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Previous issue

Collect It

Only in Hong Kong could the most popular summer holiday destination be riding the MTR. Why? To collect Hello Kitties of course. Starting from 16 July until 2 September the MTR has a promotion called ‘MTR X HELLO KITTY-The MTR Hello Kitty Heroes Collection’. Each week ride the MTR 10 times (except the Airport Express) using the same Adult/Concessionary Octopus card any time from Monday to Friday, you can buy a Hello Kitty Hero for only $18. From 27 August to 2 September, a limited edition ‘Hello Kitty’ MTR Train plus Theme Song CD will also be available for redemption for just $30. To find out which Hello Kitty hero is waiting for you, go to mtr.com.hk

Retrieve It
Back in the day, before carpal tunnel syndrome replaced pen and paper, who hadn’t revisited some scrawl jotted onto a scrap of paper or a wad of lecture notes and thought, “What on earth is that supposed to mean?” LiveScribe has come up with a nifty solution for all those whose handwriting and memories are equally unreliable - the Smartpen is a paper-based computer which both records audio and writes your notes. The pen interprets and converts your handwritten notes into digital files which it stores for future reference, producing them in both visual and audio formats on demand. The Smartpen writes on a special paper printed with a grid of tiny dots which the pen uses to interpret your scribblings. Find out more at livescribe.com/platform/index.html

Rub It
Your own personal rubber duckie massager. I Rub My Duckie is a series of sex toys looking like innocently adorable ducks. They are so cute: leave them out for decoration, no more hiding your toys in the bottom box. Duckies come in two colours – rose and noir – and sport removable feather boas and a ‘genuine’ Swarovski crystal beek piercing for that touch of bling. Of course, they are waterproof and have powerful vibrations so you can easily use one while you take a bath. Available at CitySuper, ondocreation.com and rapee-LIVING stores for $250.

Scope It
What is in the water in Japan? The folks there sure can continually come up with gizmos you didn’t know you couldn’t live without. The latest is a USB microscope that comes with three attachments to allow you to scope out your teeth, skin and hair at up to 30X magnification on your computer monitor. And as a bonus, you get something called an ear scope with which you can go eye-to-eye with whatever is living or not inside your hearing passages. Buy yours for $832 from thanko.jp/usbmicroscope

Shit It
What do you give someone who has everything? How about cow shit? An enterprising lady wandering through the desert noticed the place was liberally adorned with dried-out cowpats. Intrigued by the colours and shapes, she collected a few and took them home – it does make spending your holiday riding the MTR all day to collect Hello Kitty dolls, seem quite normal – painted them with lacquer and embedded them with clocks and mirrors. Now as a shit entrepreneur, she has a roaring trade in Cow-Pie products.

For approximately $313 - $391, depending on the size, you too can be told the time by a bit of cow excretion or see your face in it – tap into cowpieclocks.com for more information and ordering.

Dot Asia It!
In our increasingly cyber-ruled world, a business without a domain name is like a cock without a comb. The new top level .asia domain name registrar is accepting domain name applications until 31 August th

rough pioneer.domains.asia in three categories: community pioneers for such names as music.asia, global brand pioneers for brand name companies (hellokitty.asia, we guess) and partner pioneers who will use their ‘name.asia’ to promote the .asia registry. Visit www.dotasia.org and .asia it!