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Anthrax
Plush Toy - $7.95 |
Common
Cold Plush Toy - $7.95 |
Ebola
Plush Toy - $7.95 |
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Flesh
Eating Bacteria Plush Toy - $7.95 |
Herpes
Plush Toy - $7.95 |
HIV
Plush Toy - $7.95 |
A few years ago, Drew Oliver got a Eureka moment. He was reading a memoir by scientist Richard Feynman. In it, the physicist wrote about being amazed looking at a water droplet through a microscope to see a microbe swimming about. This gave Drew a multimillion dollar business idea: a line of plushy germs for the scientifically-minded.
With the help of his brother, Drew launched Giant Microbes, which makes dozens of cute plush dolls of germs that cause some of life's most miserable diseases like ebola, HIV, flesh eating bacteria, ... and yes, even STDs!
We've recently gotten our shipments of Giant Microbes, so if there's someone close to your heart that could use a little herpes, mad cow, or even the black plague, here's your chance: http://shop.neatorama.com/store.php?giant-microbes-plush-toys-pg1-cid85.html
I also owe the plague and the common cold. It's a great treat around winter to leave it places and go 'OH GOD! COLD GERMS!'
I'd really love to get my hands on a flesh eating 'lil bugger, however :D
Do they make sounds?
Ajan, nope, no sounds.
http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/files/images/productdetails/bed-bug.jpg
isn't he cute?!
ThinkGeek has been selling these for quite some time. Could never bring myself to, uhm... find disease calling bugs cuddly, though.
My husband (friend at the time) got me the mono plush because I was so sick with mono. Although, the plush version is cute the real thing is awful. I don't think I really ever got compltely over it to be honest. He also got me the flesh eating bacteria for some reason.
He got the flu plush so he can go around touching people with it giving them a "touch of the flu."
We're both computer techs (geeks) joke giving people viruses in plush form for fun.
Went to the website, and want to give everyone I know one of these microbes, especially ones like "Bad Breath"