The Good, The Fad and The Ugly reviews ... The Pampshade, Tile and Bionic Bird THERE are newfangled gadgets launched every day, but how many will actually prove useful or life-changing? Our new Friday column - The Good, The Fad and The Ugly - will present three brand new hi-tech products and ideas and then invite you to vote on whether they have a future. This week: a lamp made with bread; a portable tracking device, and a bionic bird controlled by your phone.. Would you hand over your hard-earned dough for this lamp? The Pampshade Source: Supplied ILLUMINATE your passion for good food with Pampshade. After being inspired by the way sunlight touched a baguette, 27-year-old Yukiko Morita designed the Pampshade, bringing her yeast-inspired collection to life. Pampshade - a combination of "Pan," the Japanese word for bread, and "lamp shade" - is a lighting fixture made with real bread with an LED insert. The lamps are created by drying out loaves of bread, which are then coated in a mildew-resistant resin and fitted with LED lightbulbs. Customers are able to select from a range of baked goods, including croissants, rolls and baguettes. What we like: The Pampshade is fun, quirky and definitely unique. What we don't like: The Pampshade is also unique for all the wrong reasons. The potential to mistake your kitchen lighting for breakfast has little appeal. How do you rate Pampshade? The teeny, tiny, tracking tile The Tile Source: Supplied NEVER lose belongings again with the world's most portable tracking device, Tile. Constantly misplacing your keys, wallet or sunglasses? Thankfully, there's finally a solution - a low Bluetooth energy device called Tile, which works by being attached to an item that can then be paired with the Tile app and tracked at any time. The app remembers the last time it "saw" an item - or, the last time it was connected to the item - and uses a radar to show the user how far away they are. When within proximity of the Tile, the app begins to make a sound so you can find your belongings just by listening. Additionally, you can use the Tile community to find an item that you've lost on-the-go by using the knowledge of all other Tile-enabled phones when within range of the lost property. What we like: Losing your wallet down the back of the lounge is a problem as old as time. Tile offers a solution that is cheap, easy and incredibly useful. What we don't like: In an age where apps are increasingly competing for our precious phone battery life, Tile is a hard sell, as it requires the user to run the app constantly in the background. How do you rate Tile? The world's first smartphone-controlled bird takes flight Bionic Bird Source: Supplied BIONIC Bird is the first civilian drone ever inspired by biomimicry. First, there was the drone. Then, there was Bionic Bird. Discontented with the apparent lack of bird-like qualities in drones, designer Edwin Van Ruymbeke took a completely different approach in designing the Bionic Bird, the world's first smartphone-controlled avian drone. Instead of relying upon spinning rotors or stationary wings, the Bionic Bird is equipped with a pair of mechanical wings to achieve flight. Users control the drone via an Android or iOS mobile device using Bluetooth 4.0. What we like: The Bionic Bird is a step in the right direction for innovating civilian drones, with an interesting concept, clever mechanics and promising functionality. What we don't like: The Bionic Bird relies heavily on gimmick to stand out in the crowd. We struggled to imagine many practical applications for the first avian civilian drone. How do you rate Bionic Bird?