Trash bags have always been in need of a little enlivening, so making them look like they have fish in them is a good idea. On the other hand, they are very pricey and if you use them for the purpose that they have been designed, the fun will be short-lived.
Price: $15.99 for 12 13-gallon bags 
[via Gear Diary]
As this will be our final post for 2008, I would like to say thanks to all the great readers of this site. A special thanks goes out to anyone who has linked to the site, submitted material to other sites, forums, communities or just happened to stumble upon us. As usual, to end the year off, I have complied pictures linking to our top 10 posts according to our website statistics.
The Year ahead should be an exciting one. I hoping to add a new coat of paint to the site and I will be launching a new site in 2009, so keep your eyes open for both.
My New Years resolution is to become an active member of Twitter. You can follow me here @vdasilva and you can follow Chris (aka C.S. Magor) here @CSMagor
Have a great and safe New Year and see you in 2009.
Every once in a while a story comes along that makes you take a second look. This is one of them. Rory Stokes, a 15-year-old schoolboy of the Australian Science and Mathematics School in Adelaide has disproven a commonly held belief that the memory span of a goldfish is only three seconds. He did so out of a desire to prove to people that keeping fish in tiny tanks is cruel.
According to Rory:
We are told that a goldfish has a memory span of less than three seconds and that no matter how small its tank is, it will always discover new places and objects. I wanted to challenge this theory as I believe it is a myth intended to make us feel less guilty about keeping fish in small tanks.
Over a three week period, Rory trained his goldfish to swim to a beacon in order to obtain food. Over the three week period, the time taken by the fish to reach the beacon reduced from over a minute to less than five seconds.
Cool, so you can train fish, how does Rory go about proving that the fish have longer memory spans?
This is where the experiment gets interesting. After the three week training period, Rory removed the beacon for six days. After six days, the beacon was replaced in the water and the fish reached it in a total of 4.4 seconds. “My results strongly showed that goldfish can retain knowledge for at least six days. They can retain that knowledge indefinitely if they use it regularly,” said Rory.
Source: The Age
I have always liked the bold lines of Casio’s G-Shock range. They are almost always reasonably priced and they look great. They can take a bit of a beating too, which is essential if a watch is going to worn around my wrist. It is now twenty-five years since Casio released the first model in the G-Shock line and in order to celebrate, they have something rather special for us, the MRG-8000G. It is available in Japan, the United States, Germany and England.
Looking at the picture, you have probably already determined that the bezel is constructed from titanium. The ring is 18 karat gold and there are gold accents throughout. It really is a work of art and keeps in line with the classic G-Shock look.
It is a shame, therefore, that they could not keep it in line with the classic G-Shock price. The MRG-8000G will set you back a wallet busting 500,000 yen, which is about $4,600 today and who knows how much tomorrow.
This Portable Fish Bowl from design student Michal Shabtiali allows owners to “walk” their fish.
You get a little exercise and your fish comes to the startling realization that there is a big world out there to be explored. It’s a win win situation. Too bad it’s only a concept piece at the moment.
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