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Experts' Expert: The 5 major personality traits

According to Sam Gosling, professor of psychology at the University of Texas in Austin and author of "Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You," they are:

• Openness

• Conscientiousness

• Extroversion

• Agreeableness

• Neuroticism

Gosling told Bruce Feiler in a September 25, 2011 New York Times story that the first three above "are clearly revealed in people's spaces. (The other two... are more internal)."

What is it?

Answer here this time tomorrow.

Hint: Not related to psychiatry. Or the Aztecs.

Another: Smaller than a breadbox. In fact, smaller than a piece of bread. Or a Ritz cracker, for that matter.

Become a school bus driver: "As long as kids get evenings and weekends off, so will you."

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World's most elegant 3-D Blu-ray player

Silver; 7 inches square x 1 inch high.

"When it's off, it's truly off — no clock, no blinking lights (the lights marking the touch-sensitive buttons disappear behind micro-perforations in the metal).

Also streams movies and shows from Netflix, Hulu and YouTube (and plays DVDs).

$280.63.

Video: 18 seconds of James Joyce in Paris in the 1920s

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Tethered iPhone Mini Stylus

Plugs into the headset jack; rubber tip = no fingerprints.

Silver, Red, Black, Blue, White.

$10.99.

Anemone Hat

Anemone trilby by milliner Sylvia Fletcher for James Lock & Co., currently on display in the show "Power of Making" at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, up through January 2, 2012.

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Super-sized Creamer

Ceramic with snap-on silicone lid.

Creamer: 2.5"H x 3"Ø.

Lid: 4"Ø.

$20.