Gadgets with FACES #130: The film cartridge for a Mini Instax non-digital camera

A robot in jail. This arrest closed the case of the 126 prostitutes found dead around Tokyo with odd indentations around their necks but no finger prints.



"There I was being all cool, bucking the digital trend and using other forms of instant photography when I stumbled across this, much to my delight (and confused looks from the non-nerdy one in the relationship). It is the empty cartridge from a pack of Fujifilm Mini Instax, and quite clearly shows it's cheeky little tongue sticking out.`I have also included a photo of what the box of the film looks like, the camera, and an example Instax photo using the empty pack as a handy frame, cos us what still use films also like to recycle stuff."



"In case you care I took the photos on an EOS 40D, which is alright I guess. I didn't scale them for you, although perhaps I should have, as they seem a little soft at 100%, but that's not helped by me using the 17-55 f2.8 wide open. If you're lucky there might be some EXIF data to get your liquid silk flowing, but I can't for the life of me remember if my raw converter keeps it when saving out to jpeg (I use Bibble for Linux, in case you're sad enough to care)" - Dave.

Two gadgets with FACES and a building that also has a face, all of which are in Kuwait

This was a very complex email. It contained a building with a FACE and two gadgets with FACES. We are unsure how to categorise it and as such have thrown all three in one post.

The third photo, of the coffee machine, works better as a Gadget with FACE if you ignore the submitter's "three eyes" suggestion and instead imagine the side screws are a more traditional two eyes.



"Here is my submission for a Building With a Face (multiple faces, really). It's the Fanar (yes) shopping centre in lovely Kuwait. Small eyes, wee button noses and huge mouths."



"Attached is a pic of my iron, also in Kuwait. A happy iron, I think."



"Attached too is a pic of a three-eyed coffee machine in my GM's office. I tried to take a pic of it 'eating' the sachet of delish espresso, but it sucked it out of my fingers, nearly taking the nails off. Incidentally, my GM is deserving of a place in your pantheon of exec types. No moustache, mind you, but a few of the (vaguely criminal-class type) further up the corporate ladder here are moustachioed..." - Andrew.

Gadgets with FACES #128: A smiling iron

Smiling because it's just been rubbing itself all over your girlfriend's skirt and enjoying the intoxicating fumes of nearly-molten polyester. It's even winking at her. Sick IRON FUCK.



"Thought you may like this for your collection. As I was looking through your photos, I could feel some eyes burning into the back of my head. Needless to say the iron was trying to look at my screen" - Adrian.

Gadgets with FACES #127: An electric thermometer

A man called "Joel" found this at his mum's house. You know you're bored at your mum's house when you start examining the backs of things. We suspect "Joel" also looked in the fridge on four separate occasions, despite not really being hungry and obtaining a precise mental image of the fridge contents on his first viewing.



Joel included the address of a semi-dormant blog in his email signature. It's about video games. We're not sure if he'd like people to visit it or not. But here's a link to it just in case.

Gadgets with FACES #126: The Team Grill barbecue

America's two main contributions to global culture are (a) MEAT and (b) SPORTS. So it's inevitable someone would have the idea of combining the two, as Americans also really like combining two things into one thing to make a new combi-thing.



It's a barbecue in the same colours as those worn by your "team". It sadly lost a couple of legs in a hunting accident and has had them replaced by wheels.

Gadgets with FACES #125: A Lesbian's Midea rice cooker

Photos supplied at 3264 x 2448 resolution and taken with a Samsung Digimax L85, a camera so alien we're going to have to Google it [30 seconds later] to discover it's not particularly impressive.



"It's some kind of rice cooker, possibly pig-themed. The face looks deliberate. I have no idea what the rules are for that, if any. It belongs to a lesbian, if that's any help" - Tim.



Yes, Tim, it was a big help. It's great knowing we have a reader who knows a lesbian with a rice cooker. Perhaps you could ask her what's the difference between a rice cooker and just putting a lid on a saucepan? We've always wondered.

Gadgets with FACES #123 and 124: Another heater and a hospital ceiling

Incorporating our very first CEILING with a FACE.

OPENING PREAMBLE:
"Hot on the heels of my incredibly successful Shanghai pictures on UKR, I now present my Idiot Toys selection I've been saving up. You think that gadget with a face #99 is good for an Argos heater? It ain't got nothing on mine. She's hot stuff alright, in 2 exciting poses..."



"1) Sexy asian spy/dominatrix..."



"2) Hot lips (or orange bucktooth depending on how you look at it). Well worthy of being Gadget with a FACE #100, don't you think?"



"Also, I think you have done Pairdeer batteries before (YES), but the one I took came out particularly lovely with a soft flash setting and I thought you'd appreciate it. And by appreciate, I mean it could appear in one of your generic round-ups if it's lucky."



"And fresh from my hospital visit in back in February (broken leg FYI), I present your very first CEILING WITH A FACE! There's no need to fear hospital visits any more with this goliath watching over you. Could this be a gadget too ? I mean, it does use electricity after all" - Martin B.

Gadgets with FACES #122: Turkish combi boilers

Three separate photos.



"Hi Idiot! I think these pretty much speak for themselves. The pictures are not bad either."



"I was going to say keep up the good work, but on second thought paying for bandwith seems more appropriate. Yours (not literally)" - Pingus.



We didn't need three separate photos.

Gadgets with FACES #121: A paperclip machine

We suspect it's manually operated, but there might be a battery in there somewhere. Or you could put a battery in with the paperclips.



"It's a robot which appears to be ready to vomit. I stole this from someone's Facebook page. Hopefully you're in the same network as this person and so can see it, or I suggest you join Australia for a minute if you really want to" - Bill.

Gadgets with FACES #120: The Tomo Therapy Hi-Art scanning thing

Poking out its big tongue to GOBBLE UP people who need brain scans.



Spit out that bit of gristle, mate. It's a tumour. If you must eat human flesh, you want the slow-roasted thigh of a German man you met on the internet.

Gadgets with FACES #118: The Rejuvenique RJV10KIT Facial Toning Mask Kit

If you're currently making a low-budget horror film using your mobile phone with you and the only two friends you've got playing all the roles...



FULL DISCLOSURE: This was submitted by a man pretending to be called "Andy" who says he sort of got the idea for it from here.



So our only role in this update was, once again, resizing the images. If you have any images you want resizing, get in touch.

Gadgets with FACES #117: A speed camera packing heat

FREEZE! Slow down to less than 30mph or PAY THE ULTIMATE PRICE, you BMW-driving mo-fo!



Found somewhere on Amazon by a man who pretends to be called "John" on the internet. This, we suspect, is going to be considered the best of the lot when we eventually give up and look back on our lives with a sense of shame.

Gadgets with FACES #116: A 'worm' that probes radioactive pipes

Could also be a close-up of a robotic penis.



"I got into work at 940, made a cup of tea, sat down and immediately started browsing the internet, and what do I see on the BBC Scotland news web page? A horrified looking 'robotic worm' being forced to wriggle through radioactive pipes. It is treatment like this that will make them rise up and overthrow us. And it is treatment like this that will make them right to do so" - Barry.

A VERY INTERESTING "PS"
"PS: I have to use work email at work due to Gmail being blocked - don't hold it against me I work for an investment bank. I'm a miserable back office IT drone in Glasgow, not a richly compensated multi-millionaire in London, like that guy who is going out with Big Suse from Peep Show or whatever. Just the sort of person you would expect to read your website really. One of the gang in fact."

Gadgets with FACES #115: A two-way Kenwood vacuum cleaner

It is good to see our readers have their electrical items regularly tested. We don't need to lose any in accidents.



"A Kenwood 1400W vacuum cleaner. I don't know if this has appeared on Idiot Toys before, and frankly I can't be bothered to check your archives. What the Kenwood has over (some) other gadgets is that it contains two entirely different faces, depending on which way up you look at it. The picture I've sent features the cheeky, slightly evil face with the big forehead and eyebrows. But, cunningly inverted, it becomes a depressed face with a big chin. Multiple-Personality-Tastic."



"No doubt you'll check the EXIF data anyway, but it was taken with an Olympus FE-190. Not bad at photographing gadgets, surprisingly good at fireworks, but rubbish for people since nothing this side of a heavy Photoshop session can remove the horrific Red-Eye it puts on EVERYONE YOU PHOTOGRAPH" - Steve.

Gadgets with FACES #114: Some sort of stereo

Apparently, Daryl here owns a T-Mobile G1. We'd doubt that. We doubt any man who lives in a house with woodchip on the wall can afford the monthly contractual obligations that come with owning a G1.

Perhaps Samsung or NEC made a G1 in the late 1990s and that's what he means?



"This thing sits grinning at me every time I walk past it on our landing and I eventually snapped it with my G1" - DarlyB.

Gadgets with FACES #113: The underneath of Wii Fit

There IS something interesting about Wii!



"Look what I found lurking under our office Wii Fit (yeah, I know how obnoxious that sounds). Turns out Nintendo have been using this happy chap to drive more sales" - David.

EXIF VOYEURISM
Nikon D80. We need to start categorising readers by how good their cameras are.

Gadgets with FACES #112: A diagram illustrating an anode vacuum tube rectifier

Deliriously happy bespectacled mad German scientist with moustache (top) poking wires into the eyes and mouth of a sad test subject. It gets better the longer you look at it, which is rare for a picture on the internet.



"Here is an electrical diagram with a very sad face who might be vomiting. Maybe you'll find use for it. It came from here" - Aaron.

Gadgets with FACES #111: Cap'n Lamp

Rare full-bodied gadget, although his hands are MASSIVELY OUT OF PROPORTION to his arms, head and body. Unless he's just carrying some lampshades home from Ikea. They seemed smaller and lighter at the checkout.



"Not only does this fellow have a face... he has a whole body and lamp hands! I discovered him whilst looking for fun mid century things to spend money on. He lives in Seattle and I want to bring him home. Don't you think he'd make a great buddy?" - Erica.

Gadgets with FACES #110: A Titan 250GB SATA III SSD

Spotted by a "Brendan" who must be in the process of "speccing up" an almighty "gaming rig". Or perhaps he's just rich. Or maybe he has his own "tech blog" and has just written something proper about it. Could be anything. He might even be the MD of Titan doing a bit of PR on a dull Thursday evening.

Here's the photo before this descends into gay reader fan fiction.



A classic robot, with a slightly feminine parting. "CE" might be a good geek tattoo.

Gadgets with FACES #109: A Rapid Classic 1 stapler

It might be possible to reconstruct a likeness of the photographer by using the reflection in the lower hand grip.



"This fish-like faced gadget has an appetite as big as its mouth. Apparently it doesn't care what it eats as long as it's big, hence the small eyes. The eyes on the side of the head clearly indicate that we are dealing with a herbivore, which makes the enormous mouth a rare feature indeed" - Arend.

AN UNNECESSARY APOLOGY
"Sorry for the horrible quality of the picture. Given the shiny finish it was hard to keep both myself and the fluoresent lights off the picture."

Gadgets with FACES #108: A "white Darth Vader" electric heater

Here's a thrilling glimpse into the PARTY HARD nature of the life of one of our more socially adept readers. It's almost like you're there. And have friends. And went out on New Year's Eve.



"Hello. So we were in a taxi rank after a fun New Years Eve and we saw this little guy sat on a bench by himself. We soon got chatting and offered him a cigarette - possibly not a great idea with the heat he was generating. Anyway, he accepted. He looks like he has a white Darth Vadar face. Kinda. Perhaps you could make a new category called 'Gadgets that kinda look like they have a white Darth Vadar mask, but otherwise have no 'face', no matter how into pareidolia you are.' Anywho, I'm rambling far too much for 3 low-res phone pics, so I'm out."



"BTW, I was dressed as a cowboy, my friend a knight and his girlfriend Little Bo-Peep. I tried to get a bit of leg, but I didn't want to upset my friend so I hope you're okay with a foot and a bit of thigh. James (Repping the JPAG)" - James.

MOBILE PHONE CAMERA REVIEW
The file's EXIF data shows this was taken with a Sony Ericsson W810i, hence the way the shots are too blurry to identify the make and model of the device or get aroused by the foot and bit of thigh.

Gadgets with FACES #106: Amazing FLESH-EATING sunbeds

Robot designs for Transformers 2 revealed.



"Don't know if I sent this before - my stupid overpriced piece of shit Apple computer won't tell me..."



"Here's some pictures of sun-beds with faces. Does that count? Probably it does. Nearly everything seems to. They appear to be eating people. Usually people in bikinis. Attractive women types..."



"There's also a picture of a careful dentist cleaning it's teeth I think. Like when those little birds go in to clean crocodile mouths after they've eaten a sexy woman or stupid, drunk Australian."



"It's a MegaSun 6800 by the way."



"God knows I looked long and HARD for sexier sunbed pictures featuring the sun-beds which had faces until I stumbled into the Google Images 16 x 16 pixel icon images wasteland. Nothing. Cheers" - Jody.

JODY?
It's the male version of the name. We checked.

Gadgets with FACES #105: A coffee bean grinding machine

INTERNATIONAL Gadgets with FACES, no less, thanks to this intercontinental sighting from Minnesota easing us back into the face-on-a-thing spotting scene.



"This is a coffee bean roaster. This particular one is located in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and seems to enjoy his job, despite having lost an eye. Or maybe it's a monocle" - Bill.



It's probably a vent for the unprocessed beans to come down. We've just got back from Christmas. The magic's not there yet.

Gadgets with FACES #104: A Tenna TV Antenna

The subject line of the email claimed "Best Gadget with FACE ever" - and, although it isn't quite as good as this or this, it is a definite top five contender, particularly if you're a fan of the dog-like faces.



"I spotted this in the breakfast / DVD / pool table room at a budget hotel in Bangkok last week. It's a TV booster antenna with the face of a slightly robotic dog."



"As you can see from the photo of the box, it's a politically correct product - available in different skin tones. Imagine that!" - Paul.

iPHONE CAMERA ONCE AGAIN IMPLICATED IN SHIT PHOTO:
"Sorry about the quality of the photos, that's the combination of a crappy iPhone camera and cheap Thai whiskey."

Gadgets with FACES #103: Some cookers

There's a vaguely troubling "advertorial" feel to the accompanying words, but they're free words we didn't have to think about writing or typing then correcting, so we'll let it pass.



"Even though there is no Web Researcher to assist, I work as the Assistant Web Researcher at www.reevoo.com. During my assisting of aforementioned non-existent Web Researcher I came across this gourmand fellow. He is in fact the Stoves 600EF.

"Our site has impartial customer reviews, and, unsurprisingly given his large chin, he's rated as 'very poor for weight'. That said, the kitchen lovers seem totally taken by his manly good looks. Bill from London says he's 'Nice looking'. Maureen from Londonderry says he's 'easy to use, looks good, performs good' and Julie from Llanelli says of him 'good looks'!

"One anonymous comment says he certainly 'heats up very quickly' but also it's 'not easy to line up pointer'."



"He's doing much better than his buck-toothed friend the Hotpoint BS43" - Jon.

Gadgets with FACES #102: A transparent cassette tape

Not a boring old cassette tape, but a fancy and exotic transparent plastic one! Sent in by a "Wayne" who only offered "Robots have faces" as his accompanying text.



If you're old enough to remember the awesome excitement of transparent plastic tapes coming out, you're too old to be sat there with nothing better to do than read this.

Gadgets with FACES #101: A series of industrial plugs on a pedestrianised walkway in London

Back down to earth with a staggeringly mundane piece of gonzo face-spotting on the streets of the capital. You could've at least tried to get a bit of background life in the shot, Elliot. You know what we mean. Shoes. The shoes of business ladies or the tatty sandals of tourists.



"Found this on London's South Bank. Bad blue teeth. Cheers" - Elliot.

GIRL READER has idea for Gadgets with FACES #100: A Boynq Cubite PC Speaker SLASH USB hub

It's not that good a face, but let's do that patronising thing where we pretend something a girl's noticed is really good and interesting as it might lead to something else.

She's also foolishly given away her name and a vague estimation of where she lives, so what better way is there to celebrate GWF#100 than also celebrating a rocketing female readership and being able to imagine finding out where one of them lives?



IMAGINE A GIRL TYPING THE FOLLOWING:
"I'm your third (or second, is it now?) female reader. Congratulations! I found this cheeky little fellow on iwantoneofthose.com - after clicking through from your site. How pleasingly circular! He's a device called a Cubite and I've already forgotten what he does. Can't even read the buttons at this resolution. Hang on. Ah yes. Apparently he's 'the first computer speaker with an integrated USB hub'. At last that cubical space in my life is filled. None of his four mouths (or perhaps his single dotted-line mouth _ _ _ _) seem very happy about it though. Is this number 100? Do I get a prize?" - x Katy, Kentish Town.



Here's a lifestyle photograph of it on holiday in a posh hotel room, that looks like it might be in Hong Kong. The USB stick looks like a sex aid it's just been caught using because it thought you weren't coming back for a few hours.

Gadgets with FACES #99: An Argos Halogen Heater

For one initial cost of £12.99 you can have an Argos Halogen Heater with a face on the back of it, plus ongoing electricity costs of £30 an hour to run the thing. This update also doubles as a review of the camera quality of the Nokia N95 8GB, which has produced the following 1944 x 2592 image despite being half broken.



"This evening, as I was getting increasingly miserable about my lost youth whilst my sister described to me, in painful detail, via Skype, just how much fun she was having at university, I noticed out of the corner of my eye that the BACK OF MY £12.99 ARGOS HALOGEN HEATER WAS LOOKING AT ME AND SNEERING CONTEMPTUOUSLY."

THE EMAIL CONTINUED
"Being a diligent Idiot Toys reader, I immediately reached for my broken Nokia N95 8G that I found in the mud at a music festival and doesn't work as a telephone but does (barely) work as a camera, and snapped a picture whilst it still gazed at me with its sneering, hoity-toity face."

AND...
"As you can see, it is looking down its nose at us, non 1200-Watt humans, with so much contempt it has even grown a little, taunting white Hitler moustache. It reminds me a bit of John Waters, the film director."

AND...
"Please accept this image as thanks for the link you provided to my blog, www.anewbandaday.com, on 'sister blog' UK:R ages ago. If it'll 'sweeten the deal' to get the picture on Idiot Toys I can get my girlfriend to press her boobs against it and then I'll take another picture. Not that I'm desperate. But they are big boobs. Love Loe" - Joe.

Gadgets with FACES #98: The Nokia 7310 Supernova DIY "Build" mobile

This is technically a Gadget with a FACE on the BACK, but we'll just throw it in with the rest so we can break the psychological 100 barrier next week.



He ought to be a bit happier than that, the ungrateful little shit. Most gadgets don't get attractive ladies lasered onto their foreheads.



And what the HELL is going on in that hideous background picture? Is that what Nokia is suggesting we all look like?

Gadgets with FACES#94: A bit of the Large Hadron Collider

The purpose of the LHC revealed - it's beaming trillions of gadget faces around in a big circle. The core of the machine seems to be constructed entirely of faces - there are at least seven clearly visible pairs of eyes.

Congratulations, science!



"I went to a thing about CERN's Large Hadron Collider yesterday (because I really know how to treat a woman), and therein I saw this cross-section of the main dipole. It clearly has a face, and even a moustache plaque. Imagine that friendly face guiding protons around a 27km ring at 0.9999999 times the speed of light! Also, had I realised it was so reflective I would have been naked, like in the hilarious early days of the internet" - James.

Gadgets with FACES #93: A chuckling defibrillator

This happy little chap may well be the last thing you ever see, as you slip away from the world while a hungover crash team tries to make your clogged-up heart start working again.



Funereal black would've been a more considerate choice of colour.

Gadgets with FACES #92: An array of safety equipment in Amsterdam

The eyebrows suggest this face was created on purpose by a mischievous installation technician HELL BENT on subverting the system. Eyebrows virtually never occur on gadgets naturally.

If you move away from the monitor it looks like it's got elephant ears.



"Here's a picture of appalling quality taken on my phone. I'm not sure what the portrayed mechanism is supposed to do but my guess is that it is for guarding the door and freaking out the customers at a post office in Amsterdam, where I took this picture. Next time I go there I'll try and remember to bring my real camera" - Paul.

Gadgets with FACES #91: A TV van

Evil TV van gazes menacingly down on man, in what is clearly some sort of metaphor for the evils of TV-based society. If you want anything funnier than that, email the picture to Charlie Brooker.



"TV uplink bus (everybody wants one) with delightfully sinister face. Sorry for the wankers in the frame but security was tight and the Force was watching us" - Mark and Franck.

Gadgets with FACES #90: A Loyola analogue water heater

Another superb GWF submission from a glamorous foreign country augmented by additional background information.



"It's a kettle, in Hong Kong. Not very exotic, I know, but 'Loyola' does look rather happy."



"Possibly it's because she lives in a bar, rather than a bedsit with some sleeping pills like the most recent gadgets with faces that you have. Or maybe it's those strange green plastic beads on a stick, that she enjoys inserting into some orifice or other. What do I know?" - James.



"PS: Since cameras are technology, and you like technology, here's a photo I took at Hong Kong Stadium on Saturday of some photographers, one of whom is apparently taking a dump without remembering to lower his trousers first. Silly photographer!"

Gadgets with FACES #89: A Tivoli Audio Model Three AM/FM clock radio

A gadget with a face AND reader-generated lifestyle photography AND some facts being put straight. Plus a technical demonstration of the T-Mobile G1's camera. This update works on so many levels.



"That Sennheiser clock-radio is, I'm afraid, a cheap knock-off of the Tivoli Series 3 clock-radio, which actually has a sad, mopey face even without turning it upside-down. I bring this to your attention so that people will know that there is a clock-radio that is a Serious Piece of Engineering that I paid too much money for, and that everyone who likes the cheap Taiwanese imitation ought to feel shamefully used. First thing in the morning. When they're not even fully awake yet.

"Here are some 'in the wild' photos of the Tivoli Series 3, for that extra gritty verisimilitude..."



"In the first one you can see a phone-charging cable, a copy of the New Yorker, a bottle of over-the-counter sleeping pills, and a dingy lamp."



"The second is taken from a bit closer, to show the sadness and anxiety. Sadness due to the reading material and sordid uncleanliness, anxiety because you can't even off yourself with those pills. The photos were taken with a cell-phone camera, but it's a G1 Google-phone, so maybe that will bring in a few readers, to see what a crap camera they've stuck on the G1" - RobotSlave.

Gadgets with FACES #88: A Kenwood Prodino

Fully compartmentalised and removable nose. Eyes behind bars.



It's not a very good one, but it's quite entertaining if you stare at it for a while.

Gadgets with FACES #87: A Thermaltake DH102 HTPC

HTPC stands for Home Theatre PC. The idea is that you buy a small PC to put by your TV and watch downloaded films on it, leaving your main PC free for your girlfriend to install viruses on while you're watching a 720p rip of Apocalypse Now Redux.



The eyes are fans. The blue thing is its hand. It can reach around and turn itself off after a user-defined period of inactivity. A man called "Neil" found this here.

Gadgets with FACES #86: Some science thing

Gadgets with FACES isn't as good now we've come to expect bodies and arms. This one does at least seem to have a neck, plus a look of visible distress.



"On a recent trip to the Science Museum I spotted this little fella in the 'Docks and Diving' section. I've attached a pic of the info which explains what he is, something to do with radars and maps or some other nautical shit like that."



"I think he looks a bit like a Disney character. Perhaps from a sequel to Beauty and the Beast that was set on a boat. Do I win a prize for oldest and most educational gadget with a face? - Tom."

DOES TOM WIN A PRIZE?
Tom wins a prize for not realising we never give out prizes.

Gadgets with FACES #85: A Tenda Wireless-N Broadband Router

Dancing robot gadget. With arms. In the air. Like it JUST DON'T CARE.



It is a Tenda Wireless-N Broadband Router. You can buy it on the internet here. It was spotted by one of our numerous readers called "Chris" who is presumably in the market for a new router. If you have one to recommend, please do so in the comments section. We're sure he would appreciate it.



A perfect and rare full-bodied gadget. The only thing it's missing is genitalia, although perhaps that's what the buttons on the side are?

Gadgets with FACES #82: A drunk motorbike tramp

This used to be a really fashionable scooter in the 1960s. Then a messy divorce cost it its garage and it was left to rust on the streets.



It will wank you off in exchange for a bit of sandpaper.

Gadgets with FACES #81: A rocket about to eat space tourist Richard Garriott

Careful, Richard! It's a trap!



He's awfully rich for a man who invented a game in the early 1980s. You never see David Crane poncing about up in space in return for £15m.

Gadgets with FACES #80: An upside down Labtec speaker

OK, this one plugs in. Men buy it from Currys and lie to their girlfriends about how much it cost. It goes near your computer. It has a little LED on it to say when it's on. It is definitely a gadget, you can see the wires and everything.



"I thought you might like this. I didn't notice until I was doing a head stand on my desk. He looks like he might be trying to say something but his cord was pulled and now there is the realisation that he can go no further" - Matt.

Gadgets with FACES #79: The Pandora

This is Pandora. Or a Pandora. It is OK to objectify objects. It's people and especially women that don't like it. Must try to remember that.



"It's some new Linux thing called Pandora that looks like a DS and seems surprised to find itself sitting next to a floppy disk. Pandora might be a crap name, but with SafeSearch off it makes for a fairly pleasurable Google Image Search" - Harry.

Gadgets with FACES #78: A SUNVIC TLM thermostat

Wonky eyes, funny hair, but a TEXTBOOK happy mouth. We're a bit backed-up with Gadgets with FACES photos, so today is going to be Gadgets with FACES day. If you have a problem with that, just be glad it's not batteries.



Sent in by a "Lee" who says it hangs about outside his office trying to look down the top of the receptionist while all the cool blokes stand around smoking cigarettes. It often deliberately turns up the temperature to make everyone sweat, too.

Gadgets with FACES #77: A Fujifilm 3D camera

It's a miserable looking little shit, considering she's preparing to kiss its bottom.



Perhaps it is sad because it has only just noticed her wedding ring, and it's been buying her bloody drinks - really expensive cocktails, too - all evening.

Gadgets with FACES #76: A terrified hand cleaning machine

You'd be screaming too if you had pissy fingers going in your mouth all day AND you were stuck on the wall next to the sanitary towel bin.



"Here's a hand washer/dryer screaming in silent agony in a public loo in Wiltshire. Who can blame him, obviously Dorset would be nicer" - Giles.

Gadgets with FACES #75: A radio/cassette player from a 1970s car

Sir Rich steps up to RUIN web site #2, with his second submission to the UKR/Idiot Toys banality consortium this year.



"It'd be difficult to express in words the deep sense of shame I felt after those pictures of my fucking hens appeared on UK:R. What seemed like innocent fun that afternoon swiftly became oh-god-what-have-I-done on seeing them again. Still, I'm sure that shame would be nothing compared to the profound worthlessness I would feel were you to ever use this gadget with face. I found it on... dear god... one of the special features on a Doctor Who DVD. A clip from Blue Peter of Jon Pertwee showing off the very lame indeed Whomobile.

"As you can see, it's a very sassy seventies tapedeck. Please note the terrible picture quality, I just took a picture of the telly. Yours, hitting send before I realise what a bad idea this is, Rich."

Gadgets with FACES #74: Some sort of light-based communication device

Reader "Neil" discovered this. He found it on a web site that sells special equipment for people with special needs. There is nothing funny about that. Neil is probably a DJ, and found this while searching for a portable lighting solution.



"There's a bit of '1930s animation' in the eyes I think. You know, like this. Cheers" - Neil.

Gadgets with FACES #73: An Emerson IP500BK

We are cheating by using an iPod dock.



Angry 1950s grandma?

Gadgets with FACES #72: A plug adaptor taking it in all available holes

Also an entry in the occasional series "Gadgets which look like they're having sex."



"Thought you might like this. It's an electric socket adaptor with plugs in it, and the result looks like some kind of bird that having a really good time. Cheers, Frederik."

Gadgets with FACES #71: Yet another car dashboard

Just make sure you're all paying attention to the road. We could do without being implicated in a series of bizarre road deaths. You can only get associated with a series of bizarre deaths so many times before one of them sticks.



"I think this one speaks for itself. The eyes can be moved the tongue can be pushed inside the mouth and the nose can flash red. Not to mention that in the dark its cheeks glow rosy red."

Gadgets with FACES #70: Something to do with electricity generation

Hopefully we have at least one reader who works/worked for a major electricity utility company and can explain what this robotic device is and does.

We'd particularly like to know what feature lies behind its nose - a feature so DEADLY it has to be locked away.



"...now evolving rudimentary legs. It's some kind of generator guardian, I think. As I took the photo it asked if I knew Sarah Connor. I'm fairly certain its hollow eyes can see into your mind. Its flimsy wooden prison won't contain it for long. Love from Willbot."

Gadgets with FACES #69: Sony Xross fade DJ thing for pretend DJs

Has two faces.



Shy speaker (left) and an extremely well defined dog on the right. It just loves having its nose twiddled while you switch from a Chemical Brothers track to that famous one by Groove Armada while balancing your heaphones on one ear. In your own lounge. To an audience consisting entirely of your chair-bound nan, who isn't entirely sure what big beat even is.

Gadgets with FACES #68: A Ferrania Zeta Duplex

The poor thing's off its head on illegal prescription medication it had delivered from Mexico in a discreet, brown envelope. Brilliant face. Should definitely be filed in the "On Purpose" sub-category, mind - no way is this one an accident.



"Quite possibly the happiest camera ever. Maybe even the happiest, old, low tech gadget ever" - Clay.

Gadgets with FACES #67: A fully erect water cooler

The photographer has augmented the water cooler by meddling with the cups. Hopefully he avoided disciplinary action. This could be considered sexual harassment in some places.



"Look at this cheeky little chappy! He's a water cooler where I work. The different coloured eyes are I think due to him winking suggestively whilst he proudly displays whatever that is hanging out the front. Notice how he has positioned himself next to the other drinks machines where people are lured to queue for hours filling endless trays with little plastic cups of coffee-substitute. I will admit that he doesn't look very happy.

"Oh, camera was a Panasonic DMC-TZ3 MEGA O.I.S 28mm WIDE stolen from a colleague's bag and hurriedly smuggled upstairs" - Morgan.

Gadgets with FACES #66: The Venmill Skip-Away Pro

We found this. No one sent it in. We did the groundwork personally, just like in the old days. It's the Venmill Skip-Away Pro, a disc repair machine that apparently has the power to magically recreate bits of plastic you've long since scraped off on your coffee table.



Slightly dog-like, reminiscent of a 14-year-old labrador that's gone extremely fat and jowly, and can barely lift its head up off the floor. It even has a little silvery beard. Poor thing. Dad ought to end its suffering with a shovel.



This is the official explanation of the the Skip-Away's facial features.



This is the TRUTH.

Gadgets with FACES #65: A cassette-based MP3 player

Eyes, eyebrows, glasses, small and thin moustache, plus it's spitting out an SD card in disgust at the awful collection of 90s rock you're asking it to tolerate.



Let's all join together and tilt our heads slightly to the left.

Gadgets with FACES #64: A sad orange juice machine in Barcelona

Could also pass for an elephant. Would anyone be interested in a series of increasingly-poor updates under the heading Things Which Look Like Elephants?



"You can find attached an image of a sad orange juice machine in Barcelona. He is there every day, even the weekends, sixteen hours a day, serving people good vitamin C but nobody even cares to say thanks. And they have put him a silly hat like Carmen Miranda...

"I read the poll news, I also vote (once). I have to say that I disagree with the discontinue of the gadgets with faces section. But, that's only my opinion. Enyway(tm), I had this photograph some time, but I wanted to re-take it since it's a little shaken. If you are interested, I can go and shoot a few more, using tripod and maybe some friends to talk to him... saludos, Stelios."

"PS: English is not my native language, so forgive any mistakes."

"PS2: Once in Spanish means eleven :)"

Gadgets with FACES #61: The A/C MANIFOLD GAUGE SET

Found on Harbor Freight Tools, which is sitting on a bit of a goldmine when it comes to faces.



"It's the MS Word Paperclip's wacky cousin!" - Arthur.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS FROM HARBOR FREIGHT

The MD's wife modelling a hat

Caravan socks

Pneumatic blasters with FACES

Gadgets with FACES #60: A Belkin GoStudio

Has eyes, ears, possibly even headphones, a funny round mouth and you could possibly even mistake those LEDs for a moustache, if you've still got last night's residue pumping through your veins.



Would appear to be wearing sunglasses on top of its head, though. The little tosser.

Gadgets with FACES #59: Another cheap vacuum cleaner

Quite similar to the Woolworths one, but not precisely the same. We even went so far as to check. Probably pumped out of the same Taiwanese factory by the same child workforce, mind.



"Here's something you've probably already covered, but it's too good to not email. Just look at his happy face and his lovely beard! If your teenage daughter met him on the internet, you'd have no option but to approve. Apologies for the lack of norks and batteries - Harold."

Gadgets with FACES #58: A Henry vacuum cleaner

A reader sent in a joke.



"I was thinking of buying a vacuum cleaner, and was looking about and if I'm not mistaken, I can clearly make out a face on the front of this 'Henry' model from Numatic. It appears to be some sort of elephant in a top hat with red skin. The hose of the cleaner forms a trunk-like 'nose'. I don't know if it's deliberate. Maybe you could feature it on the pages of your fine website/blog whatever it's called. It looks cheerful enough - Jody."

Gadgets with FACES #56: A power strip

Power strip? Or sick, enforced labour camp, where innocent young pluglings are forced to stand in line all day with their mouths open, ready to be violated?



"Here's a picture of a gadget with lots of little faces, all shocked that she's left one of his DVDs out on the table rather than putting it back in its protective case, again - Pete."

Gadgets with FACES #55: A bit of the Phoenix Mars rover!

NASA has sent a gadget with a face to MARS! It's the beginning of another tiresome conspiracy theory.



"I found this delightful creature on the personal site of Brian May from the super-group Queen. It's the scanner bit from the Phoenix lander. Look at its lovely little smile. As Bri himself points out, it even has eyelashes! The Lander scanner bit, not Brian, he is a rather sour faced chap.

"I was lead to his Soap Box section on his site by a mocking article in The Guardian. It's a great read. Lots of Badger stories, the cosmos, and masses of self importance. I love some of Queen's tunes, but May seems like a tool. Have a look at his Soap Box, it has an air of "Fake Steve Jobs" about it, except Bri is for real. Oh, I forgot, I should address him as Brian May, CBE. Any witty ideas for the CBE bit? - Brendan."

Gadgets with FACES #54: A whatever a Kenro Studio 500 is

This is a Kenro Studio 500. We have no idea what it is, and we're not going to Google it just to add a layer of suspense. If we had to guess... some sort of horizontal kettle. Although that makes no sense.



"Forgive my sloppy timing as you guys seem completely over gadgets with faces, but this one was too hard to resist. Gadgets with faces combined with over the top (shit) photography studio lighting? This is a Kenro Studio 300, comes with stuff and everything. I find the teeth especially terrifying, and the vacant eyes are the eyes of a cold blooded killer - Paul."

Gadgets with FACES #53: A really quite shocked alarm clock

Another gadget capable of displaying more facial animation and emotion than many top Hollywood actors. Emotion #217: "A third wank over Penny Smith's tights and shoes?! But he's got work today!"



"I think I may have startled/disgusted/saddened my clock by wanking a bit too close to it in my bathroom, it's been the same since. Nothing funny to add - Matt."

Gadgets with FACES #52: A cheerful little Roland RE-20

You have to look for it, but it's there, nestling away in the centre. RE, by the way, is simply lazy product naming from Roland. The Roland Echo. The RE. No doubt it's the 20th redesign, or it has 20 effects settings. Sloppy.



"There is a cute little glowing face in between the two stompy bits. I MAY have something involving duct tape Sonic art coming your way soon - hope you can hold out... Z."

Gadgets with FACES #51: A very happy little Suzuki

We can't do cars too often, as every car in the damn world has a face of some sorts. So we'll only do exceptionally happy or sad cars. That's the rule. Disobey this rule and NOTHING will HAPPEN.



"Today I was on holiday in Sendai, Japan and found this car. I instantly thought of Gadgets With Faces, though maybe it's a bit of a stretch to call a car a gadget? - Colin."

Gadgets with FACES #50: A wonky-toothed new radio

This is also an entrant in Reader's Desks, Reader's Workmates, Reader's Work Telephones, Reader's Pencil Sharpeners and Reader's Office Mouse.



"I see your Gadget with Faces #37, the Wonky Toothed Old Radio, and raise you a wonky toothed new radio - Paul."

Gadgets with FACES #50: A Mercedes Benz iPod dock

Evil alien lurks beneath unassuming leather arm rest. One of the better-formed noses we've seen. Has the obligatory Hitler moustache.



Case sides could *possibly* be seen as arms. The more you look, the more you see.

Gadgets with FACES #49: An electric doorbell

Eating batteries. Has a Hitler moustache. All GWFs seem to have Hitler moustaches, no doubt because most decent modern technology is based on Nazi war innovations.



The first working electric remote controlled doorbell, for example, was installed on the gas chambers of Buchenwald in 1942.

Gadgets with FACES #48: A quad bike

There'll be a battery in it to power the headlights, so it's IN.



"I saw this recently when I was in Lundy (you know, the place Londoners go to 'get away from it all' before realising there's fuck all there). Anyway, seeing as 'Gadgets with faces' seems to be stretching the word 'gadget' quite far these days, I though you might like this. And I bought one of your t-shirts the other day so you have to put it on the site. It's a quad bike with a face. But no lifestyle photography seeing as the words 'lifestyle' and 'Lundy' probably don't mix. Cheers - Geoff."

Gadgets with FACES #47: The Nyko PS3 Media Hub

Calling this a "Media Hub" is slightly overselling it. Small, tatty, rubbish-looking memory card adaptor bought in bulk for 15p a unit from a Chinese wholesaler would be more appropriate, although slightly tougher to fit on the box.



Make your PlayStation3 even more useful than it already is. The addition of a Nyko Media Hub will take PS3 from "universally useless" to merely "incredibly useless."

Gadgets with FACES #46: All aboard the Happy Train!

This is the night mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and cheerfully guzzling up suicidal Welsh teenagers. It is presumably running on electrified rails, therefore "counts."



"I found this some minutes ago while looking through my RSS feeds. It's a train with a face! Definitely puts Thomas the Tank Engine to shame - Marko."

Gadgets with FACES #45: A train station defibrillator

At what point did this country become such a shit-hole that train stations need defibrillators on the platforms, just in case some fat fuck guzzles down his tenth packet of crisps of the day and goes into cardiac arrest while waiting for the 09.17?



At least they had the sense to give it a sort of friendly doctor face.

Gadgets with FACES and LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

THING CLASH! THING CLASH! Thanks, as ever, to Sony Ericsson for blowing the budget on photos no one apart from us ever uses. Although perhaps this set might feature on the front cover of Future Publishing's 'Total Car Mobile Stand Magazine'.



THE BACKSTORY: The man is happy to see the woman coming back. The woman is happy to see the man waiting for her. The car dashboard is smiling because it knows the man will be touching its gear stick/penis very soon.



The relationship has soured. The man is angry. The woman feels her window cleaning advice is being ignored. The car dashboard, however, is happy, because it knows the man will be touching its gear stick/penis as soon as he's finished cleaning the window.



Car dashboards have the BEST faces.

Gadgets with FACES #44: The SONIC IMPACT 5020 I-P9 PORTABLE IPOD(R) SPEAKERS (PINK)

Too much money for a rubbish thing for idiots.



Gay robot bear. Mouth too small to even do gay stuff properly. Literally useless. Sent in by "James" who we can only assume was doing some trouserless gay robot bear internet cruising.

Gadgets with FACES #43: An £18 Woolworths vacuum cleaner

WARNING: Too many photos were taken during the production of this update.



"My vacuum broke a couple of days ago so I went to Woolworths today to pick up a new one from their 'Worth It exclamation mark' range."



"Suffice to say, it was the worst hoover I've ever used with very little suction power and had a body with weaker plastic than a kinder egg capsule."



"Despite this, it had multiple faces so I was quite pleased as the main one was a cheery fella."



"I thought I'd add some images to your collection (I apologise for the quality and the state of my carpet - the hoover couldn't pick up anything)."



"The cat is looking particularly pleased as he had just pissed up the wall.



"Rather than try to come up with witty remarks about the images, I'll just provide images of the cleaner on its own and with random crap (and a cat) which I found lying around for size comparison."



"Product link if interested - Julian."



Thanks, Julian. Thanks for being brave enough to show us your carpet.



That looks like a Star Trek tricorder.



You shouldn't scrimp on costs when it comes to biscuits, Julian. McVities really does know its stuff. And hydrogenated vegetable fat is probably just a fuss that will blow over and soon not be linked with heart diseases.



Two things we like in one photo! See? It was worth scrolling down this far.



Sorry about all this. We just felt it was important to use all of his photographs. It's not often someone goes to such lengths.

Gadgets with FACES #42: A complimentary 3M tape dispenser

It's Bilal again! The man who put all the effort into that one about the alarm with numerous faces. He's done it again. Bilal's ace. He definitely should get a blog of his own, then we'd be submitting things to him hoping to get noticed. This relationship is upside-down. The trousers we're wearing right now have Bilal's name written on the label.

He even did a video involving (a) props, (b) editing and (c) sound effects. This is the Idiot Toys update of the year, even though it's by someone else and only June :(

THE OPENING PREAMBLE:
"The lovely people at 3M (or maybe Office Depot or even Viking Direct) decided to give away a tape gun thing when you buy a multipack of brown tape off them. Not only is the tape gun actually functional, it also looks very much like a dinosaur. Understandably, this email could be misconstrued as a lame attempt at riding on the wave of the rather wonderful torrent of Dreamcast rumble pack dinosaur pictures featured a little while back, but who knows?"

"And who cares? A bunch of twats, that's who. Besides, the similarities are clear for all to behold. Anyway, on to the pictures:"



"The top head bit is chopped off, but that only serves to emphasise the positively MONSTROUS proportions afforded by holding the camera really close to the object you're trying to photograph. Look at all those teeth! He's currently nameless by the way, so any contributions are welcome. The background is the paper insert from Sega Superstars Tennis on the PS3. Also, I think that's my left sideburn reflected in the glass."



"What's this? A ladyfriend? Wow, isn't she sexy? Notice how the bow helps to accentuate her already innumerable feminine features. Her past is rather cloudy, save for a few tales of sordid and violently adhesive sexual encounters with staplers and the other unsavoury characters that frequent the stationary drawer. I've decided to call her Wouldn't."



"Aren't they a lovely couple? We all knew he wouldn't be able to resist for long, but what will he do when he inevitably discovers her deep, dark, not-so-secret secrets? I can't bear to imagine... Oh, and after much deliberation, White Hand/Brown Hand shall now be a recurring theme (where humanly possible), so keep an eye out."



"And as a special bonus, here's a video of our as-yet unnamed beast strutting his stuff. The video was actually made specially for Idiot Toys and all the gits who read it, although I'm starting to wonder whether or not that was a good idea, unless you've figured out how to embed videos properly by now - Bilal."

Gadgets with FACES #41: A Hookah charcoal heater

It is a charcoal heater. From here. And to think, all this time we've been leaving our charcoal outside in the cold.



"A Hookah. No, not a hooker. When did you ever look at the face of a hooker? Bless it, looks quite unconcerned with all the health risks you'll be taking. Luv from NMN."



No wonder it looks so worried in the top pic - it knew a poke in the eye was on the way.

Gadgets with FACES #40: The Newman COOL MAN

It's an MP3 player with red hair, a very well defined mouth and extremely fashionable futuristic sunglasses.



A winning smile!



Here he is doing a bit of surfing in the "lifestyle" shoot.

Gadgets with FACES #39: A watch

It's an ironic watch. An ironic watch with a design like something from the past. You could put this on a t-shirt and wear it to a fashionable London bar and call yourself Matt Ironic.



People in the bar would say "Hey, Matt! Cool ironic t-shirt! Oh, and how are you finding your new MacBook Air?" Then, three hours later, a group of three 15-years-olds would say "Give us your fucking bag" and steal the MacBook Air, then swap it at Computer Exchange for a PS3 and 20 games after laughing at all your emails and photos.

Something like that.

Gadgets with FACES #38: A meth-addled and homeless tramp masquerading as a Hello Kitty sewing machine

We should introduce a sub-category of gadgets with faces, separating "accidental" faces from purposeful faces like this. But won't.



Utterly terrifying. Imagine this hiding in the darkened corner of a nine-year-old girl's bedroom. She'd grow up wrong and twitchy.

Gadgets with FACES Special Furniture Edition: A couple of happy chairs

Now this is crossing a line. Chairs are not gadgets and there are plenty of other sites out there dedicated to finding faces in odd places.

But still. It's an awesome photo and it would appear to be ours on an exclusive basis so we'd be MAD to turn it down, especially as we've already done taps.



Submitted by "courtster" with no explanation as to what he/she was doing hanging around in what is presumably a school.

Gadgets with FACES #35: A secondhand foot massager

An owl. With a Braille face. Also seems to have a smaller secondary face stuck to its forehead, no doubt to lure prey into its mouth.



"I came across this 2nd hand foot massager at a local Ca$h Converters. I mean, seriously, WTF? Who would want something that some old granny has been rubbing her corns and bunions on? Other than it's a gadget with a face - YAY! Sean (Liverpool)."

Gadgets with FACES #32: An Epson printer of some sort

"MY CHILDREN! IT'S EATING MY CHILDREN!"



Or it might be spitting them out. Or giving birth. It's an extremely gruesome scene, regardless.

Gadgets with FACES #31: The Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin

From a man who would appear to be called "possession."



Not sure what it is or does. And frankly, if something's not immediately obvious these days it's not going to get bothered with at all.

Gadgets with FACES #30: TAPS SPECIAL!

Photographs of two taps have arrived within the space of a week, both purporting to contain visible faces of some sort. You have to respect people that risk a beating by getting a camera out in a public toilet, so we have decided taps count as a gadget.



"Here is a gadget with not only a face, but a full body that I managed to capture mid-urination. Just look at the embarrassment on it's little face - willy1ka."



"Do taps count as gadgets? Starbucks toilets in the City Of London, just looking at me - Ruffley."



Taps count. We make the fucking rules here, and we say TAPS COUNT. We might be stepping on Dave Gorman's toes, but who cares? He's got book and telly royalties to keep him happy.

Gadgets with FACES #29: Another car dashboard

The car dashboard with a face update is a personal favourite. Here's another one.



"I've been noticing faces on every items surrounding me. My favourite has to be the well-featured inside of this car. It has ears, hairs and everything, making it the culminating point of the 'Gadgets with Faces' series. It cannot get any better, so please stop the feature right after. Use only bold characters when posting it.

"Unlike your other readers I won't pretend having a girlfriend and even if I did I would not pretend being embarrassed by taking pictures of a CD player. PS: Gadgets aside, I still voted "Increasingly explicit Asian pornography" to your poll and I urge everyone else to do so - Omar."

"The BEST GADGET WITH A FACE EVER"

That's some boast. It's also some email. You might want to skip the words and look at the photo at the bottom. That's the real meat of the update.

INITIAL PREAMBLE:
"I am emailing you again after the success of the last time when I sent you some Asian softcore pornography disguised as an advertisement for a shit MP3 player or something (I've forgotten and can't be arsed finding the link). Enclosed in this email are pictures of other things that are very close to all of our hearts - an old, dusty remote, the batteries contained within said old, dusty remote and the BEST GADGET WITH A FACE EVER (if I do say so myself)."



"As all seven readers of Idiot Toys can attest to, if you find a remote control - you need to rip off it's flimsy plastic cover to reveal it's innards. I can't remember if you've ever featured these "Maxell Super Hi-Watt" batteries before, but they ring a bell. Maybe they aren't very rare and I've just seen them in other stuff before. No matter! I took a picture anyway using macro mode combined with the light on my k750i, which is surprisingly good as a camera. These are in the highest resolution the k750i can muster: a mighty TWO megapixels. I left one battery "in situ". You can see one of my fingers and a thumb, but I'm not female so don't start wanking over them, please."



"I found the remote in the studio where I do a weekly radio show (I won't give you a link because nobody will care). I was stuck in the studio after my show had ended because the layabout student due to come in after me never fucking showed up, so I couldn't leave. I soon started going through the mountains of crap that are scattered around the studio and found the "TASCAM RC-RW700 REMOTE CONTROL UNIT". The remote is fairly uninteresting, but seems pretty old and dusty. We have no need for remote controls in radio studios as we just press the actual buttons on the CD players, therefore I doubt this has even been used! A mint condition TASCAM is a rare find indeed."



"Lastly is something I saw on Easter Sunday night, nestled in a model shop window. I stopped to take a picture of him while my girlfriend wondered what the fuck I was doing. I just mumbled something about 'Gadgets with Faces' as I didn't want her to find this website and it's mostly holding-related/battery obsessed pornographic content. It looks like he is in prison, and he may well deserve to be! He has a mohawk, so is obviously a hard bastard, and looks like he may have had his left eye gouged out in a fight over the prison bitch (The Swill Man, whom he buggered raw, so I've heard). Unfortunately I was in such a state of glee that I forgot to actually check what sort of gadget he actually is. If anybody wants to check (because I really can't be bothered) he's in the window of "Wonderland", a model shop on Lothian Road here in Edinburgh. Readers will know it because it is next door to two strip clubs. He seemed pretty dusty, so he's probably been there for a while and will be there for a while yet.

"Apologies if this isn't funny or my spelling and grammar is sub-par; I
am extremely tired.

"Lots of Love, Ric."

Gadgets with FACES #28: A particularly happy Dell optical mouse

They love it. They just love being flipped over.



"Today I was working away quite happily here in TomTom Amsterdam (cheap pop), when my mouse flipped over, all on its own. At first I thought nothing of this freak incident, until I looked down and saw this great face staring back at me. It's almost like a clown! Just look at the red shiny nose. Anyway, I thought you might be interested. I shall keep you posted with any more Dutch findings. If you're interested. it is some kind of "Dell" mouse. Came with my laptop. I know no further details - Steven."

Gadgets with FACES #27: A Hinari Lifestyle kettle

Reader's brother's tea-making facilities exposed! Sadly, now we've mentioned "Hinari Lifestyle" on the site, the standard of reader is going to plummet.



"The other day I spotted this cheeky little Hinari Lifestyle kettle at my brother's house. Not only is he poking his tongue out but also has an illuminated Hitler-style comedy moustache - Gary."

Gadgets with FACES #26: The hilarious Whirlpool "LOLTUB"

We are proud to announce the launch of the next big internet trend. It is the "LOLTUB" - a bath with a face. This will be so popular it's going to get on the news.



"Werd up. While researching bathtubs for people with special needs for an upcoming niche movie project, I came across this. It's quite smiley. Here's a version with some Photoshopping to really drive the message home. See how it's smiling? We can only hope the stars of Goldentards 4 will share the tub's glee - Stefan."



Literally hilarious. This one is going to go global. If the site goes down today, it's due to the influx of youths pissing themselves with laughter and all the comments being left by news organisations requesting interviews.

Gadgets with FACES #25: Fat Philips portable CD player

It's the fat kid. The one with the lazy eye. The one it's OK to bully because everyone does it and he'll never amount to anything so will never be in a position to exact a terrible revenge 25 years later.



Beano character?

Gadgets with FACES #24: Radio Beach Booster

Brilliant face. Has ears, eyes, hair, a moustache, a wide choice of mouths and even tiny little feet.



Best of all, it was just sitting there on Amazon. The CD player/speaker section is a goldmine of face action.

Gadgets with FACES #22: Tefal Avanti Speed Toaster

Submitted by a reader who works in the toast-making industry.



Say hello to Toasty McPiggywinkle, everyone!

Gadgets with FACES #21: The Mega Drive II

The bloody Mega Drive II only went and had a bloody face.



Not a patch on the original design. Perhaps it knows, which is why it looks so miserable. And fat from the comfort binge eating. Sent in by "Dave W from Tunstall" who says it looks like an angry gorilla.

Dave also apologised for the image quality - a disclaimer that features on just about every email we get these days.

Gadgets with FACES #20: Pagani stereo (male and female)

Gadgets with faces DOING IT! The one below even looks a bit sad and uncomfortable with the situation, just like in all the best porn.



"The male lies on top, furiously extending its optical lead into the unshielded receptor on the rear end of the female - David Attenborough."

Gadgets with FACES #19: A very sad little orange car

Its little headlight washers are squirting out sticky washing-up liquid tears. You'd think the designers would've noticed. Who wants a car that looks like Thom Yorke?



"Not strictly a gadget, But boy does it have a face. Wonder why it looks so sad, though? Maybe because it costs over 100k and no one NO ONE will ever buy one? - Ian F."