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ThinkGeek is one of my favourite webshops. ThinkGeek is a webshop dedicated to geeky and fun toys and apparel. Their target audience is the geekier people, the IT crowd – basicly anyone you’d consider a little bit “brainy”.

At ThinkGeek they’ve got apparel for children, gadgets, electronics and more. The products cover areas such as Star Wars, Zombies, Linux and Gaming. Many of the products are also very suitable for adults – especially if you’ve got a spouse working in the IT industry.

If you’re looking for Christmas gifts for a child they’ve got a whole section you can browse through.

Should you know someone who’s very into playing World of Warcraft or other types of role playing games a good gift idea would be these health energy potions pictured on the left. Loaded with caffeine which is a gamers fuel but they also contain elderberry and ginseng and are void of sugar.

Sanrio will be working with Mimoco, amongst others, in the celebration of Hello Kittys 35th anniversary this fall.

In time for Hello Kittys anniversary on November 1st Mimoco will have designed and produced several different USB flash drives, and Hello Kitty® will be the first to hit the stores, in early September.

Soon thereafter Badtz-Maru®, My Melody®, Kuromi®, Keroppi®, Chococat®, and TuxedoSam™ will also show up in MIMOBOT form.

The line will be available for purchase at MIMOBOT.com and SANRIO.com, select SANRIO boutiques and other specialty retailers.

For the older children R/C Helicopters is surely one of the more interesting things to play with. Not only is it badass to fly a chopper round the block but it’s also an educational toy you can learn from.
The more inquisitive teen will begin to wonder how the chopper mechanics work and maybe start to tinker with it. Especially when it crashes and something breaks you have two options – either go to the shop and get it fixed or buy the parts yourself and work on it.

R/C stands for Radio Control. The helicopter is controlled with a remote powered by batteries and is usually powered by batteries.

XHeli.com is one of the major dealers of everything in R/C Helicopters. They have lots of products and spareparts.

You can use this coupon link for a discount there:
XHeli.com $10 OFF $125 – Lowest Price RC Helicopters

Tutor.com is a great recourse for parents who’d like to give their children a way of getting homework help whenever they need it.

What’s great about Tutor.com is that it gives the child access to experienced tutors 24/7, and as every session is recorded, they can go back to it later if they need to see it again. Something I’ve personally always wanted when I was in school.

Go to Tutor.com, if you’d like to have a look at what they can offer. They have a video presentation that’ll give you an idea of how it works.

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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