Open A Beer Bottle With Your Hat

The "OpenerHat" is another one of those "I wish I thought of that" ideas, sticking a bottle opener underneath the brim of a baseball cap.

It seems like companies always give away bottle openers with their logos on them, but you never have one handy when you need one. If you like to wear hats like these, then this is the ticket.

$15.95 from CoolerGadgets

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An Automatic Garage Door Closer

A new device called "GarageButler" will automatically close your garage door, should you leave it open.

It works in conjunction with your automatic garage door opener, and knows when the door is open or closed. You can set it to automatically close after 3, 10, 20, 30, 45, or 60 minutes. It also has a siren that'll alert your nearest neighbors that you left the damn door open again.

To top if off, it has a light sensor that detects sunlight, and when that sunlight goes away, it closes the door.

It mounts to the wall with double-sided tape.

$59.95 from Wise Guy Advertising, Inc.

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Hand Held Bug Bite Relief

A company called MorePower2U is marketing a new device called "Therapik", claming to provide temporary relief from bug bite irritation by the use of heat.

While this concept is not new, (see our write up on Mosquito Mouse), it's the first such device I've seen marketed in the USA.

It works on the notion that insect venom is sensitive to heat, and by applying heat, neutralizes its ability to bother you.

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White Chocolate Maggots

You might be asking, "Why would someone want to produce cans of white chocolate maggots?"

The answer is, "Because maggots are suppose to be white, silly!"

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Wrist Water Bottle

A company called HydroSport is marketing a new water bottle that fits on your wrist.

Described as a "Wrist Water Bottle", each unit holds 5.5oz of water or sports drink, for a total of 11oz when you have one on each wrist. When fully loaded, the unique bottle weighs one-half pound, providing you with some additional exercise.

The company claims its also helps keep your body temperature cool.

At $9.99 each, they're available in a variety of colors, and even come in kids sizes. The company will even offer to put your logo on them.

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Crayon Holder

Sometimes it takes several decades to come up with a simple solution. Hell, sometimes it takes an eleven year old girl to find the solution.

The Crayon Holder is a hard plastic tube just wide enough to fit a crayon into. It allows you to insert those broken crayons and actually still use them.

I remember having to tape up my pieces when they broke, and even then, the whole thing would still flex and become difficult to use.

This idea was conceived by eleven year old Cassidy, who ended up winning the "Youth Inventor of the Year" title by the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation.

You can buy Crayon Holders here.

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Nose Candy of a Sugary Kind

Why couldn't they've had stuff like this when I was a kid?

"Hose Nose" is a new offering from San Diego, CA-based Kandy Kastle. The nose is filled with "Candy Slime". It appears to have elastic straps on the back, as if you're supposed to wear it over your real nose.

The package is marked, "Catch It On Your Tongue", presumbly allowing you to wear a novelty nose that leaks sugary mucus on your mouth. A different kind of nose candy!

Now and then I'll see a two-year old kid with real mucus running out of his/her nose and over their lips. Kandy Kastle would like us to never grow up.

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Dwight Yoakam's Chicken Rings

Geez! How many times can chicken be reinvented?

New from Peru, ID-based Modern Foods comes, "Dwight Yoakam's Chicken Lickins Chicken Rings", under the company's "Bakersfield Biscuits" brand.

I found this while going through the latest market intelligence reports that I subscribe to. I had no idea that chickens had rings! Hell, I didn't know they had fingers.

In fact, I didn't know the alternative-country crooner had his own line of fatty-foods, did you?. Just goes to show how out-of-touch I am with the times.

If you need to know how Dwight Yoakam got into the food business, here it is.

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Corporate Sponsored Porta Potties

Here's an advertising idea that I found cool and new, porta potties wrapped in advertisements.

I've seen a lot of city buses completely wrapped in a giant advertisement, so I imagine porta potties is not that hard to do. I think these look cool, though I imagine to others, it's just more corporate crap.

In addition, the company that makes these, Micro Target Media, integrates RFID and GPS technology to give their advertisers real-time web-based performance statistics. So while you step in to wee-wee, advertisers like NASCAR and Major League Baseball can watch their audience impressions grow.

Hey, if given a choice between the drab-green porta pottie and a porta pottie wrapped up with our "frightened woman" logo, wouldn't you want to pee-pee in the latter?

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Get In Condoms

"Get In" is the brand name of a new line of flavored condoms made by Laboratorios Coll-Farma, a Spanish based-company.

While flavored condoms are nothing new, I found the packaging quite interesting.

For one, the name "Get In" is perhaps cute and straightforward.

Second, if you look at the word "In" on the packaging, it resembles a pair of stick-figures in doggy-style, using a visual presentation of penetration.

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Wearable Wrist Rests

A company out in Arizona is now selling wrist rests that you wear on your wrists.

Called, "Wristease", they have a thick piece of padding on the underside that acts like a wrist rest. This way you can bounce back-n-forth to various computer workstations without having to carry your wrist rest with you (a problem that many of us have).

I suppose the other advantage is that you no longer have to pack that lengthy wrist rest in your laptop case, now you can wear it!

And if you're working your butt off, trying to make that deadline, you can use it to wipe off your forehead.

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Sandals with Hidden Compartments

A company called New Management Inc. recently announced a new pair of sandals called "ArchPort", that contains a storage compartment inside the sole.

The compartment carries a wallet-insert large enough for money, keys, and credit cards. Slide the wallet into back into the sole, and secure it with the Velcro cover.

Both left and right sandals have a compartment, and the sandals come in different colors. The company also has an athletic shoe based on the same idea.

$44.95 plus $8.95 for S/H

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Magazines on Water Bottles

There's a new magazine out called, "iLove" that's distributed inside the label of water bottles.

Peel off the label on this new brand of bottled water, and you'll find a 32 page women's magazine filled with tips on the latest fashion and beauty, plus pages of health, relationships, music and more.

I wonder if it's anything like a blog on a bottle?

iLove is published six times each month, and is available to consumers in Australia.

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Sanitary Handle for Shopping Carts

The Healthy Handle allows grocery shoppers to push around a shopping cart without having to worry about getting germs on your hands.

You know, we always worry shopping cart-borne diseases.

The red plastic handle can be slipped over a shopping cart's handle. When not in use, it can shrink down by pushing the ends together, like a telescope. Now, you don't have to worry about getting the clap from a Safeway.

It was actually invented by a guy after his wife cut her hand on a broken shopping cart handle.

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