A Piggy Bank for the currency of the information age!

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Taking possibly the most iconic representation of ‘storage’ and turning it into a modern-day product that acts as a storage unit of sorts, the Ciao Piggy Bank by Riccardo Cambò is a piggy bank not for money, but rather for the currency of the information age… data.

The Ciao Piggy Bank comes with a slot on the back that isn’t for banknotes and coins, but rather for SD cards. Place the card inside and the piggy bank, a wireless SSD, copies and stores all your data from the SD card without needing you to connect it to your computer, copy files, create a folder, and paste them. Just as simple as swiping a card, the Ciao backs up your SD card for you, allowing you to clear the data from it and reuse it. The pig-shaped wireless SSD lets you access your data either wirelessly, or via a rather cute, pigtail shaped USB cable that connects it to your system. With a single button interface and just a series of LED indicators that show you transfer progress, battery, and overall storage, the Ciao lets you back data up just as easily as dropping a quarter into a ceramic piggy bank. The Ciao comes in 60gb, 120gb, and even 500gb variants, and is perhaps the most beautiful representation of files and data as something of value, much like money… and it isn’t just the metaphor that’s beautiful, it’s the fact that the Ciao is an incredibly useful and functional product that lets you back data up and free SD cards for use later!

Designer: Riccardo Cambò

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A Piggy Bank You Don’t Have to Break

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This twist on the piggy bank, called the 360° IN AND OUT, is one you can reuse again and again. It features multiple coin slots at the top that do double duty as both a place to insert money and a window to view when the container has gotten full. When the user needs to access the coins, they must simply turn the cylinder over and roll them out. No… it’s not the easiest way to access the coinage, but that’s the purpose of a piggy bank after all!

Designer: Tienvy

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Hungry Piggy Bank Has 25 Coin Slots

When it comes to piggy banks, they come in all shapes and sizes. However, there’s one thing pretty much all of them have in common – a single slot for coins. Why is this? Well, the guys at 25TOGO think it’s time for a new kind of piggy bank; one with more than two dozen coin slots.

The appropriately-named “Hungry” piggy bank has 25 individual slots where you can place coins. Unless you have multiple people trying to insert coins at the same time, I’m not sure what the purpose is here. Maybe it’s good for people with bad aim too. It also looks cooler than other piggy banks. I dig piggy’s flat oval snout and his stubby little ears too, though he does sort of look like a stabbing victim too.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a retailer who sells the Hungry piggy bank yet, but if you’re interested in buying them wholesale for your shop, you can find out more on the 25TOGO website.

Nintendo Game Boy Piggy Bank: Insert Coin, Start Saving

Think about all of the money you spent on Game Boy games back in the day. It probably adds up to a lot of dough. Too bad that handheld couldn’t collect money for you and save it. Well, now it can. This Nintendo Game Boy Piggy Bank accepts your coins not your cartridges.


This bank looks just like the classic Game Boy console. It has the same retro grey style and simple button layout, same rounded brick shape too. Plus, there are no batteries to worry about and you can even use it in low lighting, which you can’t say about the original. It will help you get some of that Game Boy cartridge money back all these years later.

Grab one over at Entertainment Earth for just $10.99(USD) and start saving with power!

A Piggy Bank for Your Brain

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How many times have you had the “BEST IDEA EVER!” and then totally forgotten about it?! Happens all the time! Inspired by the very idea that we forget ideas IDOID is a method to safe keep your EUREKA moments.

This small interactive, fun product looks like a piggy bank, but it’s actually an “idea bank”. It comes with a companion App called IDOID from which you can record all your brilliant brainwaves, thoughts, inspirations and ideas on the go! So every time you record an idea from your app, IDOID blinks to urge you to put coins in it. This way your ideas are making you richer by the day. Literally!

It’s inspiration on demand! Meaning, when you shake the idea bank, the app tells you how much you have saved as well as gives you a combination of 3 ideas you previously saved. This way you can mix and match your inspiration to think of new, innovative ideas!

Designer: Sowmya Iyer

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Fallout Power Helmet Bank Won’t Hold Bottle Caps

I long ago left the old T-45 Power armor behind, and now schlep around the wasteland in by badass flamed out X-01 power armor. T-45 is for plebs. ThinkGeek has a sweet Fallout Power Helmet coin bank that will hold your quarters, but won’t hold caps because the slot is too thin.

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It looks like it’s made of metal, but it’s actually painted vinyl. It is smaller than actual size too, measuring only 4.5″ tall. Still, it’s a good place to keep all that change I usually throw in my wife’s underwear drawer or toss on top of the dryer. If my house ever catches fire, there will be a huge hunk of metal coins in the laundry room.

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It also has a coin release door so you won’t need to smash it when to need to buy a Dr. Pepper at the office vending machine. The bank sells for $19.99(USD) at ThinkGeek

Alien Queen Piggy Bank: In Space, No One Can Hear You Spend

Normally when I want to save my quarters, I just toss them in this jar my wife has on the nightstand, or I just leave them in my pockets so they can fall out in the dryer and make an incredible racket. I never bother with putting change in a piggy bank. I might use a piggy bank if it looked like the head of the Alien queen.

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This frightening xenomorph bank will keep your coins safe, and has a coin release door on the base so you don’t have to smash it to get your money out. It’s made from vinyl and was sculpted by Jean St. Jean. It stands 8″ tall x 4.5″ wide x 8″ deep.

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I think this bank should be one of those mechanical sorts where the bank picks up the change and deposits it in the holder. The inner mouth thing should come out, grab the coin and swallow it down to the chamber. That would be awesome. At least the inner mouth could fly out and bite people trying to get your coins.

You can get the Alien piggy bank at ThinkGeek for $29.99(USD).

Singing Skull Piggy Bank: The Skull of the Bard

Redditor qvm has a new motivation to save coins, and perhaps even earn some. They made a piggy bank with a fake skull on it that sings a song when you insert a coin.

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A servo attached to the inside of the skull moves its jaw as the song plays. The jaw’s movements are preset for each song. Qvm made a program that recorded his mouse cursor’s movements, then he listened to each song and moved his mouse cursor up and down in time with the words. His program creates a file that the Arduino inside the piggy bank converts into servo positions.

Geoff Peterson’s fallen on hard times.

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Cthulhu Piggy Bank Protects Your Gold with Madness

Protecting your change from thieves can be a big challenge. I used to steal all my dad’s quarters growing up to buy gummy bears. If he had one of these Cthulhu piggy banks, I’d still steal his change, but I might pause briefly to think about it.

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The creepy 10″ tall bank should hold quite a bit of change. It’s made of vinyl and painted green with black highlights. The coin slot is between its wings, and it has some nasty, razor-sharp claws and beady eyes to scare off would-be coin thieves.

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One thing that doesn’t sit well with me in the description is a disclaimer that you might have to place the bank in hot water to flatten the bottom to be able to open the coin door or get it to sit flat. Seems like quality control isn’t a big deal at the Cthulhu bank factory. Get your own at ThinkGeek for $19.99(USD).

Diablo Goblin Bank Laughs as It Takes your Money

If you have ever played the Diablo games, you will recognize this guy as a treasure goblin from Diablo III. You can now get this goblin as a piggy bank to help you save your pennies for that next expansion pack you want to buy.

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Each time you drop a coin into the coin bag, the goblin cackles. There are six different sounds that the goblin plays when you put a coin in. And while it’s easier to open than the in-game treasure goblins, it won’t drop any legendary loot when you open it up.

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You can pick one of these goblins up at ThinkGeek for $29.99(USD).