Those who know me know I'm not averse to using the word "stupid" when "stupid" is due. I do try to restrain myself when it comes to "stupidest blank ever" because truly, that's a phrase one can only use once and have it be technically correct. Well, retrieve the double keys for the double locks, remove the plutonium rods and dump the heavy water, release the hounds with bees in their mouths, the time has come. The solar-powered rainbow maker is genuinely the stupidest gadget ever.
This depressing piece of crap sports a clunky round motor which hangs above a pretty little Swarovski heart like the sword of Damocles after a month of cleaning chip vats by drinking the gunge. The motor is powered by an equally clunky chunk of solar panel. The power from the solar panel makes the motor make the heart do a little shimmy like Salome asking for more head. One, prisms on strings tend to move gracefully in the breeze by themselves, and give the illusion of being near-invisibly suspended against a glowing landscape of beauty. Two, rainbows are delicate visions and putting MOTORS on delicate visions tends to destroy their mystery and make them into contemporary plasticized kitsch. I hate this gadget and everything it stands for. I am eating its young. $24. (P.S. John recommends you just steal one of your grandmother's crystal doorknobs for free.) [GT]
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Damn, am I glad to see someone else saying this! I've been thinking it ever since I first saw these hideous devices, but I was beginning to think I was the only person who thought so!
I actually own one of these and I have to say it is one of my favourite gadgets ever (mine is a hexagonal shaped crystal btw, not the heart shaped one, slightly less kitsch?). I agree that the gadget itself is not that pretty, but the rainbows it makes are truly beautiful, far from tacky. The crystal prism creates full spectrum chinks of light, which move majestically around the room, very relaxing. As far as I'm concerned, the end justifies the means, you're not really buying the rainbow-maker, so much as the rainbows. Our two kittens love to chase them too.
You have no sense of humour... :|