Awesome Gifts

In early 2017, protest artist Banksy opened The Walled Off Hotel, an actual hotel right in front of the infamous West Bank barrier. Now it has a gift shop where you can get miniatures of graffiti on the wall, t-shirts, and a mug with the hotel’s slogan: “The Worst View in the World.”

Creepy Candles‘ signature product is a realistic and life-sized hand-shaped candle. As it burns, the blood red wax inside melts and reveals a metal skeleton hand.  Thankfully, you don’t have to worry about smelling burnt flesh, because the candle has a pleasant scent.

Sphero follows up its neat BB-8 droid with R2-D2 and BB-9E (a new character that will appear in Star Wars: The Last Jedi). The R2-D2 toy has a built-in speaker for its trademark bleeps and bloops, while the BB-9E toy has the same fascinating spherical body as BB-8.

Poler’s oversized wearable towel is the perfect companion for surfers, swimmers and other beach bums. Made in collaboration with Pendleton, the Towel Poncho sports the wool expert’s iconic Crater Lake pattern.

You don’t need to be careful with these camera lenses. Photojojo’s handmade pillows feature embroidered details such as the F-stops and the auto-focus switch. Available in Nikon and Canon variants, each limited to only 100 pieces.

Fill up your favorite protein lover’s belly with the delicious jerkies and nuts in Man Crates’ Caveman Crate. It comes with buffalo, beef, turkey, and venison jerky, along with tasty butter toffee almonds and chili citrus cashews, all packed in a sturdy wood crate.

Lomography makes Fujifilm’s Instax square film even more of a nostalgia bomb with the Lomo’Instant Square Camera. The analog shooter has a compact bellows mechanism, a 95mm glass lens, long and unlimited exposure modes and much more.

Specdrums are electronic rings that let you map notes or sounds to any color around you. You can wear them, put them on sticks, and more. Their app lets you map colors to a variety of instruments as well as your own sounds. You can also use Specdrums with other MIDI apps.

Etsy shop CustomMadeKitsch makes personalized Monopoly board games. They’ll make practically everything – the locations, the game pieces, the board, the box – to your specifications. You can also order only a custom box or game pieces.

The MemoryWall picture frame has an arm that lets you lift, tilt and turn it away from the wall. Each MemoryWall unit has four independently movable 4″ x 4″ frames. Buy more and connect them to form shapes, patterns or a large collage.

Kidrobot’s latest batch of collectible enamel pins features Finn, Jake and some of their best friends and sometimes enemies from Adventure Time. The pins are blind boxed, i.e. you’ll get a random pin when you place your order.

JACE.design offers drinkware, phone cases, posters and more that you can customize with a print of your desired location or coordinates. For the cases, bags and posters, you can zoom in on or out of the location and pick from a handful of drawing styles.

We’ve seen several objects that use magnetic levitation. This floating pillow lets you show off the precious items that you already own. It’s strong enough to lift jewelry, watches and other small items. The base comes in wired and wireless models, and three colors.

Areaware says its latest bottle openers were “inspired by Norse mythology and Medieval history.” But we wouldn’t be surprised if the verbal pun came up before the visual one. Either way, these are cool tools to have. You can order both designs as one set to get a small discount.

Made by Mighty Jaxx, Chum the Dissected Shark is here to teach you about the great white shark’s anatomy. Not only is half of this 13″ long plastic toy transparent, it has 20 detachable organs and cartilage bits, as well as its gnarly inner teeth.

Ruin ears and days with ThinkGeek’s tiny and magnetic noise machines: the Annoy-a-tron, the Ringtone Annoy-a-tron and the Eviltron. Sadly, their batteries are non-replaceable, but they’re good for a month of continuous havoc. We hope it never comes to that.