Babygadget: Have you – or, more importantly, has your kid – discovered Smories yet? It’s a website with a simple premise: adults write short stories and kids read them straight to camera. The concept was born from a long overland trip in Africa, during which one of the founders’ kids filmed herself reading stories for the other, to the prolonged […]
Smories for Kids
Team Toasters
MLB.com: Everyone seems to be talking about these new toasters at the MLB.com Shop. They are hot. They toast your bread, your English Muffin, your frozen waffle – and the best part is that it produces your favorite Major League Baseball team’s logo on one side. “You don’t have to be a fan to love this,” said Josh Fink, CEO […]
Dream TV Machine
BornRich: Auton, known for its TV Lifts, has been doing well to conceal our plasma and LCD TV screens in cabinets at the touch of a button, but it has grown better in this hide and seek business with its latest creation — the Dream Machine. With its seamless and simple to operate ways, Auton’s Dream Machine slides your TV […]
Recycled Cassette Tape Neckties
technabob.com: Alyce Santoro’s Sonic Fabric line of neckties not only look cool, but they should hold a special appeal for New Yorkers: they’re made using 50% colored thread and 50% cassette tape, and the latter has been recorded with “loops and samples collected on and under the streets of NYC.” Recycled cassette tape neckties: audible wear [technabob.com]
Ritmo: iPod for Babies
RitmoTM – Pregnancy App from Nuvo Group LTD on Vimeo. Extensive scientific research shows numerous positive contributions of music to human fetal development. The Ritmo Advanced Sound System by Nuvo is the most advanced and complete prenatal music player, delivering quality and safe sound to the tiniest listeners. Ritmo allows you and your baby to share the sensory and emotional […]
iMinds Learning on the Go
iMinds offers 8-minute audio books that deliver bursts of knowledge on an array of topics through their iPods and other MP3 devices. MindTracks are designed to be a well-rounded subject overview of a general knowledge topic. iMinds researched and found that adult attention spans lapse approximately every eight minutes. This was an optimal length of time to get a concise […]
Wearable Rock Guitar
ThinkGeek: Here at ThinkGeek were just wishing for a fully playable guitar built into a t-shirt when along came the Pixie of ROCK… she wailed with face melting guitar solo and *POOF* there it was in our hands… The Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt. We turned on the mini amp, cranked the volume to 11 and started to rock. As the […]
Stop dreaming! Start flying!
Iconoculture: Far-fetched flying fantasies will soon become boutique thrill realities thanks to JetLev, a personal jet pack company whose motto says it all: “Stop dreaming! Start flying!” Soaring-obsessed consumers with serious scratch can get their hands on a JetLev starting in September 2009 for approximately $129,000. No one ever said flying was cheap. It’s hard to conceive of a more […]
Home Tiki Bar
TrendCentral: In-Home Bars: Why go to the bar when you can build one in your loft? That was the thinking of Chicago-based artist Dustin Ruegger. Using scrap wood, bar stools found in an alley, palm leaves, and decorations from the thrift store, Dustin built a Tiki bar in his house. Channeling the ghost of tropical vacations past, Dustin strung lights […]
The New Rubik’s Cube
Times Online: His cube was one of the most popular and infuriating toys of all time. Now Professor Ernö Rubik is hoping that the sphere will bring sleepless nights to the world’s obsessive puzzlers. The creator of Rubik’s Cube is back with his first new puzzle for almost 20 years and early indications are that it is going to be […]