OTOTO Mushroom Funnel: Pour Oil Like a Toadstool Wizard
Kitchen tools don’t have to look like they escaped a hospital supply closet. OTOTO’s Fungilicious mushroom funnel is a foldable silicone toadstool that turns “please don’t dribble oil everywhere” into a countertop bit. Official OTOTO pricing sits near $16.95. Designed with Carla Rataus, it’s peak gift-tier whimsy that still earns drawer space. How it works […]
8BitDo Retro 18: Your Teacher Was Wrong About Calculators
Your math teacher said you couldn’t carry a calculator everywhere. Cute theory. The 8BitDo Retro 18 is an 18-key mechanical numpad that flips into a standalone calculator with a glowing nine-digit seven-segment display—NES energy for your spreadsheet addiction. The Amazon N Edition usually lands around $44.99, which is aggressively reasonable for hot-swap clickies that also […]
DuRoBo Krono: The E-Reader With a Steering Wheel for Pages
Kindle page-taps are fine until your thumb misses the bezel and you accidentally highlight the word “the” for the fourth time. The DuRoBo Krono answers with a knurled Smart Dial on the side — a little steering wheel for ebooks, browsers, and whatever else Android 15 will run on a 6.13-inch paper-like screen. New […]
Godox C100: The $45 Camera With a See-Through Viewfinder
Most pocket cameras beg you to check the screen after every click. The Godox C100 does the opposite: it hands you a see-through viewfinder, a cheeky HUD, and a loud little shutter personality that says “live a little.” For about $44.90, Godox’s first camera is less “replace your phone” and more “cyber-retro toy that also […]
This $399 Ultrasonic Chef Knife Actually Changes How You Slice Tomatoes
The Seattle Ultrasonics C-200 is the kitchen flex nobody asked for—and then everyone wanted demos of: an 8-inch chef’s knife that vibrates tens of thousands of times per second so sticky tomatoes and clingy potatoes stop fighting you. Press the orange button; physics does a quiet little dance. This isn’t a motorized saw. Piezoelectric crystals […]
Hugging Face’s Microduck Is a $399 Rollerskating Desk Robot
The Microduck robot from Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face’s Bordeaux robotics crew) is a ~25 cm biped that walks, grasps with a beak, and even straps on roller skates like it has somewhere to be. At $399, it’s less “butler” and more “open-source desk creature you can train.” Pre-orders opened late August 2026. First shipments were […]
Retro Handheld Gaming Console
300 Games, One Pocket, Zero Downloads Some gadgets want your Wi-Fi, your account, and forty minutes of “just finishing the update.” This one wants two AA-adjacent minutes of charging (or batteries, depending on the pack) and a thumb. The portable handheld game console from GAMINJA is the little brick you remember, except the screen is […]
Ninja HydraSense Review: Fast, Certified Countertop Filtration With A Few Caveats
Ninja’s first water filter, the HydraSense Intelligent Water Filtration System, is a plug-in countertop unit that tries to replace both the pitcher and the under-sink filter. At about $200 right now (list $249.99) it sits in an awkward middle ground – more capable than a Brita, less pure than reverse osmosis – and the early […]
Nissan Qashqai E-Power Goes 1,230 Miles On Single Tank
I have never been a “Nissan guy”. I am sure they make some good cars but I have always believed that Toyota and Honda were superior. Either way, props to Nissan for innovating in a big and important way – efficiency. In a run across Colombia from Bogotá’s high-altitude streets to the Caribbean coast, a […]
Another Day, Another Fan – Shark ChillPill
Except this one’s not just another fan. Shark’s ChillPill is a modular 3-in-1 personal cooling system that tries to be your pocket-sized air conditioner for the great outdoors (or a farty stuffy subway). Launched in March 2026 and currently sitting at $149.99 on Amazon, it packs a high-speed bladeless fan, a dry-touch misting pod, and […]