Kids driving you up the walls with their wailings for new toys when the last few remote-controlled cars you bought were flushed down the toilet and fed to the dog (RIP, Tommy)? They wouldn’t be so frustrated with those boring old cars if you got them something new and really cool, like a remote controlled car. Don’t get the drift? Try the Air Hog Zero Gravity Micro R/C car, and your kids would be driving them up the walls. This cool toy doesn’t just zoom all over your floors but can also race up the sides of your walls and the underside of your tables.

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Feeling nostalgic about the old days when you would huddle over your cassette player and curse it for chewing up your most favourite Guns n Roses tape? You can’t really go back in time and start playing cassettes again, not when you know that they really are such a mess and playing music on your iPod is seriously so much better and sounded greater. But if you are really missing your cassettes, you could opt for this USB hub that looks like a retro cassette tape.

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Move over Spiderman. The real spiders are here to take over the world, well, at least Liverpool. A 50 foot mechanical spider has been erected on the walls of a building about to be demolished. The spider is set to wake up from its hibernation on Sunday, crawl down the walls of the building and terrorise the people of Liverpool, creating havoc around its streets. And all this in the name of tourism. Somehow, I think someone made a typo while releasing a press report. The idea of a giant spider roaming around the streets seems more to evoke terror-ism than tourism!

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Speakers come in all shapes and designs these days with designers taking inspiration from anything, from leaves to shoelaces (just stretching it a bit far there). But if the wine glass speakers that had made an appearance sometime ago do not fascinate you then perhaps something more healthy and closer to nature may appeal to you. Like peas all snug and cosy in their pod. The Pea Speaker system has six pea shaped though not pea sized speakers that sit atop one another in their transparent pea pod.

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At first glance, this may appear as a pram designed for extremely spoilt self-indulgent adults. It is not a pram, but what is wrong with a little self-indulgence now and then in this over-stressed world? The OSIM uSPace is a massage chair built from airbag-style cushions that surround whichever part of the body is being rubbed to apply a sense of pressure. The uSpace intends to leave you completely relaxed- mentally, physically, and emotionally- with several combinations of mood light, synchronised music and massage programmes.

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Ever fallen asleep in your bathtub because you had gotten bored of seeing the same old shaped tub wherever you went? What about trying to handle screaming kids who don’t want to take a shower? Designer bathrooms will take your breath away and you will never want to go a day without taking a shower in the beautiful bathrooms. The Rotator is a huge semi-ball like contraption that works both as a shower and a bathtub. It is designed by artist/architect Ron Arad and made its first appearance in April of this year at the International Furniture Fair in Milan.

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Trailers and designer trailers are cool enough to let you escape miles away to a lake beach or a glen in a forest, but it is not cool enough to let you camp just anywhere you want. After all, what do you do when you really want to get back to nature and live in the middle of the lake or house yourself amongst the trees? The Lifepod is designed to allow you to camp anywhere your heart desires. This fully-functioning mini-capsule has been created as a highly portable system that can be set up hung betwixt trees several feet off the ground, floating on calm waters or more traditionally on hard ground.

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Sleeping bags give us the feeling that we are little kids packed away for the night until the sun arrives and someone releases us from our protective cocoon. It may keep us snug and cosy but it leaves such little room to move around, stretch our legs and hug the person lying next to us. If you feel it difficult to sleep in the traditional sleeping bag then the Wearable Sleeping bag would sure please you a lot. The wearable sleeping bag appears similar to a single piece warm feather lined jacket and pants.

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Ever tried to take a seat in a chair that just didn’t seem to want to accept your bottom? You fidget and turn this way and that and cross your legs and pull them up onto the seat, but you still can’t find a comfortable spot to rest your aching behind. Don’t let it bother you too much, not when the Wave Seat is here. Designed to shape like a wave, this seat, titled Noah, can comfortably accommodate every bottom of different shapes and sizes, ahum.

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People can do anything to take their music with them everywhere they go. it is almost as though music sets the rhythm for our brain waves, in turn affecting the way we feel and react to situations. Reindy Allendra has incorporated his love and need for music into his bike design, the Polygon, coming up with something that looks like a mix between a music player and a bicycle. Like most of us, Reindy believes music plays a great influence on our lives and is a part of our lifestyle.

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