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When we were kids, our parents told us not to play with our food. But this waffle iron encourages just that behavior, cranking out stackable waffle pieces that interlock like LEGO bricks. It makes 1×1, 1×2, and 1×4 blocks. In addition, they’re offering plates that serve as a base for stacking, with spots for butter and syrup.

Marsback’s compact 75% keyboard is noteworthy for its CNC-milled translucent polycarbonate base, which allows its colorful LEDs to show through around and behind its keys. The 84-key mechanical keyboard has both wired and wireless modes, and durable PBT keycaps in both Mac and Windows layouts.

Designed by Marjan van Aubel, the Sunne is a modern ambient lighting source that harvests solar energy during the daytime, providing illumination at night. The light hangs in a window and automatically turns on at dusk. Its touch control offers three color settings: rise, light, and set. It’s made from anodized aluminum and acrylic.

The BetterBook fits neatly in front of your keyboard thanks to its ultrawide 18×9 ratio. Its shape and black border improve mobile scans too. The spiral-bound notebook lays flat, and comes with blank, grid, or or dotted grid papers. Each set includes both a desk-size (310x160mm) and pocket-size (130x70mm) 40-sheet notebook.

Evebot’s tiny, battery-powered printer works wirelessly with a smartphone app to print designs up to 1″ tall on just about any surface, rough or smooth, flat or curved. It works with three types of ink: permanent, invisible, and skin-safe for temporary tattoos.

This keychain-sized handheld system plays retro gaming emulators. It features a clamshell design that opens up to reveal a 1.54″ LCD screen, and a gamepad style controller. It runs an ARM Cortex-A7 CPU @ 1.2 GHz, and loads games via its SD card slot. It can run ROMs from NES, SNES, SEGA Master System, and even PS1 games.

This kit lets you view the night sky not with one eye, but two, for sharper, brighter, and more comfortable stargazing. It can be ordered as plans only, optics and hardware only, as a BYO 3D printing kit, or a kit with pre-printed parts. In 2022, they’ll also open source the build plans. There’s also a large, assembled model, but it’s much pricier.

Tabletop game players, it’s time to upgrade your dice set. Designed by Andy Kurovets, these highly-tactile D6 dice feature bubbly textures that make them look like something boiling in the primordial ooze. They were 3D-modeled for balance, and come in three unique shapes, in deep blue, blood red, or earth brown.

Charliewhiskeytango’s precision-machined titanium pen weighs just 17 grams and is just 3.5mm thick, just barely thicker than its refill. It’s got a flip-out clip that lets you use it as a bookmark, and also is fun for fidgeters.

This coin-sized metal fidget toy is designed to spin for 13 minutes or more thanks to its precision machining and fast-spinning tungsten carbide tip. The spiral design on top produces a hypnotic effect as it spins round and round. Available in brass, copper, or stainless steel.

The Morus Zero is a compact and ventless dryer. That means you can place it anywhere – at home, on vehicles, even on boats. It uses vacuum pressurization, infrared, and UV light, along with hot air to dry your clothes in as little as 15 minutes.

Pack smarter with the Bomber Barrel Set – it features a premium material, weather-resistant duffel bag, as well as a complete travel kit for sorting your smaller essentials. Keep your entire life organized while you travel and save 65% in The Awesomer Shop.

This resin-based 3D printer builds up layers of liquid polymer for super smooth models. What makes it truly special is its 13.3″ LCD panel, which allows for builds as large as 29.2 x 16.5 x 40 cm (11.5 x 6.5 x 15.75″). It’s also available with dual 5.5″ panels for printing two models at once.

This unique writing instrument doubles as a desktop fidget toy. It collapses down to a stubby size that fits between your index finger and thumb letting you spin it freely in your hand. Its companion desk stand also allows spinning and doubles as a letter opener.

TEC Accessories‘ unique writing instrument has a flat shape that’s well-balanced and won’t roll off your desk. Its twin-rail design smoothly retracts its writing tip, and features an easy to change D1 refill system. Available in anodized aluminum or titanium.

This reusable silicone strap instantly transforms any cup, bottle, or other cylindrical drinking vessel into an a mug. It’s perfect for improving your grip on big cups, and helps keep bottles and cans cool longer since you won’t be gripping them with your warm hand.

AC Worldwide makes Bluetooth speakers based on movie and TV franchises. Their latest project? A shiny polished alloy replica of the T-800 endoskeleton head, with built in Amazon Alexa integration, and an app-controlled HD camera in one of its light-up eyeballs.

A self-contained tank that provides a safe habitat for jellyfish. It’s got no sharp edges, filter and pump systems, and a color-changing LED lamp to show off these incredible sea creatures. Kits available with or without jellies. Super early birds can get the tank and jellyfish for $200.

A gorgeous hand-drawn 2D platform adventure created by indie studio Bloomylight, inspired by the work of Hayao Miyazaki, in which an apprentice priestess and her accomplice must work to bring balance to a world inhabited by humans, gods and spirits.

Featuring a look that combines modern and industrial aesthetics, Hikaro’s custom designed watches use Swiss movements, covered with sapphire glass, wrapped in stainless steel and trimmed with wood. Each has an elegant stitched leather band with a stainless buckle.

MetalDreamer’s multitool measures just 1.5″ x 0.5″ but packs a mini pry bar, bottle opener, 6mm hex wrench, wire stripper, nail puller, keychain, mini ruler, mini scraper, hex bit holder, and two flathead screwdrivers. In stainless or titanium.

One of our favorite classic SEGA Genesis games could soon return, thanks to a crowdfunding effort by one of the game’s original creators to launch a reboot based on the gameplay mechanics of the original, along with online multiplayer.

Having seen enough bad Kickstarter videos to make our eyes cross, it was refreshing to watch the high level of clever in this pitch for Toledo’s latest sushi restaurant, which needs an authentic yakitori grill. Get your wallets out. (Thanks John!)