That sucking sound you hear is purse strings being tightened
Even affluent consumers have been tightening their purse strings. According to a new consumer confidence poll conducted by Unity Marketing, luxury consumer spending was down 19.7% in Q2 2008 compared with the same period the previous year, and down 5.3% from Q1 2008.  [...]

Little Gordon gives his Mum a mouthful
The Little Gordon series is part of a brilliant advertising campaign for Caterer.com, a job portal for the UK hospitality industry. Second video after the jump.
 

In the movie version, the towel had to be added to conceal the impressive, but totally x-rated, shadow
We live in a world filled with some very odd people. However, it is exactly that, the odd, the ugly, and the weird that make up feel like we’re somehow better than the other guy. Well, in this [...]

 
 Water Watcher
Aw, here’s a cute piece of news: 12-year-old inventor Elizabeth Rintel has won the grand prize in a “Going Green Challenge” by youth media company By Kids For Kids with her “Water Watcher,” a device that measures and monitors water usage in the shower.
 

 
 Olympic Volleyball Player Kerri Walsh
For the longest time I thought the black sinewy thing on Olympic beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh’s shoulder was either a confused Alien face sucker, a horny spider, a bad tattoo decision (a la Mike Tyson), or all of the above. Turns out I was way off, and it’s actually Kinesio [...]

 
 Solar Powered Neck Tie
Over the years we’ve seen plenty of solar powered accessories that can give your various gadgets a much needed energy boost. The problem is that most of them make you look like a starving student or hippie.

When a train travels, one of the biggest problems is that the train has to stop and start again at each and every stop. This causes problems in two ways. First off, the journey is slowed right down as the train stops for several minutes and then has to wind back up to full speed [...]

Double-Taker (Snout)
If you like things that are interactive, you might like Double-Taker (Snout), which happens to be an interactive installation. Golan Levin designed the snout, which consists of an eight-foot long industrial robotic arm, and it deceptively looks similar to a pachyderm’s trunk. Video after the jump.

The stricter the rules, the goofier the women appear
In a Muslim country where the numbers of women wearing the veil are rising, and so — by most accounts — are incidents of groping and catcalls in the streets, the message in ads circulating anonymously in e-mails in Egypt is clear:
“A veil to protect, or eyes [...]