Pointless Gadgets – The Fruit Machine Pen

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One thing that is sure to get our attention here at TFTS is items that mix and match seemingly wholly unconnected functions merely in what we can only assume to be a bid to come up with something that’s either unique or, more often than not, just bizarre – and this fruit machine pen certainly slots neatly into this category.

Joining the ranks of such eminently (un)forgettable devices such as the MP3 external Speaker with Integral pencil sharpener, – which, let’s face it, is going to be rather difficult to upstage – the Fruit Machine Pen, apart from being a little excessive in terms of proportions, comes complete with a working mechanism and even its own stop lever (we’re sure that it has a technical name but, to be frank, we are sufficiently disinterested in slot machines to even look it up).

Why would anyone what a Fruit Machine Pen? No, we’re not certain either – unless you’re some sort of addict (and we each have our addictions) – but what is certain is that time spent with this device is time truly wasted. But perhaps that’s the point. After all, with time in such short supply for all of us, isn’t to waste it the ultimate in two fingers, metaphorically speaking, to the destiny that awaits us all?

Let it not be said that we’re not incapable of at least attempting to lend some sort of credence to what is, ultimately, just a piece of plastic tat – and a particularly forgettable piece of tat at that.