…if so, you need the incredible flying Cockroach-icopter. Everyone needs to have one of these this year!

So, you ever been to a restaurant, and you just hated it SO much? Well, if so, and you want to call down the health inspectors, try flying this remote controlled thing around in a crowded restaurant and see what happens. Granted, it would be much more convincing if it was just on the ground with wheels, but this could be just as interesting. And given that the size of the cockroach is bordering on 6″ long, it doesn’t lend a hand to believability. Maybe choose a restaurant near Lake Norman’s McGuire Nuclear Station…we can say it’s a mutant cockroach! Any way you look at it, it could be a fun toy to mess around with if you have a spare $60 laying around.

Product Info -Cockroach Helicopter-
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…because at least I could feel like I have accomplished something.

Once again, leave it to the Japanese to really come up with some weird stuff. Here, designer Haikun Deng has generated a concept drawing for a toilet seat with a scale built in that will measure exactly how much that excrement weighs that you just released into the toilet. Defiinitely a reverse concept of measuring yourself before and after and then taking the difference, but hey, who’s to fault creativity? Who wants to guess if Mr. Bunny Love in the designer’s pics feels 10 lbs. lighter or not?

Product Info -Yanko Design-
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…and the Wunder Boner might do just the trick (if you want some fish)!

Yes, it is a fish de-boner…and yes, it is a horrible name. It’s great!

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…involves tearing things down on purpose, instead of trying to keep them up!

So normally with Jenga, the object is to remove pieces of a tower and keep it from falling. Well, Uncommon Goods is offering a game that is similar, but much more pleasing to my destructive side. Players take turns building a tower while the other tries to knock it down with three types of devices: a ramp, a catapult or a wrecking ball.

This would be an awesome game for an engineer. Critical thinking to build up defenses where they are weak requires constant analysis which, for me, would be a pleasant change from normal board games when it comes to my thinking processes.

The only downside to the game….it costs $55.

Product Info -Destruct 3-
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…well, ThatsMyFace has the unique gift everyone has been wanting…a 3D model of your face!

So, the website ThatsMyFace has a pretty unique idea for gifts. You go to their website, you upload a couple of photos (frontal and profile), mark some key points and submit to them and they will create a facial profile for you. Then you can have fun by either aging yourself 10-40 years, change your ethinicity, change your sex and other fun things. They can also rate your “beautified self” and “attractiveness” ratings. How they do that, I have no clue. I would also be interested in the matching part where they will track down others who look similar to you.

But finally, for the true reason of this post…you can then purchase 3D cut statues of yourself to keep or to give as a gift. I like the pen holder shown above, but if you want to get real creepy, they have a “braincase” sample in which your top of head is cut off showing the brains.

So, starting at $29 (and ranging up to $2,000) feel free to give the ultimate narcissistic gift!

Product Info -ThatsMyFace-
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…although there won’t be very predictable results when you go downhill.

Some of the most fun in college I had was when we had a snow/ice storm and the ground was completely covered. My friends and I just got it in our heads that we should head on over to Pullen Park (the park next to campus) and go sledding. Growing up, we always used the standard sled with the wooden slats and the metal rails that you waxed to go down a hill. Well, being the poor college students we were and not having access to a car, we had to improvise. We located some old cardboard boxes and crushed them down until they were in three layers and then shot ourselves down the hill. It actually wasn’t bad…until we hit roots…or a ditch that then served as a ramp launching us into oblivion for a crash landing on our tailbones. But the sheer fun of not being in control made sledding much more enjoyable for me. With that being said, it seems like this company has made a sled that can have that much fun and also look geekily cool at the same time. Who wouldn’t want to fly down a hill on the Millennium Falcon? And someone needs to buy this to see if it can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs for me.

Product Info -Amazon- -Target-
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…this would have to be it!

Lately, I’ve found it difficult to enjoy a nice cold “decent” beer upstairs in my “Man Cave”. The main difficulty comes from not having a bottle opener upstairs. Sure, I could spend $0.99 to buy a cheesy metal one, but why do that when I could have a nice baseball hat with my favorite beer logo and a built in bottle opener on the bill? Man, what more could I ask for?

Product Info -Home Wet Bar-

and I’ll leave it up to you to decide if it is an illuminated bowl of chips, a nice mood lamp or or a Himalayan Ionic Crystal Bowl Lamp.

I have to say that when I first read the article about this lamp on Nerd Approved that they weren’t kidding, that it was an artificial bowl of chips with a light bulb placed inside to make it have a “warm” glow. With as much weird stuff as I look at in a day, I didn’t think twice about it. Then I read the article and noticed that it was a bowl of salts that when heated release ions in the air to clean and refreshen, which is something they have used in the Himalayas for over 200 years. Personally, I think it would have been funnier to have a bowl of chips, but, I have to report all odd things I see, whether they have some base in science or an hilarity!

Product Info -Ionic Crystal Bowl Lamp-

…if you actually invite people to attend parties!

A lot of people have those modular block retaining walls around their house, and with our new house, we are no exception. I saw these posted on Nerd Approved and thought they would make a great addition to people who are actually sociable. There are two types of blocks that they offer. One, called the RisiLight, provides ambient lighting along the wall. As great as that sounds, I prefer the second one called the RisiSound which is a built in speaker that can be hooked up to a stereo of your choice. I’ve always found those garden speakers to be rather cheesy, so this would be a slightly more palatable option for having music playing in your socializing venue. Granted at $140 and $175, it might be out of most people’s price range (like my own!).

Product Info -RisiSounds and RisiLights-

…because amateur inventor Johnny Henry from Mississippi has developed just what you need if you do!

Johnny Henry, a native of Mississippi, invented his own toilet seat which vibrates to help stimulate you while going to the bathroom. His quote…he invented it to “make you feel good while you are there” on the toilet. I have to say, I’ve been in a lot of those massaging chairs and have had those huge thumping massagers on my back, and they always tend to make my skin red and itchy from stimulating the blood in the skin too much. Last thing I would want on the toilet is to have my posterior turn red and itchy from vibrating while using the toilet. Just doesn’t sound very…stimulating, more annoying.

He was able to attend a convention for inventors however, so undoubtedly someone thought highly of his product. I am also amazed that it took him 11 years to make a prototype. How hard can it be to make a vibrating seat?

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