Stihl's autumn calendar automatically rips through to tomorrow

Unless they're incredibly quiet or potentially explosive, you won't find us waxing poetic (or even prosaic) about leaf blowers. But if a company that produced leaf blowers made a motorized calendar that tore off its own pages? We'd tell you about that in a heartbeat -- even if the wonderfully wasteful contraption turned out to be a viral ad by agency Euro RSCG rather than an actual household organizer, and even if its pages aren't nearly as saucy as Stihl's usual NSFW fare. Believe it or not, there's no blade inside that brushed aluminum shell; the process works by ripping out the bookbinding thread along the calendar's spine using a motorized reel. Join us in celebrating the wonder of pressed dead wood floating to earth all by its lonesome with a short video after the break.

[Adeel Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:38AM]

Totally useless but love it! How do I get one?

[Smart People Play Tuba Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:06AM]

Is this the ULTIMATE in lazy? It's gotta be close . . .

[Kid Red Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:35AM]

@Smart People Play Tuba
Lazy?! Who the hell do you think has to pick those pages up?

[Adeel Posted Mar 11th 2010 10:05AM]

@Kid Red
I will just hang it above the bin ;) It just walls in the bin :D

[Anthony La Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:41AM]

I'd hate to see the resulting pile of paper after I go out to camp for a few days.

[Mike Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:52AM]

@Anthony La

I was thinking I would be looking forward to the pile... though I doubt it's large enough to jump in. :(

[Fatherfork Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:52AM]

@Anthony La

A trash can would live under this calendar at my house.

[GenericMessage Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:01AM]

@Mike


If you bought like 50 of them!

[sockatume Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:46AM]

They should do one for early adopters. Instead of days, it sheds cash as your shiny toy depreciates, based on the mean Froogle price.

[mrqs Posted Mar 11th 2010 8:46AM]

it's stuperb!

[evilspoons Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:00AM]

Grammar fail. Lose the comma, Stihl.

[Fat Wombat Posted Mar 11th 2010 10:26AM]

@evilspoons Nope, it is Stihl's calendar.

[beyondthetech Posted Mar 11th 2010 10:31AM]

@evilspoons Wait what's, wrong with it?

[Sanskrit Posted Mar 11th 2010 1:10PM]

@(Unverified) "First Calendar, That Tears Off Its Leaves Automatically"

That's the offending comma in question.

[Bratan Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:06AM]

Well, if snow comes out of it in the winter, rain in the fall, pollen in the spring and bees during summer months, it'll be much more annoying than just littering paper on the floor...

[pk386 Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:26AM]

"you won't find us waxing poetic (or even prosaic) about leaf blowers." Obviously no one at Engadget has used a Stihl product. They are like the BMW of lawn equipment.

[dsbilling Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:32AM]

I want one NOW! :)

[Fugo Posted Mar 11th 2010 9:53AM]

The next feature here will present you the clock version of this thing

[kjmathew Posted Mar 11th 2010 10:14AM]

Now, that's a gadget!

[weaky6 Posted Mar 11th 2010 10:24AM]

Ummm.....I like this one better.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSslcvkEUr0&feature=player_embedded

[Edge767 Posted Mar 11th 2010 11:50AM]

I would so buy one of these (and place a trashcan directly below it).

[UrAwFuL Posted Mar 11th 2010 12:01PM]

Haha, I still haven't gotten to rip my calendar days from two years ago alrready.. haha. This would've been perfect!

[jordy appleheart Posted Mar 11th 2010 2:41PM]

there's nothing i want more than to wake up at midnight to the sound of paper sliding across my wood floors.

[AaronX Posted Mar 11th 2010 5:56PM]

It seems no different to a digital calendar to me. I thought it would use a new technology like self decomposing pages or monitoring night and day.

[lomelip Posted Mar 11th 2010 10:18PM]

I can picture now...new years eve, screw the ball drop, let's see the sheet of paper fall off the calendar instead!

[steverc53 Posted Mar 12th 2010 1:17AM]

If it had a programmable timer, it would be nice to have one by the bidet. huh

[Mike V Posted Mar 12th 2010 6:44AM]

Love it.

Awesome concept.

I wonder if it has been done before?