All Entries Tagged With: "cool gifts"
Moshi Monsters MoPods: Call-Alerting Phone Charms With Cuddly Critters
Addicted to Moshi Monsters yet? Fuel your monster-petting habit some more with Moshi Monster MoPods, which let you adopt an orphaned pet for use as your call-alerting mobile phone charm.
To the uninitiated, Moshi Monsters is a popular online game that mixes elements from Neopets, Tamogotchi and social networking with cuddly monsters. While designed for kids, we’ve seen adults hooked to this thing worse than heroin (okay, maybe not as badly). MoPods, on the other hand, are a painfully cute, yet surprisingly practical, Japanese invention that puts caged pets inside a dome designed to hang on your mobile phone.
The Moshi Monsters MoPods combine the two together, sneaking a tiny monster from the game inside the plastic cage, in place of the kitten or pup you’d normally find. Like other MoPods, the 6 x 2.3 x 2.3 cm charm does more than hang decoratively from your handset, alerting you to incoming calls [...]
Guncomb Wants To Go Pew Pew On Your Hair
Who’s the fastest groomer in the west? Now you can find out with the Guncomb, a good old’ finely-toothed comb clad in the shape of a gun. Yep, so you can hold a hairstyling showdown at the O.K. Corral.
Tuck it inside your pants with the handle sticking out and watch people stare at you with awe. “That guy right there is the fastest guncomber in the West,” they all say under their breaths, “Don’t mess with him or he’ll comb your crop into a 50s-style pompadour. ”
Made in Taiwan, the Guncomb works much like any regular hair grooming accessory, combing your messy, just-out-of-bed hair into a neat and clean pile with just a few strokes. It’s made out of ABS plastic in a familiar handheld pistol shape, measuring 200 x 100 x 5 mm.
Even better, it could look like a real gun from afar or, at the least, a gun-shaped [...]
Samurai Air Sword Lets You Slay Imaginary Dragons With Real Sound Effects
Ever used the Lightsaber app on the iPhone? I know, it’s stupid (but hella fun). The Samurai Air Sword does the same thing, performing sound effects every time you swing the hilt (and it’s really just a hilt). You’ll have to imagine the invisible blade slicing through your opponents (yep, that invisible dragon), of course, before ending their life by thrusting it into their heart. Haiii.
Who says only air musicians get to have invisible fun? Swashbuckling wannabe-samurai warriors like you deserve love too. And this “all bark, no bite” sword can now be your weapon of choice.
The Samurai Air Sword is actually just a sword handle with a design that stays close to the familiar bladed implements used by them noble Japanese warriors. Equipped with a gyroscope inside, it can detect a bevy of movements, playing one of 48 swooshing, swiping and thrusting sound effects to accompany your attacks. Based [...]
Hang A 2010 Google Calendar On Your Wall
The Online Google Calendar is plenty useful, but for a lot of people (me included as I still prefer a daily planner over something digital) a physical calendar is just easier to use. Don’t give me that look, either – even the gadget-obsessed Japanese thinks so. Want proof? Check out this real, physical, printed-on-paper 2010 Google Calendar. Whaaaaat?
Yep, Google Japan has gone all real-world on us and produced an alternative to the online-only Calendar application. No Google account needed to sign into; no browser required; and no Google Gears for offline access. Just a real calendar that you can stick to your wall and doodle notes with a pencil on. Even without internet.
The 2010 Google Calendar comes with 12 inside pages that measure 12 x 8.5 inches each. It opens upwards to reveal a calendar sheet for each month on the lower panel and a themed Google graphic above (printed [...]
Bark4Beer Adds Opening Beer Bottles To Your Dog’s Skills, Makes Him Truly Man’s Best Friend
The word boozehound gets literal with the Bark4Beer, a dog collar that comes with its own retractable bottle opener. Why put a cap popper around the neck of a dog? So you can wear it on your angry pitbull and scare the hell out of gatecrashers trying to scam free beer from your fridge, that’s why.
Got a trained mutt? Even better. Just call it by name, instruct it to come over and you’ve got an instant bottle opener – no need to dig around looking for your pocket multi-tool.
The Bark4Beer is a handheld bottle opener that’s integrated right into the collar. Simply take it in your hand, pull it (it’s retractable) and pop that cold beer open, all while your loyal buddy sits around in ignorant bliss. Now, if you can only teach fido to fetch beers too, he can truly be man’s best friend.
That brings me to the question: [...]
USB-Powered Pet Rock Comes To Life, Still Does Nothing
Love pets but hate the extra work they bring? Back in the 70s, they had a solution for that: the Pet Rock. This year, the world’s least-disruptive household ward is making a comeback in the form of the USB-Powered Pet Rock.
How is it different? Instead of just being a hard mass of earth that you can carry along anywhere, your new favorite pet comes with a USB plug so you can connect it to your computer. While stuck to a port, you can continue to use your pet to hold down lumps of paper, stroke it to your heart’s content or sing to it. You will need to unplug it in order to break your office tyrant’s car windshield, though.
If you were expecting the USB Pet Rock to come with any nifty tricks, you’re dead wrong. Once plugged in, it will still do nothing. Like it always does. Which is [...]
Flask Playing Cards Enables Two Of Your Favorite Vices
A lig of whiskey and a game of cards are a natural pairing, which is why it makes sense to carry one along with the other. The Flask Playing Cards does it one better, outfitting a pocket-size flask with an attached storage to hold a full deck of cards.
Combining two long-standing vices, the versatile flask should prove the easiest way to get your life out of order. With alcohol to dumb your good judgment and a set of playing cards to gamble your life’s savings with, you should now have everything you require to set up a future on skid row.
The stainless steel flask measures 4 x 3 inches, with an unusual depth of 1.25 inches. Of course, the extra thickness is due to the space reserved to fit the full deck of cards in, making the actual container for your favorite juice more limited than a regular flask.
Personally, I [...]
Toilet Mug: Enjoy Your Most Disgusting Cup Of Coffee Ever
Drink a cup of coffee, throw up yesterday’s dinner. That’s the way of the world when you drink from the Toilet Mug, the most disgusting drinking vessel you’ll ever have the displeasure of wrapping your lips around on.
Got a strong stomach? Flaunt it. Pour your morning coffee into the Toilet Mug and amuse your co-workers with your refined taste for brown water. Heck, throw in a slice of tootsie roll and some cinnamon sprinkles down there for good measure. Mmmm….
Clad in the shape of everyone’s favorite bathroom fixture, the silly-looking mug should prove an interesting alternative to your tired and boring coffee cups. Molded and hand-painted to unmistakably resemble a standard toilet, it can hold up to 12oz of your beverage of choice, including bath water. Aaaah…refreshing.
The Toilet Mug is gross, offensive and juvenile, making it the perfect gag gift for your co-workers and friends. Whether you’ll still have them [...]
Key-Shaped Pocket Knife Adds A Utility Blade In Your Keychain
Want a small, concealed blade, but can’t stand a full-featured, bulky Swiss Knife in your pocket? The Key-Shaped Pocket Knife is just as the name implies – a small key with a tiny flip-out blade hidden around the side.
While it isn’t exactly the kind of blade that will make muggers quiver in fear, the Key-Shaped Pocket Knife should prove handy for many other uses. From opening up packages to pulling out a stub on your finger, this miniature slicer should do the job. You can even puncture rag dolls, if that floats your boat, on your way to becoming the next media-celebrated serial killer, all without giving yourself away.
Measuring no larger than a regular key, the German-made pocketknife is designed to hook handily on a key ring, looking none out of place in your Spongebob keychain. Unless you look, that is, and notice that it’s just a tad thicker than [...]
Dunk Mug Keeps Your Coffee And Biscuits All In One Place
Like to have biscuits with your coffee? Have less dishes to clean up later with the Dunk Mug, an unusual-looking mug with a place for cookies and biscuits on the side.
Because of the modified design, the Dunk Mug is able to handle less coffee than usual, which dampens its thrill a bit. It’s not the perfect mug, yet, but you have to admit – not having to carry biscuits on your other hand is a heck of a convenience. How many times have you accidentally spilled hot coffee because you’ve been trying to balance a piece of cracker and a mug on one hand, while opening the fridge to find some milk?
The ceramic drinking vessel comes with a half-circle shape, along with a built-in bottom slot enough to fit three or four regular-sized cookies. I reckon it should fit in at least two Oreos, too. If you stole the cookies [...]
Color-Changing Ice Cube Turns Your Drinks Into A Light Show
What’s better than a stiff drink on the rocks at the end of a long day? A glass of anything that dizzies you up with color, that’s what. Even a glass of water filled with these Color-Changing Lite Cubes will probably be enough to give you a buzz.
Ice cubes with light – how did they do that? Well, they didn’t really. Instead of actual ice, these “sparkling” boxes are actually freeze gels, which absorb the cold temperature when you place them inside a freezer. It works like the Whiskey Rocks we featured a while ago – reusable cubes that keep cold temperature and disseminates them when placed in drinks.
Instead of rock-colored bodies, though, the Lite Cubes are transparent, so you can see the installed lighting units inside. To facilitate the color, each “ice cube” comes fitted with a color-changing LED panel (eight different types of display, from single color to [...]
Strawz: Drinking Gets Complicated
Straws are too simple. Isn’t it time we made using ‘em just a little bit harder?
The DIY kit Strawz lets you fashion the most complicated sipping units imaginable. Using 24 straws and 20 connectors, you can create your own maze of drink-passing tubes, with multiple entry and exit points. That means you can create straws that draw from different glasses and end up in separate lips, with your design controlling which beverages stay unadulterated and which ones get mixed with other refreshments (and, errrr, other people’s saliva).
How many ridiculous convolutions can you make with this set? Being the veritable LEGO of drinking equipment, I’d say plenty. With twelve long straws (5 inches), twelve short straws (3 inches), four U-shaped connectors, four elbows, two T-connectors, eight joints and two four-way intersections, you can regale yourself with the knowledge that you can have a new straw everyday until the end of time [...]
iPhone Card Deck Lets You Play With An iPhone Even Without An iPhone
What do you do when your iPhone’s battery runs out and you really, really want to play a game of Solitaire? You buy a deck of iPhone Playing Cards, that’s what.
Even though they said iPhone gaming is the next big thing, I’m pretty sure market analysts never meant anything like this. Created by novelty connoisseurs Meninos, the 52-piece deck offers a full set of Anglo-American playing cards, clad in the iPhone’s unmistakable design. Both the rear and the face are fashioned to look exactly like Apple’s groundbreaking smartphone, complete with fading colors to mimic the handset’s glossy finish.
The cards are made from 100% washable PVC plastic, with a common print on the back and the labels on opposite corners of the face. Graphic is inserted on what’s supposed to be the “phone’s” display panel. Card dimensions are 5.7 x 8.9 cm, which should be smaller than a real iPhone. From [...]
Get Naked Bikini Dissolves In Water….Score!
Water-soluble fabric used to be such a bad idea. Who the hell will pay good money for clothes that will dissolve when you sweat on it? Apparently, some badly-burned boyfriends, that’s who.
Shamelessly marketed as a way for guys to get back at their ex-girlfriends, Get Naked Bikini, a water-soluble set of top and bottom swimwear, is possibly the most brilliant use for the technology. Like the description suggests, the two-piece outfit will disappear just three minutes after being submerged in water, creating an extremely awkward situation for whoever’s unfortunate enough to wear it.
The ill-intentioned poolside garb is available in black and comes in various sizes. Made from special materials (80% polyamid and 20% elasthan), the bikini can be worn normally, looking and feeling no different than a regular beach suit, while crumbling within minutes of being in the water.
If you’re planning a pool party or beach outing any time soon, [...]
Handerpants Bring Tighty-Whities For Your Hands
Do you ever put on your gloves, then feel as if the area between your index and middle finger is dangling. In case that discomfort reminds you of the sensation when going commando under your jeans, you can relieve it with Handerpants, a pair of underwear apparel fashioned especially for the hands.
If you wear gloves for any reason (like when riding a bike or hitting the weights), you’ve probably noticed how badly your hands sweat, how stinky it can smell and how it will sometimes leave unwanted scrapes. That’s where Handerpants come…errr…handy.
Made with 95% cotton and 5% Spandex for perfect form-hugging fit, the finger-less gloves offer an extra layer of protection between you and the leather (or metal, if you’re a Storm Trooper). Clad to look like a pair of tighty-whities (yes, old-fashioned men’s briefs), they’re both functional and a little bit gross – the way every [...]
NES Controller Business Card Case Gives Away Your Geekiness, Possible Age
I stopped carrying business cards a couple of years ago. Unless I was attending a trade show or a large event, I find them a waste of pocket space, more than anything else. The NES Controller Type Card Case, however, makes me want to carry a stack again.
Created by Banpresto, the business card holder is decked out as authentic-looking NES controllers. Sporting an anodized aluminum body, it comes in a conventional folder design with two compartments – one for your cards and another for the ones you receive.
The case comes in Player I and Player II variations, just like the actual controllers from those olden times. Both rock non-functional D-pads, along with A and B buttons. The first one adds similarly fake Select and Start buttons, while the second touts a mic and volume switch.
Of course, neither of the two variants will help you in [...]
