Browsing: gifts and souvenirs

Dean Mackey is hoping to introduce customers to a cool, slightly retro art form he calls “airigami.” Mackey, curator of The Online Paper Airplane Museum, is hoping to bring back a novelty that was popular in the 1940s and 1950s: real postcards that include plans for a detailed and beautiful paper airplane that can be created from the card itself.

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When was the last time you went to a concert or event and was happy to pay the $10 or $15 premium for a beverage or mixed drink? If your answer was “never,” then You Can Hide It, Inc., has the perfect product for you and your customers.

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Fashion designer Yon O Chang was a frequent traveler with a problem: she spent a lot of time on airplanes, shivering under the thin blankets the airlines offered, and then waking to find the blanket lying on the floor at her feet.

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Lillian Campo had been to enough bridal and baby showers, and organized enough events through her catering business to know that there had to be a better way to create that funny hat people make from the bows on gifts they receive.

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The California Clock Company is one of the few firms that can boast that their products have been made in America since the 1930s. As manufacturer of the Kit-Cat Clock for 82 years, California Clock has built both a great product and an ongoing legacy.

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The Bug-A-Salt works on a very simple, very original idea: it shoots a tiny pinch of ordinary table salt with deadly accuracy at flying insects, killing them instantly. From a distance of two to four feet, the gun shoots a six to eight inch shotgun pattern, making it easy to target flies, mosquitoes, and other flying insects on screens, windows, light fixtures or tables.

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Up until January, Scentco, Inc. was known for its school fundraising product, scented pencils known as “Smencils.” Now a vibrant, newly redesigned line of pencils, markers, gel pens, and soon, stuffed animals, is available for retailers. “We brought everything on trend and put a lot of design effort into the products. They have a fresh, fun, new look,” explains Sales Director, Brandie Bowers, who is energized about the changes.

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California based Wancube is reinventing the souvenir portrait with their novel 3D printing technology that produces lifelike, custom figurines. The company uses either a 3D scan or a standard 2D photograph to produce an accurate 3D figurine of any subject, including single subjects, couples, families and pets. The figurines are great for all special occasions, including graduations, weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, or whenever a lifelong memory is created.

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