"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."