Hasta La Gadget!

Some pet owners love to humanize their pets by dressing them up in human clothes and accessories. From dogs to cats to rodents to reptiles – whatever pet you’ve got, someone out there has probably made clothes for them.

The latest animal to get the couture treatment is the guinea pig.

Guinea Pig Fashion is a store created by Japanese designer Maki Yamada. As the name clearly implies, it’s a shop that’s dedicated to providing guinea pig owners with fashionable wares for their fuzzy pets. In stock are ninja costumes, tank tops, kimonos, and frilly dresses.

You can even hold your own guinea pig wedding since Maki’s store has tiny wedding dresses and tuxes.

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Being a mom is no joke. It’s a tiring role, but with what’s expected of moms, they might as well call it a job. The hardest part is having to discipline the kids. It’s no fun, their hearts might break when they have to punish the kids, but it’s something that must be done all the same.

Mother’s Day may have come and gone, but one thing that was created because of it lives on: the Momtract.

It’s a tool that was created by Mother New York, which essentially creates binding contracts for “sons and daughters to contractually forsake control over one part of their lives.”

The contract goes on to make the following warning: “If you don’t meet the terms of the agreement, she can sue you.” The contract is legally binding for one year and “should there be a default on the contract, penalties include fines of up to $20,000 and a maximum number of 12 non-holiday visits from your wronged mother.”

Check it out here, and draw a Momtract up between you and your mom. Remember, it’s better late than never.

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Want a massage? Then give yourself one by getting one of the many available self-massaging devices available on store shelves in most retailers.

Massagers are pretty common gadgets and they’re usually pretty easy to use. Most of them anyway, with the notable exception of the foot-powered back massager with hand tool that you see pictured below.

Even their model looks like she’s having a hard time with the device, but maybe that’s just me imagining what it would be like to try using this thing they call a massager.

It’ll probably be easier to use though, once you get the hang of it. The massager is described as allowing “the user to apply firm pressure for extended periods of time while completey relaxing the target muscles.” It also instructs users to adjust the push-button locking pin for back pain relief. Or you could just go see a good massage therapist.

The foot-powered back massager retails for about $50 (USD) over on Amazon.

[via 7gadgets]

Twitter’s hashtag feature is trending in real life. Banter Banner’s Hashtag Banner lets you make a custom hashtagged message. It won’t make your room or office easier to find, but it will make you more visible. Tweet, tweet motherflippers.

Don’t even think about posting a full 140-character message with your Hashtag Banner because you can only order a maximum of 30 letters at once. Or maybe you can chain multiple banners together? All Banter Banner says is that they’re attached with brass grommets.

You can order a Hashtag Banner from Banter Banner. It costs between $25 to $40 (USD) depending on the number of letters in your message. I’m sure a few months from now we’ll have a digital picture frame that cycles through Vine videos.

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I’m really looking forward to seeing Star Trek: Into Darkness when it comes out this week. I’ve even got tickets to the Wednesday night IMAX advance screening. That said, there’s still nothing quite like The Original Series. Sure, Kirk and McCoy could be pretty cheesy, but that’s part of what made it so classic. Now, you can travel back in time to an even earlier incarnation of Kirk, Spock and Scotty.

The crew of the Enterprise looks just a little bit more intimidating in this shirt designed by Captain RibMan for Design by Humans. Though I have to say their tiny hands are still impractical for much of anything besides holding a phaser. Can you imagine trying to use a tricorder with those things? And forget about fitting onto the bridge of the Enterprise.

So hop in the transporter ask Scotty to beam you back in time to grab your shirt over at Design by Humans for $24(USD).