If you’re prone to getting up in the middle of the night to feed your face then these curious slippers known as BrightFeet could help you avoid tripping down the stairs/over the cat/over the wife whose head is in the fridge again (delete as applicable) as they come complete with …

If you’ve ever been caught short whilst out and about then this curious contraption could prove to a lifesaver though, frankly, I’d rather look for a suitable bush than go through the motions of inflating my own portable potty in the middle of nowhere only to find it caught by …

I am still yet to fathom quite why anyone would want to actually purchase any of these Buildings of Disaster Souvenirs as, personally, a replica of Three Mile Island (as featured) or Chernobyl cast in bonded nickel doesn’t exactly float my boat but, as they say, it takes all sorts …

Just when you think that you’ve seen it all something comes along and redefines the boundaries – and, in this case, we’re talking about the boundaries of outright stupidity. And, yes, it’s the poor old USB that’s once again in the firing line.
That said, there is something about this USB …

If Thoughts from the Sidelines were to have a league table for items with unfortunate names then this would be a remarkably high entry – if not a certain Christmas number one (which is far preferable to a number one from Take That this festive season, but, alas, that’s what …

We’ve seen some cookies in our time, but never one quite as large as this. Standing at 5ft tall this Gingerbread Solder is assured to keep you munching until you can munch no more.
Colonel Cookie, as he’s known, is made from unbleached white flour and is shipped directly from the …

Following on from the Scroll Pen which features its own in built paper supply, this rather innocuous looking ballpoint pen also holds a secret that could prove especially useful for all those budding spies amongst you in that it features not only a concealed USB flash drive, offering either 128MB …

There’s nothing quite like sitting in front of a warm fire, watching the flames dance before you and feeling the warmth against your skin as the light plays with the ambience of the room but, for many of us, a real fireplace is out of the question or, if we …

Quite why anyone would want to resurrect a deceased Guinea Pig by turning it into a remotely controlled device wholly eludes me, but in this curious video your Dutch host, known as Tinkebell, offers instructions as to how this can be achieved with a step by step walk-through which, thankfully, …

If you are wondering what else you can buy those close to you for Christmas, fear not, for help is at hand. Armed with a beer in one hand and our medication in the other, we at Thoughts from the Sidelines have taken it upon ourselves to scour the internet …

These days you can’t leave anything around unsecured without accepting the fact that you need only turn your back for a couple of minutes to find that its gone, and this is especially true of bicycles.
But why lock up your bike with a rather nondescript lock when you can secure …
