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Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 27th 2007 | No Responses

Designed to resemble a rock climbing man (apparently) the design of this light appeals to us as we can imagine a host of them placed in random patterns on a wall with great effect.
Constructed from polished zinc and coming complete with two meters of cable (but without a bulb (!)), …

Cool Wall Climbing Light
Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 25th 2007 | No Responses

As a seasoned partaker of all things alcoholic, this set of wine glasses which are joined at their bases by a tube – thus forcing co-operation between drinkers – really appeals, primarily as they will ensure that the selfish drinker will always be faced with an empty glass.
Known as My …

Co-Operative Drinking with the Combined Wine Glasses
Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 24th 2007 | No Responses

As if potentially having their very own designer doggie sex doll wasn’t enough, Fido the Wonderdog can now even have his own vibrating massager that’s designed to ease tension (such as after a strenuous workout on its own doggy treadmill) as well as stimulate the skin’s oil glands so as …

Vibrating Massager for Stressed Out Dogs V2
Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 22nd 2007 | No Responses

This great concept almost slipped passed unnoticed by us, so let’s act to rectify that now as this is a great example of cleverly conceived design.
Thanks to designer Jun Kurihara, your rather mundane, rudimentary clothes hanger could soon not only help to keep creasing of your clothing at bay but …

Ion Clothes Hanger
Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 18th 2007 | No Responses

We tend not to feature a great deal of lighting here on Thoughts from the Sidelines on account of the fact that its seldom that we come across something that urges us to post about it – but these cool LED lights are just too cool to overlook.
Battery operated, so …

Cool Swaying LED Grass Floor Lights
Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 18th 2007 | 4 Responses

They say that tiny things please tiny minds and, on that premise alone my mind must be the size of a pea as the mere fact that this LED Clock is animated to show the time scrolling ever onwards strikes me as being rather cool.
Displaying not only the time, but …

Cool Blue Animated LED Digital Clock
Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 17th 2007 | No Responses

Miserable? Depressed? TFTS has found the answer and it is sure to bring a smile to your face.Firstly, apologies for the title but according to Google’s translation at least, the ‘Small Face Blade’ is actually this gadget’s name and as I’ll warrant that the majority of you, like me, cannot …

Facebllade Gadget
Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 17th 2007 | No Responses

Admittedly, this is hardly a designer item – unlike the previously featured Electrici-Tree– but its certainly a gadget that will serve as a great conversational piece in any room.
This fish bone extension cord unfortunately comes with a Japanese socket attachment (so no using it in the UK without an adapter) …

The Fish Bone Electricity Extension Cord
Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 17th 2007 | 8 Responses

On the whole we do like to try to find things that you have probably not come across before rather that just constantly regurgitating the same content as other sites, and so – after hours of trawling the net – we consider this bizarre gadget to be quite a find.
I’m …

Curious Kitchen Rubber Pig Head Gadget
Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 15th 2007 | No Responses

Unlike the previously featured work of Mike Libby’s Insect Labs, Christopher Conte does not employ real insects in his intricate sculptures but, instead, builds them completely from recycled parts of electronics and machinery, such as the Articulated Singer Insect – featured above – which is composed from parts taken from …

Articulated Singer Insect by  Christopher Conte
Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 15th 2007 | No Responses

We’ve previously featured a germ zapping hi-tech gadget here on TFTS, namely this mobile phone like mobile UV-C Nanotech germ killer, but, never ones to hide behind understatement, we prefer this on account of the fact that we can envisage ourselves as Darth Vader as we kill all those nasty …

Zap Bacteria with the Germ Killing Wand