The Green Head: Check out the new Topsy Turvy Upside Down Tomato Planter. Instead of planting your tomato plants in pots or in the ground, simply hang them up in the air, upside down, and eliminate the hassles of weeding, pests, hole digging, flimsy stakes and cages, and bending over to water, tend and harvest. The Topsy Turvy allows you […]

Springwise: It’s definitely a personalized world out there, so how about a miniature version of… yourself? My Twinn lets consumers personalize a 23″ doll to resemble any child aged 3-12, down to every detail. The site offers a choice of 15 face shapes, 4 skin tones, 8 eye colors, 8 hair colors and 11 hair lengths and textures. Prices start […]

Popgadget: Feeling guilty for keeping your goldfish in a little tiny bowl? The Goldfish Racetrack has an “infinity shape” so your goldfish (said to have a memory of 7 seconds) will think they are exploring the seven seas. I’m not sure if it’s humane or extra super cruel, tricking your fishies like this. I keep thinking of the fishbowl neurotics […]

Gizmodo: My brain goes all crunchy with potential Jetsons-type disaster of the Super Trainer Bicycle Treadmill. At about twelve feet long, three feet wide, and something like twenty-five hundred pounds, the Super Trainer simulates a patch of road with far more clarity than the so-called streets here in New York. With no restraints to hold the bike in place the […]

We Make Money Not Art: When threatened, animals often display physical warnings; e.g. porcupines or puffer fish both erect their spines as a physical defence and warning, snakes rattle their tales or expand their body, chamelions change colour… Wearable Warnings, a project by Philip Worthington at the RCA in London, is a coat inspired by such behaviour. The prototype coat […]

The Green Head: I think most of the Green Head Crew has given up the miserable smoking habit. Only Jenurple seems to be having trouble trying to stop and the cool product we’re showcasing today isn’t going to help at all! The Smoking Donkey Cigarette Dispenser is one of the the funniest things I have ever seen. You load up […]

Business Wire: First Base Productions, Inc. today announced the launch of their new website at www.MyDiaperBuddy.com. Customers and retailers will now be able to learn more about the company’s new and revolutionary product, My Diaper Buddy, the world’s first portable changing table. Customers will also have the ability to purchase the product online through www.MyDiaperBuddy.com’s secure shopping server and choose […]

BusinessWeek Online: The lust of iPod owners for their lovable little digital-music players is well-documented. But another group may be even more smitten with Apple Computer these days: The makers of the 400-plus iPod accessories that have stormed to market, from $19 plastic cases to $350 speaker systems. Take Tim Hickman, general manager of the three-employee company Speck Products in […]

Gizmodo: The new iSkin eVo2 Wildsides are everything I hate about “hip” product design: gaudy colors, ridiculous X-treM advertising, gimmicky glow-in-the dark features, a naming scheme that sounds like it was first carved by ballpoint on a 7th-grader’s notebook (Verve! Rebel! Diva!), and a price ($35) that far outweighs the amount of thought or effort that went into their creation. […]

BusinessWeek: Often technology companies think just because a product is technically feasible that it will be commercially desirable. So they mix two products — a watch and an Internet news feed, for example — and come up with a technological jackalope, a hybrid product that does neither of its functions particularly well. So when I first heard of the Oakley […]