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Remember when Toyota compromised its green cred with the monster Tundra? Well, All teh netz are gaga over Mike's 1-Liter Supercar but nobody notices that they are also now producing this SUV designed to make a Hummer look like a pansy. Imagine the looks you will get when you drive down the street in this. Quiet inside, bulletproof, looks like it could transform into a robot at any second, what more could any rock star want? Oh, it's an armoured car? Never mind.

Last year we had some fun looking at silly single-function appliances that cost money, take up space, and do almost nothing that you couldn't do just as well without them. We recently learned that this is a Wednesday tradition over at Unclutterer. Top o' the list is the incredibly useful Microwavable S'mores maker, where as one commenter put it, a little R2D2 holds "cardio-paddles from a defribulator" for marshmallows. "You can microwave 2 S'Mores in 30 seconds or less using this innovative product. Just fill the water reservoir, place...

Back in the day when TreeHugger was young we used to show every new innovative and sometimes silly use of LEDs. They have become so common and omnipresent that we rarely do any more, but could not pass up this plastic bench that lets you "relax in your favorite atmosphere by letting the Light bench smoothly transition from one hue to the other"... "Almost an art object, the Light Bench creates the right presence in creative and communicative environments. Again thanks to its LED lighting technology it only requires about 95 watts of electric power which keeps operating costs down and protects the environment."

Protects the environment? By sucking 95 watts to light a plastic bench? I don't ...