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Icelandic design firm Preggioni has just released a new product that’s really convenient for personal media players called Magneat.

[Magneat by Preggioni]

The DSi brings Nintendo’s product offering closer to what rival Sony has with its PSP portable system, which has an optional camera attachment, robust media playback functionality, and can download games to Memory Stick media. DSi will cost more than the DS Lite — 18,900 yen, or about $185 — and debut in Japan on November 1. Nintendo will release it outside Japan in 2009. Nintendo will hold a U.S. media briefing Thursday morning at 9 a.m. Pacific, where it is expected to provide more details on the U.S. launch plans for DSi. VIA [Wired]

[Nintendo DSi]

According to an official dossier, the Double Agent presents a hegemonic threat to headphones as we know them. Any standard SD card containing your big corporate record label-approved, legitimately-purchased content (and other music) can be inserted into this wireless headphone’s trap door and rocked like a hurricane. Wireless headphone + integrated content player in one. Who says no man can serve two masters?

[Skull Candy Double Agent]

Each YoYo is one-of-kind and has its own unique character. They are made with various sustainably harvested woods from our own tiny forest! The wood is carefully selected, hand cut, meticulously sanded and finished with natural shellac, then assembled with the utmost care. The strings are 100% cotton, professional Yo Yo strings! Each YoYo measure approximately 2″ diameter.

[Suddenly, Its Real! Wood YoYo]

Check out this amazing Styrofoam robotic remote-control lawnmower sheep from Carnegie Mellon.

[Robotic Lawn-Mowing Sheep]
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What would we do without the insanely cool products from the Netherlands, particularly those of Henk Stallinga, the man who came up with these salt and pepper shakers? They are infinitely interesting, to say the least. They resemble traditional ear and mouth pieces from the telephones of yore. Actually, they don’t merely resemble them: they really are (unused) pieces taken from real phones. And they’re mounted on the indicators of the original Morris Mini. Quite the unique combination of elements. The top is beautiful ivory and the base is transparent white. What can we say? We love functional objets d’art.

[Taste of Talking Salt and Pepper Shaker]

Nixon will release a limited collection of one-of-a-kind watches made from original artwork created by celebrities. Proceeds from this unique collection will benefit the Grammy Association’s MusiCares MAP Fund and The Tony Hawk Foundation.Celebrity contributors were given free reign to create their own works of art via paint pens and hard rock maple for the 2008 Nixon LTD Collection. Their original artwork was carefully cut then hand laid into watch cases and bands resulting in colorful and highly unique watch creations. Custom engraved casebacks which bear the celebrity’s name, along with a stamped serial number, a certificate of authenticity and custom packaging top off the final watch piece.

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Ladies and gentlemen - the VDC MIMOBOT Series is near! You remember the crazy/sick/completely sweet designs of the Vimobot Design Contest, yes? If not then refresh your memory here and here! In celebration of VDC, our first fan-designed MIMOBOT series, delving deeper into your ever-creative talents with the new VDC Call for Content Contest! YOU can send them your digital media creations, be they music, animations, video shorts, or flash games! They’ll pick the favorites and immortalize them as content on the 6 MIMOBOT characters from the VDC MIMOBOT Series - Cosmobot, Golden Panda, Holybot, Mimoshroom, Yakuza, and Zombie Tiki God. So here’s your chance to join VDC MIMOBOT Series artists bananafromcanada, eetteekers, The Ficklians, Gutluss Wonder, Lindsay Podd, and Shan Dur Rah with the VDC Call for Content Contest!

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