The Italian company Vice Versa Baby makes a bottle cleaner shaped like a carrot, and a bottle drying rack that looks like a little garden--complete with a little tulip. They also make a bottle with a cow's udder for the nipple.

This stuff is nice and harmless, but it's all too cute to buy for yourself. Let's get that straight right now. I mention it here for two reasons: 1) you can offer it up as an ultimately harmless design concession when you're negotiating against something you don't want, like wallpaper borders, for instance, and 2) they're a perfectly fine gift. So if you want one real bad, just point your friends to the site, where their gift-giving imaginations can be piqued.

It may be moot anyway, since I can only find them for sale in Australiaand Japan. In their pitch, Orange-Baby.com cuts to the chase: "Just imagine how cool your baby will become in the future."