Long thought of as target practice for tornadoes and most other major natural disasters, trailer parks and mobile homes are the stepchild of the housing industry. But small, modular prefabs might have a few things going for them: They are usually cheap and might be more sustainable than other dwellings. For around $60,000, you can get a posh-looking home from Ecospace. The company uses ...

Swann Security has come up with a new way for you to spy on your neighbors from the comfort of not just your own home, but on the couch you have pointed at your TV. Introducing the Digital Guardian. The camera can be easily mounted over your front door -- or in the nanny's closet, if you so choose. Then simply connect its receiver to your TV and you're streaming whatever the camera sees ...

This chair looks a little bit like our bike after we ran it over with the family station wagon in order to get a new 10-speed. For the ultimate in recycled comfort, Bike Furniture Design's Vector Lounge Chair is made entirely of reused aluminum rims. For extra comfort you can slip on inflated inner tubes or the knobby tires you took off your mountain bike when you realized you didn't ride in ...

If you have $4,500, you can give your iPod a Napoleon complex with the Wall of Sound by Brothers -- a giant speaker system that pumps out sound reminiscent of the effect created by producer Phil Spector (but without all the murdering). The second generation Wall is 12 square feet and a whopping 220 lbs. of sheer volume. Inside is a vacuum-tube amp for all those purists, who are still pissed ...

The brilliant and sick minds at aussieBum claim to have created what they say are sustainable underoos using fabric derived from the bark of the banana tree. (Technically, the banana tree is a plant, not a tree -- don't say you never learned anything from us). Banana tree fiber is not the only component to these drawers; they're blended with organic cotton and Lycra, providing comfort for those ...

First of all, we're going to come clean and say we're not quite sure if Bracketology is a science. Or even a word. But indulge us. HowStuffWorks has studied the science of March Madness Bracketology, and it has some helpful tips on how to win your office pool. Their pointers are backed by statistics, such as the probability of 16 seeds beating 1 seeds. (Hint: It's zero). Here's a surefire ...

We've spent a good chunk of our lives waiting for the arrival of personal jetpacks, which nearly every futurist since the 1950s has predicted we'd get. Here's the latest attempt at fulfilling that collective prophecy: Martin Jetpack is putting 500 jetpacks into production, and you can be the first one on your block to have one (if your block happens to be filled with mansions). For $75,000, you ...

We'd like to believe that this Solarfan from AmbienTec has some sort of killer ninja capacity, but sadly, all it does is harness the power of the sun to charge your gadgets (via USB). These are actual working, tiny, flexible solar panels that put out an adorable 2 watts of power. (By comparison, the roof at the West Coast Asylum test lab is an array that churns out 2,300 watts.) If you charge ...

What would you guess a gadget called a Dosimeter does? If you guessed that it measures out how much medicine you're supposed to take every day, we don't blame you. But, you're wrong. In actuality, Etymotic's Dosimeter assesses how much you've punished your ears by listening to Winger albums at top volume. More specifically, it measures the decibel level of whatever environment you're in, be it ...

Forget the lava lamp -- the best new psychedelic design is the gummi Chandelier. It's made of 5,000 of the adorable sweet treats threaded together to surround a 50-watt compact fluorescent light bulb. And is slightly better for your health than absinthe gummies. The chandelier weighs 50 lbs., and it took the designer, Kevin Champeny, two months to make. Supposedly, only 10 of these will be made ...