Awesome Gifts

Bevin Bells makes trip gongs that look and work just like the ones used in boxing arenas, mines, and stock exchanges. They’re mechanical so they don’t need electricity to work. They’re available as brass or as steel with a black powder coat.

Here’s a new place to hide your hooch – inside of a popsicle. Instead of getting brain freeze, you’ll get a buzz from Fred’s whimsical drink container. The stainless steel flask holds 3 oz. of booze, and comes in raspberry and grape.

Be an entertaining host or ice breaker with Laurence King’s Dangerous Experiments for After Dinner. It consists of 21 cards that will teach you how to perform funny or risky tricks, such as sabering a champagne bottle or hammering a needle through a coin.

We’ve featured mechanical key switch fidget toys before, but if you’re looking for something that’s a bit more polished and sleek, check out Clickeybits. They use Greetech or Cherry MX switches and are available in silent, clicky or super clicky variants. They’re also on Massdrop.

A travel-sized kit of Gear Aid’s indispensable Tenacious Tape. These patches let you permanently repair small tears on synthetic fabrics such as nylon, Gore-Tex, polyester and vinyl. Each kit comes with three black patches and three clear patches.

We’re coming down to the wire for holiday shopping, and you can always use some more stocking stuffers. Give the gift of gear with one of these 15 great gadgets courtesy of our friends at Everyday Carry. Choose from flashlights, knives, tools, keychains, and more.

Luckies of London’s hanger has three light up section. Use it to illuminate your closet or as a stylish night light. It has a nice copper finish and lasts up to 20h on four AAA batteries.

The My Cinema Lightbox not only looks like a marquee, it’s also fit for any occasion thanks to its RGB LED backlights. You can make it flash in a variety of colors or stick to one, including white. It comes in three sizes and can be powered via USB or battery.

GoodHangups let you hang posters, cards, and other light items on a variety of surfaces, neatly and without frames. It consists of a set of small magnets and magnetic stickers, which are easy to remove and are reusable. Sold packs from 8 to 100 pieces.

There have been several officially licensed Nintendo Game Boy watches, but we think this one is among the best. Not least because it’s still available for purchase. The watch uses the Super Mario Land theme as its alarm sound and its buttons are used to set the time and date.

You’ve been hiking all day, and you deserve an ice-cold brew when you get to your destination. Keep your bottle chilled in a tiny sleeping bag you can hang on your backpack. It’s got a soft and protective nylon shell, an insulated liner, and a carabiner with a bottle opener.

Justice rains from above! Overwatch‘s airborne damage dealer gets the Figma treatment. The Pharah action figure is about 6″ tall and is partially made of flexible plastic. It comes with a Rocket Launcher, detachable Barrage parts and an unmasked head.

Mezco Toyz presents its badass take on Popeye the Sailor. The action figure stands about 5.5″ tall and has 28 points of articulation. It comes with six pipes, seven hands, three hats, two heads, two spinach cans, a coat, a compass, a spy glass and a duffle bag.

USB-C may be the future of ports, but with millions of devices under its belt, USB-A just might survive until the post-apocalypse. Hold on to the standard with this four-port USB hub that’s disguised as a statuette of Fallout‘s T-51 Power Armor in a cradle.

(PG-13) The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive contains almost 3,000 cartoons from over a century of publication. The illustrations are split into two volumes, 250 categories and 1,600 pages. Also in deluxe and as an ebook.

The Bradford Exchange has started a subscription-based collection of sculptures based on classic moments from the Star Wars movies. The Star Wars Epic Moments Sculpture Collection starts with the Snowspeeder taking down an AT-AT Walker.

The Sphero Bolt is a spherical robot designed to teach and enhance computer programming skills. Use it with its app to make it zip around a track, display graphics or data on its LED matrix, and more. You can even make multiple Bolts communicate.

It’s not too late to find some great gifts for the gear hound on your holiday shopping list. Our pals at Everyday Carry share 30 excellent selections for just about every style, from tactical to techy, from classic to minimalist.

MMX Vancouver’s Marshmallow Crossbow looks more like a genuine weapon than other toy crossbows. It fires dry regular-sized marshmallows up to 60ft. MMX recommends sprinkling your ammo with corn starch for smooth firing and a cool puff when fired.

Organize your grooming kit on the go with this waterproof and scratch-resistant toiletry bag. It has a roll-up design to make it compact and expandable mesh pockets for your toothbrush, toothpaste, facial wash and more. It also has two zipped pockets and a leather loop.

Evan Amos’ book The Game Console charts the evolution of video game hardware. It features full-color photographs of 86 consoles, including their inner components, starting with the Magnavox Odyssey and ending with the current generation (except the Switch).

Studio Cult’s Photoshop Picture Frame lets designers and other Photoshop users bring their oft-used program to the real world. The frame is made of zinc alloy and has a 3D construction. Each pledge for the frame also comes with a free Photoshop enamel pin.

Sometimes you just want to plug in your phone to your computer or car to charge it. But today’s smart interfaces can get in the way, automatically launching programs that you don’t want. PortaPow’s Data Blocker solves that problem, only allowing power to flow.