Have you ever looked at your bathroom mirror and thought, 'God I wish my toothbrush was attached to that?' Reaching down into your regular toothbrush cup or holder can waste at least a precious 1-2 seconds of your life, so why not live the dream with a suction-operated novelty toothbrush holder, beautifully imagined in cutie-pie duck form? (And a number of other designs for the more masculine among us).
I'm sure that someone, somewhere, has invented a handier, more usefu lkitchen gadget than this. But until it's delivered to my front door ineco-friendly bubble wrap, the Tupperware Quick Chef Hand Blender II takes the crown of kitchen's most wanted. Living in a share house, where a flatmate's pasta bake (inexplicably) takes two hours to prepare, this gadget has time after time shaved, sliced and diced valuable minutes off meal times.
It's 1897 - and you are in the Swiss Army. Life isn't easy. While you get to wear a lofty beret and voluminous pants, your weaponry is limited to asix-foot spear-type thingy and incredibly sharp cheekbones.
This is all about to change with the invention of a top-secret blade. It's like nothing you've ever seen; a knife, corkscrew and tweezers all inone.
Welcome Powershovel, the Japanese camera brand that has created, fact: the first 110mm fish-eye lens camera: ‘demekin’ – dang it’s so cute and small! It fits right in your pocket. The ethos of Powershovel is to use the camera not as a precise machine but more as a sketchbook of everyday life… and boy can it be fun.
There are lot of big issues in the world at the moment, but let us go back to basics for a moment: bananas. They're tasty, they're healthy and they've been a regular feature in our lunchboxes since we were children. From Andy Warhol to the Dandy Warhols, they're also an epic symbol of cultural-cool.
Let’s face it: in this day and age we are constantly on the hunt for something no-one has already seen/done/heard. Sometimes it takes going back to the past to recreate something old – but with a 00’s twist.
Remember the calculator? The things old ladies and super-organised list-carrying shoppers arm themselves with for the weekly grocery shop.
Sure, the UN has a ‘counter terrorism strategy’. When it comes to the crunch though, who’s really going to protect us? As Einstein said, “The individual must not merely wait and criticise, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
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