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The Depressing 2011 Calendar

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Most people only put upbeat stuff on calendars, birthdays and anniversaries spring to mind! However, being so upbeat all of the time must be a depressing when you sit back and actually think about life. So therefore, a calendar with little or no happy features must have the opposite effect and make you feel good at other people’s troubles!

These are the some of the significant dates will be on the 2011;

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The with a touch of 8 Bit retro technology;

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Here is the watch that has a bit of retro tech in it, it has been designed in the style of 8 Bit technology, remember everything on the computer started off this way and it you over do your images you too could experience the retro feel right in front of you.

These are the features and specs for the brilliant 8 Bit analogue watch;

Wristwatch with a classic 8-bit look; will look great with your 8-bit ti

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Office DIY Ideas – How to Turn Office Junk into Useful Gadgets!

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This is a Guest Post by Jeff Saporito from our partner blog site TestFreaks.com.

Few things on this earth become as cluttered, dirty and full of mysteries as the desks where we work all day.  From shriveled lettuce fragments from a 2005 sandwich still stuck between the keys, to a curious 5” floppy disk full of unknown data that has been rolled over by the chair wheels a dozen

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Key ring with abacus

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The old things are always the best and this little abacus can come in really handy if you can get to grips with how one of these things actually work, then working out those awkward sums could be made easy. Otherwise, you could always just use it as a key ring.

Product Features

Count in the ancient manner

Height 3″

Packaging: black gift box

Priced at $14.35

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The bottle puzzle

The bottle puzzle

Giving bottles this time of the year is nothing new, so why not confuse the person that the wine is intended for by getting them this annoying puzzle bottle, which has to be solved before the bottle can be opened, is just great.

Deluxe Gift Pack contents: 1x Don’t Break The Bottle Original 1x Bottle of Castillo de Anna Gran Reserva red wine 1x Gift Card 1x Gift Box 1x Solution envelope Straw packaging

Standard Gift Pack contents: 1x Don’t Break The Bottle The Vice 1x Bottle o

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Grab yourself a piece of the Titanic

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Now this is very strange, as you can plainly see its watch, but it doesn’t look it little rusty to you? Well it should do, because before the metal was retrieved it was lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and has been there since 1912!

Yes folks this is said to be made from a genuine piece of the ill fated ship, just a few pieces of like the front and hands are made from the Titanic, the rest is made from titanium and blackened steel.

There is no price for this yet, and I suppose that there will be those who are for it and those who ar

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You can still use floppy’s

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Ever wondered what you could do with the old floppy disks? Well if you just look at the image below that gives you a little idea!

Clearly it is impossible to write data onto a floppy disk, but these CDR’s do look funny as floppy disks, it would be especially funny to someone’s face when you stick this disc into the drive of the computer at work!

Each disk will hold 200 MB, and come with blue, red, green and yellow old style labels!

Prices are funny, $14 for one, $32 for four!

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A touch of the 70’s

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You may have experienced the 1970’s or like many people want to, so here is something that will help you on the way.

This watch is a reminder of what was considered to be ultra hi tech in the 1970’s, if they only knew then what was just around the corner! This is a copy of the Diode Watch which was all the rage in 1975; however anyone who bought an original would collapse when they see the price tag of around $289. I wonder what that would have bought back then.

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