest man recently married his longtime girlfriend. Mexican, Manuel Uribe once weighed 1,230 pounds (560 kilograms) and made it into the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records. Since then,… [MORE] |
 Wheelbarrows as Eco Transit - Christania Bikes::The Christania Bikes are the hippest new innovation as far as transporting your children is concerned.
We are talking healthy living for the whole family here. Fresh air, exercise come rain or shine,… [MORE] |
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