Last year it was home tattoo kits, coffee-flavored cigars, and anything golf. This year if you want to create a product that will sell like hotcakes for Christmas, just do one or more of the following:
* Put "i" in front of your product and make sure that an iPod either connects to it, enhances it, or at least can be placed near it. For example, the iCanOpener, iPlunger, and the new Seeing iDog. Also, don't forget the iBuzz Vibrator (a real product).
* Make sure it works with Hybrid power technology or gets 50 miles per gallon. Example is the new PSP video game that runs off of hybrid power from pigeon droppings.
* Make sure there is a picture of Sponge Bob.
* Use the old standby of "sex sells." This works best in conjunction with one of the other above ideas, e.g. iBuzz and the new Barbie Loves Sponge Bob toy. {Rumor has it there will be a Porn star Barbie - be on the look out.}