Margaret Thatcher Nutcracker
Some items speak entirely for themselves. Yours for a tenner.
Hideous Talking Clock
Embark on an unpleasant journey into the Pathetic fallacy with Kim the $56 Talking Clock. It “literally” tells the time, her product page chortles.
Spotted at Foolish Gadgets, a wonderful blog.
Purosol screen cleaning spray
Purosol Plasma is a $30 bottle of herbal LCD cleaning spray, as used by “astronauts.” U.S. special forces “rely on Purosol to keep monitors, lasers, and sights clean.”
Personal Fireplace
Because no home is complete without a block of cement with a hidden can of gas in it.
Reproduction Scale Hooks
At first sight, this $80 set appears to be a wonderful remnant of a bygone era, when precision engineering was wedded to intricate craftsmanship. Ah, but no.
“These are not working scales,” says the blurb at Signal, “but they will hold coats.”
Mangroomer
Spotted at Target, the Mangroomer allows a gentleman to shave the far regions of his own back. Oh, look: an official website with virtual mangrooming in a military-looking 3D computer graphic simulator, as if this were some essential component of the War on Terror.
If you have the stomach for it, there is a YouTube demonstration. Quote: “Why is that rash developing?”
Steel Golden PSP Disk Door
Got a Sony PSP that has lost its “glamorous beauty?” Get a UMD door cover dipped in cheap gold paint for “more individuation” or to replace an existing one that is “battered looking.”
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?