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Bored with your kitchen?

Don't fear. As you look for new ways to make cooking special, and also as the gift-giving season approaches, we have found you eight bizarre kitchen items from ThinkGeek! From the futuristic to the just-plain-weird, these items will certainly give you a smile.

And who knows? Some of these are pretty clever. Maybe you need a Titanium Spork!

1. The Titanium Spork: Lightweight, shovels a lot of food.
2. Squishy Bowls: A 16 oz bowl that can fit in your pocket!
3. All Edges Brownie Pan: For even brownie cooking.
4. Quad Timer: Four timers in one for the multitasker.
5. Collapsible Chopsticks: Um...cool!
6. Equal Measure: The most informative measuring cup ever.
7. Precision Spoon Scale: Weighs as it measures.
8. Microbe Liquid Soap Dispenser: Looks like what it eradicates.

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You probably remember hearing about The Miracle Fruit (containing the mysterious protein miraculin) earlier this year. It makes bitter and sour taste sweet, and, by altering those two flavors, makes everything taste like something else.

Surprise surprise, they turned it into a pill!

Available from ThinkGeek, the Miracle Fruit Tablets come in dodgy-looking packets of ten and will apparently blow your mind so much, they recommend only taking half a tablet to start.

Originally documented in France in 1725, the Miracle Fruit has been experiencing a renaissance of interest since 2007. We attribute the public fascination to the hope that one day cauliflower will taste like ice cream and vinegar will taste like ranch dressing. As people continue to invent crazy diets to lose weight, everyone is on the lookout for a way to make diet food taste more like Snickers bars. We wonder what it does to cabbage soup!

For now, people are mostly using the tablets recreationally. Two pills per person makes one heck of a crazy dinner party!

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A new blog hit the scene in Philly a few months back. Mostly devoted to all things geeky, Geekadelphia often features goofy, fun clothing, events and products. Occasionally, food related stuff passes across their front page and on Tuesday they posted about two different products that exist at the crossroads of food and geek.

The first is a pepper grinder in the shape of a R2D2 from Star Wars. You simply give his head a twist and pepper comes out his feet. Perfect for the Star Wars obsessed foodie in your life. The second is a Marshmallow Assault Rifle that is available from ThinkGeek. A coworker getting you down? Shoot them (caveat: I don't actually endorse violence as a way of handling disagreements) with a puffy, harmless marshmallow in order to send the message that they have to chill out.

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