Flipping Hello Kitty
Fifth law of thermodynamics: As time advances, Hello Kitty brand entropy approaches infinity
Bilz Pinball
Bilz Pinball, a handheld “game” into which money is inserted to no sensible end, approaches an abstract purity in its crappiness: it is designed to be re-gifted.
Personal Fireplace
Because no home is complete without a block of cement with a hidden can of gas in it.
Girl’s Slim Bracelet Watch
At barely half the price of its own shipping fee, the “Water Resistant Girl’s Slim Bracelet Watch Green” is most assuredly crap. Even the shade of green they chose is crap.
Aren’t all girls water resistant?
Official Rice Krispies Pedometer
That one gets even a crap gadget out of a box of cereal, in this day and age, seems unusually generous. It is of mild interest that the box jiggered 6,825 times on its wonderful journey from factory to kitchen counter.
Puzzle Alarm Clock
“Wake up your brain as well as your body,” goes the neurologically-challenged ad copy for the Puzzle Clock. The difficultly level seems contrary to the manufacturer’s guidelines — “Not suitable for children under the age of 3″ — but it takes all sorts.
Puzzle Alarm Clock [Latest Buy via Boing Boing Gadgets]
USB Panic Button
If the ocean of disposable electronic trash in your life threatens to drown your soul, try buying a USB Panic Button to make it all better. The really depressing part is that it actually does something, namely switch the computer to a fake productivity app should “the boss come along.”
You know, because a workplace that doesn’t tolerate computer misuse will tolerate you plugging in a giant panic button and installing its accompanying software.
Product Page [Firebox]
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Tek Sketch
The jarring, breakneck pace of change is embodied in the TEK SKETCH. In the very name is a fusion of the future and the distant past, a summation of human history from the first crude cave painting to modernity’s hard-edged technological precision.