Unitasker Wednesday: Spinney the wind-up hopping desk sculpture

Unitaskers usually at least take on one task, but this thing barely qualifies as a unitasker. I guess its “task” is hopping on your desk and entertaining you. If you are easily entertained this thing may capture your attention for hours, but if you are a normal grown adult you will probably grow tired of this desktop toy in about a minute.

You know all the high powered corporate big wigs haven’t arrived until they’ve scored their own personal Spinney. Yes, it may knock over something on your desk while hopping around, but it is so cool. Nothing says, “I’m a successful corporate power player.” like a wind-up hopping sculpture.

It reminds me of the tiny crawling robots in the 1984 Tom Selleck/Gene Simmons movie Runaway. Surely, Spinney isn’t programmed to kill. Or is it!?!

**Unitasker Wednesday posts humorously poke fun at the single-use items that seem to find their way into our homes.

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Posted by Matt on Aug 15, 2007 | Comments |

6 comments posted

  1. Posted by shawn - 08/15/2007

    the runaway factor is exactly why i bought one of these stupid things. oh how i love my clutter…

  2. Posted by JW - 08/15/2007

    I bet one’s amusement lasts longer than a minute if you combine one of these things with the family pet.

  3. Posted by jcat - 08/15/2007

    i have a taller version of this, purchased back in the days when i purchased such things. while decluttering recently i had it slated for departure, but my 2.5 year old nabbed it first. this is now a regular favorite toy of his; he loves winding the key and making the ‘daddy long legs dance’.
    so, yes…pet/toddler + wind-up-hopping-sculpture = unitasker with longevity.

  4. Posted by Sal - 08/16/2007

    Im not feeling it. I think you dropped the gun, dude.

  5. Posted by muckpond - 08/16/2007

    so, wait. you mock this thing as a unitasker, and then provide a link to an amazon purchasing page from which you will derive referral credit?

    the ironing is delicious.

  6. Posted by Pamela Daley - 08/19/2007

    I just bet that the folks who read this blog already know this: **Unitasker Wednesday posts humorously poke fun at the single-use items that seem to find their way into our homes.

    >^_^

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