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Trash can's size adjusts to your trash; MP3 player one-fifth as thick as iPod.
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Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan)
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October 10, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 Japan Times. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Peter Crookes
Oct. 10--Trash suffers so much at our hands. We inflict the twin insults of scorn and apathy on it, despising our refuse and really not caring too much just how it is removed from our presence. Just think how many research grants are devoted to building the better mousetrap, while we just treat our trash cans with the one size fits all philosophy. No matter how much waste we have to throw out we just cram it in as best we can into whatever receptacle is to hand. The Yukka Bin, however, is something else: an adjustable garbage can. At its standard size it has enough capacity to accommodate the average at-home-alone waste. But the can easily expands to ...
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Hello Kitty, they say _ now get lost.
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA);
October 19, 2004 ;
678 words
......Tamara Chuang The official line is this: Hello Kitty doesn't need a mouth. She speaks from...lips to kiss boyfriend Dear Daniel. Hello Kitty has no mouth, but she must scream. That...predicament at www.queeg.com/hellokitty. Hello Kitty has no mouth, and yet she's always coughing...
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The business of being Hello Kitty.
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA);
October 19, 2004 ;
787 words
......fond memories of the cute white kitty. Hello Kitty merchandise sales hit a half-billion...last year, and that's not from $.95 Hello Kitty erasers. Sales are growing about 20...tiny kiosks at major department stores, Hello Kitty products are showing up at Target, Hot...
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The business of being Hello Kitty.(The Orange County Register)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
October 20, 2004 ;
Chuang, Tamara;
787 words
......fond memories of the cute white kitty. Hello Kitty merchandise sales hit a half-billion...last year, and that's not from $.95 Hello Kitty erasers. Sales are growing about 20...tiny kiosks at major department stores, Hello Kitty products are showing up at Target, Hot...
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Hello Kitty, they say _ now get lost.(The Orange County Register)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
October 20, 2004 ;
Chuang, Tamara;
678 words
......Tamara Chuang The official line is this: Hello Kitty doesn't need a mouth. She speaks from...lips to kiss boyfriend Dear Daniel. Hello Kitty has no mouth, but she must scream. That...predicament at www.queeg.com/hellokitty. Hello Kitty has no mouth, and yet she's always coughing...
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Celebrating 30 years of Hello Kitty.
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA);
October 19, 2004 ;
787 words
......to everyone clearly never said it to Hello Kitty. As the cute little kitty with the bow...in every style or setting imaginable. Hello Kitty is a pencil, a computer, a toaster...your friend, said Marie Moss, author of Hello Kitty, Hello Everywhere. Hello Kitty turns...
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RANT! #230; Goodbye Hello Kitty
Pittsburgh City Paper;
March 16, 2005 ;
Anonymous;
554 words
...HELLO KITTY MADE HER JAPANESE television debut in...noticed a notebook or a lunchbox with Hello Kitty on it, one could hardly re-vamp a wardrobe...exclusively with the round-faced feline. As Hello Kitty turns 31, however, she's suddenly everywhere...
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Hello Kitty, deconstructed.
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA);
October 19, 2004 ;
670 words
......culture. Which basically means, Yano sees Hello Kitty is cute _ not too saccharine, not too...said Yano, who started to study the Hello Kitty phenomenon about five years as an outgrowth...than put costumes on her, Yano said. Hello Kitty, I think people can project on her what...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KITTY; THIRTY YEARS LATER, HELLO KITTY STILL PURRS IN...
WWD;
October 30, 2003 ;
Jones, Rose Apodaca;
787 words
......a genuine trendsetter. Then there's Hello Kitty, on the eve of her 30th anniversary...than 10,000 products bearing her puss. Hello Kitty is just one in Sanrio's stable of successful...who no longer works for the company, Hello Kitty and her pals emerged in Japan as the...
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Hello Kitty, deconstructed.(The Orange County Register)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
October 20, 2004 ;
Larsen, Petter;
670 words
......culture. Which basically means, Yano sees Hello Kitty is cute _ not too saccharine, not too...said Yano, who started to study the Hello Kitty phenomenon about five years as an outgrowth...than put costumes on her, Yano said. Hello Kitty, I think people can project on her what...
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Profile: Marketing of Hello Kitty
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR);
October 31, 2004 ;
JENNIFER LUDDEN;
787 words
......NPR) 10-31-2004 Profile: Marketing of Hello Kitty Host: JENNIFER LUDDEN Time: 8:00-9:00...is that little white cat from Japan, Hello Kitty. NPR's Susan Stone has this report...everything is cute and almost everything is Hello Kitty. Ms. VICKIE PAN: Hello Kitty coffee...
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HELLO KITTY GADGETS GO BEYOND KIDS STUFF.(SAVVY)(THE SAVVY...
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);
January 24, 2002 ;
Mertz, Amy;
441 words
......pop some bread in the toaster and see Hello Kitty staring up at you from the toast on...better yet, waffles in the shape of Hello Kitty and her twin sister Mimmy, plus friends...from school supplies to CD players with Hello Kitty, in addition to painting them pink...
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HELLO KITTY More revered than the Emperor. More powerful than the Yen....
The Independent - London;
October 28, 2000 ;
Richard Lloyd Parry;
787 words
......no visible mouth. It is the face of Hello Kitty. Many people outside Japan, particularly...school lunch boxes and sweetie tins. Hello Kitty is the kind of character favoured by...away. The first remarkable thing about Hello Kitty is her staying power: since her birth...
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The Hello Kitty Purple Heart; And what are the facts about your favorite...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);
February 23, 2003 ;
Lileks, James;
773 words
......A brief investigation of her Hello Kitty sweater revealed a sharp plastic...the zipper right by the neck. Hello Kitty had claws. Well, we'd have to...She'd have to get by with her Hello Kitty socks, Hello Kitty dinner plate...
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Many adults reluctant to say goodbye to Hello Kitty
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;
August 11, 2008 ;
Jenee Osterheldt;
552 words
......more interested in Sanrio, the home of Hello Kitty. It was then that I came face-to-face...her co-workers she was going to buy a Hello Kitty lunchbox, and they joked about it and...corporate world understood why. She told me Hello Kitty lunchboxes and planners could be seen...
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It's too soon for goodbye, Hello Kitty
Oakland Tribune;
August 9, 2008 ;
Jenee Osterheldt;
567 words
......more interested in Sanrio, the home of Hello Kitty. It was then that I came face-to-face...her co-workers she was going to buy a Hello Kitty lunchbox, and they joked about it and...corporate world understood why. She told me Hello Kitty lunchboxes and planners could be seen...
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