Welcome to Edition 8 of What Is This Thing?, a photographic feature of a product whose purpose isn't obvious at first glance. I'll include some hints below to help you sleuth out the answer. It's really fun. A barrel...

A pinch of salt here, a square of foil there, a fat douse of sriracha on top - it's a gourmet meal in Room 204 at the Motel 6 thanks to the Cooking Essentials Travel Kit from Dash Provisions. Really?...

Card games, whatever. But burritos and dodgeball together? Like, at the same time, not the one as a consolation prize for getting pummeled in the face with the other? Throw Throw Burrito, I'm listening. You have, like...

Should I have filed Blue Cheese Lollipops under the Gross instead of the Candy category? I guess it depends on how you feel about blue cheese. And lollipops. About mixing sweet and savory. About stinky suckers. About...

What the fucupcakes did I just get all over my hands? Is this batter? Mud my wife's cousin's dog tracked into the kitchen? POO my wife's cousin's kid shat in the kitchen?!...

Bottle Bright water bottle cleaning tablets are pretty useful. I know because I have some. They were a gift. From my wife. But given that a couple weeks ago I saw her pick up my water bottle, and then recoil and nearly...

As cozy and swingin' as hammocks are, a true suspended Haven in the woods probably wouldn't try to treat you like a caterpillar, or a dead Egyptian, with walls that collapse in on you, and a base that sags under your...

Sweet dreams are made of these: dinosaurs! T-Rex, stegosaurus, and brontosaurus, to be precise. Sweet dreams are also made in Canada, home of the Dinosaur Baby Mobile's felt crafter, Kristina Turchyn...

I like storing some flavor for later under my fingernails and in my cuticle beds as much as the next dude, but Chip Fingers might be a useful tool for the times I have to hand out papers in work meetings, or touch my...

Commercial airlines can suck it, and even private jets and Santa's sleigh have nothing on the sweet ride these Millennium Falcon blueprints will help me build for my holiday travels this year. Over the river and through...

HiBed. How's it going? Now that I've climbed into your 4-poster pen, started dinking around with your 4K projector with surround sound speaker system and retractable 70" screen, your built-in ambient and path lighting...

Here comes the pimple vacuum, suckin' up blackheads and pore jam like a Dyson at a dog hair buffet. Look at that photo! It's a vortex of dirt and oil! Acne-ridden teens, check out your new Fairy Godmother in action...

Egg-->Facehugger-->Chestburster-->Xenomorph. Even at under a foot tall the Aliens Four Stages of Fear Beer Stein lives up to its name in its representation of Xenomorph evolution. I've never felt less inclined...

The Munsters or The Addams Family? Cuckoo clock or grandfather clock? Halloween or Christmas? If you picked Munsters, cuckoo clock, and Halloween - ta-da! - The Bradford Exchange made a spooky hanging timepiece just for...

Teeheehee and Yukyukyuk, a Before & After 5 Coffee & Wine Glass that goes from morning mug to goblet o' good times with the same flick of the wrist as the hourglass that counts down to get your there...

At printing, The Deviant's Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious was coming very soon, and if you can get a handle on your Dendrophilia and Macrophilia and Emetophilia (oh...

The real puzzle of the Slideways Cube, and intricately handmade brainteaser from puzzlemaker Lee Kasnow, is why I would spend one thousand dollars to drive myself absolutely mental when I can commute to work or go over...

Bibbidi-bobbidi-flame! Your Fairy Godmother meets Vulcan, god of fire in the Sparkr Wick, a dual plasma beam electric lighter from Power Practical...

Chef Adam Glick cooks on yacht charters, and calls both himself and his new collection of culinary tools the "Adventure Chef." Made in partnership with kitchen knife and tool brand Messermeister, the set gives people...

Spending too much time sawing logs these dark and damp fall days? Well git off yer stink wrinkle and start splitting them, ya lazy sack*. Sun Joe's 10-Ton Hydraulic Log Splitter might even add some semblance of fun to...

The SteelBee Razor Saver asks, "Replacing your blades often?" Why, yes, SteelBee, I do replace them on the regular. But not because they're rusty. Because, um, they're dull, and you're supposed to replace them. Every...

Welcome to Edition 7 of What Is This Thing?, a photographic feature of a product whose purpose isn't obvious at first glance. I'll include some hints below to help you sleuth out the answer. It's really fun!...