$579.95 Amazon »

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Folding Ice Table

$139.99 Amazon »

This Folding Ice Table solves a problem that's hit me pretty hard in my 40s: bending over. Never thought much of it in my 20s and 30s, but now? I really have to evaluate how bad I want something situated lower than waist...

Hidden Image Soy Sauce Dish

$21 IPPINKA »

You don't need a magic eye to see the hidden images in IPPINKA's soy sauce dishes, just a hungry mouth ready to receive some salt-kissed sushi...

Desk York Car Cup Holder Snack Tray

$23.97 - $25.97 Amazon »

I know I, for one, am always looking for ways to make driving less safe, and Desk York's Car Cup Holder Snack Tray seems to be a terrific way to do it. Especially the XL version, pictured above, with holders for two different...

Hardgraft Layover Holdall

$769 - $879 Hardgraft »

You might think life is a highway, but Hardgraft believes "Life is a JOURNEY." And the Hardgraft Layover Holdall is the most suitable companion for this journey because "the most thrilling times usually [come] from surprising...

May had its way with an array of different products this year of 20 and 23. Aside from the 4th, which was with you in the form of a dozen-plus Baby Yoda gifts, there wasn't much of a theme to the month's most popular finds. A couple luxe items for the backyard, some novelties, such as the Mini Archery...

Arena - The Game of Chess in Concrete

Inspired by Roman amphitheaters and made of everyone's favorite building material*, Arena - The Game of Chess is Material Immaterial Studio's concrete interpretation of the checkered board and royal playing pieces. It's...

Tekto A3 Delta Folding Automatic Knife

$159.99 Tekto »

Tekto doesn't call their A3 Delta a folding automatic knife, they call it a folding automatic powerhouse. In other words, this US-military-inspired tactical blade is more than a display piece for your collection...

BALMUDA The Brew Automatic Pour Over Coffee Maker

$699 Amazon »

BALMUDA The Brew, an automatic pour over coffee maker, is Japanese design and manufacturing firm BALMUDA's latest design-y and design-award-winning appliance design. Think it's more design over substance?...

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Transparent Ohmu

I don't know what it means to call something a "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Transparent Ohmu," but calling it a "Giant Clear Gummy Insect Collectible" doesn't make much sense either. Fans of manga and anime will...

Motion Activated Keyhole Light

$13.99 Amazon »

As someone who has poked, rooted, fumbled, and F-bombed around the front door many a night, seeing this motion activated keyhole light brings me a surprising, yet I think also appropriate, amount of joy. Especially if...

Leather Banana Rocking Chair

$779.99 Amazon »

A leathery banana doesn't sound good in most circumstances, but when it comes to the Leather Banana Rocking Chair...uuuhhh. Nope, still doesn't sound good. Let's just call it the Banana Rocking Chair, or the Banana Rocker...

ANBERNIC RG Nano Keychain Game Console

Ready to game, boy? ... And girl. Dude, lady, and everything else on the gender spectrum now too. ANBERNIC is readying to release the RG Nano, a keychain-ready game console and Nintendo Game Boy copycat...

E188: What Is This Thing?

$14 Amazon »

Welcome to Edition 188 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?...

Outdoor Cooking Food & Utensil Carrier

$55.99 Amazon »

If you're going way out for your next cookout, go all out with this outdoor cooking food and utensils carrier. Designed especially for tailgates, picnics, and meals around the campfire, the canvas bag has a bevy of pockets...

AutoBoss Car Cup Holder Organizer

$14.14 Amazon »

All the coins, clips, pins, pens, and Cheetos you toss inside your car cup holder for later? The ones you then have to dig around to find while simultaneously trying to drive, text your friend Cornelius that you're running...

LED Air Cube Tent

$1,750 - $2,750 Amazon »

White in the light, disco in the night! The makers of the LED Air Cube Tent sum up its appeal nicely: "Fancy and stunning to attract people's eyeballs."...

16 ways to enhance a cold beer on a hot day. That's 4 more than a 12-pack of ways. A 6-pack plus 10. A pint of beer gear! And if this summer is the scorcher they say it's going to be, I for one will gladly make use of every single one of them...

Me So Corny: 14 Products to Help You Eat & Honor Corn

Oh it's corn, corn, corn that makes your feel...forlorn? What? No. Not corn. Not forlorn. That line is from the song "Hinky Dinky Double D Farm," a childhood classic for me. Back then, I had no idea what the word "forlorn"...

LEGO PAC-MAN Arcade

$269.99 LEGO »

Bricks, pellets, Blinky, and Clyde. The classic PAC-MAN arcade is getting LEGO-fied as part of the company's LEGO Icons series...

Go Cuff Insulated Drink Sleeves with Handles

$12.95 - $18.95 Amazon »

Smoothies, iced coffees, bubbles teas, all ye cold beverages that devolve into a big ol' sweaty mess the moment you step outside in the summer heat, Go Cuff hears your cries of embarrassment, and Wicked Witch wails of...

Light Cycle 2.0 Glow-Core Wedding Ring

$195 Etsy »

You can't have a TRON Light Cycle (at least not anymore, you could a few years ago) but if you're a good fiance, and show up at the altar on time...or maybe just at all...you can have a Light Cycle 2.0 Glow-Core Wedding...

WorkPod Lite Backyard Room

$14,900 - $18,500 Autonomous »

Those of you whose: kids won't (can't afford to) move out of your house; partners now work from home; teenager (wrongly) believes they're the next Kenny G; or in-laws and extended family feel like your casa is their casa...

Seinfeld x Percival Clothing Collection

$67 - $385 Percival »

Puffy shirt not included. The Seinfeld x Percival limited edition clothing collection takes its (sable Russian) hat off to the sitcom, and the 25th anniversary of the final Seinfeld episode's airing...