Traveling is fun, but it can also be a bit of a drag if you’re going long distance and are forced to sleep en route. The problem is there’s no comfortable way to snooze on a plane, bus or car, even with one of the typical head pillows you can buy at terminals all over the world. But now an enterprising doctor thinks he’s got a solution.

We have 250,000 sweat glands on each foot, which are capable of pushing out two cups of perspiration a day. That’s a lot of water to be sloshing around in, no wonder our feet can come home smelling a little bit rank. But of course smell is only one effect, we can also get fungus and other attacks from this warm, wet environment, which is why it’s best to keep our tootsies as fresh and clean as possible.

We collectively waste a huge amount of energy heating up our drinks every day. In fact there’s a theory that one day of extra energy use from over-filling electric kettles is enough to light all the street lights in England for a night. Scary. But now an enterprising design team has come up with an idea to do away with the conventional kettle completely, and so save massive amounts of this wasted energy.

Most of us probably have an old speaker from an ancient stereo system lying around in a basement or attic, just waiting for a fashion/tech comeback. Even though, deep down, we know that’s not gonna happen. Now we don’t have to wait, because with The Vamp, we can convert that old has-been speaker into something glorious.

Light Therapy is a well established method of helping people who suffer from the winter blues (otherwise known as SAD or seasonal affective disorder). The idea is you sit in front of a bright natural daylight lamp every day to normalize your melatonin and help regulate the mood changes that come from shorter days and less access to sunlight. But now there’s a new product which promises to make it more efficient all round.

So occasionally we come across products which we feel you should know about, even if we don’t actually understand their reason for existence. This is one such product. We’d just like to know which synapse challenged marketing suit decided that creating a Toilet Phone would be a great idea? Do you think they had a long discussion about it? What color it would be? Size?

Hey, just because you’re the designated chef du life at the moment, doesn’t mean you have to lose hold of what makes you special. Like that fondness for bacon flavored ice-cream or the obsession with the chemical components of your food.