Eat & Poo Dog Coin Bank offers a novel way to save

eat-poop-dog-bankSaving your money for a rainy day is always a good exercise to have, and one attitude which is worth cultivating in your young when their minds are still malleable enough to shape and guide in the right direction. After all, a penny saved is a penny earned, and with the £16.99 Eat & Poo Dog Coin Bank in tow, it would definitely do its bit to help encourage the little ones save.

After all, using the Eat & Poo Dog Coin Bank is a snap – all you need to do is to feed this electronic pooch with a coin, and he will swallow it gladly, only to turn around and start to “deposit” your riches with his quivering hind legs. There is no mess at all to grapple with, and neither do you need to bring a doggie bag along with you. The Eat & Poo Dog Coin Bank would run on a pair of AA batteries. What are some of the more novel coin banks that you have come across in the past?
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Porkfolio Wink-Enabled Piggy Bank makes saving money high tech

porkfolioI remember the saying from my grandparents, “a penny saved is a penny earned”. Well, the effects of inflation were probably not as pronounced back in the day, and a dollar could travel a whole lot further, too. Still, it is never too late to start saving up for a rainy day, and getting your young one started right from his or her early years is a good habit to inculcate. Perhaps you might need a push in the right direction with the correct modernized tool to keep up with the times, and Thinkgeek has got your back with the cleverly named $69.99 Porkfolio, a Wi-Fi enabled smart piggy bank.

Instead of coming in the form of a traditional porcelain porker that requires a hammer to open without letting you know on just how much money you have saved inside, the Porkfolio is a whole lot smarter than its ancestors. After all, most things with Internet connectivity tend to be on the brighter side, and the Porkfolio is one of them. It will be able to keep track of the existing balance, while letting you set financial goals as long as it remains connected. There is also a built-in accelerator that helps detect movement and/or theft, while it delivers positive reinforcement for savings as its nose will light up like Rudolph each time a U.S. coin is inserted. The Porkfolio has a maximum storage space of $100 worth of quarters, and is powered by a couple of AA batteries.
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Feed Your Dreams Piggy Bank Grows with Every Penny You Save

Now here’s a piggy bank that literally grows as your savings grow.

It’s annoying how you can’t really tell if your piggy bank is still half full or half empty (oh, those two are the same? You don’t say!). An alternative to most rigid-type coin banks are the Feed Your Dreams Piggy Bank.

Feed Your Dreams Piggy Bank

This bank isn’t just for kids who are learning the importance of saving, but it’s also great for adults who want to get back into the habit of saving.

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The piggy bank is made from high-quality felt imported from Germany. Unlike traditional breakable ceramic piggy banks, Feed Your Dreams visibly shows how full it is with every coin that’s dropped inside it. When the pig is as full as it can get, the coins can be scooped out by opening the zipper at the bottom of the piggy bank’s belly.

The Feed Your Dreams Piggy Bank was designed and made by Baum-kuchen in Los Angeles in collaboration with Christine Lau. It retails for $58(USD) and is available in five colors.

[via BLTD]

Porkfolio Piggy Bank Saves You Time to Save Its Life

The fragile nature of the traditional piggy bank was meant to force you to save your money until you really needed it, but it also meant you couldn’t count how much you already saved unless you break the thing open. Not so with the Porkfolio. It’s a smart piggy bank that can tell you how much money is inside it.

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The Porkfolio was conceptualized by Quirky member Jason Hunter. The idea is to teach kids the basics of both saving money and online banking. When you insert a coin in Porkfolio’s belly, his nose will light up to indicate that it has recognized what coin you put in (though it only recognizes U.S. coins.) You will then use a companion mobile app to look at your balance and even set savings goals. But the app can do more than that.

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According to Quirky, the app is the only legitimate way to open Porkfolio. If someone tampers with him or forces him open, the accelerometer inside him should detect the movement and alert you via the app.

There’s still no word on when and for how much Quirky will sell Porkfolio. Your current piggy bank is safe for now.

[via Quirky]

TAKARA TOMY A.R.T.S – “Life Bank” – High-tech Piggy Bank coupled to iPhone

From Takara Tomy Arts is a new, enjoyable way to save money. They have created an app for iPhones that tracks the money that you save by syncing to a sort of “Piggy Bank”.
Download the dedicated iPhone app and set your target goal. Then, put your iPhone on the bank every time you put a 500 yen coin into it for data transfer. You can track how much and how often you have been saving.
There is a simulated person’s life in the app. Monitor how he lives in the bank and whether …

Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man Bank Could Never Ever Possibly Destroy Your Money

I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us…

This Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man is not here to demolish your city – in fact he’s here to help you save money, so you can start rebuilding it.

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This 20-inch-tall (51cm) Stay-Puft piggy bank isn’t quite as tall as the one in Ghostbusters, but it is big enough to hold plenty of loose change and to stop around on your model railroad set. It’s actually not the first Stay-Puft bank ever made, but it’s substantially taller than the previous model, and when you’re dealing with marshmallow men, bigger is always better.

The Stay-Puft piggy bank is coming from Japan’s Blister Direct in May 2013, and will sell for ¥ 9,800 (~$119 USD). So start filling your current piggy bank now, so you can order this awesome new one to replace it with.

Han Solo in Carbonite Piggy Bank Will Freeze Your Funds

If you think about it, Han Solo frozen in carbonite was Boba Fett’s piggy bank. He turned him in to Jabba The Hutt for a tidy sum of money. Now you can be like Boba Fett and store your money in this Han Solo in Carbonite bank.
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This 12″ tall vinyl bank features Han Solo frozen in carbonite on a freezing-chamber base. Instead of trading Han in to Jabba, just open the bank and take your pennies and nickels out. No need to make the flight all the way to Tatooine and attend Jabba’s lame parties. Jedi Rocks, my arse.

You can pre-order now for $24 (USD), and start saving for that new landspeeder in March of 2013.

[via Nerd Approved]


Artful Dodger Collects Your Loose Change While You Rock

Apparently, rocking chairs are pretty hot commodities nowadays. Following fast on the heels of the Rocking-Knit chair and the iRock  is the Artful Dodger. Doesn’t sound like something you’d name a rocking chair, but designer Sam LOmingshum (no, that uppercase “O” isn’t a typo) did so with good reason.

You see, the Artful Dodger isn’t just a rocking chair. It also happens to be a thief. Well, sort of.

Artful DodgerIt’s never a good idea to sit and rock on a rocking chair if your pockets are full. If you’ve tried doing so with change in your pockets, then you know what I mean. Sam and his artfully dodgy chair are also well-aware of this fact.

So when you start rocking and your coins start falling out…

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…the Artful Dodger will take care of collecting all your loose change. It’s sort of like any automatic piggy bank – for the owner of the chair, that is.

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[via Chair Blog]


Corezone: A Piggy Bank of Sorts for Your Emotions

Life’s tough. Sometimes, it feels good to hash things out with friends or family to get rid of the negativity. But when you feel like keeping things to yourself but want to express your emotions, then you’ve got the Corezone to turn to.

Piggybank HeartThe Corezone is a ‘closed ceramic space’ which you can use as a piggy bank of sorts for your emotions. Write them down, roll them up, and slip them inside one of the veins or arteries, and let it go.

There is comfort in knowing that you’ve ‘told’ someone – even though you just did it on paper. And the Corezone helps you keep whatever it was a secret.

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And when you’re ready, just break the Corezone open to reflect on the hurts of your past. Or you can just throw those strips of paper away and let it all go.

The Corezone is available on Etsy for $65(USD).

[via Ian Brooks via Neatorama]