Clicker Stick

Wh at is it, Guru?

It’s a £20 product that’s so stupidly ingenious, it transcends idiocy and loops all the way back round to brilliance again, before finally exploding in a massive multi-hued fireball of dumbness.

No, really: what is it?

Right, so. You know how you’re always losing the remote controls for all those fancy devices in your living room, and how the housekeeping staff now refuse to explore the cavernous recesses beneath the sofa cushions after what they found last time? Just Guru? Oh. Anyway. This is basically a big stick onto which you glue all your remote controls. See, GaGu said it was genius.

Is th at it?

What more do you need? Bang all of your controls on here and you’ll never lose a single remote again. Unless, that is, you happen to lose the Clicker Stick, in which case you’ll have lost all of your remotes at once.

Any benefits?

Well, there’s a neat wire stand that you can sit your hexagonal remote-control chimera on top of, giving you one-handed access to the buttons, and a handle at the bottom so you can (Guru presumes) brandish the Clicker Sticker menacingly at home invaders. So no, not an awful lot.

Any iss ues?

GaGu’s cable remote isn’t going to work with it, for a start, given that it has the temerity to have a rounded back. And, as the creator so shamelessly admits on the Clicker Stick’s Kickstarter page, he initially came up with the idea after simply velcroing his controls to a chunk of wood. So if you really want a big, ugly remote rat king in your living room, there’s no reason to actually pay for it. Guru is charmed, as ever, by entrepreneurial enthusiasm, but that’s about it.