Segatoys Mu-Bot can be connected to your iPod/MP3 player and has arms serving as earphones, just pull them out whenever you want to listen to something and put them back when you’re done, keeping the messy cords stored inside its body.
Audiocubes: Segatoys Mu-Bot ($39.00)
This is Medicom’s Black Hole Stormtrooper, part of an awesome series of Japanese Star Wars vinyl collectibles launching in a limited edition at the San Diego Comic-con.
(Via Smidigt)
Looking for super-soft 8-bit nostalgia? How about the Super Mario Mushroom series of plushies? Both Size-up and 1-Up mushrooms are available as well as a bunch of goombas featuring the hats of either Mario, Luigi and Wario.
ThinkGeek.com: Super Mario Mushroom Plush ($14.99 each)
The MatchBox Size R/C Racing Cars are a bunch of really tiny RC Racing Cars not bigger than a matchbox or iPod Shuffle.
They’re available for $14.00 each and the models available are Nissan Skyline GTR R34, Mazda RX8, Subaru Impreza WRX, Toyota Estima and Subaru 360.
(Via Red Ferret)
Looking for the perfect gift for someone who apparently has everything (or never wishes for anything)? How about a shiny vial of Nothing? Yeah, it’s filled to the brim with absolutely nothing at all.
“It’s a statement, an empty gesture if you will, a nod at the futility of ownership, and yet despite ‘Nothing’ being nothing, it is of course packed with millions of protons, neutrons and what have you, which is pretty good for Nothing.”
IWantOneOfThose.com: Nothing (£3.49, USD $6.28, €5.17)
(Via OhGizmo)
The Bullshit Button is nothing short of a portable bullshit announcer driven by two AAA-batteries. Just push the button and it’ll shout stuff in the lines of:
- (Beep) “That was bullshit”
- (Siren) “Bullshit detected, take precautions”
- “Bullshit level defcon 5″
- “Oh come on now, that ain’t even bullshit, that’s horseshit”
- “Warning, warning, bullshit alert”
…While your own mouth stays comfortably closed. The scenarios where a devious device like this could be handy are just too many to number here.
Amazon.com: Bullshit Button ($6.99)
Find-me-a-gift.co.uk: Bullshit Button (£6.90, $13.08)
(Via I4U)
This might be the best thing ever for office stress relief. Just hook up this mini pitching machine on your desk and bat away. It comes complete with 12 soft plastic mini-balls and the compact bat can fold like a telescope making it easy to hide whenever your boss wonders who the hell keeps blasting plastic baseballs on his window.
1ofakindstuff.com: Executive Batting Practice ($24.95)
(Via Smidigt)
Oh well, while I’m on the print-and-fold-your-own-monsters-roll I can just as well write about Readymech, a large collection of free paper monsters ranging from cute to eerie and weird for you to download, print and fold. All you need is double-sided tape, paper and about 10-15 minutes of folding time per monster.
More foldables:
Toypaper Monsters, TIE-Fighters and other movie spacecrafts, Speaker dogs and last (but not least) weird tin foil hats.
(Thanks CB)
Toypaper has quite a collection of free paper monsters and toys for you to download (PDF), print and fold.
And remember - if you grow tired of those monsters there’s always TIE-Fighters and other movie spacecrafts, cute speaker dogs as well as eerie tin foil hats for you to print, fold and enjoy.
Tired of your plain old office desk? Then why not download one of Ben the Illlustrator’s Speakerdogs designed by himself and a bunch of other designers - just use some of that (free) company printer ink to print one out and then cut / fold / glue it together and you’re done.
If you have artistic skills (or prefer extreme minimalism) there’s a blank Speakerdog available as well.
(Thanks Karl)
