Gizmodo: piggy banks

Humping Piggy Banks: Another Day, Another Dollar on the Sex Farm

Sean Fallon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:59:00 EST

Working on a sex farm
Hosing down your barn door
Bothering you livestock
Payin' your pigs to watch em' hump

Apparently, there is also a "sex zoo" somewhere with humping elephants. All it takes is a few coins and they go at it like crazy. [Rakuten via Rinkya via Tokyomango]

Space Invaders Tabletop Arcade Cabinet Piggy Bank

Sean Fallon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:20:00 EST

Unlike the Space Invaders arcade cabinets of our youth, this tabletop version actually helps you save money. It even features an LCD screen that lights up when a 100 yen coin is entered.

It can hold about 80 coins, which is the equivalent of about $89US. Not a bad haul when all is said and done—in fact, that's about twice as much as the device actually costs. However, I would have liked to see a version of the actual game built-in.[Takara Tomy via CScout Japan via JeanSnow via Kotaku]

Yamanote Train Bank Lays Down Tracks To Financial Savings

Elaine Chow — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:00:00 EST

What better place to save your yen than this adorable bank in the shape of Japan's iconic Yamanote subway train? Each deposit triggers the bank to play a melody from a randomly chosen Yamanote station.

The Yamanote line carries an estimated daily ridership of 3~5 million passengers. That's comparable to the number of people that use the entire New York subway system. If you put a penny in for every person who got on the line each day, you'd have a crapload of pennies... and probably a completely empty bank account. The price for "train"ing you to save is $90. [Gizmine]

All You Need is Love from Talking, Romantic "Handsome Men" Piggy Bank

Kit Eaton — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:45:00 EDT

Things'd have to be pretty desperate in your love life if you needed one of these Ikemenbank, or "handsome men banks" from Bandai. For each 500 yen coin you drop in the heart-shaped gadget, you're rewarded with the next step of a virtual love affair with a Tamagotchi-like digital chap inside. He speaks to you with emotionally supportive phrases, but needs constant attention. Not dropping a coin in for five days results in him leaving you, with nothing but a digital love letter to remind you of his pixels. Fill it up with 100 coins, however, and you get the romantic conclusion—it can be happy or sad—but I'm not clear exactly how pornographic it would be... Anyhow, if you're lovelorn, and in Japan it will be out for around $46 in September. [Reuters]

DigiBank Piggy and Panda Banks Learn to Count

Charlie White — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:29:46 EST

It's the Chinese year of the pig, so maybe that's why we're seeing so many piggy banks and pig-themed stuff lately, but the DigiBank from Keian takes piggy banking a step into the geek zone. It's smart enough to recognize which coins are dropped into it, dutifully counting them and showing you a running total on its LCD display. And look, you can choose between a pink little piggy and a monochromatic panda bear.

Piggy banks, panda banks and technology: they're so wonderful together, it's a match made in China. – Charlie White

DigiBANK, the intelligent piggy bank from KEIAN [Akihabara News]

Adding to Collection of Keyboard Puns: Save Key Piggybank

Charlie White — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:07:03 EST

As a part of our continuing series on useful objects patterned after keyboard keys, our next candidate is this little play on words, a coin bank that looks like a Save button. Ironically, at $9.75 it just about costs more than the amount of coins it can hold.

Now if someone will make a trash can that looks like a Delete key, a remote car starter that looks like a start button and place a keyboard-like Home key on a GPS navigator, we could decorate our surroundings for total geekdom. – Charlie White

Product Page [Totally Funky]