By David Ponce

Nunchucks are great. You can make embarrassing videos of yourself and post them to YouTube for giggles and profit. What’s not to love? Take things up a little notch by showing off your “skills” with nunchucks made out of your favourite beer cans. Think Kid Rock meets Star Wars kid; epic moviemaking potential brewing right there. The CanChuck kit comes with almost everything you need to make them. Which, really… doesn’t seem like all that much, considering you need to buy the expansion foam with which they’re filled separately. But they do state that the kits contain 13 metal parts, so we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and believe you’re buying more than just a metal chain. And you’re provided with a link to a video so you can assemble the Canchucks yourself, a 10 minute project the company is sure anyone can handle. Provided you’re sober when attempting to do so. Which, let’s be honest, won’t be the case…

It’s $20.

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By David Ponce

This is old as the world, but we just came across this quasi-novelty item that could make a Star Wars lover smirk now and then. It’s an R2-D2 USB hub with 4 ports. But the better part is that it moves and makes artoo sounds.

It’s $25.

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By David Ponce

Yeah, Japan again. We love you guys, but what’s with these things? The above image shows a poor lady being paid to demonstrate the Face Slimmer Exercise Mouthpiece. You put it in there and say vowels repeatedly, allegedly exercising the muscles in your face and getting rid of wrinkles and sag.

But why does it have to… look like that? You and I know what this looks like. The kids don’t know. But we know what’s going on here.

So, Japan… Why?

Oh and it’s $84!

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By David Ponce

So you get to the party and want to get noticed. Right? What better way than to be donning a pair of shades that light up? But of course, it would be annoying if the light would shine in your own eyes; no one wants that. But the GloSpex are different. The company’s developed a way for the entire lens area to light up and project the light only forward, leaving you to see clearly as if there was no light at all. They do this by trapping said light in clear plastic, using a principle called total internal reflection. The light is then bounced off of some light diffusing pixels which have a reflective backing, allowing for not only one way light emission, but for the display of images or logos. Think of this as the evolution of those light-up T-Shirts you’ve undoubtedly seen at clubs.

The best part is they’re only $20 for a set, if you pre-order right now on the Kickstarter page. They’re going to get funded as they’re at 50% of the $10,000 goal within a couple hours of re-launching. So go ahead and get yours now.

[ GloSpex Kickstarter Page ] VIA [ Geekologie ]

By David Ponce

Office warfare just got a little medieval looking with the Ballista Kit. What’s cool is that you can annoy your co-workers in style with this little contraption and not break the budget doing so. It’s $22 but you have to assemble it yourself.

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By David Ponce

I’m a big fan of the painting The Scream, from Edvard Munch. Yeah, the one that was stolen and recovered two years later. It’s an icon, and now you can put a little sliver of anxiety and fear in your drink, in the form of some The Scream ice cubes.

It’s a novelty item, sure, but could still spark a conversation or two. It’s $9. Hurry up though, there are only 14 left.

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By David Ponce

Get it?… Never mind.

While we wouldn’t recommend wearing these for a trip to airport security, pretty much any other occasion can be enlivened by wearing cufflinks that are also tiny functional knifes. Measuring 7/8 in. closed, the blade itself is 9/16 in. in length and features a little notch to open them. They’re perfect for opening letters, boxes and stabbing people once you get into a drunken fight over whether Chuck Norris could take on Kimbo Slice, blindfolded (he could). The company even thought of including a tiny diamond dust sharpener so you can do it all over again as soon as you get out of jail.

They’re $55.

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By David Ponce

Oh you hippie, you… why’d you have to get all corporate and find yourself a job working for the Man? Doesn’t matter, a day will come when you’ve had enough of never ending meetings and will want to commit career suicide. Do it in style with the inflatable Pillow Tie. As the website says: “Most functions that require a tie deserve to be slept through.” This particular tie has an inflatable bladder and can be turned into a pillow in seconds. It’s roughly $20.

We realize this wonderful novelty item may not be new, but it is new to us so it may be to some of you.

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By David Ponce

It’s a known fact that much of you are at work right now, reading this site, when you should be working. Good job! But we realize that we don’t write that many articles, so what are you to do once you’re done reading us? Not actually work, right? May we suggest getting into recreating miniature crime scenes on your desk to impress all your coworkers. Here’s some mini crime scene tape to help with the realism. All you’ll need aside from this are a few dolls action figures, some fake blood, little guns, some sugar (meth deal gone bad…) and you’re set. A Breaking Bad murder on your desk.

The tape is $8 a roll. For the rest of the stuff, you’re on your own.

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