Posted by Andrew Tingle on December 5th 2006 | 6 Responses

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, …

Guinea Pig
Posted by Andrew Tingle on December 4th 2006 | 1 Response

For the bigger sites getting over a thousand readers in a single day is most certainly nothing to write home about, but for the one man band that is TFTS, which was only started just over three months ago (and has already served over 67,576 pages during that time), it …

Champagne Bottle
Posted by Andrew Tingle on December 4th 2006 | 4 Responses

Sorry ladies, but anyone who has ever watched a woman try to throw a ball really ought to have seen this coming.
As Wii fever continues to take hold reports are already emerging of women behaving very strangely in front of these white boxes and now, rather than just relying on …

Wii
Posted by Andrew Tingle on December 3rd 2006 | 1 Response

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 …

11 Christmas Stocking Fillers
Posted by Andrew Tingle on December 3rd 2006 | No Responses

You either love or hate tattoos but there’s no denying that they seem to have become rather fashionable of late. But if you are not prepared to go under the needle or are concerned that you partner/parents will disown you should you get a tattoo then this tattoo sleeve could …

Tattoo Design
Posted by Andrew Tingle on December 3rd 2006 | No Responses

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 …

Snake Bike Lock
Posted by Andrew Tingle on December 3rd 2006 | No Responses

Quite apart from the fact that the last time my wife used a hammer we had to call out civil engineers to assess the structural integrity of our house, this pink toolkit could be the ideal present for the ladies out there who prefer to do it themselves – alternatively …

Ladies Pink Toolkit
Posted by Andrew Tingle on December 2nd 2006 | No Responses

Somethimes it would seem that designers positively go out of their way to over complicate things, but this certainly cannot be said about this refreshingly simple yet extremely versatile device which just goes to show what can be achieved with effective design based on pure functionality.
The clock operates in four …

Muji Multifunction Clock
Posted by Andrew Tingle on December 2nd 2006 | 1 Response

There was a time, a while back, when it was all the rage for us civilians to wear identification dogtags regardless of the fact that you were hardly going to become a casualty of war whilst taking Fido the wonder dog out for a trot at the local park or …

BenQ Dogtag MP3 Player
Posted by Andrew Tingle on December 2nd 2006 | No Responses

On the premise that sometimes we are told that less is more, I could, of course, distill everything about the Caparo T1 into this single, solitary sentence and post, safe in the knowledge that readers across this big, wide world of ours are reaching down to pick their bottom lips …

Caparo T1
Posted by Andrew Tingle on December 2nd 2006 | No Responses

Created for Vessel by the Dutch conceptual designer Hella Jongerius, these animal bowls – or, rather, Nymphenburg Sketches to give them their correct and suitably pompous title – feature exquisite animal figurines in the centre that should serve enliven even the most mundane of meals. Though at £699 and above …

Hella Jongerius Animal Bowls