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Anyone looking for cool gift ideas should absolutely check out Curiobot.net. Don and Angel are the mad scientists behind this website.
Here are some excerpts from their own About page:
“Curiobot is a growing collection of the most interesting things for sale on the internet. We find them in their holes, deep down in the deepest depths of the internet, and pull them out.
Our continuing goal is to become a graphic archive of all the wild and wonderful things sold across the internet.
We want to be half museum and half garage sale. Half library and half amusement park. Not a blog: they’re too personal and text-based. Not a shopping site: their navigation schemes are static, sales-driven, and bland.
Navigating our site should be a fun and explorative process (like browsing a candy shop), but the site will also be structured as a helpful tool (like the nice candy shop clerk who shows you the best of the peanut brittle).
Think of this site as your fantasy storage closet.
At its worst, Curiobot is a site that encourages wasteful I-didn’t-know-I-needed-that buying habits and widens the market for obscure and useless goods. At its best, however, it helps dissolve the distinction between useless and useful, and celebrates our need for both.”
Don and Angel also created a cool Google Gadget where a website can pull in their product listings, like so:
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