Following on from the Combimouse featured earlier this week, where part of the split keyboard is utilised as a mouse, the Taiwan-based Sysgration company’s concept of cutting down on the clutter of peripheral devices by retaining a traditional notion of a mouse but expanding on its functionality seems somewhat more …

Having already featured a ring with a memory and a ring that is guaranteed to put that little extra bit of lead in your pencil just when you need it I could not possibly pass up posting about another ring that offers a rather stunning surprise – though, trust me, …

Here at Thoughts from the Sidelines we have a particular soft spot for household items that are created by recycling “spent” technology. Of course, we have already covered household items created from parts of used F1 racing cars but now it seems that aviation buffs have also got in on …

Apart from a top of the range car, perhaps the greatest status symbol anyone can have is a house that is literally worth a fortune. But you can forget about any house owned by superstars or ex-presidents and as for houses owned by such as Bill Gates well, to be …

Ever so often designers will come up with what they believe is the next logical progression as far as the onward development of keyboards are concerned and, with the greatest of respect to them, invariably their ideas may sound good in theory but in practice they leave a lot to …

Hosting a party is not only about enjoying yourself (and running round cleaning up spillages) it is also about making a lasting impression – and if you can make an impression for as little work as possible that’s all the better.
In this post Thoughts from the Sidelines takes a look …

Regardless of the image you try to portray, a person’s home, and in particular the items within it, can either work to cement the image that you have built for yourself or simply strip away the very foundations.
For a geek, their home should be a showcase of the unique, the …

Weapons, one could reasonably argue, are rather masculine in nature so it is good to see that, in these times of improving gender equality, designer Antonio Riello has taken it upon himself to redress the balance somewhat by producing a series of “Ladies Weapons”.
Though these weapons are not for resale …