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Mark Frauenfelder at 2:06 pm Fri, Mar 14, 2008

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200803141402 These are toilet paper dispensers. You stick a roll of toilet paper through the back, and pull a few squares out the nozzle. They cost £12.99 each. Link (Via Random Good Stuff)

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  • Anonymous

    FYI: These cost around $20 HKD at local stores in HK, I have no idea whether this product is copyrighted or whatever, but 13 pounds’ just a tad expensive for my taste.

  • eih10dv65g

    For those asking about size:

    “Size: 33 x 16.5 x 11.5cm.”

    For inch people, that’d be 13 x 6.5 x 4.5. The tube is supposed to taper though, and I’m sure the measurement includes the cap. I’d say.. it would probably best fit a standard TP roll if you first used 1/4 to 1/2 of the roll from #1′s preferred stationary position.

  • Enochrewt

    I want one. But taking the toilet paper away from a fixed position in the bathroommeans I’d lose the tube somewhere, and end up s**t creek, so to speak.

  • neasneap

    thats really a cool idea.

  • Frank_in_Virginia

    Tubular

  • franko

    i’m dying to get a sense of scale for these. i wish they were sitting next to a standard roll of toilet paper. it reads like a whole roll fits inside the fat end of the tube, but if so, the paper coming out of the end looks too big.

  • Antinous

    The link gives dimensions. 33 x 16.5 x 11.5cm

  • noen

    Just by eyeballing it here I’d say the roll fits into the black cap. The rest is non functional.

  • Lone

    At those dimensions, if it was just in the cap what tissue they show coming out would be the extent of the roll…

  • Joyuna

    “You simply unvelcro the tail of the tube and slip in a loo roll (small ones fit the best), poke the end through the cap, and hey presto, you’ve got yourself a highly original and practical tissue dispenser”

    Sounds like it fits inside the actual tube part, in the thick end.

  • Takuan

    ASKFREEHERE IS A SPAMMER

  • pixblix

    Knowing my family, they’d probably pick up the one that says “toothpaste” and try to put it on their toothbrush. http://pixblix.com