Kusa Flip Flops Have Grassy Soles, Never Need Watering

Kusa Flip Flops Have Grassy Soles, Never Need WateringKeep ON the grass! With Kusa Flip-Flops, your lawn is underfoot whenever and wherever you walk. The shaggy Syn-Turf soled sandals let you relive one of summer’s sweet simple pleasures: wriggling your toes in the cool green grass.


Japanese Face Slimmer Smooths Skin, Shrinks Face, Scares Everyone

Japanese Face Slimmer Smooths Skin, Shrinks Face, Scares EveryoneLose that Duckface and put on a Blow-up Doll face! The "Face Slimmer" may make you look silly (or worse) while you wear it but the promised reward of a bonafide “beautiful woman smile” make three minutes a day of shame more than worthwhile.


Turn Your iPhone Into A REAL Camera With The iPhone Shutter Grip

It’s summer time. Vacation’s coming up. Of course, you’re taking your
iPhone with you; how could you exist without it, now that you have one? 
But won’t you have to take your camera as well?  Admit it; it’s not
that easy to manipulate the iPhone to take photos or videos.  Unless…
you have an iPhone Shutter Grip.


Pepsi Salty Watermelon is Pepsi Japan’s New Sweet Seasonal Treat

Pepsi Salty Watermelon is Pepsi Japan's New Sweet Seasonal TreatAnother season, another new & exciting Pepsi flavor! This time around the drink designers at Pepsi Japan have reached back to a traditional Japanese summertime treat, salted watermelon.


Is Buffy, The Mobile Slayer, Facebook’s Ace In The Hole?

Being left behind on the mobile landscape has motivated countless
bloggers and techie prognosticators to cyberventilate as to FB’s future.
Based on an 11th hour stock devaluation by the company themselves (see
previous post, "Facebook’s IPO Morality Tale…"),
coupled with the claim the company can’t survive in the public sphere
relying solely on ad revenues, Zuck has ridden a roller-coaster of
criticism in one week’s time that has cast yet another shadow over the
world’s largest social network.


Lettuce-like Vegetabrella Turns Rainy Days to Salad Days

Lettuce-like Vegetabrella Turns Rainy Days to Salad DaysThe Vegetabrella from Japan’s Tokyo Noble is as green and wrinkly as a fresh head of lettuce, and the resemblance grows even stronger when it’s rolled up. Just be sure you leave the lettuce in the fridge and take the Vegetabrella along on stormy days or you’ll end up as soggy as an un-spun salad.


Mt. Fuji Travel Tissue Case Blows Its Top When You Blow Your Nose

Mt. Fuji Travel Tissue Case Blows Its Top When You Blow Your NoseSneeze the moment with a cute & clever Mt. Fuji Travel Tissue Case! The 100% cotton case designed by Tomohiro Ikegaya for Goodbymarket relies on users to provide the case’s one moving part: the tissue paper poking out from Mt. Fuji’s snow-capped summit.


Facebook’s IPO Morality Tale: If The Green Shoes Fit, Wear Them?

Facebook’s reversal of fortunes in such a short span of time has played
out almost like a modern-day morality tale.  The fall-out of the social
network post-IPO, after such an enthusiastic build-up was telling. While it lined the
pockets of some (namely investment bankers), it deprived the 99
Percenters (or Dumb F*cks
as Zuckerberg so adroitly labeled them back in 2004) full-disclosure,
resulting in a subsequent short-fall on their FB investment.


FCC Takes Transformer Pad Infinity For A Spin

Those waiting for the upcoming high-DPI
Asus tablet computer should not have to wait much longer.


Calling All Inventors! FridaBaby Wants Your Baby Product Ideas

I’m going to try to write this with a straight face…. The FridaBaby company, which I have just learned of, markets some very inventive and ‘curious’ products for babies so far. One is called the Snotsucker, which employs a mom (or dad)  to suck the snot out of their baby’s nose….