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Some contact lenses are corrective so folks can get 20/20 vision again without the glasses. Others are purely cosmetic, making pupils appear larger than normal so its wearers can take on a more doll-like appearance.
Then there are those that transform its wearers look completely: changing the color of their pupils, making it appear like slits, even–or making it look like there’s an image of Hello Kitty on their eyeballs. I kid you not: Hello Kitty contact lenses actually exist.
One variation has a bunch of tiny kitties surrounding the pupil. It doesn’t jump out at you from afar, but they’re clear as day if you look deep into its wearer’s eyes. Another variation of the lenses feature Hello Kitty sized to fit right into your iris, and it’s easier to spot because it’s rendered in color.
The unusual lenses are priced at $24.95.
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Booze and Hello Kitty. Sooner or later the two had to collide. Now when you sit back and realize just how much money you have spent on Hello Kitty swag, you can drink some Hello Kitty beer and drown your sorrows.
Just released in Taiwan, Hello Kitty beer is fruity, full of alcohol and has the famous cartoon character with the bow on her head right on the can. Hello Kitty beer won’t get you drunk fast though. These beers are only half the alcohol content of regular beer.
The fruit flavors include lemon-lime, passion fruit and banana. Kind of creepy if you ask me? Just who are they targeting with that packaging? If you are in Taiwan, give it a try and let us know how it tastes.
[Fox News via That's Nerdalicious via io9]
Just when you thought the pink parade of Hello Kitty branded products had reached it’s end, along comes the Hello Kitty Cyclone Vacuum Cleaner. Now as much as we loathe Hello Kitty here, this one might actually convince kids to clean up after themselves a bit. It makes vacuuming fun…I guess.
The vacuum is on the smaller side, measuring 18.5 x 22.8 x 6.7″. It’s also battery powered, so while there’s no wires to get tangled up in, don’t expect to be sucking up 2 pound steel marbles out of your shag carpeting (and what exactly are you doing with steel balls on your shag carpeting anyway?) Cleaning is apparently cute again. Available at the end of next month for $60 with shipping from Japan costing nearly that same amount.
Police Chiefs in Bangkok, Thailand are implementing a new form of punishment to rule breaking cops: they’re now forcing offending officers to don a Hello Kitty armband. Huh? Making grown-ass mean wear a hot pink cutesy arm band can be a little humiliating, I guess. But only for like five minutes and then they forget that it’s even there. Seriously? If the only punishment you receive for screwing up on the job is just to wear some dumb arm band, then you should be thanking your boss. Thanking your boss AND manning the F up because in the real world, real people get real punishments. Like me for example: I got fired! And you know what? All I was doing was Xeroxing my butt. Okay, and the fact that I faxed copies to everyone in the office might have something to do with it too. Maybe.
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