Curioblog: featuring unusual gifts, gadgets and curiosities |
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The Royal Mail postal service has created a special collection of stamps to celebrate the greatest hits of British design |
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An aromatic balloon is the latest invention in the “air freshener aisle”. So simple, it almost seems like a joke. |
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A Japanese company has created a series of 100 designer VISA cards. These credit cards are just as much fun to look at as they are to spend with. |
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Although most fonts are created using computer programs, some craftier designers are making them by hand. |
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These books that are suspended in mid-air are part of an art installation currently on display on a square in the city of San Francisco |
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The Foster + Partners studio has won a call to tender for the design of a new red bus that will circulate around streets the streets of London. |
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Mr. Toast and his friends inhabit the Imaginary World, a fictitious setting created by comic strip artist Dan Goodsell. |
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A new fad is making waves: toys that run on solar energy and don’t need batteries. |
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This charming little seal has a blog, a cartoon, a Nintendo DS game and is the main character at an anime series premiering this month in Japan |
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Basic version of Mamegoma |
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Mamegoma is a seal character created by Japanese company San-X with the aim of becoming the next plush pet for Japanese children. Its feature sheet (like all Japanese dolls and toys, it comes with its own feature sheet and specifications) tells us that this is a "homey, around the house" seal; docile, meek and manageable. There are several styles, colours and breeds of Mamegoma; they’ve even created a hybrid between seal and panda bear called Pandagoma.
Though it hasn’t unleashed its own store yet, and it is not very well known or popular outside Japan; thousands of merchandising products have already been created, featuring its cute little face on them: cloths, plush toys, key-rings, school and teaching materials, suitcases, baby’s bottles...
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Build your own mini replica of the skyscrapers city out of a paper template |
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