Now All The Music Geeks Get To Be “Heroes”

I was amused when I saw the Cowbell Hero T-shirt in a catelog, but my jaw dropped when I saw 50 other designs.

A New Way To Cook

Before the introduction of the Nu-wave Infrared Oven also known as the Nu-Wave 20322 Pro Digital-Controlled Infrared Table Top (whew!) using the oven during the sweltering warmer months of the year was a common dilemma. No matter how good the meal, how well you cook and how high the air conditioner […]

Now that’s PIZAZZ!

ColourLovers has a collection of very colorful nudibranch photos, and their color palettes, too!
Part of the mollusk phylum, Nudibranchs are the shell-less relatives of the snail and are known for their garish colors. These tiny sea creatures are usually only 2cm - 6cm in length and can be found worldwide.

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One more way to beat the system
Little girl enters stuffed animal heaven. Stuck, but then rescued. 
 

 
In the days of sailing the open seas, walking the plank, and sanding your peg-leg by hand, it was all the rage to have a bird on your shoulder. These days it’s frowned upon for some reason. That’s where the Birdcage backpack comes in.

 
There’s something fascinating about unusually-designed staircases, and we’ve shown you a few. We’ve even displayed one that goes nowhere at all.
 

 
The thought of life fifty years hence sprouts the most amazing creations in the world of designing leaving us in a semi bereaved state for the fear of not existing then.
 

 
 Are you feeling okay today?
A robot with empathy sounds like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but with the aid of neural networks European researchers are developing robots in tune with our emotions. The tantalising work of the Feelix Growing project is grabbing the world’s attention.

Converting genetic activity into music may be a way to monitor health.
When set to music, colon cancer sounds kind of eerie. That’s the finding of Gil Alterovitz, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School who is developing a computer program that translates protein and gene expression into music. In his acoustic translation, harmony represents good […]

A new standard in cheap elegance
We’ve gotten so used to beer cans, why not put wine in pop-top cans, too? This wine can was winner of the 2006 Swedish packaging design award. It was designed by Jens Andersson and Jonas Forsman and it is notable as an easily recycled single serve can.