The Comics Factory is a brand new online service which creates personalized, officially licensed Marvel, TCF Original, and custom character art from your photo. The Comics Factory can bring your likeness onto the body of your favorite superhero as a custom hand-drawn masterpiece. Portraits start at only $110.00 and the ordering process is simple. Just choose a character and upload a photo. Within 3 business days receive a hand illustrated proof for approval. Once approved a completely custom comic portrait will be created, printed on museum quality canvas or paper, stretched, rolled or framed and sent out for delivery.

Idea tipped by David Babich. Thanks!

btl Optical makes spectacle frames out of 100% recycled materials using the finest lenses and hinges, manufactured and assembled in Los Angeles, CA. btl Optical’s frames are made out of recycled materials. One of the really amazing aspects of manufacturing using repurposed materials is that each production run will be a limited edition because it is restricted by the amount of each specific material that is available. This makes btl eco-friendly eyewear frames unique from batch to batch.

Unique tablecloth with special permission to draw on it! Looks like giant piece of graph paper, with lines and notebook holes; Comes ready for coloring with 8 washable fabric pens; So much fun to color on the table and you can wash it out and start again!

Table Cloth Draw On [7 Gadgets]

Made from Tyvek, the Insulated Brown Paper Bag is tear-proof, leak-resistant and way more durable than your standard paper sacks.  It looks exactly like an old-school brown bag, too, complete with wrinkles and creases for finish — just like paper.  The bag, which measures 10 x 7.5 inches, copies the classic paper bag  design with a roll top closure and a spacious interior for holding all your stuff in.

Insulated, Reusable Brown Paper Bag [CoolThings]

Philadelphia based industrial designer John Paulick had a great idea. He created a system of modular wine racks, inspired by beehives, capable to accomodate a wine collection of any size and fit in any space. The product, called WineHive, is lite, sturdy, fully collapsible and ships flat. You can start with the wine rack of any size. And when you are ready to add to your honeycomb-looking structure – you simply slide panels into each other and voilà. No tools, no sweat, no manuals to read.

Wine Hive [Shoebox Dwelling]

Mouth-scrubbing bristles meet Bluetooth tech with the Beam Brush, the world’s first app-equipped toothbrush. Set to hit stores for approximately $50, the brush wirelessly communicates vital teeth-polishing stats to the user’s smartphone via an accompanying app and a sensor that tracks exactly how long bristles are scrubbing.

The app also provides a handy visual timer so users can meet the recommended two-minute brushing mark. For now the Beam Brush merely tracks the length of brushing sessions over time. Future versions plan even more comprehensive tracking, including the ability to specifically monitor which sections of the mouth have been brushed so as to direct users toward oft neglected areas.

Beam Brush toothbrush app tracks how good you are at oral care [Iconoculture]

Dream Big Toy Company created Go! Go! Sports Girls as a fun and educational way to promote self-appreciation and the benefits of daily exercise, healthy eating and sleeping habits, self-esteem and overall healthy life-skills for girls ages 3-12.

Go! Go! Sports Girls™ are age and size appropriate. They do not encourage an older or overly mature image. The image is innocent with a subtle yet strong message – appreciate and be true to yourself! The dolls are currently available at retailers nationwide as well as through a variety of online vendors.

6LeggedTees are t-shirts that keep bugs away in style. Using a patent-pending technology to bind permethrin to clothing, it provides effective, invisible, odorless, and built-in protection against all sorts of bugs. The treatment lasts for 70 trips through the laundry machine.

Up until now, consumers wanting to stay plugged in to the Web while on the go have had to keep one eye on their smartphone and one on the sidewalk. Enter Vuzix Smart Glasses.

Showcased at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show and due in stores circa summertime, the forthcoming glasses double as both a high-contrast Web-connected HD display and slick sun-blockers.

The glasses transform online input coming from compatible WiFi-enabled mobile devices into hologram structures that are directly overlaid on the viewer’s line of sight, creating an image that is equal parts virtual and real-world.

Vuzix are sunglasses with a built-in smartphone screen [Iconoculture]

The Feed Me iPhone case is made of silicon and coated with urethane, and it comes in four different colours: pink, orange, grey, and black. The ‘mouth’ slit opens up just enough for you to stuff anything from your earbud headphones, sticks of chewing gum, credit cards, and even money in there. It also comes with some cute little eye stickers so you can, uh, give your case a more humanistic feel.

Feed Me iPhone case is cute and functional [Macgasm]

While bottled water is available in most large towns throughout the world, in many remote locations the water quality is questionable. Even where bottled water is available it seems extremely wasteful to throw away a dozen plastic bottles every day. We used the Katadyn Pocket Microfilter to fill up our own canteens. On a bike trip through SouthEast Asia we were able to avoid purchasing about 20 of those liter bottles of water every day by having the pump. And of course in places without bottled water, this was a life-saver.

So what’s so great about it? Katadyn has been making this filter for decades. It has been used by the Navy Seals and other special forces for years. The aluminum construction makes it very durable.The filter is fully field-cleanable. That means there is no expensive filter cartridge to replace after a month of use. The ceramic cartridge in the Katadyn Pocket has a life of 13,000 gallons or 50,000 liters. So this filter will last for a lifetime of any adventure.

Katadyn Pocket Microfilter [Cool Tools]