Awesome Gifts

Schmancy up your chow with The Spice Lab’s Gourmet Salt Collection; hard to find salts like Hot Ghost Pepper are housed in test tubes, which sit in handmade discarded shipping pallet bases.

Be GLaDOS with these inflatable personality cores. Wheatley and the Space Sphere are the only variants available, but no one’s stopping you from buying nine of them and calling it a triumph.

Bandit Guns makes shotgun-style rubber band guns complete with pump-action mechanism. The guns are made of laser-cut wood and have different firing modes such as single shot and rapid fire.

SNAP’s uniquely efficient, Canadian maple drop-deck longboard folds down from its expanded 38” length to just 19”, which allows it to be conveniently packed inside most backpacks and gym bags.

Not to be confused with candy cane-flavored Jelly Belly, these special holiday candies come in two bundles: Very Cherry, Juicy Pear & Cinnamon and Tutti Fruitti, Blueberry, & Watermelon.

Featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s Humble Masterpieces, these cleverly designed rubber bands are great for packing small boxes or other bundles. Each pack comes with 16 rubber bands.

Acoustically amplifies the sound from an iPhone or iPad. The iPhone dock works with all iPhones and the iPad dock works with all iPads and iPhones. Made by Matt Richmond for Restoration Hardware.

You don’t need a tree to enjoy these festive HOrrible HOliday HOoligans by Sebastian Reymers. 3 jerks with a saw, axe and match hanging around? Sounds just like the holidays at our house.

Hershey’s teamed up with Hanna’s Candle Co. to make scented candles that smell just like Jolly Rancher candies. Each jar is good for up to 90 hours. Now we’re craving the real candy.

A monthly package of random goodies worth at least $60 from the crowdsourced product curation website Fancy. Specify your interests – men’s, gadgets, media, etc. – to personalize your pack.

Probably not official Star Wars merch, but it could still be the droid costume that you’re looking for. It zips up all the way to the top of the hood. All you have to do is mimic Artoo’s sound.

A wooden hourglass stool filled with white sand that measures five minutes. As its name implies it’s meant to be used to reprimand kids, but all we know is it’s a giant hourglass and we want one.

Made for sharing mixtapes, the Milktape is a 128MB – yep, MB – USB drive in a blank cassette tape. It comes with two blank stickers and a plastic case. If only it were cheaper or had more storage.

Pass along top secret data with these cool hollow coins. They have been machined and finished to look exactly like U.S. nickels and quarters. The coins can only be opened using the included tool.

Junk Skull’s vinyl tape is perfect for roommates, couples, siblings or packing boxes when you’re moving; just make sure you remember who marked what. If only pets could read.

(NSFW) Knock Knock makes retro style tickets for redeeming priceless perks. Available in three variants with 100 tickets each: pep talks, stiff drinks and quickies. Not guaranteed to work.

A huggable life-sized replica of Seth McFarlane’s character in the movie Ted. Available in two variants: a clean version that speaks 12 lines from the movie and an R-rated one with 5 lines.

If you watched the Meet the Pyro video, you’ll recognize the Balloonicorn, a beautiful creature that sprung forth fully formed from the beautiful mind of Team Fortress 2’s resident psychotic.

If you think the inflatable and LEGO kind are not manly enough, this hand-painted T-Rex hunter’s trophy is for you. Kids will be impressed with your hunting prowess and taxidermy skills.

Break the ice and stay clean with the Maybe You Touched Your Genitals Hand Sanitizer. It’s one of a series of goofy sanitizers by Blue Q. It’s the stock photo on the cover that gets us.

The Scorzie is a drink cozy that has built-in Home and Away score rings that go up to 21, perfect for scoring beer pong games. It could also be what Martin Scorsese’s closest friends call him.

If you’d like to sleep on a map of your favorite city but find these to be too loud, check out City Quilts. They’re hand-stitched using 100% cotton and are guaranteed to last a lifetime.

This funny pillow by Etsy seller Yellow Bug Boutique is perfect as a quirky gift, or a subtle reminder to procrastinators. It’s also available in white and as a beer bottle cozy and as a button.