Life hammer for your car.

Today’s cars envelope you in a cocoon of safety. But what happens if your seat belts won’t release, or the door locks jam? You could be imprisoned in a flaming wreck. The Life Hammer comes with two heavy, conical steel points that will quickly shatter a side window and a recessed razor-sharp blade also cuts through your seat belt in one quick motion. Awarded Silver Medal by German Traffic Safety Council. USD 23:-brbr

WTF? A golf tee with a brush?

Finally someone has attempted to improve the ancient wooden golf tee. At the critical intersection where club meets ball, you want maximum transfer of energy and nothing to deflect your ball off line. Brush-T supports the ball on the tips of flexible bristles that bend on impact. So instead of a stiff wooden or plastic cup cradling your ball, Brush-T suspends your ball on a cushion of air and supposedly offers a gain of up to 7 yards. Promised to conform to all RA and PGA regulations. Set includes three 2 Brush-T’s (for 3-woods); three 2.2 Driver-T’s; three 2.4 Oversized-T’s (for higher launch angle with larger drivers); and two 3.125 XL-T’s (for maximum carry with 360-480cc oversized drivers). USD 20:-.brbr

Gardner’s goggles.

These plant examining glasses brings technology developed by NASA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to your own backyard. With these purple lenses you’ll be able to see areas of your lawn that may need a little help long before you’d observe the problems with your naked eye. The lenses block out the green reflected by chlorophyll in the healthy areas of your lawn and garden, causing those areas to show as black or gray. Unhealthy spots, deficient in chlorophyll, will show up as pink, red or coral. USD 50:-.brbr

Extra long toe-nail clippers.

Don’t know about you, but we have had the feeling that our toes have moved further from our hands lately. It sounds crazy, since our legs have not grown longer. It must be that our arms have somehow become shorter. Anyway. The Easy-grip scissors sport an extra-long handle and angled blades for faster and neater clipping of toenails. Just USD 55:- .brbr

TV terminator.

TV is everywhere. Even in places you don’t particularly want to watch or listen to TV. Like bars and restaurants. Or waiting rooms. Or shopping malls. With the Vigilante, however, you can be the TV overlord in any bar, restaurant or lounge. The little wonder contains over 200 infrared on/off codes covering the overwhelming majority of TV models. Just aim and press, and silence will ensue. But do it discreetly, since there might be other patrons who actually enjoy their daily brain-washing. And depending on the bar, they will be more or less prone to violence. USD 20:-.brbr

Seat belt light.

This might be a product whose shelf life has expired even before it has begun. Because if you have a GPS in your car you will probably need a seat belt light just as much as you need a hole in your head. But if you don’t have a GPS, it could be just the thing. Imagine trying to find the remote ski lodge you just rented in the middle of the night, and you’ll get the idea. It has two levels of brightness from 4 LED lights and it uses 3 AA batteries (not included). USD 15:-.br

Manga on the Web

My friend has launched an online service for publishing manga on the Web called MangaNovel.com. The site is unique for its ability to let you look at manga in different translations that are user-generated in a WIKI-like fashion. If youre…

Bike stand for small spaces.

Here’s a bike stand that can help make space for two bikes in a garage or apartment. There’s even an extension to accommodate four or six bikes, but it won’t be as slim, of course. With the stand bikes won’t topple over and since they are upright, they will take up much less space. USD 55:-.brbr

Tie-pod for tidy travelers.

We don’t use neckties all that often, and we’re not about to start. But if we were, and if we travelled a lot, we’d think of getting a few of these tie pods. Keeping a tie tidy in a suitcase can be a problem, but rolling it into one of these see-through tubes would make things a whole lot easier. No wrinkles. No dust. You need one pod per tie. USD 5:-.

Pocket shawl.

No, it’s not a pocket sized shawl. On the contrary. At 66 x 16 1/2, it’s quite generous, actually. No the thing is the actual pockets where you can warm your hands on a chilly evening, or keep stuff you don’t want to carry. The one in the picture is acrylic, available in black or tan and will set you back some USD 15:-, but perhaps you could knit your own?brbr