Thumbs Up on Big Brother

If you’re watching Big Brother this year, you might have seen the Alarm Clock task that the housemates had to undertake, where they had to search through a room full of alarm clocks for the ones that were ringing.

Thumbs Up were asked by the Big Brother production team to supply some of their novelty alarm clocks for this task and actually went to visit the Big Brother set to deliver them and get an insider’s view as to everything that was going on.

We were also asked to help out with a few other things, but we’ve been asked to keep these top secret for now! Although, the moment we’re allowed to tell you, we’ll make sure you get the full story!

Meanwhile - here are some of the awesome and original alarm clocks from Thumbs Up that vexed the Big Brother Housemates:

Pole Dancer Alarm Clock

Hotel Phone Alarm

Time Bomb Alarm

Win a USB Owl!

Our friends at Gamepage - a great site that features loads of essential reviews on the latest computer games, DVDs and other goodies are running a competition to win five Thumbs Up USB Owls!

Click here  to enter!

Cat Vs Mosquito!

One of our long-time supporters, Robert from Geekalerts sent us this picture of his cat admiring our RC Mosquito:

Thumbs Up visits ShinyShiny to show them how to fly RC Helicopters

Thumbs Up recently visited Shiny Shiny, one of our favourite tech news websites to give them the lowdown on flying RC helicopters.

Have a look at their feature here:

Black Bars at Cannes

We all love film here at Thumbs Up and pay close attention to things like the Cannes Film Festival, so we were delighted to see the official poster displaying something that looks very much like our Black Bar Sunglasses:

Puchi Puchi - the sound of bubbles popping

The Japanese have come up with yet another invention you didn’t know you needed until you heard about it: Puchi Puchi – the everlasting bubble wrap simulator.

Everyone loves popping bubble wrap and it’s a great way to relieve stress and tension, but the problem with it is that it runs out, and there’s not always a sheet to hand when you need it. But if you have a Puchi Puchi on your keyring or in your pocket, you can pop away to your heart’s content, safe in the knowledge it’ll never run out!

Why ‘Puchi Puchi’? Well, according to Japanese people, that’s the sound that bubbles make when they pop! Puchi Puchi feels just like the real thing and is tactile and satisfying to handle and pop. Each time you press one of the ‘bubbles’ it makes a realistic popping noise, but at random intervals this is replaced by a surprising and cute sound! There’s no need to be stressed out or tense when you’ve got your Puchi Puchi everlasting bubble wrap handy, simply pop away to relieve the tension!

Already a huge sales success in the Far East, Puchi Puchi looks set to be the next big craze over here too!

Watch Puchi Puchi in action!

Click here for more info.

Batman and Batgirl drop by to check out their merchandise

Although they usually operate under the cover of darkness, Batman and Batgirl decided to drop by Thumbs Up’s stand at Spring Fair to have a look at some of the new Batman licensed light-up t-shirts.Based on the classic Batman logo that was on t-shirts everywhere when the very first Tim Burton Batman movie came out, this new version glows and flashes to bring some much needed light to Gotham’s darkness.Thumbs Up will also be launching more new light-up t-shirt designs, but we can’t show you them yet! Keep an eye on this blog for a first look though.Batgirl also admired the original T-Qualizer graphic equaliser t-shirt that’s pictured and thought it would make a nice change from skin-tight pvc!

Aerobatic Avion

The Avion Easy Fly Future Tech BiPlane, to give it its full name, or just ‘Avion’ for short, is the most advanced indoor RC aircraft available and Thumbs Up is the first company to exclusively bring it to the UK marketplace.

Here at Thumbs Up, we’ve really been enjoying trying it out, and it really is an astonishing toy. It’s so light that if you balanced it on your fingers and closed your eyes, you could barely tell it was there.

Anyway, we wanted to share this video of it flying around the inside of a house with you:

 

 

T-Qualizer Biker

Just for fun, here’s a video of a biker wearing a Thumbs Up T-Qualizer shirt. Watch how it reacts to the engine sound!

T-Qualizers are available to buy from Play.com.

Gizmodo use a TV-B-Gone to misbehave at CES 2008

The team from Gizmodo recently visited the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 in Las Vegas. They were invited to look at new developments in gadgets and electronics, but decided take along some TV-B-Gones to have some fun with whilst they were there.

Here’s what they had to say about the event:

” CES has no shortage of displays. And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers to bring to the show, we pretty much couldn’t help ourselves. We shut off a TV. And then another. And then a wall of TVs. And we just couldn’t stop. (And Panasonic, you’re so lucky that 150-incher didn’t have an active IR port.) It was too much fun, but watching this video, we realize it probably made some people’s jobs harder, and I don’t agree with that (Especially Motorola). We’re sorry”

Click here to see a video they made which shows what they got up to.

The TV-B-Gone is a clever device that can switch off 99% of all televisions, or anything with an infra-red port and it’s one of the range of products that Thumbs Up supplies.

Find out more about the TV-B-Gone here.