Curioblog: featuring unusual gifts, gadgets and curiosities |
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Anne-Claire Petit designs and manufactures these original hand-made crochet toys and accessories. Matryoshka, coffee pots, reindeer heads, giant mushrooms... |
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Garden gnomes don't have to be tacky. These designer gnomes are about to improve the reputation of one of the ugliest garden accessories of all times. |
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A pouf, a doll, a sculpture, a designer item, a toy, or a buddy: this adorable pig is all that and more. And its skin is designed to look like the typical quilted upholstery used for Chester sofas. We love it. |
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Animals on the Underground is an interesting project that consists of looking for animals hidden in the lines on a map of the London underground system. |
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This umbrella can even be used as a tripod for your camera. |
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This group of birds is really a set of original coat hooks. Make space in your living room for these new lodgers! |
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A collection of 4 designer notebooks with lines that are curiously designed to invite you to experiment with different styles of handwriting. |
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These Japanese earbuds are really wild and crazy. |
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Crazy Earphone |
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Hey, you have mushrooms sticking out of your ears! There you are, feeling like the coolest of the cool with your ultra-modern Solidalliance earbuds, and people on the street stare at you, wondering, "What on Earth is that...?". The thing is that this company makes earbuds in very original and somewhat surreal shapes.
For instance, they have earbuds shaped like bananas, cat paws, screws, and apples with arrows through them, Japanese swords, ears (the meta-ear: an ear inside a real ear...), and sushi pieces...
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Build your own sticky structures with these post-its shaped like mud bricks. Any wall you stick them all will look like a bear brick wall! |
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Remember those inflatable beach balls you used to play with as a child? An Italian design firm has now rescued these and turned them into lamps. |
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