Understanding the new realities of economic development
Thomas Frey:  The USPTO is hiring. In fact they are doing a lot of hiring, over 1,200 new examiners every year, and they still can’t keep up with the deluge of new patent filings. But while the number of patent filings has grown from 90,544 in 1967 to [...]

 Affairs can be deadly
Men, beware! An extra-marital affair can do more than just killing your marriage — it could kill you too, particularly if you are prone to bad headaches.

Baby Got Back
Love big butts and want to carry some around everywhere you go? Then you surely will want to lug around these “female form” inspired backpacks dubbed “The Peach” by Yen-Hsiang Skeet Wang.
 

 
 Ring-Cellphone
Even though it’s one of the tiniest cell phones you’ve probably ever seen, it would be difficult to lose this one. As its name implies, the “ring-cellphone” is worn on the finger, and includes all the components of a functional cell phone.

Oh To Be A Cat
Don’t you sometimes wish you were a cat? Cats really know how to find all those feel-good spots. And the Hagin Catit Cat Spa knows where they are and how to reach them. After all, there’s nothing like a ‘feel good’ toy for a cat.

 
Bird Bra
Feather lingerie? When I first came across this idea, the first question that came to mind was, WHY?
Why would anyone want to wear feathers, fake or otherwise, under their clothes?
Granted they are pretty, but I think somewhat impractical.

 
When an object moves fast, we follow it with our eyes: our brain correspondingly calculates the speed of the object and adapts our eye movement to it. This in itself is an enormous achievement, yet our brain can do even more than that. In the real world, a car will typically accelerate or brake faster [...]

 
An offbeat suggestion that Australians should eat kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep has been given a scientific stamp of approval by the government’s top climate change adviser.

 
 SmartSwim Bikini
Even though summer’s over, you still need to beware of those UV rays when you head out on that Caribbean cruise this fall. That’s where this pricy ($99) Solestrom SmartSwim UV Intensity Bikini might just save your life (or the life of that comely companion of yours). Its attached beads are sensitive to sunlight, [...]

 
 Mantra
Looks like if Baywatch ever airs again, it’ll be filled with less rippling bodies and more autonomous underwater rescue vehicles – AUVs that would look pretty darn scary circling around you in the water.