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Artful Dodger Collects Your Loose Change While You Rock

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Apparently, rocking chairs are pretty hot commodities nowadays. Following fast on the heels of the Rocking-Knit chair and the iRock  is the Artful Dodger. Doesn’t sound like something you’d name a rocking chair, but designer Sam LOmingshum (no, that uppercase “O” isn’t a typo) did so with good reason.

You see, the Artful Dodger isn’t just a rocking chair. It also happens to be a thief. Well, sort of.

Artful DodgerIt’s never a good idea to sit and rock on a rocking chair if your pockets are full. If you’ve tried doing so with change in your pockets, then you know what I mean. Sam and his artfully dodgy chair are also well-aware of this fact.

So when you start rocking and your coins start falling out…

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…the Artful Dodger will take care of collecting all your loose change. It’s sort of like any automatic piggy bank – for the owner of the chair, that is.

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[via Chair Blog]


Corezone: A Piggy Bank of Sorts for Your Emotions

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Life’s tough. Sometimes, it feels good to hash things out with friends or family to get rid of the negativity. But when you feel like keeping things to yourself but want to express your emotions, then you’ve got the Corezone to turn to.

Piggybank HeartThe Corezone is a ‘closed ceramic space’ which you can use as a piggy bank of sorts for your emotions. Write them down, roll them up, and slip them inside one of the veins or arteries, and let it go.

There is comfort in knowing that you’ve ‘told’ someone – even though you just did it on paper. And the Corezone helps you keep whatever it was a secret.

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And when you’re ready, just break the Corezone open to reflect on the hurts of your past. Or you can just throw those strips of paper away and let it all go.

The Corezone is available on Etsy for $65(USD).

[via Ian Brooks via Neatorama]


Arcade Piggy Bank: Change Invaders

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I think I must have spent at least 5,000 hours and 50,000 quarters in arcades playing video games when I was growing up. These days, the only games I get to play are on my home consoles or my iPad. Still, I like things which remind me of the heyday of arcade gaming, like this arcade cabinet inspired piggy bank.

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The graphics on the side and front of the tiny cabinet are reminiscent of the ones on Space Invaders, and it’s got a little joystick and fire button for playing its rudimentary Invaders knock-off (called Earth Defenders) on its LCD screen. Each time you drop a coin in the bank (yes it can even be a penny) you’ll get 2 minutes of gameplay. As time ticks down, you’ll get a warning when you only have 30 seconds left so you can put another coin in the bank.

Sure, it’s not as cool looking as that official Space Invaders piggy bank from a few years back, but at $19.95 (USD), it’s also way cheaper than that one. You can grab the Arcade Piggy Bank over at Kleargear.