Kap!On shoes

Can't say we're terrible excited about these. Bad enough there're heelies and squeakies, now our local TV station is offering music-playing sneakers in a contest, to complement the awesome lung power of those terrible tiny totes. These footwear can apparently play the wearer's favorite tunes, thanks to a High Density Flash Memory. The shoes also have enough onboard smarts to keep count of the number of movements that the owner is making. We've no idea, though, what's powering this, how you transfer songs into the flash memory, or why the heck it's even called Kap!On when it's more of a Shoe!In. Go figure.

Price: N.A.
Availability: Contest at Mediacorp
Device: MP3-playing shoes
Specs: N.A.

Portable Ice Rink

Online store Hammacher Schlemmer continually amazes us with the stuff it stocks. There's virtually nothing it won't sell, from transparent kayaks to hydrogen fuel cell cars, short of doing a Harrods where it's said you can even buy an elephant. This time, HS has in its catalog a portable ice rink. And none too soon for Christmas in the colder climes where a couple of days' freezing temperature plus the Portable Ice Rink gives you an instant playpen to hold your own ice hockey tournaments or ice-skating skids. For those celebrating the festive season in the tropics and Under, stick to ice lollies for some cold fun. Coz that's all the chilly Christmas you're going to get.

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Via Luxist

Price: US$699.95 (37ft size)
Availability: At Hammacher Schlemmer
Device: Instant hockey rink
Basic specs: 15ft to 26ft ice rink size

Koo-ki Sushi

Now here's a lady Willy Wonker would love to meet. Karen "Suedy" Sasaki, together with her sister, has employed her Japanese roots to whip up a confectionary treat guaranteed to drive sushi foodies and chocoholics nuts with desire. Looks like fish, tastes like chocolate. In fact, it's chocolate handmade to look just like sushi. Aptly named Koo-ki Sushi, it's a novelty that makes for some surprising fare. Take that succulent magura which turns out to be a strawberry-inspired chocolate "tuna fillet" with a milk chocolate hazelnut center and a hint of green tea "wasabi" on a rice cookie. In fact, it's all much too pretty to eat. Sushi-colate? Or choco-sushi? Whatever. But like sushi, these Kook-ki Sushis are best eaten fresh.

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Via popgadget.net

Price: Salmon Roe plate US$15, Chocolate Chopsticks US$10 a pair, Obento Box US$62
Availability: At Suedy's
Device: Novelty confectionary
Basic specs: N.A.

Interchangeable footwear

Now here's an idea that seems to have planted its foot on the behind of stodgy old shoe designs, and taken a step towards a direction that we see and like. We're not, ah, too sole on its rather awkward-sounding Ein Oxalis name, though. That aside, this pair of sneakers is designed not only to be easy to slip on, requiring no hands or shoelaces, it works like those faceplates that Nokia phones used to have. In short, you can change the top cover (via a coupling system) to suit any occasion. Want more formal footwear? Just replace the top display layer. Need fun shoes? Easily done. Because it's all based on one pair of footwear, you won't ever need to lug along several heavy clumpers in your suitcase on your next work trip. Cue Boy George: Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon, you come and go, you come and go...

Three possible designs

Price: N.A.
Availability: More info at the Web site
Device: Interchangeable fashion footwear
Basic specs: N.A.

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