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Chobs (CHop On Both Sides)

Good idea.

"Chobs raise your chopping board so you can use both sides, leaving you less to wash up and keeping your countertop or bench clean.

"Chobs grip to make any chopping board non-slip, and they expand to fit onto almost thickness of chopping board.

"Colored icons let you know which side of your board to use for meat or vegetables, keeping surfaces hygienic and preventing cross-contamination."

Apply within.

Little black phone dress lets wearer make and receive calls by lifting her hand to her ear

Can your little black dress do that?

I've been doing it for years — without the dress.

TMI, joe.

"A little black dress [top] that doubles up as a mobile phone is to be launched in Britain."

You could look it up.

From the Telegraph: "The garment, branded the M-Dress, lets wearers make and receive calls by slipping their SIM card under the label, allowing them to keep their usual numbers.

"Gesture recognition software allows users to pick up a call by raising their hand to their ear and end a conversation by letting it fall to their side.

"The M-Dress, designed by the London-based fashion company CuteCircuit, will ring when an incoming call is received and different ringtones can be assigned to different numbers.

"The dress is described as being made of "a dark, richly textured, form-fitting silk jersey" and will be released in 2011. Its price remains undisclosed.

"The antenna, described as “super-tiny”, is stitched into the bottom hem of the dress, which rests at about knee-height, to reduce the amount of radiation that the wearer is exposed to."

From the CuteCircuit/M-Dress website: “Very often phone calls are missed because mobile phones are quite awkward to carry, especially for women, who have garments with small or no pockets.To allow women to stay connected while remaining stylish, CuteCircuit designed the M-Dress. A mobile phone in its own right but built out of soft circuitry.”

[via Milena]

Anti-Wrinkle Glasses

 

You know you want them.

From the website:

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Embarrassed by those wrinkles starting to appear near your eyes?

Slip on these goggle-style glasses and you won't look tired and old any more!

Just wearing the Mejikara for five minutes every day will improve the appearance of your face.

On the inside of the Mejikara there are specially-designed ridges which massage and help your skin.

It puts gentle pressure on the skin and pushes those sagging eyes back up to where they once were!

It might seem like another wacky Japanese invention but in fact the Mejikara has been a sleeper hit here, and we can see why!

Details:

• Band size: Small (54-56cm/21.3-22"); Medium (56-58cm/22-22.8"); Large (58-60cm/22.8/23.6")

• Size: 5 x 16.5 x 0.8cm (2 x 6.5 x 0.3")

• Silicone rubber

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$48.

Ochocinco's — The new breakfast of champions

Mark your calendar: Next Tuesday, September 7, at 11:30 a.m., Chad himself will introduce his new cereal — which comes in a "limited-edition collector's box" — at the Kroger Marketplace store in Newport, outside Cincinnati.

You could look it up. More:

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As if Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco doesn’t already seem like he’s in 10 places at once in the marketing world, now he can join you at the breakfast table.

Pittsburgh-based PLB Sports and Ochocinco (formerly Chad Johnson), have created Ochocinco’s. The breakfast cereal’s box features a picture of No. 85 wearing his Bengals jersey and holding up two giant O-shaped pieces of the honey nut toasted cereal.

This is Ochocinco’s latest venture into the nation’s conscience. He appeared on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” last spring and then went into the reality TV dating business with “Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch” on VH1 during the summer.

Kroger stores will carry the Ochocinco cereal line. Mark your calendars, because Ochocinco will introduce the cereal Tuesday, Sept. 7, at 11:30 a.m. at the Kroger Marketplace store in Newport.

Believe it or not, Chad isn’t even the first Bengals receiver on the current roster to have his own cereal. PLB Sports launched T.O.'s, a cereal honoring wide receiver Terrell Owens, last year when Owens was a Buffalo Bill. The Bengals signed Owens during the off-season, and he apparently brought his cereal acumen with him.

Blast from the past: Comb Cleaner

Three years after first appearing here, it's still amusing.

At least to me.

But then, hey, you know how easily that's accomplished.

But I digress.

The original June 16, 2007 post follows.

Not one word has been omitted.

Pity, that... never mind.

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Comb Cleaner — Why use your fingers when you can employ a specialized tool instead?

Maybe because your fingers work fine and they're always present, while you have to locate this tool before you can use it?

That's just my dark side talking, ignore it.

From websites:

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Fuller™ Comb Cleaner

Fuller's expert tool cleans combs, keeping you looking your best.

Polypropylene comb cleaner has twisted-in wire bristles to clean comb teeth quickly.

5" long.

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Still $2.99.

unhearit — The anti-earworm

Can't get that song out of your head?

unhearit.

"We created this site for those of you that have a song stuck in your head and can't get it out no matter what you do. Using the latest techniques in reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology, we've been able to enable our users to 'unhear' songs by hearing equally catchy songs. So really, all we're doing is making you forget your old song by replacing it with another one... sorry."

[via Milena]

Easy Grip Portable Book Holder

The video (above) explaining how it works is sui generis.

And I'm not talking about an philanthropic pig.

What's that supposed to mean, joe?

If you have to ask....

$17.99.

Custom Fabric Labels

Where does a small-scale craftsperson/artisan get fabric labels

which enhance and complement their work?

Right here.

Quick Snap Ice Tray

Laurie Gelb, reviewing it in Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools, edited by Oliver Hulland, wrote, "My husband has very little hand strength, and these are the only ice trays he has been able to use in several years. We have tried aluminum, plastic and several other variations."

"The button on the bottom of each cube's compartment actually releases the cube relatively easily. No more propelling it onto the floor. They are not glamorous nor costly, and they do the job."

$7.99.

Know your bird song

"Click on the species

shown here

to learn

to identify birds

by their song

as well as

their appearance."

From the top down: bullfinch, wood pigeon, blackbird, song thrush, starling, wren, collared dove, chaffinch.