A portable hand-held device that incorporates a digital bar-code reader, memory for data storage, and usb port could be used with appropriate programming to monitor nutritional intake with real-time convenience. The reader would allow a user to scan the product's bar code for identificantion of the food, and then search its database for "nutrition-fact" data for the product to give a running total of nutritional intake over a day or other time increment. This would require a digital...

Those yellow and other multi-colored message slips are good for drawing attention to themselves and the messages written on them, but what if the information BEHIND the message is also important? Transparent post-its could work to temporarily modify other printed information like calendars, other printed posters and signs, books, etc. Using material similar to transparent tape, but with the removable adhesive should make this a simple and useful innovation.