1) Le Whif

Le Whif

Wants to have a cigarette filled with caffeine? *no nicotine, just coffee*
Le Whif is a product by Harvard Professor; it is an inhalable product, which can be very helpful in situations like, all nighters, too much coffee already in your stomach, hangovers.
Now you won’t have to wait in line for your coffee, no waiting for your machine to make coffee, no waiting for re-heating it in microwave, etc.

Le Whif is a ‘lipstick’ style container, which you pull open, insert in your mouth and inhale. One dose is equivalent to 1 shot of espresso *100 mg of caffeine* Product Website, Image Source

2) The Gloss Beer

The Gloss Beer

Who wants to taste beer while kissing your girlfriend ? It’s possible now, The Heineken beer brand has introduced this ultimately new and unique product specifically for the upcoming St. Valentine’s Day. Campaign is being called Ayswu Valentine.

Now you can enjoy the lips of your crush for hours and hours (but yeah she would have to refresh her makeup). This unique product is and campaign was developed by the JWT agency, Milan. Product Website, Product Page

3) Keyboard Cups

Keyboard Cups

Ctrl, Alt, Del

Ctrl, Alt, Del

From the MOD Design house in Taiwan, now we have Control, Alt, Delete cups with a circuit board saucer. Totally made from porcelain, it comes in your choice of black or white, just like your computer keyboard.

One cup weigh 85 grams and measures 6cm wide by 8cm high, each cup can hold up to 150 ml of liquid and their interior surfaces contrast with the exteriors, a nice touch.

Saucer that support cup weighs 95 grams, and is 27.5cm by 1cm thick with a surface embossed with a neat circuit board design.

Minus point of the product is, both the saucer and cup are neither microwave nor dishwasher safe. Product Website

4) Condometric

Condometric

A condom with the ruler? Great idea, no? Condometric is the first prophylactic that measures and shows off the penis’ length. Condometric helps us flaunt what we’ve got. It’s about believing we can handle whatever we wish to take on, regardless of size.

Condometric prophylactics are made of natural rubber latex and are electronically tested one by one. Its ink does not contain any ingredients that may cause allergic reactions. Product Website

5) Golosimetro

Golosimetro

Now measure your appetite, it’s good for people who is chocolate freak, to measure the degree of greed that is in each one of us, this ruler is a perfect tool to know you are just a lover of chocolate or lustful for it. It comes in two versions: extra fine milk and dark chocolate. Designer Website

6) Follow me beach slippers

Follow me beach slippers

Like to make people follow you? Here is a perfect tool to say it , beach slippers by Italian designer Paolo Ulian which impress on the sand the sentence ‘who loves me, follow me’, now people can follow you on the beach! Designer Website

7) One Click Butter Cutter

One Click Butter Cutter

Are you diet conscious? Want to control your usage of butter? Do you feel annoyed when spreading butter on bread becomes a mess? If yes then this cutter is a solution for all your problems.

Load it, slice it, store it, clean it, this is so simple.., takes very less space on shelf of refrigerator. Product Website

Edible Shoe Polish

Edible Shoe Polish

Ever wished to taste shoe polish? No? but now you can, Po-Zu is a company that makes eco-friendly footwear now offers an all natural edible shoe cream.

It not only make your shoes shiny but it also can be used as lip balm, skin moisturizer, hair conditioner, massage oil and cooking oil, you can even spread it on your toast for a nutritious snack Product Page

9) Froot Guard

Froot Guard

Now your fruit like apple, pear or peach won’t get bruised or squished while taking them to work or school, you can enjoy them at any time of the day as fresh as they were in the morning!

Guard can be attached to the outside of your backpack, with the holes of ventilation to keep your fruit fresh, the top and bottom of Froot Guard are interchangeable with the other colors available so you can make your favorite color combination. Product Website

10) Crime Scene Towel

Crime Scene Towel

It’s almost criminal; the crime scene towel is product by Baron Bob.
Luxurious 100% cotton towel that easily holds your place at the beach or poolside with its classic chalk outline of a victim. Product Website, Product Page

Chocolate Milkshake

Ingredients:
2 tsp. Chocolate Powder
2 tbsp. Vanilla Ice Cream
1/2 pint Whole Milk

Directions:
1. Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend throughly.

2. Serve cold in tall glasses.

Products from Cadbury and Kraft

LONDON – After months of fierce resistance, Cadbury’s about-face to accept a sweetened 11.5 billion pound ($19.5 billion) takeover fromKraft Foods Inc. — forming the world’s biggest candy company — has alarmed British unions, lawmakers and chocolate lovers.

With Cadbury shareholders expected to agree to the deal and a rival bid from The Hershey Co. looking less likely, opponents fear the U.S. multinational’s impact on one of Britain’s oldest and best-loved brands.

Just days after Cadbury declared its suitor a “low growth” company with a “long history of underperformance,” the British maker of Dairy Milk chocolates and Dentyne gum capitulated to a raised bid of 840 pence ($13.78) per share.

The deal, comprising 500 pence cash and 0.1874 new Kraft shares for each Cadbury share, is a 9 percent premium to its previous 770 pence offer and 50 percent higher than Cadbury’s market value before Kraft, based in Northfield, Illinois, went public with its approach in September.

Cadbury stock was trading just under that level, at 836.5 pence, up 3.6 percent, in Tuesday afternoon trade. Shares in Kraft, the maker of Toblerone chocoloate, Velveeta processed cheese and Oreo cookies, were down 2.5 percent at $28.85.

The combination of the pair would create the world’s biggest confectionary company, replacing Mars Inc., and Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld said the deal provides “both immediate value certainty and upside potential” as she tried to appease concerns about the loss of Cadbury’s iconic status.

The company’s roots go back to the grocery store opened in 1824 by John Cadbury in Birmingham, central England. A Quaker, Cadbury believed cocoa and drinking chocolate were healthy alternatives to alcohol, considered to add to the miseries of the working class.

The popular Dairy Milk bars were launched in 1905 as a challenge to dominant Swiss chocolate makers.

“We have great respect for Cadbury’s brands, heritage and people,” Rosenfeld said. “We believe they will thrive as part of Kraft Foods.”

But unions are worried there were no clear guarantees from Kraft that it won’t switch manufacturing of some of the 186-year-old company’s chocolates to eastern Europe, sacrificing thousands of British jobs.

“This is a very sad day for U.K. manufacturing. A successful, iconic, independent U.K. brand will now be owned by a giant company with massive debt,” said Jennie Formby of the Unite union, which had campaigned against Kraft’s offer.

“We have very real fears about how Kraft will repay its debt, particularly as it has ratcheted it up still further in order to purchase Cadbury,” she added.

Four Labour Party lawmakers, whose electorates cover two key factories in Britain’s manufacturing heartland, said in a joint statement they were worried “about the kind of future that Cadbury’s would have as part of this giant multinational whose corporate priorities are decided a long way away from the West Midlands.”

The deal, one of the largest transnational takeovers since the credit crunch, is further sign that food companies are seeking to gain scale by combining, after Mars bought William Wrigley Jr. Co. in 2008 for $23 billion.

A Kraft-Cadbury combination will create a portfolio with more than 40 confectionary brands, each with annual sales in excess of $100 million.

Kraft, attracted by Cadbury’s extensive reach in lucrative emerging markets, sidestepped concerns from its own major shareholders by reducing the share portion of the deal below 20 percent — negating the need for it to be approved by shareholders.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway is Kraft’s biggest shareholder, voted against Kraft’s proposal earlier this month to issue more shares to fund the takeover bid. Kraft made the proposal after raising the cash portion of its offer by selling its North America pizza business to Nestle for $3.7 billion.

Under the revised offer, Kraft will issue 265 million new shares representing approximately 18 percent of the existing issued share capital and 15 percent of the company’s enlarged issued share capital.

There was surprise at the overnight change in tune from Cadbury Chairman Roger Carr, who had led a spirited defense against Kraft, talking up the British company’s standalone strengths, over the past four months.

The man who earlier this week said Rosenfeld’s shareholders had been forced to deal with “repeated disappointment from a management team who have promised much and delivered less,” told his own shareholders on Tuesday that the revised deal “represents good value.”

“Although we always considered that 850 pence could be enough to win shareholder support we have to admit surprise at how meekly Cadbury has apparently acquiesced,” said Jeremy Batstone-Carr, analyst at Charles Stanley & Co.

Only last week, Batstone-Carr added, the Cadbury chairman “had confidently predicted that the company’s share price could be over 10 pounds (1,000 pence) in due course.”

Analysts said it was likely that Cadbury shareholders would follow Carr’s advice, despite earlier suggestions that they’d hold out for a higher offer.

David Cumming, head of U.K. equities at Cadbury shareholder Standard Life, had said Monday that Kraft needed to aim above 900 pence to secure support from long-term shareholders. But on Tuesday, he signaled the fight was over.

“I probably won’t go against the view of Cadbury’s management,” he told the BBC. “Kraft are getting a good deal. It’s sad that Cadbury is gone, but business is business.”

The U.K. Takeover Panel has set a deadline of Feb. 2 for acceptances.

There was also declining speculation about a rival offer after Ferrero and Nestle dropped out of the race, leaving just The Hershey Co. as a contender to meet a British regulatory deadline of 7 a.m. (0200 GMT) Monday to make a bid.

“The likelihood of Hershey throwing its hat into the ring looks remote, given the required level of debt which the group would have to support,” said Keith Bowman, Equity Analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers.

Kraft said it did not plan full dual listings for the combined company in New York and London, but it would retain a secondary listing for British investors to trade their shares in Europe. (- via news.yahoo.com -)

Chocolate Brownie Pudding

Ingredients:
For Brownies:
Dark chocolate 6 ounces
Butter 1/2 cup
Eggs 2
Sugar 1 1/4 cup
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Refined flour 2/3 cup

For Pudding:
Egg yolk 6
Sugar 1 cup
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Coco powder 3/4 cup
Dark chocolate 3 ounces
Milk 3 cup
Cream for garnish

Directions:
1. To prepare the brownies, whisk eggs & sugar till they are mixed well.

2. Boil water in a pot.

3. Put dark chocolate in a saucepan & place on top of the boiling water to melt.

4. Add melted chocolate, vanilla essence & refined flour to the brownie mixture & stir with a spatula.

5. Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil, pour the mixture on top & palce it in a preheated oven at 200 degree C for 25 minutes.

6. Cool & cut in squares.

To prepare the pudding,
7. Add to the milk & mix well. Take little amount of milk, add beated egg yolks in it.

8. Put rest of the milk in apot now add mixture of beated egg yolks and sugar cook on slow flame.

9. Put the vanilla essence, coco powder & melted chocolate in the mixture & cook till it becomes thick.

10. To serve, place the brownies in a bowl, add pudding, & garnish with cream & chocolate shavings.

This recipe serves: 6 people
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 40 minutes

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:
2 cups flour, cake
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1\4 teaspoon salt
7 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
150 grams butter, unsalted
1 1\2 cups coffee, strong
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Directions:
1. Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 375?F. Lightly butter two 8-inch-diameter cake pans with 1 1/2-inch-high sides and line the bottom of each pan with parchment paper. Sift flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl and set aside.

2. Put chocolate, butter and coffee in a medium skillet and stirring constantly, cook on medium-low heat until chocolate melts and mixture is smooth, about 3-5 minutes. Remove from heat and keep aside to cool, 8-10 minutes.

3. Beat eggs and vanilla in chocolate mixture and then stir in dry ingredients. (Batter will be thin).

4. Pour better into pans and bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. Turn out on to a wire rack and leave to cool for 15 minutes.

5. To serve, dust the cakes with icing sugar and cocoa powder.

This recipe serves: 8 people
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 50 minutes