Turn gift-giving into a playful challenge with the Gift Card Puzzle Vault. This clever plastic casing locks your gift card behind a ball-maze puzzle that takes minutes to hours to solve. Watch friends struggle to navigate the tiny ball into the hole before the lock disengages and they can claim their prize.
The Flying Alarm Clock solves the chronic oversleeping problem with comedic genius. When the alarm sounds, a propeller launches into the air and lands randomly in your room. You must find it and dock it back on the base to silence the alarm—guaranteeing you're fully awake before you can hit snooze.
The Pertelian is a backlit USB LCD display that alerts you to emails, stock quotes, eBay auctions, IRC messages, and more while you game or work full-screen. Customizable with community-built apps, it includes timers, Teamspeak support, and multi-timezone clocks for $48.99 at ThinkGeek.
The K-box from Kerchoonz transforms tables, walls, and windows into giant speakers using patented gel-audio technology. Barely larger than a smartphone, it connects to any music device and delivers full bass response for up to 20 hours on a USB charge.
Chevrolet is rolling out a limited-edition Bumblebee Camaro to coincide with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The special edition sports Rally Yellow paint with black racing stripes and Transformers badging on wheels, sill plates, and cabin embroidery, available with V6 or V8 engines starting June 24th.
These ceramic serving bowls look like deflated basketballs and soccer balls, turning game-day snacks into conversation starters. The FruitBalls from Suck UK hold chips, nuts, or collectibles, giving sports fans a garage-chic alternative to cutesy party platters. Available in Basketbowl and SoccerBowl styles.
Japanese engineer Takuo Toda just earned a Guinness World Record for a paper airplane that stayed aloft for 27.9 seconds. Built from a single uncut sheet of paper, the 10cm craft flew at a Hiroshima competition. His next goal? Launching paper planes from space.
The Harmony 510 Universal Remote solves the universal remote programming nightmare by connecting to your computer and automatically downloading IR codes for over 175,000 devices. Simple one-touch buttons like 'Watch TV' and 'Watch a DVD' replace confusing code entry, and internet updates mean it works with future devices too.
This set of 30 coasters does double duty: protecting surfaces while delivering a different puzzle or game on each one. Perfect for home bars, game nights, or anywhere you want to add a playful twist to drinking. Pull them out at the pub and prepare for curious looks.
BlueGuard hooks up to your garage door or gate opener and detects your Bluetooth phone within 33 feet, triggering hands-free entry. Program up to 10 devices, add optional vehicle detection to prevent false triggers, and ditch your clicker for good at $200.
The BlackRapid RS DR-1 Double Strap transforms photographers into camera cowboys with a shoulder harness that lets you sling two DSLRs around your hips. Professional shutterbugs can carry different lenses without tangled straps or bumping cameras, all while looking like a Wild West hero.
Designer Jas Bhachu created a Rubik's Cube with rubber stamp letters on four sides, turning simple stamping into a puzzle-solving challenge. You have to arrange the cube correctly to stamp each character. It's a clever art-school concept piece, though not available for purchase.
Everyday Models is a pioneering service that turns your everyday life into an advertising platform. Rent out your social networking profiles, clothing, vehicle, or other personal spaces to businesses while the agency manages the entire process from pitch to payment.
Phosphor brings e-ink technology to wristwear with two stylish curved watches featuring concave electronic ink displays. The Digital Hour Clock alternates between large digital time and graphical clock with auto-shifting contrast every minute, while the Digital Calendar switches between 12-hour time and calendar mode. Both come in leather, rubber, or steel.
By Diddo's creative wetsuits sport life-like prints of shark bite wounds, exposed muscle structures, vintage rusted diving suits, and whale shark patterns. Using custom inks and unique printing techniques, these limited-edition suits create effects so realistic they'll make beachgoers shriek with horror from close range.
Graham Hawkes' Super Falcon is a carbon-fiber winged submersible with dual cockpits and aircraft-style controls. It dives to 1500 feet, travels 25 nautical miles per charge, and can barrel-roll with dolphins. Only two exist; no consumer sales planned, but a tour experience is coming.
The Curve wall-mounted cat bed blends space-saving design with comfort. Made from molded bentwood with maple or walnut veneer, it features a snap-on cushion with removable, machine-washable covers. Mounts with two brackets, holds cats up to 35 pounds, and comes in a slim 20×14×4.5-inch profile that complements any home décor.
The trailer for Asylum's straight-to-DVD monster flick Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus has gone viral with hypnotically primitive CGI and an unlikely cast featuring Dynasty's Lorenzo Lamas and 1980s pop star Debbie Gibson battling reanimated prehistoric giants.
When you own a half-million-dollar Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, apparently the next move is spending even more to wrap it entirely in chrome. Three Premier League stars—El Hadji Diouf, Claude Makelele, and William Gallas—did exactly that, paying up to $620,000 for reflective bodywork.
These portable speakers skip plastic for cardboard housing you assemble yourself. The kit includes speaker components, instructions, and six colored pencils so you can decorate the enclosure with your own artwork. At eighteen dollars, it's a creative project that doubles as functional audio gear.
Cast in the mold of real brass knuckles, these all-natural glycerin soaps transform showering into a bathroom brawl. Each set includes two 5×3-inch soap knuckles that lather up while you shadow box away dirt and odors with knockout scent.
These wrist-mounted laser gloves let kids fire invisible beams by clenching their fists, complete with sound effects and explosion animations when tagging opponents up to 45 meters away. More futuristic than holding a pistol, they give laser tag a space-age upgrade at a budget-friendly price point.
This quirky iPod Nano dock mimics those old portable TV-and-VCR combos from the 80s, complete with a small screen and side-mounted speakers. At £14.99, it added only 2.8 inches of viewing real estate but delivered serious novelty value for bedside or car entertainment.
The Universal Bullshit Detector Watch doesn't actually detect fibs, but when someone spins a tall tale, press the button and it flashes, moos like a cow, makes a pooping sound, and farts. It's a functional timepiece with Miyota quartz movement that provides comic relief for calling out nonsense.
The Wig Purifier cleans synthetic and natural hairpieces using ozone air technology instead of traditional washing methods. Simply place your wig inside the airtight cabinet, close the door, and let particles of ozone eliminate odors, bacteria, and germs. It works on wigs, extensions, bandannas, and headbands.
The Tool Logic Survival Card crams a 2-inch serrated knife, magnesium fire starter, signal whistle, tweezers, toothpick, and LED flashlight into a credit-card-sized frame that slips into your wallet. At under two ounces and just 4mm thick, it's the ultimate backup wilderness kit for emergency moments when your full gear isn't handy.
Inspired by the classic stage magic trick, Rafael Morgan's Deadly Multipurpose Closet concept uses removable wooden swords as configurable hanging rods and shelves. Each sword pierces through alignment holes, letting you arrange storage however you like—though kids will definitely pull them out for sword fights.
