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BodyTrace realized that people need a carrot to lose weight, and a pretty good carrot is the shame of showing that you actually regained the weight you lost online. In comes the eScale, a surprisingly stylish scale connected to the internet, posting your progress (or failure, let’s be realistic) online. The scale costs $119 (including a 3 month subscription of the online service) and then $19.99 per quarter.

So, besides looking at fancy graphs and what-not you get to form groups with friends and family to follow and the website makes suggestions for eating and working out.

BodyTrace: eScale

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Leopard is a highly advanced office chair straight from Japan now actually available for real (the concept has been around for a while). Basically it uses unpowered robot technology inspired by the basic principles of human anatomy to sink by 25° when you sit down in it, and rise up as you lean forward. Besides promising awesome comfyness this means that it’ll adjust itself behind your back and wrap around your bum when you lean back (imagine being held in someone’s arms) and then even give you a little push when you want to get up.

Oki and Okamura will sell this chair, meaning it’ll probably show up for us Westerners as well soon, and it’ll be available with both black and white frames. Leather will set you back about $2,500, fabric about $2,100.

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Being a fan of simple yet unorthodox clocks I just had to mention Lexon’s Around Clock, designed by Anthony Dickens. The Around Clock is 2.25" tall and 4.5" in diameter and is available in black, white and aluminum.

Amazon.com; Lexon Around Clock
MoMA: Lexon Around Clock

Belkin’s Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit is ideal for anyone finding his/hers current wireless network not fast enough for HD entertainment. Just hook it up and start transferring files and streams over your home’s existing electrical wiring in up to 1000 Mbps.

Belkin.com: Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit ($149.99)

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Die-hard Adobe fan? MySuiteStuff now offers the complete collection of CS icons as 100% hand-made plush pillows for you to rest your weary head on. $15 each or $80 for the whole gang.

MySuiteStuff.com: Adobe CS4 Icon Pillows

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Despite its digital appearance (and name), this tape is completely analog. Just tape whatever you need sealing and/or marking and use the included marker pen to draw over the lines in the characters and watch your digital message appear.

The digital message tape is available in both large (2" x 54 yds) and small rolls (.7" x 36 yds).

ThinkGeek: Digital Message Tape ($4.99 - $8.99)

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The Cablebox has a simple yet very important task; to hide as much cables, surge protectors and power strips as possible while keeping your floor nice and tidy. Cables, as we all know, is the root of all evil currently known to man.

The boxes are available in both white and black, sport rubber feet and measure 40 x 15 cm (about 15 x 6"). Just shove your excess cable in there and forget about them.

Charles & Marie: Cablebox (€22.00, about US$34.00)

I’m just getting ready to head off to my folk’s place to celebrate Christmas and I couldn’t find a more suiting product to write about than another Art. Lebedev Studio creation; SHAR-404. A set of six hand-painted glass camouflage balls for the X-mas tree. That’s subtle tree decoration if any.

Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone!

ArtLebedev.com: SHAR-404 Camo Balls ($24.86)

Here’s the Dosugus Cushion by Art. Lebedev Studio (the company behind the Optimus Maximus OLED key keyboard and the speakers shaped as speaker icons).

This black, soft cushion sports a white and highly nostalgic embroidery (the output from a “dir /w” on the “MY_DREAMS” hard drive to be exact).

ArtLebedev.com: Dosugus Cushion ($28.40, about €22.83)

Here’s Globus Plantarium Single Vial Garden Lab - an easy way to add an organic touch to your cubicle. Stylish glass test tubes containing a non-toxic, transparent gel created in collaboration with NASA scientists. This nutritive, magic, space-age gel allows you to plant seeds and watch the plant grow both above and below the surface.

The glass tubes are 7 inches tall and as for seeds you get to pick between basil, melon, marigold, pepper, sunflower and tomato.

Brooklyn5and10: Plantarium Single Vial Garden Lab ($10.00)