We like to anthropomorphize the objects in our lives, assigning our tools and tech personalities of their own. But some just go ahead and do it for you. The gadgets you are about to see wear their hearts on their sleeves.
HAPPY: That wide-eyed innocence. “Everybody is going to want me,” thinks the Sony HDR-TD10e 3D camcorder. “I’m going to change the world.”
SAD: This morning, this moped’s wife left him for a Vespa. He’s not sure he has the will go on.
Photo: phatcontroller
HAPPY: Look at that soul-patch. Look at those slits for eyes. This coffee-maker is high as hell.
Photo: plindberg
SAD: The blank stare of resignation. The mascara made of ashes. The world’s saddest cigarette butt depository, St. John Street, Clerkenwell, England.
Photo: thompsonsimon
SAD: What horrors have you seen, smoke detector?
Photo: thentoff
HAPPY: Hello, little windshield-wiper fluid dispenser! Aren’t you just the cutest thing?
Photo: - luz -
SAD: Shock, as the newsbox realizes its face is made of poop.
Photo: primatage
HAPPY: That carefree, off-center grin. This is the Dennis Quaid of alarm clocks.
Photo: (c) Witthaya/Stockfresh
SAD: For every happy alarm clock, there is another that has known untellable sorrow.
Photo: shwe
SAD: Now is the bathtub of our discontent…
Photo: Edgar Sousa
HAPPY: Are you winking at me, you saucy little key tension adjustment knob on a Remington typewriter? Behave…
Photo: mpclemens
SAD: Are you sick, little lock? Say, “Ahh!”
Photo: phatcontroller
HAPPY: USB man thinks he’s so fresh with his flattop.
Photo: thentoff
SAD: “Who will play with me now?” asked the tape, alone, from the floorboard of a 1987 Buick LeSabre.
Photo: phatcontroller
HAPPY: Sony Ericsson camera phone is clearly manic depressive. Here you see a very high high before it spirals once again into darkness.
Photo: slideshow bob
SAD: You’d be frowning too if you were a Samsung watch-phone nobody bought.
HAPPY: Gets tremendous satisfaction from weighing things.
Photo: joakim
SAD: Doorbell/letterbox has the disposition (and eyebrows) of Bert from Sesame Street.
Photo: resiak
SAD: “I can perk up everyone, except myself,” laments the espresso machine.
Image curation by Attila Nagy
















The wiper fluid dispenser looks like Crazy Frog…
I cant believe you’ve let anyone other then Gary Cutlack do this…
235 and counting… http://idiottoys.com/2012/07/02/gadgets-with-faces-235-samsung-clx-8540nd-printer/
This is cosmic, having much nice giggles now.
As was I, but te windshield fluid dispenser is giving me the fear…
There’s, uh, two women.. fucking a polar bear
Hiccup
Don’t tell me these things. Not now man
I’m glad I’m not the only one who looks at the world like this
My favourite was the plug sockets in Canada. They always look so worried!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stickyfiddle/5092636265/in/set-72157625064601075
I can imagine walking around Canada and constantly feeling watched now
Canada eh? Almost made it..
My luggage scales: http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/308756_281349298542942_1054720743_n.jpg
Must be something wrong with me but the tape looks happy, like really happy… is my subconscious ignoring the emotional state of inanimate things around me?
I completely agree. Unfortunately I think its a sign of psychopathy when you cant recognise emotions, although to be fair its a bleeding tape!