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• Ikan Grocery Bot

  The Ikan sits on your counter and allows you to scan empty food containers before you thrown them out, then makes a shopping list for you.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 26 2008
  • Contributors: GOOD magazine

• I Hate Perfume

  Christopher Brosius' line of scents for people who hate perfume includes subtle fragrances like “Winter 1972” and “I am a Dandelion.”
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 26 2008
  • Contributors: GOOD magazine

• NatureMill Home Composter

  This device ushers composting into the future: It fits in your cabinets and can be filled with up to 120 pounds of food per month.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 26 2008
  • Contributors: GOOD magazine

• iPod Nano: So Hot Right Now

  According to the Japanese government (and one random guy from Atlanta), Apple's iPod Nano suffers a battery defect that causes it to overheat, and occasionally, burst into flames. Several reports of it catching or starting fires have been logged, and it's also inflicted a handful of minor burns. So if you're listening to something really hot, you may want to scroll to a chiller playlist or go unplugged for a while, lest you singe some flesh on your mp3 player. Because that would be a lame wound to have to explain to people.
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  • Date: Aug 21 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• My Moon, My Land

  For geography buffs and real estate sharks, a new frontier: Lunar real estate. In the interest of funding privatized exploration, settlement and development of the Moon,Lunar Registry is selling seemingly legit deeds to lunar property by the acre. While their mission statement to permanently inhabit the Moon by 2015 seems somewhat loony—or at least astronomically ambitious—shares of lunar land are copyrighted and deposited in the U.S. Library of Congress, the U.N. Depository Library, and international trademark and patent offices, among all kinds of other legal mumbo-jumbo, to indicate that for between 20 and 30 bucks an acre, you could secure a pretty solid post-apocalyptic back-up plan. The full moon atlas lists locations (Sea of Cold, Sea of Love, Sea of Clouds, etc.) and their zoning parameters (tourism, residential, scientific and commercial industrial) to assist you in choosing the best spot to set up outer-space shop. Recommended soundtrack for lunar real estate shopping: Feist's "My Moon, My Man"
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  • Date: Aug 18 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• Wide-Eyed, Knee-Deep In Surprise...

  We can't believe we didn't see this one coming. If anyone out there has both an unhealthy obsession with Animé and an adventurous, even-keeled significant other, prepare to get all hot, bothered, and slightly unnerved: You'll soon be able to purchase contact lenses that lend you or the apple of your eye that archetypal Animé look.
  
  They also work for people who really, really liked Amélie.
  
  Thanks, Jaime.
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  • Date: Aug 12 2008
  • Posted by Patrick James

• Excellent!

  As I have studied how my purchases mostly negatively affect our environment (shipping our cotton overseas to have t-shirts made, than shipped back) and the abuse of people in third world countries so that the western world can own more junk for less, I have made my choice to purchase "gently used" items for anything I can. It keeps my money in my local economy and does not require use of our limited natural resources. I will now continue on this journey with paying more attention to where I get my food, and who it comes from! Thanks for the advice!
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  • Date: Sep 03 2008
  • Posted by LifeCoachTim

• Way to to!

  I personally believe food tastes better when you buy it at a roadside stand or at the farmer's market. We are what we eat and knowing where what we eat comes from makes us educated consumers.
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  • Date: Aug 24 2008
  • Posted by kenza

• good concept, tired ideas

  Anti-market leftism is nothing if not espoused by creative people. Browsing the website gives it away; the atlas looks to contain many useful insights into the world made bitter by ideological overreach.
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  • Date: Aug 13 2008
  • Posted by smallcar13