We’ve a few more football gadgets for you. Apologies perhaps to our US visitors and people who aren’t keen on football, but we hope you can bear with us for the next four or five weeks….

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If you like walking about bare foot but aren’t a fan of standing on sharp objects then you’ll love these FiveFingers footwear.

FiveFingers enables you to move your toes individually like nature intended. This means you’ll have better grip and also a few more muscles to excercise. Great for various water sports and avoiding the hot sand on a summer beach.

[Vibram Five Fingers found via Yanko Design]

As our regular readers will already know, the World Cup festival of football is just a few days away and the coolest gadgets team are hot on football gizmos at them moment.

Here’s a fun idea for men’s public toilets – a urinal sieve with a set of goalposts.

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Cups is a popular game in the States (or so I’ve read) where players have to stack cups in different arrangements as quickly as possible. It looks like the craze (which is actually a sport believe it or not) is going to being hit the UK shores anytime now, thanks to Firebox’s Racing Cups.

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Our friends over at The Gadget Store have noticed we have a small affection for the beautiful game (football to those that don’t know what I’m talking about) and have kindly donated a box full of England flags to give away to our readers.

So if you want a free St. Georges flag (3ft x 5ft or a car flag) leave a comment to this post saying what you like about gadgets and football. Make sure your leave a real email address (which we will never ever share) so that we can get a physical address to send the flag to. All flags will be given out on a first come first served basis.

Thanks again to The Gadget Store for this cool freebie.

We’ve filed these bizarre contact lenses under “Football Gadgets”. They’re certainly striking – if you’ll pardon the football pun!

These cool-looking contact lenses were manufactured by a German optician, Stephanie Berndt, to celebrate the forthcoming football World Cup.

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Normally it isn’t very practicle to listen to music and swim at the same time. You can get waterproof cases for your iPod but personally I wouldn’t take my MP3 player swimming with me in the hope that the latest case was fully waterproof. Well there is now a solution where your iPod stays on dry land as you take a dip; the Sportzjam waterproof wireless headphones.

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I may of mentioned this before but in case nobodies noticed I’ll repeat that I’m a bit of a footie fan.

World Cup fever also seems to be spreading to the various gadget sites and shops. Firebox being no exception have just released the Magnetic Car Flag.

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