Woodpixel is a fancy shmancy puzzle design thingy, for artsy types, gadety types, or types in general who won’t mind plunking down a little dough for something that’s cool, however impractical it might be. A woodpixel set includes a 26.5cm square tray and 100 2cm cubes. Each of the cubes’ six sides has a different color of wood, so you can create tons of different patterns and designs with...

Looking for something to do this weekend? Have you done so much around the house that you’re out of DIY projects? Want to know how to make something weird, odd, or unusual? You can find solutions to any of the above at the brilliant Instructables.com, an interactive repository of inspired do-it-yourself projects. Projects include step-by-step photos and instructions, and many photos, like those on Flickr,...

Well, someone’s done it. Someone has finally invented a way to transport cupcakes! No messy icing all over aluminum foil, and no smashing and smushing up all of your hard decorating work. And wouldn’t you know it - the Cupcake Courier was invented by a mom. Jennifer Gunn, mother of two in southern Cali, invented the Cupcake Courier after getting fed up with all of the cupcake carrying caveats we...

Cool gadget alert! If you’re looking to get into the world of MP3 players (I was late to the game, I admit), I can now personally recommend this nifty little ilo MP3 player from Wal-Mart. So here are the product details with my commentary (because I love to make commentary!) in bold italic - which is quite ugly, I might add, but I think you can at least see what the marketing people wrote vs. what I wrote. Slim,...

Squidoo is a newish online community where anyone can easily build a page - called a lens - on any topic, idea, product, or cause that he or she is passionate about. Lenses help their finders get a perspective they cannot get from computer-selected (and often irrelevant) search results. People who create and maintain lenses at Squidoo are called lensmasters. Lensmasters share their knowledge and expertise,...