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Humping Piggy Banks: Another Day, Another Dollar on the Sex Farm

Sean Fallon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:59:00 +0000

Working on a sex farm
Hosing down your barn door
Bothering you livestock
Payin’ your pigs to watch em’ hump

Apparently, there is also a “sex zoo” somewhere with humping elephants. All it takes is a few coins and they go at it like crazy. [Rakuten via Rinkya via Tokyomango]

Space Invaders Tabletop Arcade Cabinet Piggy Bank

Sean Fallon — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:20:00 +0000

Unlike the Space Invaders arcade cabinets of our youth, this tabletop version actually helps you save money. It even features an LCD screen that lights up when a 100 yen coin is entered.

It can hold about 80 coins, which is the equivalent of about $US89US. Not a bad haul when all is said and done—in fact, that’s about twice as much as the device actually costs. However, I would have liked to see a version of the actual game built-in.[Takara Tomy via CScout Japan via JeanSnow via Kotaku]

Yamanote Train Bank Lays Down Tracks To Financial Savings

Elaine Chow — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0000

What better place to save your yen than this adorable bank in the shape of Japan’s iconic Yamanote subway train? Each deposit triggers the bank to play a melody from a randomly chosen Yamanote station.

The Yamanote line carries an estimated daily ridership of 3~5 million passengers. That’s comparable to the number of people that use the entire New York subway system. If you put a penny in for every person who got on the line each day, you’d have a crapload of pennies… and probably a completely empty bank account. The price for “train”ing you to save is $US90. [Gizmine]

Fish Bank Interactive Money Box Helps Your Kids Save

Nick Broughall — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:30:53 +0000

Let’s face it – the economy if pretty shithouse at the moment. The stock market is falling apart, banks are dropping interest rates – it kind of makes you long for the days when all you had was a ceramic pig with a slot in its back that you could drop your coins into.

Well, Australian company Moose Enterprise has gone one step better by creating the Fish Bank, a digital piggy bank that lets your kids (or you) interact with a digital fish named Gil, who counts your money as you deposit it and lets you set savings goals. It’s also part Tamagotchi, as you need to feed and clean Gil’s tank as well.

With every coin deposited, new animations and features are unlocked. And while they’re hardly exciting for an adult, they’re pretty fun for the kiddies – so much so that the product won the 2008 Australian Development Award from the Australian Toy Association.

The Fish Bank hits shelves in November (just in time for Xmas, of course) for $60. Sure, it might not earn you (or your kid) a heap of interest on your investment, but at least its not going to go bankrupt with the current credit crunch…

[Mooseworld]

Tomy’s Piggy Bank Comes With Built-In RPG

Jason Chen — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:30:00 +0000

Japanese kids and otaku need slightly more motivation than the rest of us to save money, and to that end, Takara Tomy has made a piggy bank with an RPG game built right on there. It’s called Bank Quest (was Final Bank Fantasy taken?) and you can buy weapons and armour for your dude from the savings you place inside. That reminds us of the RPG Toilet we saw in Japan one time that rewarded us for the size, weight and consistency of he deuce we dropped. Wait, that might not have happened. [Akihabara News via Boing Boing Gadgets]

All You Need is Love from Talking, Romantic ‘Handsome Men’ Piggy Bank

Gizmodo US Edition — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:45:00 +0000

Things’d have to be pretty desperate in your love life if you needed one of these Ikemenbank, or “handsome men banks” from Bandai. For each 500 yen coin you drop in the heart-shaped gadget, you’re rewarded with the next step of a virtual love affair with a Tamagotchi-like digital chap inside. He speaks to you with emotionally supportive phrases, but needs constant attention. Not dropping a coin in for five days results in him leaving you, with nothing but a digital love letter to remind you of his pixels. Fill it up with 100 coins, however, and you get the romantic conclusion—it can be happy or sad—but I’m not clear exactly how pornographic it would be… Anyhow, if you’re lovelorn, and in Japan it will be out for around US$46 in September. [Reuters]

Bankabank Piggy Bank Looks Fashionably Round

Jason Chen — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:00:49 +0000

Way less insane than the Robotic Piggy Bank we showed you before, this Bankabank piggy bank is made out of soft PVC and holds your coins in a nice, round, eye-pleasing container. No longer do you have to fill up sandwich bags, socks, and duct-taped bra halves in order to make the trek down to your local Coinstar—just throw a Bankabank into your bag and you’re done. Remove coins by removing the plug in the front. Forty-eight quarters will get you one. [ILoveUma via Yanko]