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  • Japanese company sells Lego ear phones

    Japanese company sells Lego ear phones

    This is too sweet: Japan-based gadget maker Elecom will soon start selling the "Sundries PLAYBRICK", Lego-shaped ear phones [JP]. This is the same company that brought us the "Soundblock", ultra-cute mini speakers, just recently.

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  • Poken gets a Pulse

    Poken gets a Pulse

    Poken, those little thingers that you touch together to trade contact info we talked about last SXSW, are now smaller. The Poken Pulse is a 2GB memory key with Poken RFID scanning built in. When you tap your Poken onto another person's Poken it trades contact information and, um, to quote the website "we’re glowin’ green, killin’ two ‘birds,’ and savin’ trees." Right.

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  • Super-cute Hello Kitty USB flash drive

    Super-cute Hello Kitty USB flash drive

    Sanrio, the company behind the dream of millions of teenage girls around the world, cartoon cat Hello Kitty, is to celebrate the cat's 35th birthday on November 1st. Reason enough to team up with design USB flash drive maker Mimoco and give us the Hello Kitty X Mimobot, quite possibly the cutest USB stick out there.

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  • Thanko strikes again: Catgirl Earphones

    Thanko strikes again: Catgirl Earphones

    Tokyo-based crap gadget specialist Thanko is usually known for selling USB stuff nobody needs. Their newest hit product doesn't feature a USB port, but the target group for their Catgirl Earphones [JP] should be quite small, too. Marketed as a gadget for the Cosplay crowd, the earphones are supposed to turn your girlfriend into a cute catgirl.

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  • Meet An9-PR, the cutest multi-purpose robot out there

    Meet An9-PR, the cutest multi-purpose robot out there

    Japan-based security company ALSOK has developed an adorable robot [JP] that fulfills not one but a number of different functions. The so-called An9-PR can be used as a guide to help people in shopping centers or office buildings, an autonomously moving digital signage system or for surveillance. It's the big brother of the An9-RR, which was introduced back in March. It features a simple electric bulletin board that's wrapped around its head and a total of three LCD screens built into its body (one 19-incher is on the front and there are two 12-inchers on the back). People can view ads, information on buildings and other information on these (touch) screens.

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