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Do you have this phone? I do! My in-laws gave it to me for Xmas. It’s $40 at the Sanrio Online Store. It has caller ID (if you have it from your phone company), all the buttons you’d expect including redial, a blinking button to tell you if you missed any calls, and the wings and wand light up! I think they should have been pink, meaning they would light up with a white LED, but it turns out they light up red – probably more visible that way anyway. It’s corded, I’d rather have had a cordless one, but it’s still totally faboo and we do use it!

My mom sent me a gallery of cats wearing the famous Hello Kitty costume, and suggested that I could try it on my cat Mischa, who will put up with all sorts of costumes and torture. So I set about looking for it, and finally located it – it turns out to be 18,900 yen ($195)! I ran Google Translate on the webpage (result is here) and apparently they only made 90 of them. This is the same outfit that produces the other cat costumes although the Hello Kitty costume isn’t on that page. Too bad there’s only 90, I know thousands of people would buy them even for $195!

Just found another fun blog to read – Hello Kitty Universe. It’s in French, but it’s mostly a photoblog so there’s plenty to enjoy even if you don’t speak French!

I wish I could tell you this phone makes Julienned fries, but it’s not quite that good. Instead, you’ll have to settle for an accelerometer (shake it to advance to the next song), 1.3MP camera, millions of colors, and – wait. Click that picture and tell me if it looks like a fake to you. Doesn’t the nose on the back of the phone look a little too low? I was all set to say this was a great phone, but it’s from a company in China, and now that I look a little closer, the chances that it’s a fake are high. Nevermind!

Let’s kick off 2009 with a contest! I received this Hello Kitty journal as a gift long ago and I have never even unwrapped it. It’s just adorable, but I’ve never used it! The cover is padded and there is ribbon detailing and embroidery on it. It is just adorable, you can click it to get the full-size version. So what is the contest? The first person who comments on this post gets it! You don’t have to tell me why you want it (though it’s nice to hear!), but you do have to want it. That is, don’t ask for it if you’re just going to sell it on eBay or something. It’s okay if you want it for a friend or a child, so you can give it as a gift, but please don’t ask for it if you just want to resell it. Go for it, the first commenter wins!

I have no idea if $200 is a good price for a guitar. I really don’t. I don’t play guitar, I’m not really interested in playing guitar (only Guitar Hero), I know nothing about guitars. But for $200 – down from a supposed list price of $340 – you can grab the Hello Kitty acoustic guitar made by Fender. I know enough to know that “Fender” is a good brand for guitars, at least they are often praised. Apparently this model is the “Squier” which is not nearly as catchy as “Stratocaster”…but not to worry, because there is a Hello Kitty Stratocaster as well! It’s also $200 depending on where you buy it, and at this store it comes with a free Hello Kitty strap as well.

Like the inexpensive Hello Kitty MP3 players I’ve featured earlier, this digital photo frame is a Spectra product. You’ll never believe this, but it supports photos up to 200 megapixels! At least, that’s what the website says…I’m not sure I believe it either. It only has 32MB of internal memory (probably not enough for a 200 megapixel picture) but it has an expansion slot that takes several types of cards, including SD cards. You can connect it up to the TV, and it also has a calendar and alarm. Unfortunately it is widescreen, which means that some of your photos may be oddly cropped when showing on the frame. I cannot find pricing on this thing anywhere which means it may not actually be available – but give Spectra a call if you’re interested!

What’s that? Yesterday’s super-cheap Hello Kitty MP3 player didn’t wow you? Well, here’s another one, and no surprise – it’s also from Spectra. This one isn’t expandable, but it does come with 1GB of memory, which is enough for about 250 songs. It also has a voice recorder, though I’m not sure how long you can record – I doubt you can record something really big though. Get it at Target for $40!

Ah, Spectra, how I love you. You make a million Hello Kitty gadgets and I want more than half of them. And yet they are so hard to find! I had your Hello Kitty iPod car charger once upon a time, but it crapped out on me and I haven’t been able to find another. But your tiny digital photo frame/MP3 player is available from Best Buy for just $20! It’s in the outlet though, so anybody who wants it will have to act fast – I’m sure it won’t last long.

If anybody is wondering, this thing has enough memory to hold about 10 songs -that is, it only has 64MB of memory. It can take up to a 2GB SD/MMC card, though, and those are pretty cheap, so you can make it hold as much as an iPod Shuffle. And it’s adorable and it has Hello Kitty on it and it comes with earphones. What are you waiting for, it’s $20!! What am I waiting for?!

One thing we know about this thing: It’s got Hello Kitty on it. But at first glance, what we don’t know is…is this a handbag? Well, folks, the answer is NO. It’s a CD player. But for some reason its maker decided it should look like a handbag. I guess it’s kind of like the teacup clock radio…why did they make it shaped like a teacup? Well, because they can. According to the maker’s information on the product, it’s not actually a carrier. The only thing it holds is the CD that it’s playing. So basically you what we have here is a very funny-looking CD player that is bulky and rides on your shoulder so you confuse people with why you have earphones plugged into a plastic purse. Oh, and I don’t think it plays MP3s. Plus there are way cooler ones on Amazon. Oh well!