Some unique Christmas gifts ideas

ILUMINATING CAR SLIPPERS
Do you get up at night to drink water, go to the toilet? Do you wish you could see in the dark? Remarkably bright LED lights are triggered by your footsteps and light up the floor 30 feet in front of you; ultra-soft plush style are extra comfortable and cozy warm.


TOILET SEAT LIFTER
The PeaceMaker will end the battle of the toilet seat. Merely step on the pedal to activate the lifting mechanism. When finished, remove your foot from the pedal and the seat gently comes to a rest where it started.


TRAVELER'S PHRASE BOOK T-SHIRT
If you are traveling a lot and don't always know the language of the country you are visiting, then this T-shirt is for you. It has a phrase book printed on it so just point a finger at the pictogram you need and then point it twice at the question mark.


LOCK-CUP Anti-Theft Coffee Cup.
Are you tired of others stealing your coffee cup? Well now there is a solution. The Lock - Cup has a hole which prevents most people from using it. Only the owner of the cup can use his/hers shaped key to close the hole.


TRANSPARENT TOASTER
You love toast, but you always burn it? Than, this invention us for you. This transparent toaster allows you to see the bread while it is toasting so you just have to take it out when the colour is right. This idea is based on a transparent heating glass technology.


GIANT REMOTE
Never lose your remote again! With giant buttons, this extra-large remote is easy to use and impossible to lose. It is a 6-in-1 remote so you can use it to control your TV, VCR, DVD player, satellite, cable and auxiliary A/V device. It even features glow-in-the-dark buttons, so you can easily find the remote in the dark.


CRIME SCENE TOWEL
Chalk outline crime scene beach towel - be the coolest person on the beach!


LASER SCISSORS
Cutting a straight line has never been easier. Just aim the pin-point laser and follow the line. The scissor blades are stainless steel and cut very clean with a micro serrated edge.

Interesting photo's

Pens down - Hollywood writers go on strike

Hollywood writers went on strike Monday, a move that will have an immediate impact on talk shows, soap operas, and comedy programs that rely on fresh scripts. Many shows that began this season will also die miserable deaths. Shows with declining audience numbers that are difficult to follow, like "Lost", may disappear as well. Nobody knows how long the strike will last but what we do know is that the economy will suffer. (Entertainment makes up 7% of the US economy.)

The wordsmiths that belong to the Writers Guild of America want a greater share of residual profits from television series sold on DVDs and money made from programs shown on the Internet, cellular phones, and other new media outlets. In the '40s the Guild was formed after a strike threat. In the '60s the Guild walked for health, pension and residuals. In the '80s the Guild walked for Cable coverage, DVD payments and home video. Now there is a new medium and the Guild is fighting for their rightful share of the profit.

Writers are determined not to repeat a mistake made decades earlier, when they underestimated how lucrative home video sales would become and settled for a contract that gives them just three cents of each DVD film sale. At the moment they get 1.2 percent of revenues from shows streamed online for one-time viewing but get nothing from content downloaded to own from websites such as iTunes.

This is what the Teamsters had to say about the strike: “The digital world is not in the future, it is here now. It is now possible to watch Television and Movies entirely on the Internet, and the network sites, with ads galore, are proof. This is not a hypothetical. It is profit-making reality. If the writers are denied fair payment for reuse, I do not believe the Directors, Actors and the rest of us will fare any better when our turn comes.”

Dumbledore is happy (when he's with other men)

Author J.K Rowling recently told Harry Potter fans at a Deathly Hallows review that Professor
Dumbledore is Gay. Albus Dumbledore is not only the headmaster of Hogwarts school for witchcraft and wizardry, but he was also Harry Potters mentor and he helped Harry found the horcruxes. After Rowling revealed this interesting tit-bit she got a standing ovation from the crowd. She responded:"If I knew how you would react I would have outed Dumbledore much sooner." I guess a lot of men are going to dress up as Dumbledore at the next Pink Parade.