Summer is all about entertaining outdoors, enjoying the weather, and taking refreshing dips in the pool. Check out how one Japanese jokester took "pool party" to a bizarre other level,

Yesterday, I wrote about the many uses of bamboo in your home with regard to design, furniture, flooring, and accessories. In my research, I was amazed to find an astounding number of ways we're turning this prolific plant into useful and eco-friendly gadgets, tools, utensils, thingamajigs, and doodads in and outside our homes.