Get Minted: October 2007 Archives

It's the ultimate gadget for those bingo-holics out there! If you can't get enough of it at your local bingo hall or on quality online bingo sites such as foxybingo.com then why not invite this little cheeky chappie into your home.

Yes the bingo caller will illuminate nights in!

The plastic prankster reads out the Bingo numbers, accompanied by his own cheeky catchphrases. You correspondingly mark them off on your Bingo card. As soon as one player has "Bingo!" press the Bingo button and your personal Bingo caller reads back the numbers for you to check.

Every now and again you come across an invention or a gadget and you worry about the inspiration behind it! While I'm sure the Sudoku toilet paper will be popular with college students and bored bachelors it's practicality in a family home for example is questionable!

Still I expect this one to do well. You simply Pull down the roll and start filling in the sudoku puzzles. It's obviously easy to play, just complete the grid so each row, each column and each 3 by 3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.

Okay so it's not very PC but for many swatting fly with a tennis racket is a dream innovation in pest control.

This electric bug swatter kills/electrocutes all flying insects such as mosquito's and flies just by waving the racket at them. Whenever a bug flies into your path, you just activate the power, take a swing, and the little flying creature is no more!

Advertised as easy to use, it's effective, good exercise and fun! (though not if you're the fly!) Resembling a small tennis racket you can take it anywhere you go such as camping, the BBQ, beach, and your fishing trip. No more chasing down flying insects, just zap them with the Electric Bug Zapper with a simple wave.

There's no truth in the rumour that the manufacturers are working on a human sized racket for when politicians come knocking on our doors around election time!

Advertised as the latest weapon in office warfare technology the USB Missile Launcher is flying off shelves across the land.

Why? Well this piece of amazing technology allows you to keep annoying work colleagues at a safe distance away.

To work the ICBM (Inter-Cubicle Ballistic Missile) plug it into any standard computer USB port. The control centre software allows you to control elevation. When you have the target locked in your sights, press FIRE and the computer launches a foam missile, complete with missile sound effects!

The missiles are launched by strong springs and have a range of about 3 meters, but as the missiles are made from foam, you are unlikely to do any damage.

A must for all office pranksters!