Curioblog: featuring unusual gifts, gadgets and curiosities |
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They’re robots made of cardboard that only know how to walk in a straight line and their objective is to reach a certain point in the city. Will people on the streets be willing to help? |
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A group of Web surfers has been gathering images of final credits from old films. The collection has over 700 photos. |
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Little Thinkers is a collection of plush felt dolls inspired by great philosophers, politicians, artists, thinkers, and other historical figures. |
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It’s the latest Infinite Toy from Bandai: a keychain/toy that simulates the act of opening a can of beer. It’s useless yet fascinating. |
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Don’t squash any more spiders, use this clever invention to catch them and take them out to the garden. You won’t even need to touch them. They’ll be grateful! |
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That’s the title of this WC Book, a book/object that includes a compilation of symbols, icons, and pictograms from public bathrooms from around the world. |
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The book is full of pictures like this one |
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-Pardon me, where are the restrooms?
-Down the hall to your right
It’s almost a rhetorical question, since that’s where the bathroom is in 90% of cases. And that’s precisely why the book is titled, Al Fondo a la Derecha, in other words, "Down the hall to your right". It’s actually a WC Book, a book that compiles pictures of public restrooms from around the world; not the interior, though, just the symbols, icons, and pictograms that identify bathroom doors in several different countries.
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Doraemon talks about his past on a Japanese TV program and explains why he’s lost his ears and how he turned blue. |
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These fruit juice cartons imitate the look and feel of the fruit they contain. Provocative, popish, and, above all, very realistic. |
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...carefully packed in see-through boxes. Justin Cignac, a 25-year-old who walks around looking at the ground, collects the garbage himself. |
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This new gadget will teach you how to boil an egg and have you dancing around the kitchen while you cook. |
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