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Want a Beer Belly?
Some days we think we've really got to add a category called "We're NOT Making This Up". (We would, actually, but we're pretty sure it's been done, and done, and done.) So anyway, we were reading Gizmodo, as is our...
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iBall for Your iPod
Here's a little gizmo for getting full use out of your iPod. The iBall from Oregon Scientific is a wireless speaker for your iPod. It's definitely a nice looking gizmo - not sleek by any means but then again, with...
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Got a Music Muscle? Exercise It!
Virgin presents Exercise Your Music Muscle at Heavy.com: Yeah, yeah, yeah - we know. You're a music god. You're a master of what-to-know and who-to-listen-to. You'd be the head of your class at the school of rock. You were on...
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Interactive Toilet Paper
This is one of those "we're not making this up" posts. We're just not that creative. Seriously. This is not something we'd think up. So here goes. The toilet paper is interactive (as in you get to play with it...
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CD Coasters, Anyone?
We really like the look of these M&Coasters, from MoMA. But then we got to thinking ... you know those free CDs that come in the mail from the bank, or from AOL? And all those games that you bought...
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Ashtray Mouth
Ashtray Mouth is pretty gross. Mind you, it's meant to be. Developed by the Washington State Department of Health, the whole point of the site is to get kids to thnk twice about smoking. Or rather, what you're putting into...
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Get Rid of That Stress
Look, we know you need this. You just had a big turkey dinner with all the relatives, didn't you? We know. We know. Trust us. We know. The StressEraser sounds like a rather handy thing to have around for major...
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Turkey Carving How-To
Just in time for the major turkey holiday (well, not for the turkey, of course): How to Carve Turkey. There are apparently two methods: Standard style and Side style. We didn't know this. Both look terribly complicated, which is why...
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Customized M&Ms
Now here's a great idea for a gift - customized M&Ms! You can get your message on both sides of the candy, and there are two lines per side. Only 8 letters per line, but if you get creative, we're...
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Absolut Second Skin Bottle Singers
The Absolut Vodka Second Skin site might get you into the Christmas mood. Not that they're singing Christmas songs, but four cheerful bottles vocalizing happy little tunes while dressed up in scarfs and hats, with snowflakes drifting by? Of course...
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Annual Family Computer Fixing Event
aka Holidays at Home. How to Fix Mom and Dad's Computer is definitely one article you'll need to print out and keep in your backpack or suitcase for that trip home for Thanksgiving (or Christmas or what-have-you). Don't know about...
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R2D2 Phone - So You Can Phone Home
Oh, wait. Wrong movie. But this is a pretty cute phone, especially for a Star Wars lover. R2D2 has always been one of our favorite Star Wars characters. We can never figure out how a droid can be both cuddly...
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Bugs n Dirt Candies, Of Course
Okay. Depending on your maturity level, you'll either think Captain Muddy's Little Learners are really cool, or you'll feel kind of pukey and say, faintly, "uh, no thanks." But we thought these would probably be perfect as a stocking stuffer....
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Turkey & Gravy Soda
In preparation for the American Thanksgiving holiday (we already had ours here in Canada last month), we came across something we really (really!) do want to try. But we thought we'd give you all first shot at it. You can,...
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Beanbag Cellphone Chairs
We figure, if you can condition yourself to always give your cellphone a seat (or iPod or whatever handheld you can't leave home without), this beanbag chair will actually come in quite handy. No more hunting up, down, all around...
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They're Cute, They're Cuddly ... They're ... What??
At first glance, we both kind of went, "Awwwww ... " Because, you know, they really are just so cute. Then we realized what they were. Not that it made them look any less cute. (Actually, one of them looks...
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Oakley Thump MP3-Player Sunglasses
Can you say cool? Who needs an iPod when you can walk around with a pair of these on? According to PCWorld, which got to check out a prototype of Oakley's new Thump and Thump2 MP3-player sunglasses, they're actually as...
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W. I. Mood Lights
These beautiful sleek looking lights, by designer Batti and Brion Experimental, are meant to be submersible, but we think it would be a waste to have them out of sight in a pond or hot tub somewhere. On the other...
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How Much Caffeine Will Kill You
Look. We don't even want to go there. There's NO way we're going to go without our coffee, okay? So we didn't even fiddle around here to find out how many cups of coffee is lethal. But we thought you...
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Get Off the Phone Excuse Machine
One of us is truly an anti-phone person. She'll let the phone ring and ring, saying, "if it's important, they'll leave a message". (Let's just say, she doesn't even bother to check the call display anymore.) That usually gets rid...
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Are You A Mouse-Clicking Champ?
One of us can remember watching some show where people raced their exercise bikes. Really. This kind of reminded us of the same sort of thing. Mind you, we'd like to point out rather proudly, we're both: 50-54 truly a...
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Phyllotaxy Poster (Squared Circle)
This poster is absolutely gorgeous, and you can order it at cost for only $4 at KrazyDad. It's actually made up of 1099 (!!!) individual circles, each of which is a photograph. 265 different people contributed their photos to the...
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jWin JD-VD736 Portable DVD Player
This is definitely one for our buy list. (Who we'd buy it for, we're not sure, since we already have a portable DVD player, but ours looks way too boring and ordinary compared to this one.) The jWin JD-VD736 Portable...
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Worse Science Jobs, 2005
Here's an interesting list for those of you who are in science programs right now, and really looking forward to the day you graduate. Popular Science recently published The Worst Jobs in Science list for 2005 (they have one for...
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Aroma Generator for Your PC
What is it with electronics and smelly stuff? Seriously. Just the other day we were talking about Smelltones for your cellphone, and now we see there's something available for those times when the smell just gets too unbearable when you're...
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Your Very Own Charlie Brown Christmas Tree
Okay, we were flipping through our feeds, and saw this. Talk about making it feel like Christmas already. Both of us have some great memories of hunkering down with popcorn to watch poor Charlie Brown and his pathetic little tree....
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DiskGO! USB Flash Drive Plus Ink Pen
We spotted this sleek looking pen that's also a USB drive, and could think of a lot of people on our gift list this year who'd love one. Nearly everyone we know these days walks around with USB drives rattling...
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Hey, Your Cellphone's, uh, Smelly
You know we wouldn't make this up. Really. Engadget calls them "smelltones" for your phone. Offered by Keitai KunKun, these rather unique little items attach to your phone and emit an odor everytime your phone rings or you get an...
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Sprite's Refreshing Wall
Feel a need to satisfy your inner graffiti artist? Check out the Refreshing Wall, put together by Sprite and MSN. You start off with quite a choice of locations. We clicked around, and finally settled on an empty billboard, but...
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WordSprout Says "I Love You"
We rather liked this. You water the can, and eventually, the bean will sprout and it actually says "I love you" on it. What we want to know is, how do they do that? Via CoolHunting. Technorati Tags: cool gifts
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Lift Your Cups!
Nescafé is offering a new interactive website, Life Your Cups, where you shoot these things from a spoon on a kitchen table into a series of coffee cups. It's a little bit tricky at first, getting the hang of the...
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Stress Meter
Okay, at first glance, this could come in really handy. Don't know if you're feeling stressed? Stick the tester in your mouth, then put it in the Nipro Cocoro Meter and then check the handy chart to see just how...
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Male Punching Bag
This seemed a bit violent to one of us, who couldn't for the life of her see herself flailing away at this thing. On the other hand, the martial artist thought it just might work in his self-defence classes. Maybe....
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Buy a Gigayacht on Ebay
Quick! As of the time of posting this, you've got 14 days and 14 hours left. If you have some spare change rustling around in your pockets right now, hop on over to Ebay and buy this Gigayacht at it's...
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Vibrating USB Mouse for Windows
One of us has been typing like a fiend all day long - she's in Nanowrimo mode - and now really wants one of these. This vibrating mouse is from the company Laos Japan, and will be retailing for about...
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Our Friendly Trees
We still aren't too sure whether we'd say these are cute, or kind of scary. They make you smile in the bright sunshine, but then, just think about stumbling into that face in the dark. (They also come in glow-in-the-dark.)
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Send an Email to Yourself, in the Future
If you take a quick look at the Forbes e-mail time capsule, it does kind of make sense. Here's what they say: "Most time capsules involve cramming stuff into a metal box and burying it in a hole in the...
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Cellphone Pepper Spray
Kind of like a hidden weapon. Well, sort of. After all, it is bright red. But it looks like a cell phone. So maybe we should say a secret weapon that's highly visible? Whatever. You hold it in position, pull...
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Leather for Your Motorola Razr V3
If you've got a new Motorola Razr V3 (lucky you!), you'll be interested in the I-Volution Leather Suit. You can get for it from Vaja. This sleek leather protective case is fully customizable - just go to Vajachoice and select...
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Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
This cool looking gizmo isn't a PDA or a phone - it's an Internet tablet, meant mainly for browsing the Internet, via either Bluetooth or WiFi. We both like our notebooks, but even the small one is on the heavy...
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Zeno Zit Zapper
Okay. It's not like we're complaining. But really, WHERE WAS ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF BACK WHEN WE WERE TEENS? We'll just say, teens today have it pretty good. These days, between the two of us, we might get 2.5...
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Office Prankster Fakes Orgasms
Not that we think this is funny at all. It's just that we can imagine using it back in the days when we were corporate drones. (Darn.)
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USB Santa Claus
On the off-chance that you're just like us (workaholics who never leave the computer, it feels like), but you're also slightly crazy about Christmas (like one of us is, and of course, when one of us is, the other one...
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Virtual Aquariums for Your Website
We just found these cool virtual aquariums for you to stick on your Website or blog. Go to Kyucon (Mini Aqua) to grab your Javascript. The site's in Japanese, but just scroll through the page, find the aquarium you like,...
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Jellyfish Lamp - For Real
When we first saw this, we thought, hey, what a cool looking lamp. Will ya look at those funny colorful thingamabobbies floating around in there? Then we read further, and discovered those colorful thingamabobbies were actual (as in really, actually,...
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Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-N1
Not only is this sleek looking camera an 8-megapixel camera, with a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 3x optical zoom lens and ISO 800 sensitivity - it also comes with a 3-inch LCD touch screen! So now, not only can you poke...
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Want to do some Cheerioke?
Feel in the mood for some karaoke but don't have a karaoke machine (or club, for that matter) handy? Have no fear! Cheerioke is here! Brought to you by Yogourt Cheerios, the Cheerioke site lets you create what looks an...
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Care to Make a Hottie?
We don't make these things up, we swear. ThermaSilk has an interactive site up where you can make your very own hottie. Really. We tried it out - our hottie looked kind of like the Hulk when we were done...
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A Vending Machine For Your Home
This is rather cool - a real vending machine for your home. Too bad it only holds ten drinks, though. We're thinking it would be a good thing to row out at the next party, get some of our expenses...
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Two-Timin' Vodka?
Double Espresso-Double Caffeine flavored vodka? Sounds interesting. Van Gogh Vodka has also launched a new interactive site to promote this new flavor. Called Two Timed, the premise is you're being two-timed by your vodka. Gotta snoop around and find out...
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