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Believe me there are tea fanatics out there and they aren’t just English. If you are obsessive about wanting your tea just the right way every morning, to eliminate any chance of an error, there is the MyCuppa Pantone Tea Cup. It has a color guide with different shades of brown that you can use to make sure you add exactly the right amount of milk for the perfect kick. Making tea has never been more ideal! No more being disappointed with the wrong proportions. Even when you have guests over, let them pick their color to avoid any complaints. It is made from ceramic and has four color samples inside that correspond to four different ways to take tea: Milky (with lots of milk), Classic British (with just a “drop” of milk), Builders Brew (barely any milk at all) and Just Tea (plain tea, without milk). It’s selling here for $14.

I’ve seen Hello Kitty make a cute appearance on many wheels, but this is the first time that I’m seeing her lovely presence on sails! For an adorable sailing experience, we have the Hello Kitty sailboat. It’s everything you can expect from a great boat, pink with Hello Kitty’s face plastered on it. It’s perfect for a girl’s day out on the sea. Next we know, aircrafts will be flying with Hello Kitty on it amongst the clouds!

Strawberry and Milk cola is what the Pepsi Pink is known in Japan. The country has an obsession with weird drinks we have seen Pepsi White which is Yogurt flavored and the Pepsi Ice Cucumber. It tastes like Strawberry milk with fizz says the reviewer. But dont take his word, head over to the nearest 7/11 or Lawson if you are in Japan.

Motorola has quietly taken the wraps off its latest smartphone, the MOTOKEY Social which even has its own product page on the Motorola site. The special feature of this QUERTY keyboard phone is the Facebook button on the lower left portion of the phone which lets you get connected to the social networking site at the touch of a button. It also provides a quick access to other social networking sites, devoid of the special key devoted to them like the ‘F’ button. As for the rest of the features, it sports a 3MPfixed-focus camera, a 2.4 inch QVGA TFT touchscreen, 64MB RAM, 50 MB built-in storage, Bluetooth 2.1, and 910 mAh battery that delivers up to 8 hours of talk time.

If dogs can get dog houses, Cats deserve something that they call home too. Well, it isn’t that bad, we have seen stuff like cool Computer Monitor Cat home, but let’s own it, pooches are pampered more than kitties. The Kitty Meow is a cute little Cat den that cutely houses your kitty. When she sees it, she’ll know immediately that it is meant for Her and only Her! They’re made out of PE Plastic and cats could crawl inside or sleep on top of the head. The Designspotter website has stated the price to be in the range of $100-$170 depending on the country it is being shipped to.

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If you are a frequenter at camping or hiking, you’d definitely be aware of the immense protection required against cold winds and frost bites. If you have your ‘snow’ wear in place, it ought to be hell of a trip for you. Here’s the Musuc Sleeping bag that is all equipped to make your trip an enjoyable and memorable one. I find this bag way better than the Mummy Bag which doesn’t quite fit as snugly as this one does. Another advantage of the cleverly designed sleeping bag is that you could sit, stand, walk and do pretty much anything wearing it. You could buy the Musuc Sleeping bag from Magazin for $165.

Hello Kitty wrapped around your wrist keeping a tab on the time is fabulous. This fantastic venture is the combined efforts of Sanrio and fashion design brand, Nooka Inc. They have brought us the incredible special Hello Kitty timepiece designed by Matthew Waldman. It is sleek, modern and super stylish. The minimalistic approach keeps it from being over the top or tacky. The limited edition watch features Nooka’s patented Zirc display with a silk screen printed Hello Kitty graphic on a white polyurethane band. The 12 dots represents hours, while the horizontal bar displays the minutes, with a small window displaying the seconds. Hello Kitty fans need to grab it while they can. It’s selling here for $130.

Our cell phone screens, laptop screens and glasses tend to get dirty and dusty often. It’s annoying to have to carry a cloth to clean it always, so the Wipe T-shirt comes to our rescue. It comes with a convenient, built-in microfiber cloth to wipe the dirt away. The top cloth is good for giving your phone a good shine and the bottom one is perfect for your glasses. It’s available in blue/black and light grey. Overall, the look is decent enough. It’s selling here for $89. Makes me wonder if carrying around a cloth is more economical!

The iconic bitten Apple is familiar to the eyes and I wondered why they didn’t do more to enhance that delicious logo. Here’s an Apple pattern Clip on Mp3 player that looks really adorable in the design. It is available in a range of 4 colors- blue, green, pink and red. Its special feature is the incorporated T-flash card slot which will ensure that you have a good storage space to stack up your music. I don’t know how it would compare to the Apple iPod performance wise, but it’s certain that its way cheaper at $7. It’s the cute design that we are really fond of. You could own a piece from Budgetgadgets.

A dice meant for writers, storytellers and gamers sounds amazing to me considering the fact that I’m all three. These fabulous dice are etched with six words packed with meaning: BUT, SO, AND, AS, OR, IF. We know these are the most important words when you are thickening a plot or rolling along with some elaborate role play. They are red and slightly larger than conventional dice. They even have all your regular 1-6 pips so you can roll them like normal dice, too. If writer’s block is bringing you down, get these now! For every $5 you pledge, you’ll get one die. You might also get a downloadable PDF guide for using Writer’s Dice in writing and gaming, including storytelling games like Happy Birthday, Robot! and Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple!

Lego bricks are turning into some sort of celebrity with so many different creations being stacked out with them. Remember the Lego Greenhouse and the more recent Lego Halloween Kitty? There is yet another creation that popped up in Hollywood Boulevard to feature as the theme park’s ‘brick or treat’ Halloween icon. It’s a Giant Halloween Pumpkin created out of 22,000 Lego bricks, unveiled in Los Angeles. The massive pumpkin measuring seven feet tall and weighing 850lbs is made by Legoland California and had thousands of visitors swarming to take pictures of it.

We all know the magnitude of fan following that Hello Kitty has gripped world over since its launch in 1974. Sanrio and other companies have produced numerous Hello Kitty merchandize in the last few years, but none as expensive and phenomenal as a Jet. Eva Air, a Chinese carrier has accepted a brand new Airbus A330-302X under the registration, B-16331 (msn 1254) more than a week back. It features a “Hello Kitty” special color scheme that would definitely appeal to the Hello Kitty fans and they would do anything to fly on it, I’m certain. Note that Eva Air had unveiled its first Hello Kitty Jet sometime in 2005. The launch of the second Hello Kitty jet is going to be followed by the introduction of 2 additional Airbus A330-302X aircraft with two additional designs in the coming weeks. I wonder which designs they are going to wear on their bodies!

The iPad is complete in almost every way, excepting the speed of typing rendered in the regular laptop. TouchFire is a dummy keyboard weighing less than an once, that directly attaches to your iPad screen when you need to type out an article. The TouchFire comes with a pair of cover clips that magnetically secures the keyboard to the surface of the iPad. The transparent keyboard doesn’t even hamper your swiping operations or anything.

The alarming rate of natural calamities striking our world, the fashion stylists are laying more stress on designing everyday accessories that have utility at a cataclysmic hour. Safe: Design Takes on Risk, Parsons’ students Alvaro Soto, John Paul Rangel and Justin Blanc have advocated the subject of how luxury brands can create products that intelligently respond to emergencies in life. The collection of three bags named “This is Luxe” addresses a continuum of human fears and insecurities that ought to be addressed sooner than later. The first bag named Armor is a handbag that transforms into a couture gas mask if a bio-terror attack strikes.

The extreme winter conditions in Japan (sinking below 0˚) have made them invent pretty innovative products. We don’t say that is the only reason for their innovativeness and hard work that has a deeper association with their genetic composition. Here’s a product that keeps your sole warm even in the coldest of winter days. It is called Hokahoka (can’t figure out what that means, but it directly translates as “hot-hot” in my senseless dictionary) and it is an insole that fits into any shoe and the sole with the center heater can be “charged” by a AA battery. It gives a battery life of 7 hours, which is pretty good.