E38: What Is This Thing?

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Welcome to Edition 38 of What Is This Thing?, your weekly bi-weekly every-other-daily whenever-I-can-find-boggling-content visual riddle. And given how much free time I have to find boggling content right now, we're looking...

Charlotte Valve - Snorkeling Mask Mod for Ventilators

When maker Isinnova describes their Charlotte Valve as an "Easy COVID-19," they aren't making light of a global pandemic. They're making use - resourceful and noble use - of the Easybreath full-face snorkeling mask, modifying...

Flying Saucer LED Kite

$88.99 Amazon »

Know what we need? A UFO prank, courtesy of this Flying Saucer LED Kite, to get everyone's minds off the coronavirus pandemic. All these people stuck inside, anxious and panicking about their jobs, their futures, their...

Eagle Claw Tactical Keychain Tool

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The Eagle Claw Takes! No! Prisoners! Made of titanium and sharpened to a fine and ominous talon point, this beastly weapon slashes through skin and impales vital organs hooks over door handles and punches elevator buttons...

It's Too Peopley Mug

$7.99 Amazon »

According to its oldest review, the Sometimes I Stay Inside Because It's Just Too Peopley Out There mug has been around since at least August of 2018. So while this is certainly an apropos piece of coronavirus merch...

Penlaser Mini 50' Laser Distance Meter

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I thought the Penlaser, a mini 50' laser distance meter, would be an appropriate topic after my friend Victor told me what he's witnessed out his living room window the past few days: a 60-something neighborhood woman...

Napier Sportz Cove SUV Tent

$149.99 Amazon »

Gotta get outside? Gotta get out anywhere? The Napier Sportz Cove SUV tent adds a 2' awning and mesh screen door to the back hatch of your sport or compact utility vehicle so you can road trip or car camp with a semi-open...

Scientific Explorer Disgusting Science Kit

$11.99 Amazon »

Seems like a pretty good time to, as Scientific Explorer's Disgusting Science Kit puts it, "Educate your child on what actually grows on their own body." You know, bacteria. Mold. Coronaviruses that are going to kill...

E37: What Is This Thing?

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Welcome to Edition 37 of What Is This Thing?, your weekly bi-weekly every-other-daily whenever-I-can-find-boggling-content visual riddle. And given how much free time I have to find boggling content right now, we're looking...

The Toilet Paper Splitter (Double Your Supply)

The Toilet Paper Splitter is Household Hacker's gadgety response to coronavirus, a Bat Toy, if you will, for combating all the toilet paper hoarders out there. No, this means of doubling your TP supply won't loot evil...

XOOL Computer, Smartphone & Game Console Repair Kit

$9.98 - $20.39 Amazon »

Become an Apple Genius or one-man Geek Squad with XOOL's electronics repair tool kit. It's a magnetic precision screwdriver set designed to service most iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, PCs, watches, laptops, game consoles...

Feet. Love 'em or hate 'em, you gotta take care of 'em. And if you're game to give some funky foot care a whirl, these items certainly bring the funk, and are ready to toe jam with you. Enjoy my compilation of strange products for your feet...

Preserved Botanicals Hanging Terrariums

$742 Etsy »

Bring the garden inside, and preserve it indefinitely, with this stunning hanging botanical terrarium from Jami of Jupiter Oak Jewelry. The artist creates and captures flowers, ferns, moss, and other plants in ice resin...

Like a Good Neighbor Social Distancing T-Shirt

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Like a good neighbor, stay over there. You can get it as a social distancing T-shirt. A social distancing coffee mug. A social distancing doormat. And that's not all, because it's official: the COVID-19 merch is here!...

If you weren't into jigsaw puzzles before, maybe these enthralling jigsaw puzzles will change your mind. Or maybe being stuck at home, antsy, bored, anxious, and unable to leave, will be the thing that gets your ass off the couch and over to the dining table, throwin' down the puzzle mat and rarin'...

Black Foil Playing Cards

$6.99 - $8.59 Amazon »

These black foil playing cards are cool...uh...if you can read them. All I see is black-on-black making for some foibled flushes and full houses on poker night - Dude! That's 2 kings, 2 aces, and a 7! - and some chronologically-challenged...

Remington Shortcut Pro Self-Haircut Kit

$53.17 Amazon »

Time to learn a new skill...and maybe learn to love a new haircut. The Remington Shortcut Pro is a self-haircut kit that could see a big surge in popularity if barber shops and hair salons remain closed for the foreseeable...

E36: What Is This Thing?

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Welcome to Edition 36 of What Is This Thing?, your weekly bi-weekly every-other-daily all-weekend-long! visual riddle. It's one simple photo - see above - meets one simple question: what is this thing?...

Portable Toothbrush Sanitizer

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When's the last time you gave Germy McGermerson - aka your toothbrush - a good deep clean? One that didn't involve coating its bristles in Crest and burying them in your molars? This portable toothbrush sanitizer doesn't...

Sobro Smart Side Table

$599.99 - $699.99 Amazon »

Lights, volts, beer! The Sobro Smart Side Table shrinks all of the benefits of the original Sobro Smart Coffee Table into a piece of hi-tech furniture sized for the end of your couch, or next to your bed. Wake up hot...

E35: What Is This Thing?

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Welcome to Edition 35 of What Is This Thing?, your weekly every-other-daily-for-now, since we're all coronavirus quarantined, visual riddle consisting of one simple photo and one simple question: what is this thing? Here...

Bodyweight Exercise Cards

$16.75 Amazon »

Even if you don't have a lot of workout space in your home, I'll be you have room for these 2 things: a deck of cards; and your body. Bodyweight Exercise Cards invite you to hit the deck with mix-and-match fitness sessions...

Magnetic Car Sunroof Sunshade

$15.79 Amazon »

We're still allowed to drive, right? And open the windows? The sunroof, if you live in a place where the first day of spring actually brought the first day of spring. If you're out crusing to pass the time, or just sitting...

Ingrown Toenail Correction Tool

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Nothing like fighting the inflicted pain of an ingrown toenail with...inflicting pain to remove the ingrown toenail. This ingrown toenail correction tool looks like a torture device created by evil nail salon owners...