Category: Gift Ideas

Soft. Poseable.

[Found here.]

Dinosaur Hamster Cage

[Image with typos found here.]

Let’s Ventriloquise!

‘Ventriloquism’ With 5 Famous Comics Talking Figures – This 1930s book contained four thin cardboard talking figures: Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Smitty, Moon Mullins and Lillums.

[Found here.]

SABOTAGE!

[The Sabotage Brothers action figures found here; image above here.]

Collect Them All!


“These stickers are not easy to drop off; they’re non-reflective and even waterproof. I’m willing to call them the most successful invention of 2023!”

Some Chinese news outlets credited the unexpected popularity of belly button stickers to Chinese traditional medicine, which states that the lower abdomen must be kept warm to preserve the overall health of the body. By keeping the fake navel exposed, users can wear high-waisted pants that cover much of the stomach, while still rocking garments like crop-tops.

ONLY 1/2¢ PER BB!
A pack of 96  3/4″ x  1″ Chinese belly button decals for only 50 cents is one helluva deal. Confuse people by moving them around, or wear several at the same time and claim as many birthdays as you want. So many possibilities.

[Images and story found here.]

Last Minute Gift Ideas – Christmas Weaponry

[Images found here.  The patent drawing for Grover C. Shaible’s weapon of mass confusion (lower right) may viewed in all its glory here.]

Fur The Birds

It’s a fur feeder. Fill it with Fido’s and Fluffy’s cast-off coats and give it to the birds to line their nests with. [Found here.]

Name us. NAME US.

[h/t Sol R. Land]

I need this.

It records the hours of bright sunshine by burning a hole through a card.

The Campbell-Stokes Recorder (sometimes called a Stokes sphere) is a type of sunshine recorder. It was invented by John Francis Campbell in 1853 and modified in 1879 by Sir George Gabriel Stokes. The original design by Campbell consisted of a glass sphere set into a wooden bowl with the sun burning a trace on the bowl. Stokes’s refinement was to make the housing out of metal and to have a card holder set behind the sphere.

[Found here via here.]

Picnic Bear has seen some shit.

[Found here, h/t Pam M.]