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  2. Javits Shows

Aug 17 Wed/18 Thu New York Gift Show 2011

Unedited photos (camera acting up) The Tap Water bottle - water for the poor abroad if you buy their bottle...Nespresso, Nestle owned subsidiart has been selling ultra smart espresso machines with specially packaged sealed individual coffee capsules...The King and I is a source for London hairbrushes, combs from Kent still hand cut- and the bristles on some hairbrushs can be replaced with screw in bristle groups....Gotyagifts from Kansas offers decorated Sticky Notes in decorated containers...Andreas McMeel publishing offers Sexy Quotes and other good quote selection small gift books....a company offers a Solitaire Chess game with 36 squares and seven pieces in 40 different challenging positions to solve by removing all pieces in sequential taking moves...Rudy Reeve at Carrie and company offers amusing sandal bottoms as wine glass placemats to make them more stable, identify whose drink they are and for sheer fun...pink, blue Teddy Bears lead the array of soft toys at Ty Inc sometimes to substitue for pets the two working parents can't look after...London based Gift Republic has inventive environmental gift boxed dreamed up by their imaginative development team including growing your own herb kits for kids, kits fo name a real star in the heavens (coordinates provided to id the star among the billions still unnamed, kits to grow a new kind of rose and name it, not to mention ultra smart mugs and books decorated with British postage stamp designs...Carvedsolutions offers palm oil based soaps (saves animals) with your monogram carved into each bar....Yale educated artist Steve King of Bambooworks offers exquisite animal and bird designs in brooches and necklaces, and is developing bamboo boxes, cabinets and other gifts such as bookmarks with cut outs of mermaids and dragonflies (hhe has serious side line trying to coirrect misleading models of blue whales in the world's museums...Mark Bedol offers scientifically appealing clocks which run on nothing but water refills for years, with a growing range of colorful designs....and the most beautiful items in the show, small globes of the Earth and some of the stars which move slowly as they stand on a desk or on a little stand, the design moving round underneath the clear surface, in perpetual motion fed by any light which falls on them (they stip in the dark), in a patented internal mechanism invented by a physicist.

Attendees at any Javits show should remember that they are near B and H which sells a complete array of cameras and camera equipments of all kinds - and video, MP3 players, computers and disk drives - at 9th Avenue and 34St street every day save Friday (early closing) and Saturday. Also nearby is the ideal post show refulelling stop at Azam's and his Bangladeshi friends' Curry Hut, at 39/40 Street and Ninth, 967 8885, where the samosa cooked by Iqbal are the crispest, crunchiest and tastiest in the whole of New York City, while the beef, chicken and vegetable curries are fresh and available throughout the day until 1am. Ideal for taking back to the hotel room to ensure nighttime peckishness goes fulfilled.
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