we had one that looked like tweety bird.

shorty6049

Little known fact about cetaceans: If you drill a hole in their back and insert a water source, water will generally come streaming out of their mouths. If their mouth is held shut, however, it will come out of their blow hole.

The more you know!

Hijakk

Paper cups in bathrooms!?! what the...

I've never heard/seen such a thing.

unleashed

i just stick my head under the faucet, worked in my family for generations

Con Seannery

I had something like this for a very long time. It was awesome. :D

Now I wouldn't, but that's just because I live somewhere that has rather questionable tap water.

tyskkvinna

We had one of these a while ago too. It was in the bathroom and the only use it got was from my wife's cat. The damn thing had to have "fresh" water out of the tap. Leaving water out in a dish just wouldn't do. So of course you had to turn it on...wait...and turn it off when the cat was done.

I know this has nothing to do with tech or gadgets, but I'm glad I got that off my chest...oh, the cat is long dead.

xXxRHINOxXx

Mmmmm, tap water from a whale's orifice!

Seriously though, if you've seen it, just move on. no need to make a comment showing your omniscience because you knew about the 'whale spouter' or whatever it is, however long ago. Some things are still new to people, whether you've seen them or not. If you don't believe me, look up '2 girls, one cup'.

atomx

@The_Gas_Man:
you managed to be wrong on your second word in. congratulations.

willyolio

Gadget? No. New? No. Exciting? No. Newsworthy? No.

@scarf:
Looks like you'll just have to use the sink now.
@darthsaber10:
LMAO. Well played, my friend.

The_Gas_Man

Yup. I had one of these... many years ago.

MichaelScrip

What's next guys? Gonna review a Commodore 64 as the latest and greatest piece of technology?

darthsaber10

I ejaculate into paper bathroom cups. Try to replace them now.

scarf

Yeah these things are old school. I'm 23 and I remember things like this, a whale even, when I was in elementary school.

JeremytheIndian

well this brings back some eye-stinging memories

gdam78

this is soooo stupid. Cups are already stupid. People can't use their hands to put water in the mouth?

Ariel_Wollinger

When I was a kid I had a friend with one of these in their bathroom. Just that one 2¢ piece of plastic made the whole world seem a little more clever.

I could probably use one now, 20 years later, because when I drink from the bathroom sink I don't use cups or my hands-I stick my whole head in the sink. hmm...

underwhelm

They are pretty amazing.
I used to have a few of them when I was little. About 10 years ago. They are handy.

Wish I still had at least one of them.

fosho4

heres one that will not look so kiddy [www.asseenontvnetwork.com]

Boognish

I had something like this years ago in my last house. We forgot to take it when we moved it was pressure fit not a screw on. One thing you'll learn real quick is to make sure you don't have the water on full unless you want to blast your walls

Boognish

ohhhhh its a whale.. i get it.

sargentr

I remember seeing those like 10 years ago in a store.... not really new.

makalaka

Sheer awesomeness.

Puck

@willyolio:
Looks like I've offended a Gizmodo fanboy! Yay me.

The_Gas_Man

@atomx: I think it's called blow hole....not that it really makes it any less disgusting than orifice.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

These are awesome. I had this same one and loved it.

To all the poo-pooers in the comments: who cares whether it's new or 10 years old? This is a sweet little gadget and I'm glad Giz posted about it even though I already knew about it.

Keebler

Those used to be prizes at sea world... I got one when I was like 8. As I recall it gets all limey and calcified pretty quick.

TaitRT

Enigmo!

poisonfist

I really honestly had two of these when I was about THREE.

shenanigans61

Holy snap, we used to have these in our house like ten years ago.

But they rocked. They really did.

- PR-0927

PR-0927

yeah this shnaz is old. BUT REALLY HANDY

CharitableNinja

Fantastic. I haven't seen this before, and I am quite the coinsure of gadgets.
I like knowing that I havn't seen every gadget out there, despite my age.
I also like knowing that those that point out that this is old, not news worthy, or a gadget can't read my mind via the Internet.

DeadWriter

@The_Gas_Man: i see the problem. youre one of those people from consumerist, all they do is complain and rain on peoples parades over there. if youre going to bitch about posts, did you at least bitch about the 80+ year old paper house?

danger the pirate

@The_Gas_Man:
lol. anyone who calls out your mistakes is a fanboy. thank you, unbiased lord of all truth for showing me the light. this little device is not, in fact, a gadget. not by any definition, including, but not limited to:

-noun
a mechanical contrivance or device; any ingenious article.

noun
a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

noun
a usually small tool, machine

nope. doesn't fit any of those descriptions at all.

willyolio

I had one of these too--about 10 years ago--seems to be the trend. But nevertheless, this was the best thing.. unless you put the water on high.

paranoia2mb

@danger the pirate:
Say what?
@danger the pirate & @willyolio:
Guys, lol, we gotta lighten up a little, okay? You're angry with me over a plastic whale.

The_Gas_Man

Yeah, I was using these in 1996. It makes me all nostalgic seeing that orca putting up an arc of water. I would love some of these once I get my own house (or sink).

Ajax

I'm 32 years old, and I had one just like that, the whale when I was like 12 or something. This is really old stuff guys.

lastpulse

your kidding men right giz... your covering 15 year old gadgets bought on a whim in the checkout line at the dollar store. i know its the weekend and all, but... damn!

venomous_duck41

About 15 years ago I had a Tazmanian Devil one of these.

15 YEARS AGO!!

Come Giz I expect more from you.

mrpedenman

The house I moved into in the 1970s had a faucet attachment on the bathroom sink. It was a small faucet that rotated into place on the side of the main faucet. The problem with it was that it still allowed water to come out of the main faucet - so it wasted a lot of water. I think it was built in the '50s, though.

dennitzio

@The_Gas_Man:
no, i'm angry at you because you made an insult. the correct response is to apologise, not brush it off like it didn't happen.

willyolio

I just have a filter hooked up to the faucet that sits next to the sink. Creates a similar fountain but with filtered water.

jerwil88