Nominated by: Faith Popcorn, founder of Brain Reserve

"A seeming industrial-design breakthrough in the oral-freshness category, strips will actually be a transitional product to more effective oral bacterial neutralizers and vitamin-delivery systems. The chemical taste and gummy texture will inspire future youngsters to dare each other to eat as many strips as possible at one time, and muse about the gross adults who "used to put that weird film in their mouths for real."