Once again, Sanrio and Hello Kitty provide another items that
instantly becomes a front-runner for the most useless product in the
world. Of course, this makes no difference to my wife that has her
heart set on one of these Hello Kitty electronic toilet paper
dispensers for Christmas:

In classic Hello Kitty sales pitch style, the advertising copy
trumps the low cost of using this device which only uses $1 a year in
power to operate. Of course, that savings has little meaning when the
unit itself costs approximately $220 (24,000 yen) which Hello Kitty
seems to have conveniently forgotten while explaining how energy
efficient the gadget is. And what do you get for that $220? The Hello
Kitty toilet paper dispenser can be pre-program so that your exact
favorite length of toilet paper will appear when pressing the button.
That’s right. You can choose one of nine different length settings
(each 20 centimeters difference) so that you never have more or less
toilet paper than you really want for $220 and $1 a year in energy
costs (if the thing doesn’t break after the first few uses).

While it really couldn’t make our bathroomlook any worse than it already does and we have the Hello Kitty toilet
paper that would match it perfectly, there is always the inconvenient
problem that I’m not actually allowed to use the Hello Kitty toilet paperfor its intended purpose which pretty much makes the entire gadget
useless which pretty much sums up all gadgets in Hello Kitty Hell…