The New Burrito Tape

Swedish engineers at home furnishing giant Ikea have come up with a mattress that senses when you get up to urinate and proceeds to illuminate a dimly lit path of night lights. A team of University of Helsinki graduate students took on one of life's greatest challenges: How do you open clear plastic clamshell packaging without damaging the product within or without losing a limb? And they won. Your last story of a thorn removed from all of our sides comes from Paula Poundstone.