We like the green theme of that electric riding lawnmower from Husqvarna we showed you last month, but that one's just a design concept — here's one that actually exists.

We're looking for more realism in our serious time-wasting around here, sick and tired of tossing mere pieces of balled up paper into our garbage-can basketball goal. Here's a pad of special paper that solves that problem so well it won a European Design Award. On the front, it's ...

Water-filtering pitchers are, for the most part, ugly. They're boxy, plastic contraptions that just don't do anything aesthetically pleasing.