health

  1. A Wheel Making Love to a Snow Shovel = Wovel

    The Wovel is the perfect marriage between a wheel and a snow shovel. It’s not just a cool looking tool though. It’s also probably the best snow shoveler ever made. Some of its features include:

    Can clear away snow three times faster than a regular snow shovel
    Is designed to greatly reduce the risk of straining your [...]

  2. Noise Pollution

    Katharine Mieszkowski over at Salon does a nice job of reporting on noise pollution. She discusses the health effects of noise pollution and finds some interesting people along her way. Including Henry Bean, the director of Noise, a movie about noise pollution in New York, starring Tim Robbins.

  3. Safe and Unsafe Fruits and Vegetables

    It’s no secret that most fruits and vegetables are grown using pesticides to help keep bugs from ruining our beautiful, abnormally large, genetically modified, shiny red apples. That’s why organic fruits and vegetables have become popular — there’s a desire to not die off early or have offspring with 3 arms. Fortunately, there are some [...]

  4. The Anti Shoe

    Part future, part geriatric, MBT’s shoeware embodies both ugly and cool. At first glance, it would appear that their shoes are perfect for rocking your foot back and forth. However, after digging deeper (actually reading their marketing copy), it ends up that the design is actually ergonomic – designed to relieve stress on your body [...]