Last time I was in a store, I was like, “Why is there no creepy animatronic sea captain here to tell me today’s specials?” Apparently that’s what the founders of Characters Unlimited thought too, because they’ve come up with a vast array of Hall of Presidents-style robotic people—and a few animals, too, like the ever-popular dog in overalls, or the smoking buffalo—aimed specifically at retailers who want to jazz up their stores, maybe after striking out with Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men. The things can move and speak, their lips synched to either live or pre-recorded messages. (Was that a tape recorder I saw?) The company president told Aving they’ll do custom jobs, can even clone you if you want, but from the look of their lineup, it helps if you’re old and/or disfigured. There’s a video after the jump if you’re not already properly skeeved out. [Aving USA]

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Sorry, Johnny Depp. You were great in the original Edward Scissorhands, but this real life maestro of the blades from Israel puts your whole emo trip through suburbia to shame. And while hairdresser Danny Bargil lacks the hotness of a sidekick like Winona Ryder, and he can’t kill a man with his bare feet a la Adam Sandler as the Israeli commando hairdresser Zohan, he makes up for it with the fact that he’s flinging 10 sharp things at a person’s head and they leave with both ears. Reuters got some video of the man in action, after the jump.

At 10 blades, Bargil’s attempt is a world record, and bests the ideal of what the Japanese had to offer in 2006 with an all-in-one 9-blade pair of scissors. Finally, just for kicks (pun completely intended), here’s Zohan, that other kick ass Israeli hairdresser.

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