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Fridge Pigs, Carpet Skates, Other New Toys

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5. The Bicycle Water Cannon: Road rage has never been this much fun: A high-powered water gun that mounts to your bike's handlebars and fires up to 30 feet. With Water Wheels, you can be transformed into a rolling sniper.

The central component of the Water Wheels' system is a storage tank and battery-powered pump attached to the bicycle's frame. A connection hose runs up the frame to plastic squirt guns mounted on the handlebars.

Remember, a good parent never wants to leave his child's rear flank exposed. That's why Water Wheels offers an optional tail gun that mounts behind the bike seat, facing toward the rear of the bike. 6. Carpet Skates: Remember sliding around on your kitchen floor in your socks? Now, with Fun Slide carpet skates, you can turn your carpeted living room into a skating rink.

Carpet skates work just like those friction-resistant plastic gliders that you slip under a heavy couch to move heavy furniture. In fact, SIMTEC, the company that makes E-Z Move gliders, designed carpet skates with the same material.

"We kept hearing that people were horsing around on E-Z Moves, so we put foot straps on them, and it really is a blast," says sales director Candace Edwards-Holsing.

SIMTEX has already created a carpet-gliding puck. Just remember to E-Z Move Mom's favorite antiques out of the living room or you'll wish you had protective gliders on your butt.

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