While you were sleeping, innovation had too much to drink and bought a bunch of stuff he didn't need. Here's today's innovation news:

1. Can you read me now? [3] Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam told attendees at the CTIA Wireless 2009 [4] show that "four or five" e-book readers are in the company's labs, signaling that Kindle-like devices, much like netbooks [5], are likely to be future offerings from your cell-phone carrier. I'd tell you more about how wireless carriers are going to reinvent their businesses, but I'm about to go into a tunnel. [via PC World's Yardena Arar [6] via Techmeme [7]]

2. Uber-Maverick Mark Cuban admirably gripes [8] that "discussion of executive pay never includes whether or not the executive has been good enough to preempt or prevent layoffs." He revives his idea that to fix CEO compensation--and avoid massive layoffs at profitable companies merely to juice company stock--we need to pay CEOs in cash that's 100% expensable in the quarter it's paid. [via Blog Maverick's Mark Cuban [9]]   

3. Startichect Frank Gehry will design the new Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. [10] Perfect casting, America. I'm thinking something like this, but inspired by golf-club blades in the shape of a sleeping old man. [via Washington Post's Jacqueline Trescott [11]]

4. Retailers are using free alcohol to get men to shop like women [12]. Finally! Because being blackout drunk is your only excuse for spending $200 on jeans. [via WSJ's Ray A. Smith [13]]  

5. There are so many green certification labels [14]--more than 300--and the standards behind them are so nebulous that they're rapidly becoming meaningless. "I joke and say, 'I could buy some of these companies a case of beer, and they'd give us a certification,'" says the owner of a carpet-cleaning franchisor. Well, only if the person in charge of certifications is a guy, then, yes, sure. Too bad he's not also selling men's sportswear. [via WSJ's Gwendolyn Bounds [15]]