#1: This aquarium toilet made me smile, particularly because it makes the walk from scooping up your dead goldfish to flushing him that much faster, and I am all about efficiency. Link via efft.net

#2: I know this sounds a bit curmudgeonly, but I’m kinda sick of people trying to wear their creativity on their USB flash drives. So far, I’ve seen flash drives that look like plastic pieces of sushi, or kitschy stuffed animals. I’ve even seen one that acts like a working PEZ dispenser in addition to storing your data (which admittedly, I’m kind of attracted to because I do love PEZ candies so much). Still, I had to resist on principle. And then I saw this ingenious item from plusminus. Essentially, the drive inflates or deflates to show you how much of the drive’s space is currently being used. It makes it a little trickier to carry in your pocket when full, but still, there’s less of a chance that you’ll grab a full disk when you’re desperate to store or save a document or file.