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Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A British gift retailer and own-brand developer that made its name on outlandish presents, boozy gadgets and irreverent personalised items. It mixes licensed pop-culture goods with its own limited-run oddities.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

In business since 1848 and still selling what it calls the best, the unique and the unexpected. It is the catalogue famous for oversized, faintly ridiculous luxury gadgets, backed by a lifetime guarantee.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Started with the widely mocked and widely bought head-enveloping nap pillow, and has grown into a range of travel and rest products. The original still looks like wearing a beanbag on your head.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

The long-running gadget brand behind massage chairs, air purifiers and an endless run of slightly unnecessary consumer electronics. It is the other half, with Hammacher Schlemmer, of the classic airline-catalogue gadget genre.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

The company behind Poo-Pourri, the before-you-go toilet spray that turned a bathroom taboo into a cheerfully rude brand built on viral ads. It has since expanded the ~Pourri line into car, pet, shoe and trash fresheners using plant-based essential oils.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Builds officially licensed arcade cabinets at roughly three-quarter scale so a real Pac-Man or Street Fighter machine fits in a living room. Also makes countercade and head-to-head table versions.