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Your Baby Is Not Safe Until Its Butt Is Planted In Baby Bjorn’s New $US300 Miracle Chair

6:00AM June 5, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Baby Bjorn has gone and done it. They’ve managed to create a baby high chair that’s so full of itself and overpriced that I actually find myself hating something as innocent as a baby high chair this afternoon. More »


Furutech Thinks You are Stupid Enough to Buy an $US1800 Power Cable

3:32AM September 26, 2008 | Sean Fallon

You may recognise Furutech as the premier purveyors of all things strange and overpriced. They have a rep to maintain—which is why they are attempting to sell what may be “the Most Sophisticated Power Cord and Connectors in the World” for an absurd price of $US1800. Thanks to their FI-50(R) IEC and FI-50M(R) Piezo Ceramic series connectors, that sum will buy you power so clean, it practically sparkles. You would think that no one would be crazy enough to drop this kind of coin on a cable—but that is where you would be wrong my friend. [Furutech via Boing Boing Gadgets]