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The Tiny Arcade goes handheld. Tiny Circuits' TinyScreen Video Game Kit gives DIY gamers the chance to build their own miniature console. At the heart of the kit is the TinyDuino processor board, an Arduino Uno board...

Who would claim you can "get smarter while swearing at your friends?" F**kin' Australia, mates. F**k. The Game is an Aussie issue, and a mind trip of cards and colors and good ol' cussin' for us all. It's a spirited party...

I wonder if calling Neil deGrasse Tyson's book about astrophysics one for "people in a hurry" is a nice way of saying it's really for people who have no quarkin' chance of understanding astrophysics outside of Tyson taking...

While Bridget Watson Payne's delivery in The Secret Art of Being a Grown-Up: Tips, Tricks, and Perks No One Thought to Tell You largely takes the form of cartoons and quick blocks of conversational narrative, I think...

When the staff at the H.R. Giger Museum in Switzerland saw this life-size replica head of the monstrous Alien their namesake created you could literally see the pride and joy bursting from their chests. (Good luck to...

I used to pick up ladies by telling them I drove a DeLorean. It's how I met my girlfriend, She-Ra: Princess of Power. I went up to her at a party, ready to drop my pickup line, when she turned to me and said, Before you...

The first thing that comes to mind when I think "witty banter" is the easy exchange of short observations and comments. So it's odd that The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Be Quick, Be Interesting - Create Captivating...

Now here's a new spin on smart lighting. Lasermad says their stellar Nixie Chessboard is the first and only Nixie tube-powered chessboard in the whole world, and I believe it. Who has the creativity to even come up with...

Everything Is Bullshit. Now that's a nonpartisan sentiment we can all get behind today! Priceonomics released this book, which it subtitles The Greatest Scams on Earth Revealed, in 2014, but amidst our current run of...

This alphabet isn't adult just because A is for Anus, but also because of the accompanying anatomical representation author Max Willy has selected to make sure everyone knows what an anus is. Stick out your pointer finger...

Seen the Pocket Shot ultrafast slingshot before? This Pocket Hammer set adds a Hammer Handle for support and extra power, turning it into a formidable rubber rocket ready to fire off arrows for small game hunting or target...

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Yep, I love me some of all of those things. But mastering them as elements of good cooking...that sounds like a job for my mama! Good thing I'll be needing a gift for her come Mother's Day on May...uh...May...something. I'll have to look that up later...

No computer, tablet, or phone needed to ping! your co-workers with this slick and stealthy mini crossbow. The palm-sized launcher loads up with toothpicks or Q-Tips, depending on how hard you want to let Dave three desks...

Can't catch a wave? Catch a break with the Kyosho RC Surfer 3. At 12.8" tall this remote controlled rider on his Lost board will try to make your time at the beach bitchin' even when the surf is too small to get out there...

The Atari Flashback portable console is indeed here to console. The handheld 2600 will give a there, there pat on the back to everyone who didn't get an NES Classic before Nintendo announced they're discontinuing them...

Who wants a whittle hobby to have a whittle fun with this summer? Chillin' on the back patio or at the lake carving a birdie with your hook knife and chiseling blades. This beginner's kit is suitable for ages 14 and up...

Barn owl pellets are the results of barn owls wolfing down their food without chewing it enough. Just like I do. But unlike me, the owls do not have cast iron stomachs that can digest the fur and bones of the little rodents...

The PassBack Football has a gift for all the sad sacks out there: a way to play catch when you have no friends. Throw this blunt-ended pigskin against a hard wall and it will come spiraling right back to you for endless...

Hygge. Since the term started making the rounds in American pop culture a few months ago I've been pronouncing it like the sound I'd make if someone sucker punched me in the gut. But thanks to The Little Book of Hygge's...

I like how Hanayama Puzzles says its tiny new CAKE Cast Metal Puzzle is recommended for ages 12 to 105 years, but "A few bright children between 8 to 11 years" might also be able to solve it. In other words, parents out...

He's a grower, not a shower. At 4" tall, this miniature Stretch Armstrong says he has a license to call himself the World's Smallest. At least until you yank his arms and legs to 2...3...4 times their starting size. Just...

Pirate Handcuffs. Oh gee, whaddaya think most people are gonna use these for? Yep, I think so too: citizen's arrests. Too bad Dev and Denise didn't have a pair on that episode of Master of None when they citizen's arrested...

Flingons look like miniature boomerangs, but the twist here is that when you throw them they don't come back. They stick with great projectile prowess to any metal surface you toss them at, or to one another...