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The Shouting Vase –  a ‘stress relief jug toy’. To wit:

Turn your loudest, most urgent frustrations into mere whispers with the Shouting Vase. The plastic jug is designed to fit over the contours of your mouth and absorb your screams and shouts, ‘storing’ them in the vase and emitting a softer version of your angry cries through the tiny hole at the base.$61 (€54)

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Google engineer Max Braun’s modded bathroom mirror – a personal prototype of an as-yet commercially unavailable futuristic domestic interface. Sez he:

The display is only a couple of millimeters thin and embedded in a layer between the two-way mirror glass and the door of the medicine cabinet. That way it looks very clean and I can keep using all the shelf space inside.

My Bathroom Mirror Is Smarter Than Yours (Max Braun, Medium)

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The 9 different types of chocolate are made within the same size, 26x26x26mm, featuring pointed tips, hollow interiors, smooth or rough surface textures – and, while the raw materials are identical, the distinctive textures create different tastes.

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The nine textures are (from right to left above) : ”tubu-tubu” chunks of smaller chocolate drops; ”sube-sube” smooth edges and corners; “toge-toge” sharp pointed tips; “zara-zara” granular like a file; “goro-goro” fourteen connected small cubes; “fuwa-fuwa” soft and airy with many tiny holes; “suka-suka” a hollow cube with thin walls; “zaku-zaku” alternately placed thin chocolate rods forming a cube and  “poki-poki” a cube frame made of chocolate sticks

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Want to experience the most extensive train set in the world?

Well, you could visit Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg and watch 900 model trains wend their way around nine acres of tiny dioramas on 13km of track.

Or you could visit Google’s 360° mapped version.

And make little choo-choo noises. And clap your hands. Whee!

Seriously, would it kill you to put some clothes on?

Previously: Who Needs Tilt Shift?

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