Josh Spear: Check out this incredible Kickstarter project and support it if you can. Ive just now become an Executive Producer. The bracelets shown here (and highlighted in the video) are made from scrap metal left from bomb scraps in Laos. During the Vietnam War, the US military dropped more bombs on supply routes in Laos than it did on all of Europe during World War II.
FreshTrend: Change spends just as well as paper money yet we tend to neglect it, leaving coins all over our dressers, coffee tables, and car ashtrays.
Cool Tools: Many of us live in environments or buildings where air quality is poor or downright unhealthy, and many airborne pollutants and allergens end up in in our lungs. Depending on your sensitivity, age and other factors, what you can’t see (bacteria, pet allergens, mold spores, dust, pollen, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), etc.) can hurt you. The smaller the particulate, the easier it can get into your lungs and cause problems.
Inhabitat: While it may seem like tattoos are the norm now, no one has ink like this. A team from the University of Illinois led by John Rogers has devised a method to actually install LED lights under the skin. The research, published today in Nature Materials, saw the team develop flexible arrays 2.5 ?m thick and 100 x 100 ?m square which are currently smaller than any commercially available array.
Strange New Products: Tapi is a rubber adapter that fits onto the end of most sink and garden faucets allowing you to turn them into drinking fountains.
Iconoculture: The Photo Album Story Teller lets consumers give voice to their prized pictures. The battery-powered device comes packaged with 500 individually coded stickers. Consumers append a sticker to the photo of their choice and then scan the picture with the Story Teller and record their say on the snapshot. The next time the device passes over the pic, the story will begin playing through its speakers.
