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For those of you lamenting the fact that you've "conformed" and succumbed to the marketing pressure of buying an iPod, here's a way to re-discover your individuality...by giving in to marketing pressure but at a cheaper cost. *shrug* it happens.
EMOTIBLES, candy-coloured charms that clip to iPods (and other styles of) earbuds/headphones, are the brainchild of Kate and Jonathan Curtis Hall.
They're what Hello Kitty's MSN emoticons probably look like: simple, expressive and of course, kawaii. In the tradition of what Japanese companies like Sanrio have done in the past, which is stick a cute character on any boring surface imaginable, Emotibles are successfully mixing our affinity for 'Net geek-chic + Japanese design + iPods + our overriding need to be individualized.
So if you feel the need to zone out, but still want people to know you're feeling "starry-eyed", "stressed," "aliented," "frisky," or "befuddled", check out the Emotibles website here, where they list 2,484 different expressions to choose from.
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