Many of us enjoy hearing music while cycling or walking around in traffic. This is potentially risky because the earphones makes it hard to hear what’s going on around you. TOPlays new earphones solves this problem.

TOPlays earphones make it possible to hear everything that’s going on around you, while listening to music. This is due to the fact that the earphones are fastened to the earlobe instead of being put directly into the ear. This feature also makes the ear pressure minimal, and protects the children’s hearing.

TOPlays earphones come in simple white-, black- and silver designs, as well as the more child friendly skull-, football- and panda designs. You can buy them at ME-WE SHOP at $39.98 and $44.88 USD.

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Free People is an online store, and a brand, offering fabulous clothing, accessories and shoes, with a sort of modern hippie look.

My favorite part of their site is the selection of stylish sunglasses. The use of color and round feminine shapes in their glasses are so lovely, and it makes me daydream of summer flirts, sunny beaches and road trips.

What’s so great about the Free People store is that it offers everything you need for the “hippie style”, so you’ll have no problem finding what you need to make your own fabulous outfit. If you lack inspiration, or have problems seeing how the different pieces will go together, Free People have made a selection of whole outfits. Click on the outfit you like and choose which parts of it you’d like to buy. Could it be any easier?

The Free People clothing are made in adult sizes.

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Some of you may have seen the super cool Alien Abduction Lamp, and, just as I, got depressed upon realizing that it was not a real product yet, and there were no real plans to get it out on a shelf anywhere.

A few days ago though, I got a message which made my day. The creator of the lamp, Lasse Klein, wrote that they are working on getting the lamp into production, and it will most likely be in the stores sometime during 2008! I love this lamp, and I will actually go as far as predict a couple of awards to its genius developer!

I’ll keep you updated on this and in the meantime you can check out The Alien Abduction Lamp site for more information on it.

I can’t wait for this!

I just came by this gorgeous Skull Pendant by Lyie Van Rycke. It is on sale right now at kim&maki for USD 55, compared to the USD 88!

The skull is vermeil, which is gold-coated silver, and it is hanging on a cotton cord.

The Skull Pendant has a slight rough touch to it, which makes it a perfect everyday necklace.

It looks like kim&maki has a lot of good bargains, so if you’re looking for some nice jewelry for teenage kids this is a great place to check them out.

First time I saw Figments I was “cruising” through all the articles that had been piling up in my feed reader. Not so interesting articles usually gets about 1 sec. of attention while interesting ones get around 20 sec. (if they do not have a lot of text to read). The article about Figments had very little text, but it got about 1 min. of my time!

It was like the Figment characters were alive, and of course I was attracted to the high level of detail put into these characters. One can truly tell that these are one of a kind characters made by the hand of an artist who uses his art to express himself. These artists leave a small piece of themselves in every product, and I believe that’s how the characters end up so very alive and full of soul!

Figment was born out of the artists love for shoes, and that’s clearly visible by the major role the tiny baby sneakers serve in the characters. All the characters are made from carefully chosen fabrics and accessories, and through the process of their making their personalities take shape little by little.

It is a truly great “toy” for those of us who love designer plush with a whole lot of soul.

Figments will be available online when they get their web store up and running, and until then the characters can be found at Lower Haters (San Francisco), The Reed Space (NY) and Acycle (Tokyo).

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Fun and colorful bracelets made from silver and beer/soda cans. The soda and beer can pieces are secured to the bracelets with sterling silver rivets, and silver end caps protect the ends.

There are a few different versions to choose from, e.g. Lucky Lager, Coca Cola, Sunkist, Guinness, Dr. Pepper and Tab.

Since the bracelets are made from actual cans you can rest assured that you are doing your bit to “staying green” so they offer both a stylish way of showing your taste in both beverage and your environmental consciousness. Very treehugging.

The bracelets are made in Vermont and can be found at Elsewares along with a wider version of the cuffs along with matching rings.

Pinkie Pirate by Dooodolls is a super cute designer plush doll. It’s the kind of doll that not only mommy would love to give to her girl because of the cuteness factor, but daddy wouldn’t mind it either because of the toughness factor in the black eye patch.

I guess it kind of sends a great message to little girls; you can be both super cute and a bit tough at the same time

A couple of other cool dolls which kind of sends the same message are the plush dolls SANDy and Mozzarella from Tokidokis. Soon to be released.

You’ll find Pinkie Pirate at Juvie, a great shop where they have cool toys, clothes and accessories for older kids. Not to many of those shops around.

Littlearth makes purses and accessories from old license plates, tire rubber and bottle caps. Although not all material used in their products are recycled, they have an admirable aim to use an average of 50% recycled material in their products.

Besides the ones which still resemble license plates, there are lots of purses with beautiful graphics and some are even adorned with Swarovski crystals.

In one of their lines, Pro•FAN•ity, they use the graphics of the 32 NFL teams. The line consists of purses, CD holders, photo holders and auto seatbelts amongst other products. The line is perfect for girls who want to be fashionable while supporting their teams.

The Dutch artist Selwyn Senatori is the brain behind Arttops - laptops with an artistic touch.

Arttops comes in two versions, blue King and pink Queen, both are decorated all over the top and has decoration around the keyboard and screen too.

The Arttops are limited edition. Only one hundred are available of each and all have been signed by the Selwyn himself. They look to be a great alternative to the usual plain business like black, grey and white minimalisticly designed laptops and might make a great confirmation gift for an art loving teen.

Both “King” and “Queen” comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz processor, 1024MB DDR2 memory and 120GB(King)/100GB(Queen) hard drives. The “King” has a 15.4-inch screen while the “Queen” has a smaller 14.1-inch screen.

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