Din-Ink

Sometimes there are good ideas that when actualized turn out not to be so great - like Communism. These Din-Ink utensils, heat resistant and biodegradable, sound like the greatest pairing since peanut butter and chocolate until further reflection reveals that I don't want to write anything while I'm eating. My eating time is one of the rare moments in the day when my mind is allowed to roam free. Having a pen or pencil with me while eating is verboten for 2008 because, inevitably, I'll try and do a little bit more work. This is the year I appreciate the little moments.

Puma Glow Rider Bike

How come no one's thought of this before is beyond me. Puma's third in their bike series features a glow in the dark bike. It's not only very cool looking but has the added bike-safety benefit of higher visibility when riding at night. The bike uses a paint that absorbs light during the day and at night the glow can be seen by all admirers. The frame is single-gear and can be folded for portability and space-saving storage. And for any would-be thieves who are covetous of your prize, the bike features an integrated wire lock system, which means if it's stolen and rode without the wire, the bike will auto-destruct. I don't know if that includes lots of flames and explosions but I like it.

Frozen Smiles

I brush my teeth twice a day and floss every night in the hopes of avoiding having to wear dentures when I'm a decrepit old man. But if I do, I'll be sure to pull the time-honored trick that every denture wearer has done of placing my false teeth in a glass of soda for a guest. As disgusting as that sounds, it was done to me by a family friend. There's few things more startling than to see another person's teeth at the bottom of your soda. Even without dentures I can simulate the trick with these teeth shaped ice bits. Let the hilarity ensue.

Lucky Ruler

For the triskaidekaphobic empiricists, this ruler eliminates the anxiety of confronting the number 13 by skipping from 12 to 14. Though, for the truly unlucky, whatever they're measuring would ironically fall on that blank spot.

Glass Radiator

Made of safety glass for your, well, safety, these 13mm glass radiators are a visual upgrade solution for heating your living space. The maximum heat output is 1000 W/m2, which I imagine is hot enough for you not to press your face against the glass. I think it's a terrific design but I'd be worried about children and pets walking into it. Heck, I'd be worried about me walking into it. I collide with clearly visible walls on a regular basis. There are options for etching designs in the glass to offset this problem.

Three-Legged Chopstick

As a regular user of chopsticks I’m trying to figure out the advantage of have a three-legged chopstick. But I suppose since I grew up using them it doesn’t occur to me that for many people using chopsticks is a masochistic endeavor. You see the food, you want the food, you just can’t get the food into your mouth. Having extra “tines” on the sticks would make them more like forks and save everyone the embarrassment of watching you chase a noodle around the plate when we’re all ready for dessert.

Laser Guided Scissors - Laser guides you through cutting out your desired shape

Using a pair of scissors to cut out your desired shape on paper or cloth is somehow no easy task. Yeah, I mean it. For those who seldom use scissors to cut things will mostly have problem driving it on a piece of cloth or paper to cut out your required shape. But, no worry, today’s technology can help! Here comes a pair of laser guided scissors, which uses laser to guide you through your cutting.

The laser guided scissors have a push button on the right side, which a press will beam the laser along the blades. You’ve gotta adjust the laser by turning the two screws till it’s properly lined up with the upper blade. Then you’ll have to make a mark on the opposite side of the paper or fabric being cut. Reset bottom blade of scissors on surface and align laser with the mark, then start your cutting… Sounds complicated?
Buy online, Brando, $11

Lavatory Navigator lights up your toilet in dark

Lavatory Navigator or LavNav in short is the little gadget that you can attach to the cover of your toilet bowl to make it glow or light up when you approach it in dark. You know, when you get up in the middle of night to have your late night pee, and you wouldn’t wanna disturb your significant other, so you’d choose not to turn on the light of the room. But, this will surely cause urine stains all around if you’re peeing in the dark, which would most probably piss your significant other off the next morning!

Rolling Bench - rolls the other side up for dry seat!

Somehow it’s kind of hard to maintain the cleanliness or dryness of the bench which has cushion that sucks up wetness. Especially bench left in an open space will get spoiled after a rainy day or by some wet butts. The rolling bench here is definitely a neat idea. Once it gets wet, you just need to roll its handle at the side to rotate and expose the dry side of the seat.

It’d be a plus, if the bench could come equipped with some blowers or dryers attached to its two legs to dry up the wet side that has been rotated downward.

Solar Charge ECO - a cell phone charm that sucks sunlight for charging your phone!

The Solar Charge eco has an embedded solar panel that collects sunshine all day and stores the energy into its built-in battery. Having it exposed to to six hours of sunshine allows you to have about thirty minutes of use. This should be sufficient to use your cellphone during emergency, such as while you’ve lost your way, and you’re dependent on your cell’s GPS system, the thirty minutes shall be able to let you use it to guide your direction home. The idea is neat, but it’s only workable for Japanese phones!

Buy online (Pre-order), $19, StrapYaWorld