With the release of the much hyped, and much delayed Windows Vista OS drawing ever closer, the official Microsoft Vista website has just released the first ever imagery of not only Vista’s but also the new 2007 Office Suite’s rather eye-catching and somewhat curvaceous packaging.

With road networks becoming evermore congested it makes more sense than ever to travel light and, with the Scoot, you not only get a beautifully and distinctly retro styled device that will enable you to thread through the gridlocked traffic and park up quite literally anywhere with ease, you also get a device that allows you to do so in the knowledge that you can doing your bit for the environment.

Though the humble USB memory stick is being made available in an ever increasing range of novelty designs, some of the most curious of which we have already featured previously in Thoughts from the Sidelines, this extremely fascinating concept from Russian designer Dima Komissarov certainly stands out from the crowd.

Sometimes it has to be said that words are just not enough and, if your partner or a friend has really done something to hack you off, and you really want to let them know, this Insult Tape could be the perfect solution.

One of the problems with stacking your front room full of technological goodness is that you soon find yourself having a coffee table full of remote controls.

It’s been a while since we have featured a posting in the Time to Chill category and, to make up for this, what could be better than sitting back and feeling all nostalgic as you play the Lemmings – an often extremely frustrating computer game I think most of us who are old enough to remember probably recall with great fondness.

Although this device is hardly up there with the likes of other modes of personal transportation previously featured on Thoughts from the Sidelines, such as the remarkable CarterCopter or the tracked, all terrain motorbike concept, it certainly appears to be a rather novel of getting from A to B.

As regular readers will know, we at TFTS Towers, as well as detailing the latest hot gadgets and up and coming designs also like to throw the odd post your way that serves to highlight some of the most bizarre items we have come across in our trawl for daily news and, in our relentless pursuit of the curious, it must be said that this item has undoubtedly slotted in at the very top of our oddball charts.