Joseph Joseph Pocket Folding Ironing Board

$89.99 Amazon »

Joseph Joseph...Joseph. Just because you've made an ironing board fold into a neat little package, hang out of the way on a door or rack in the laundry room, and look kinda snazzy in a gray polka-dotted suit and lemon...

Copycat Art Scratcher - Famous Art Cat Scratchers

$174 Lord Lou »

I don't normally like copycats - in art, writing, or murder - but if these Copycat Art Scratchers will: 1) stop my cat Zanzibar from using my leg and face as his scratching post; and 2) satisfy my wife's desire not to...

Kalamazoo Gaucho Wood-Fired Grill

$40,994.95 Williams Sonoma »

The succulent meats and fiery culture of Argentina meet...uh...Kalamazoo, Michigan? Correction: the 100+-year sheet metal tradition of Kalamazoo, Michigan...

Luggage Cup Holder

$15.99 - $18.99 Amazon »

You'll never be totally hands-free at the airport, but a Luggage Cup Holder can reduce the number of hands you need to carry and juggle your suitcase, shoulder bag, phone, coffee and bagel, and the ID you just dropped...

February, the shortest month, brought us a lot of popular products for short-sighted people with short attention spans who rode the short bus...

Wav Minimalist Desk Organizer

$84.99 Etsy »

Will you ride the rainbow or the monochrome Wav? Anything in between goes too with this minimalist desk organizer from Design Craft Workshop...

Affirmators - Help Yourself without the Self-Helpy-Ness

$14.99 Amazon »

I'll say it up front: Affirmators! are not my thing. Even if they claim to be 50 Affirmation Cards to Help You Help Yourself without The Self-Helpy-Ness, Affirmators! are not my thing. But I think my sister-in-law would...

Shark Coochie Board

$35 - $45 Amazon »

Word to that, Shark Coochie Board. And though I've never heard attempts at saying "charcuterie" come out as "shark coochie" before now, it will henceforth be this dude's default pronunciation of the word. Well done, and...

POTENCO Mini Chainsaw

Sold Out Amazon »

Here's a lil' chainsaw for the lil' bit of yardwork you'll have to do this spring. Haha, sike! Only the POTENCO Mini Chainsaw part of that statement is lil'. After the winter this country - dare I say this world? - has...

Kickit Pro Trainer - Badminton Meets Soccer

$22.99 Amazon »

Ah, badminton and soccer. Two sports very...well...irrelevant to my heart. Not to dog the Kickit Pro Trainer, which looks fun...in a way. A way that's sort of like, "Sure! I'll mess around with this hacky sack for 5 minutes...

Friends Couch Sprinkler

$83 Amazon »

What the Chandler Bing are they doing showing the Friends Couch Sprinkler populated by people under the age of 30, who don't even know what Friends and the Friends Couch is? I mean, I know sprinklers are generally considered...

Zellerfeld Custom-Fitted 3D-Printed Shoes

$250 - $350 Zellerfeld »

Get ready to slip your feet into...your feet. Well, almost. Zellerfeld's forthcoming line of footwear will be entirely custom-fitted to the individual feet that walk in them, thanks to 3D printing and foot scanning technology...

DnD Dice Jail - Time Out Chair & Dunce Hat

$23.95 Amazon »

"Punish those pesky dice! They will learn their lesson fast enough on the chair of shame!" I couldn't agree more, DnD Dice Jail. In fact, I have always been an advocate of the time out chair and dunce hat. I think we...

WEHEAD Spatial Communication Display

$1,555 - $4,555 WEHEAD »

And for my next Zoom meeting, I will be...Johnny 5 from Short Circuit! The WEHEAD spatial communication display is a gadget that robotifies your face, and gives you a physical presence when you dial in remote to meetings...

The Plunge Plumbing-Free Cold Therapy Tub

$4,490 - $7,490 Plunge »

After reading about the Plunge cold therapy tub and its plug-and-plunge ability to chill hose water down to 39 degrees F with no plumbing hookups required, I can say with certainty that this dude is...not ready to take...

E177: What Is This Thing?

$8.44 Amazon »

Welcome to Edition 177 of What Is This Thing?, my recurring visual riddle series consisting of one simple photo - see above - and one simple question: what is this thing?...

Gear Shift Hoodie

Sold Out Etsy »

Help your car chill out with one of these Gear Shift Hoodies, all hand-sewn to fit shifters 4" to 5" tall. The casual chic vehicular threads come in an assortment of colors, and are made of actual cotton fleece hoodie...

DNA Plant Trellis

$7.50 Etsy »

A DNA Plant Trellis, now this is the type of genetic geekery I can get behind. The Planty Print's 3D-printed design is both simple in rose, white, gun metal, or bronze finishes (no rainbow colors for the A, G, C, and...

Klein Bottle

Sold Out Etsy »

The Klein Bottle claims to be "the closest you'll get to a 4D object in our universe," and while I don't really understand what that means, I'll make a note to ask the Bing AI Chatbot about it later. What interests me...

VEJA Fitz Roy Technical Hiking Shoe

$245 VEJA »

Dude. You really gotta be an avid hiker to justify spending $245 on a pair of hiking shoes. I mean, VEJA's Fitz Roy Technical Hiking Shoes are nice enough and all, but...what? Basketball? Naw, dude. You don't need to...

Florigami Animal Sculptures

$207.17 Etsy »

I know. All these expertly crafted origami animal sculptures should be called Faunigami, not Florigami. But there is more than rhyming behind the play on the words. This bestial collection of Japanese papercraft is all...

P*ssy Pipe

$22.12 Etsy »

I'd hit that. The P*ssy Pipe from ceramic smoking pipe shop Fajni Fajky isn't just lit and smokin' hot, it's ready to be lit and smoked hot...

The Botany of Beer

$28.49 Amazon »

The Botany of Beer is supposed to be An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing, but I can't find a single decent image of a single page inside Giuseppe Caruso's publication. So while the title makes...

RunLessWire Wireless Light Switch Kit

$149.92 - $333.84 Amazon »

They say this RunLessWire Wireless Light Switch Kit runs on kinetic energy rather than electrical wire. But even after reading about how you generate the power the switch needs to communicate with the receiver in your...