preposterous products

Sleepy in the morning but too rushed for a cup of coffee? How about caffeinating yourself as you shower? Here's our take on Shower Shock, the caffeine soap from thinkgeek.com.

From the Who Thinks This Stuff Up? files, there's a new pencil on the market, designed to help your kids concentrate in school. The British company Concentrate recently launched a pre-chewed pencil design. It's not really pre-chewed, it only looks like someone's been gnawing on it. The company...

Today we feature three products that fit in our preposterous products category; products that suggest the purchaser may have too much money. 1. The USB-powered greenhouse. If you aren't burning up enough energy already, this bit of greenery will help suck more out of your USB port. The $14.99 kit...

Fellow Walletpop blogger Julie Tilsner recently shared that the construction of mega mansions has not been slowed with the economic downturn we have been experiencing. It seems that apparently those with loads of disposable income continue to have the means to purchase extravagant even preposterous...

Leave it to baseball promoters, nurtured at the altar of huckster Bill Veeck, to find a way to make money off of Senator Larry Craig's bathroom stall disgrace. Recently the minor-league St. Paul Saints gave away 2,500 Bobblefoot toys to those attending its game. The toy consisted of a gray bathroom...

The legend goes that way back when, in 1899, the head of the U.S. Patent Office, Charles H. Duell, said: "Everything that can be invented, has been invented."Duell never did say such a thing -- he was far more far-thinking than that quote would ever suggest -- as I learned when I researched him...

Life used to be so simple. If you drank a lot and found the bottle talking back to you, you know you've had enough, and that it's time to stop. Conversely, if you were a bartender, and you saw one of your patrons having a conversation with the bottle, you knew it was time to call a cab and send the...