My family is addicted to jigsaw puzzles. When a special birthday came up for one of my daughters, I prepared a photo collage using paint.net and ordered a photo jigsaw puzzle from Venus Puzzle. The puzzle comes in a custom box, shrink wrapped and with a copy of the submitted photo on the cover, commercial quality. Puzzle pieces and printing was of excellent quality.

Developed by Japan-based Neurowear, the Mico headset looks like a regular pair of headphones, with the addition of an EEG reader that rests on the forehead and senses neural activity. Analyzing the signals enables the device to detect the mood of the wearer, which it exhibits using an LED display on the earpieces. When connected to the Mico app, this information is used to select a song from its database that matches the emotion. Currently, the tracks in the library are tagged with one of three moods – focused, sleepy and stressed. As well as getting rid of the step of scrolling through thousands of songs to find one that suits your mood, Mico headphones also provide a Pandora-like service, helping users discover new music.

In Japan, headphones detect user’s mood and play music accordingly [Springwise]

The Silent History is a groundbreaking novel, written and designed specially for iPad and iPhone, that uses serialization, exploration, and collaboration to tell the story of a generation of unusual children. The story is told through daily updates, about 1500 words each, delivered through the app each weekday. For readers who wish to explore the world of the novel in more depth, there are also hundreds of location-based stories across the U.S. and around the world. These can be read only when your device’s GPS matches the coordinates of the specified location.

Guide is a platform that enables blog readers to turn the content into a personalized television news-style video channel.

Users signing up to Guide can load feeds ranging from social networks to blogs onto their personal account. They are also prompted to select a presenter – a digital ‘news anchor’ that uses text-to-speech software to read aloud content from the feeds – that can take the form of a human, robot, anime character, dog or cat. The multimedia content in each article or post is then reformatted to fit the news program style, with headlines displayed as text on the screen, body content spoken by the anchor and videos played at the same point they are inserted into the post.

Blog feeds turned into personalized TV show [Springwise]

This AirBnB hotel is Germany encourage guests to imbibe choice libations from their regional brewery – and you can even spend the night in a beer barrel bed! The hotel room for the ultimate beer baron invites guests to snooze in a giant 19th Century beer barrel that has been converted into cozy sleeping quarters. The vintage wood barrel comfortable sleeps two beer lovers.

This particularly historic beer barrel was in use for over 100 years – from the 19th Century until 1995. A half-circle of the end cap has been removed, and a platform was installed inside to support a double mattress

The street artist conceived a brilliant idea to hang square sheets of bubble wrap for transit patrons to enjoy as they wait. The sheets are positioned under a cardboard placard reading “Antistress For Free!”. People can choose from three differentiating plastic sheets that take from three to ten minutes to pop. Bursting the bubbles on plastic shipping wrap is globally well known as a simple and addictive pleasure, and Biancoshock was able to see how it may be applied to de-stress high strung city-dwellers.

The Fra.Biancoshock Anti-Stress Station seems to be one of the cheapest and most effective therapeutic inventions ever made.

The Fra.Biancoshock Anti-Stress Station is Therapeutic Street Art [Trendhunter]

Birds&Eggs creative toy set allow children to create various birds with gathering different stylized body pieces. Designed for children above the age of 5, it is a universal toy that children from different cultural backgrounds learn and discover living animals while also designing their own birds. Set consists of head, neck, body, wing, tail and feet pieces. There are 24 characteristic bird heads including duck, owl, parrot, pelican and more. Parts are interchangeable and create an option set, which in the end enables creating thousands of bird types.

Birds’n Eggs designed by Dr. Hakan Gürsu, this design has won A’ Design Award Winner for Toy, Games and Hobby Products Design Category in 2011.

Young professionals can let loose during their lunch hour and shake off any work tension at Lunch Beats, the Stockholm-born lunchtime club concept which premiered in Berlin in May 2012. Lunch-hour clubbing sessions come complete with healthy food, non-alcoholic drinks (usually water) and techno beats.

Whether they’re freelancers or employees, young professionals are looking for fulfilling ways to shape their work days, as well as time not spent in front of a computer screen. Dancing isn’t just for night-time, it’s a hugely popular way to let loose. Young professionals don’t want to miss out on that. It’s also a smart way for health-conscious consumers to relieve stress.

Berlin professionals spend their lunch breaks dancing [Iconoculture]

The Monkey Light 8-Bit Bike Wheel Light is just a lovely piece of awesome. The battery pack straps to your bike wheel’s hub (so it doesn’t mess up the balance) and the light unit quickly installs near the tire. With a few button presses, you’re selecting one of 20 different light patterns which will blast out of both sides of your tire (5 super-bright LEDs per side). $49.99

And then you get to select the colors you want (each theme has many color options). Finally, use science (persistence of vision) and your own muscles (pedaling power) to turn 10 spots of light into awesome streaking patterns. Skulls, invaders from space, rocket ships, fiery comets, and 16 more!

Monkey Light 8-Bit Bike Wheel Light [7gadgets]

Designed by Emanuele Magini for Campeggi, it’s just a simple chair with net wrapped around the legs.  While dead easy, that little tweak just turned the chair into a proper goal — one that I’m optimistic can make for hours of fun (and broken stuff) with a soccer ball and lots of imagination.

Presented at the Milan Design Week 2012, the Lazy Football Chair is made from metal and dressed in plain white paint.  The distance between the front legs of the chair has been widened to accommodate the encouraged gameplay, with a metal base connecting all of the legs for increased stability (so the chair doesn’t fall off when you hit a goal too hard).  The creator encourages a seated game of 1-on-1, where you each try to kick a ball into the other person’s goal.

Lazy Football Chair Features Built-In Soccer Goal [Cool Things]

The Clear29LT is one of the most flexible boards and soaks up road vibrations like a sponge. Pumping, cruising or shredding, there is no end to how much energy this board produces. Clear as glass, the rider can literally watch the asphalt go by through the Clear29LT deck like a window to the road, when daylight falls and you flip the switch the entire deck glows and can be seen for blocks.

Flexdex 29? Clear Lighted Skateboard with green LED lights [7 Gadgets]