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Chalk Talk Mug Doubles As Canvas For Your Thoughts
Coffee mugs with a cute graphic or a funny slogan is fine. After a couple of weeks with the same joke, though, it just sounds trite. End the tyranny of tired comedy with the Chalk Talk Mug, a blank drinking vessel that also doubles as a functional chalkboard. That way, you can write “My Boss Is Satan” one minute and change it to “My Boss Is #1″ right before the staff meeting.
Yes, it’s your personal graffiti canvas in the form of a mug. Just pick up a chalk, wax it over the chalkboard glaze and amuse yourself with something clever. Or witty. Or depraved. Hey, you can always erase it, so let your creative spirit loose.
The Chalk Talk Mug is a regular 12oz mug, covered with a special glaze that turns its entire surface area into a usable chalkboard. Not only can you write on it with a chalk, you [...]
What Signature On Contract? The KGB Disappearing Ink Pen
Do you like to sign stuff and regret them later?
Weere you forced to put something in writing that you really didn’t want to ?
Like when I had to put it in writing for my wife that I will not use my iPad in bed anymore. Never put your signature permanently again with the KGB Disappearing Ink Pen, an erstwhile regular writing instrument armed with gel ink that vanishes after 48 hours.
Supposed to be invented by KGB scientists during the Cold War (which, by the way, isn’t the same as the Ice Age), it was used to write spy notes that left no trace for enemies to find. With the end of that US-Russia nonsense, it’s now the perfect tool for signing IOUs you don’t intend to pay back, writing death threats you don’t want to bite you back in court and sabotaging classmates during exams. For the latter, just trade [...]
Uzi Tactical Pen Dents Glass, Hurts Enemies And Collects DNA
A pen has always been a decent weapon. With enough thrust, you can poke that pointed end to deliver a world of hurt. The Uzi Tactical Pen, which comes with a sharp DNA catcher right on the crown, should prove even more useful as a self-defense tool.
Made from aircraft aluminum, the pen can withstand a litany of abuse, whether from dropping, slamming or repeated thrusting into an attacker’s body parts. Not only will it continue to write after being put through all that, it can imprint your thoughts to paper even while submerged in water or held upside down.
The Uzi Tactical Pen, in many ways, is just a regular writing implement. It measures 6 x .55 inches (l x d), comes with a removable pocket clip and can accept standard refills designed for Parker and Fisher Price pens. The game changer, however, is the DNA catcher [...]
Pour Coffee Or Die: The Gun Handle Mug
Pour the coffee or die. That’s how you’ll be addressing whoever’s got the pot with the Gun Handle Mug, a coffee mug that makes you feel like you’re clutching a pistol.
No, it won’t magically shoot coffee bullets like anything that encourages a trigger finger should. But you can hide it in your pants and have what looks like a gun handle sticking out of the waistband. Of course, having a mug in your crotch probably isn’t a good idea, but anyone fascinated by quirky drinking vessels isn’t exactly looked up to as a bastion of intelligence. Except me, but that’s because I’m special.
The Gun Handle Mug is made from classic grazed ceramic and measures 6 x 3 x 4 inches (w x d x h). Yes, the gun design makes it an obnoxious six inches wide, allowing your mug to take more shelf space [...]
Slay The Rain With The Broadsword Handle Umbrella
Even knights need to save themselves from torrential rain. After all, that head to toe armor can rust pretty badly. When that downpour comes, all warriors draw their Broadsword Handle Umbrellas, unleashing a canopy of safety that keeps the heavy drizzles away.
With a handle cut from the mold of medieval swords, you can grab a hold of this umbrella like you would a weapon for slaying dragons. Except you’re going to use it to keep the rain out, battling the attacking torrent like an army of spears coming down from the skies.
The Broadsword Umbrella features a two-handed, 10-inch handle made from injection-molded plastic that’s been treated to a metallic finish (since obvious plastic swords are just shameful). For easier grip, the upper half is wrapped in leatherrete, with a 9-inch cross guard for no-slip handling. Full umbrella is 39.5 inches long, with a 41-inch spread [...]
Blood Bath Shower Gel Gets You Bloody Clean
We know, you vampires don’t care about no bacteria. That’s why you don’t bother washing a prey’s neck before biting it. Regardless, all that running around in graveyards and chasing for victims in stinky alleys can leave you dirty, so bathing like the rest of us remains in order. Except your immortal buddies make fun of you when you take a bath. What to do?
Soap yourself up with the Blood Bath Shower Gel, a syrupy body cleanser that lets you pretend you’re bathing in blood. Now, that’s cool. And no one’s gonna make fun of you now.
We know, you wish they just used cleaning agents mixed with real blood. If that happened, though, there’s a good chance you’ll be drinking the shower gel instead of washing your armpit with it. Then you’ll blow bubbles every time you hiccup, which isn’t that funny [...]
Add Smileys To Your Post-Its With The Kaoiro Emoticon Stamp
Emoticons are great at expressing how we feel. So why restrict its use in text messages, IMs and email? Not anymore with the Kaoiro Emoticon Stamp, which lets you lace your real paper letters with 2,000 different kinds of emoticons.
Of course, you can always just use a pen to draw a smiley on the Post-It note you’re leaving for the guy on the next shift, but it doesn’t look official. Stamped items, on the other hand, have a way of looking dignified on paper. Because dignified is how you roll, aint it?
The Kaoiro Emoticon Stamp is a 1.3 x 1.1 x 3.9 inch stamp, made from wood, rubber and steel. Sporting seven belts and 20 different symbols, you can use it to lay down up to 2,000 different Japanese-style “kaomoji” (emoticons). It works just like any multi-belt rubber stamp, so just adjust the belts, [...]
Japanese Replica Taxi Meter Turns You Car Into An Expensive Cab
I have no problem giving friends a ride, but I wouldn’t mind getting paid for my troubles. That’s where the Japanese Replica Taxi Meter can come in.
Running a taxi service without a franchise is probably illegal, but being an outlaw has always been more fun. Plop this thing on your dashboard and begin ferrying passengers around. If anyone asks why your meter is in Japanese, tell them it’s actually Chinese, because the cab company is from Chinatown. All those strange Asian alphabets look the same anyway.
Since you just plop it on the dashboard, we doubt the Japanese Replica Taxi Meter can actually measure how far you’ve travelled. Based on the pictures, though, the number does change, so maybe that meter runs with time. Hopefully, it can be calibrated to mirror typical rate per travel times for your city. If it can’t, then all [...]
Toothpaste Squeezer Leaves No Paste Behind
Wasting stuff specially in these times is just plain stupid. Why throw away a tube of toothpaste when squeezing every last jizz can net you at least a day’s worth of tooth decay protection? Because getting those last shards of paste is damn hard, that’s why. That is, until you equip your bathroom with the Toothpaste Squeezer, a roller-style wall-mounted tool that performs the obsessive-compulsive deed like no other.
Designed for mounting on your bathroom mirror, you simply plug the end of the tube onto the roller and begin spinning it to squeeze any remaining traces of dentrifice towards the front. The result is a highly-compressed container of your favorite toothpaste brand, hanging very accessibly right over the sink. Not only is it economical and space-saving, it makes laying a line of paste down on your toothbrush easy.
The Toothpaste Squeezer is plastic device measuring 81 x [...]
Can Grip Turns Your Canned Drink Into A Mug
I hate canned drinks. My hands are already clammy to begin with, so I don’t need no cold beer to drench it. That’s why the Can Grip sounds like a godsend, giving that inconvenient vessel mug-like handling powers.
Designed to snap onto standard 12oz cans, the contraption not only adds a plastic handle for your gross-sounding Watermelon Wheat Beer, it also appends a coaster at the bottom of the can. No more wet palms and no more rings on the coffee table. Those benefits are so awesome even the wife will approve.
The Can Grip is a single-piece plastic device that clips to the top edge of your can and cradles the bottom, giving a stein-like handle that lets you grip your drink with utmost comfort. That means you can down your way out of a six-pack with class, while everyone wrangles each can with their fingers [...]
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 [...]
