The nubrella is certainly a new design for umbrellas.  The question is, is it a better one?  It definitely manages to keep the rain off of your head and shoulders but it looks as if it would then funnel it right on down to the lower half of your body.

Worried about not being happy enough?  Need a lift from the doldrums?  Want to escape despair?  Well the Robometer maybe just what you need.  It will sense your mood and help you get happy. 

Well, desperation is the mother (father?) of invention, and this "vehicle" definitely is such an example. An eight seater bike, that has 3 solar panels on top and crazy little engine on back. It somewhat resembles the "surrey with the fringe on top" from Oklahoma.

These pants are an example of "oops, forgot where the line was" geek fashion. As you can see, a Bluetooth computer keyboard has been embedded in the front of the pants with a back pocket dedicated to toting the geek's favorite mouse. Speakers are included in the knees. And since these pants were obviously created by a male, the joy stick is, unbelievably enough, just behind the zipper of the fly. I would imagine that this might require a certain agility to keep it from getting wet on occasion but we won't think too hard about that. The wealth of bad jokes that the joy stick and keyboard placement engender are surely coming unbidden to mind.

Geek jewelry is nothing new.  Earrings, cufflinks, lapel pins, and more have been around for a while.  These wedding rings created by Jana Brevick, with CAT 5 connectors, are too much. 

Oh Babar, your species has fallen so far.  Your sophistication and charm set the standard for the world's vision of anthropomorphic elephants everywhere.  Now the blue robot elephant has arrived and has gone where you were too sophisticated to go - the local men's room.

Why do I feel that we have "revenge of the chickens" happening with this Ipod cover?  Sure, they must hate those cows who do the "Eat more Chiken" campaign over at a certain fast food chicken eatery, but this is ridiculous. 

As the presidential primaries hit the final stretch, the arguments continue surrounding the best method for voting.  Is it by electronic ballot, or scanned ballot or hand counted paper ballot?  Should America move to on line voting? What voting method is easy enough for voters to understand, states to afford, and reduces any and all issues of vote count tampering?

Unless you are a superhero, why do you want to create lightening?  I can understand using powerful laser guns to fight evil and right wrongs but to create lightening?  Didn't Benjamin Franklin already do that with a kite, a string and a key?

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, what method works best?  With traditional burial, most bodies are filled with embalming fluid, placed in hermetically sealed caskets and then lowered into cement lined vaults.  Nothing speedy about ones return to the earth there.  Cremation might seem like a quicker way to achieve oneness with the earth after life but even cremation has its issues by creating carbon dioxide polluting smoke.  Resomation however, breaks the body down into its component parts very quickly and all the results of the process can be reabsorbed easily by the earth.