These heat changing arcade mugs could be a lot like you in the morning: blank, dull, inanimate objects. However, fill them with coffee and they bring Space Invaders and Pac Man screens to life with ghosts, aliens and lines of Pac Man breakfast dots. You can watch a short clip with a $1 budget after the break.
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Cats—they probably don’t give a damn about you until it’s time for Fancy Feast, but you still go and buy a coffee table with an integrated cat hammock. They really have quite a racket going.
Well, not your ear exactly. More like a flexible silicon reproduction. But it feels realistic. Hey, I’m yanking on your mug ear and dragging it around the room. Can you feel pain in your ghost ear from beyond the grave Van Gogh?
Regardless of whether that hot coffee poured into your mug is decaf or full-caffeinated bliss, this mug’s design will become animated by the hot liquid. Choosing death over having to drink decaf may seem a bit extreme, but you just can’t mess with a man’s coffee.
One of the world’s leading purveyors of curios and miscellania, Fred and Friends, has unveiled their Spring 2010 catalog. In case you missed our posts over the holiday weekend, here is a list of the best new stuff.
Airplane Food Placemat: Placemats that can be folded into several different paper airplane designs.
360 Degree Pen: Turns your finger into a hula hoop star.
Cakewich: It’s a cake annnd a sandwich.
Cold Blooded: Vampire fang ice molds.
Polluted Glasses: For truly toxic drinks.
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Airplane Food: Don’t play with your food…Play with your placemat.
Polluted Glasses: Serve up your best poison.
On The Fritz Clock: This clock is on the fritz.
Some people can drink it, but I can’t stand when my coffee gets cold. Fred’s new silicone lid mimics a pop top, but its real function is to keep your drinks warm and fresh in a cup. Also works with jars and cans.
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Capturing your deepest thoughts on paper can be a tiring experience. Combining your pen holder with a coffee cup and saucer is the logical answer to keeping your mind active for those long writing sessions. That is much more useful that trying to use the pen to stir your coffee.
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You will really have to put a lot of thought into how sweet you want your coffee when every little bit of sugar you take drains a little bit more life out of the snowman. Your sweet tooth will become a death sentence for him.
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With his confused expression and ice bag on his head, this mug will commiserate with you on those mornings that follow a night of overindulging. A little understanding along with a lot of hot coffee goes a long way toward helping you recover from a wicked hangover, though nothing is going to bring those lost brain cells back.
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