Welcome to Edition 89 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?...

Thank you, Bird Foot Plant Stand photos, for making my day. If you love herons or cranes, flamingos or storks, ostriches or dudes with chicken legs, a little birdie told me Raines Iron Works has the gift for you. Made...

Chewy hand-tossed dough. Piles of shredded mozzarella, Thick slices of juicy pepperoni. And freshly...minted copper? Hey, who put a coin in my pizza? Or rather, who put a pizza in my coin? Meet the kinda baffling, yet...

POC's Shell Coat, a piece of outerwear made for the ski slopes and fun days of shoveling snow, reminds me we have entered the tricky part of winter. The part where spring is, like, right there, and even officially here...

I'm not advocating these stackable building brick betta fish tanks as good housing choices for bettas, because I really don't know if these stackable building brick betta fish tanks are good housing choices for bettas...

Design Toscano's Giant Red King Crab Sculptural Chair is going to be sit-down hit with ocean lovers, aquarium enthusiasts, and owners of crab shacks. Those who won't love chillin' on a big ol' crab chair: lobsters. They...

Ecletticos Mugs for your coffee and tea...and covert nip of whiskey...manage to be rustic and rugged, yet somehow elegant, even a little regal, at the same time. Sure, maybe they're more Viking regal than British Royal...

In addition to my glory years of partying (i.e., any year prior to 2020) the Kong Bong makes me think of Sisqo's enduring lyrical masterpiece, "The Thong Song." A tweak here, a swap there, and it could become "The Kong...

One fish, two fish, red fish, green thumb. EVA Smart Aquaponics Furniture has it all, and does it all, all by itself. A home or office installation with a mini garden on top, an aquarium in the middle, and an ultra-modern...

My Spidey Sense tells me Glass Symphony's hand-blown glass spiders are even more of a sight - or a fright - to behold in person than they are in these photos. And the photos alone are doing a pretty good job of simultaneously...

Omnom Chocolates hail from Reykjavik, where they're proud to be Iceland's first and only bean-to-bar chocolate, as well as a sweets peddler that uses 100% geothermal energy to produce its chocolatey offerings. To welcome...

The Bicycle Trainer Sweat Net from RockBros looks kind of like a diaper for your Peloton, bike trainer, or other stationary exercise bike. Except rather than keeping the bike's unsavory fluids in, the Sweat Net is designed...

Ahhh, the Moss Carpet reminds me of waking at dawn in a cloud forest, creeping across the rich and vibrant green vegetation of its cushioned floor, the beating heart of nature tickling my feet. Yeah. Either that, or being...

SIND Studio has a mug - the drinking kind and the face kind - for every expression you wear and emotion you feel before and after you've had your coffee. There's a groggy Yawning Mug (before coffee). A jubilant Laughing...

Power off, light on. It really is as simple as that with these rechargeable emergency light bulbs from JackonLux. I have them installed in 3 lamps in my house, plus the ceiling light above the toilet in the bathroom...

The only thing worse than a human packrat living in your house is a packrat packrat living under the hood of your car. Nesting up in the engine compartment. Chewing through random wires you sort of needed to, like, drive...

Wearing a corset is the easy kind of cinch without the suck-it-in kind of cinch if you're wearing a Victorian Corset Tank Top from Fox Savant. The tank has a hand-drawn depiction of the sexy shaper on both the front and...

Sip with no tip on your ship. Or, if you prefer, sippy with no tippy on your shippy. The Toadfish Anchor is a non-tipping universal cup holder whose most obvious use is to hold your cans, bottles, tumblers, and glassware...

The Boska Pizza Party Hot Stone pairs a pizza stone for cooking your pizza (in the oven or on the grill) with a tealight-packed stand for keeping its crust crisp and toppings hot and gooey for hours while you eat it...

Welcome to Edition 88 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?...

You've heard the term "wire money," but Conty Fonane's 1967 Ford Mustang GT500 here is some real Wire. Money. Unlike anything I've ever seen or heard of before. The Lesotho-born, South Africa-based artist bends and winds...

The Tangle NightBall glow in the dark LED football reminds me of the fireflies I used to catch as a kid. Except, unlike the fireflies, the NightBall wants to be caught. In fact, if it's flying at my face and I don't catch...