Vestaboard

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.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

Makes the original selfie toaster, which burns your face into every slice, plus the Jesus toaster it first became known for. Custom plates are cut from a submitted photo.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

A crowdfunding platform devoted to original open hardware, where independent engineers launch the kind of oddball device no mass manufacturer would greenlight. Projects range from strange keyboards to niche radios and scientific instruments.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

A Czech workshop that revived the manufacture of Nixie tubes, the glowing cold-cathode digits abandoned in the 1970s, and builds handmade clocks around them. Each tube is made by hand in a restored castle.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Makes pixel-art displays and Bluetooth speakers, including the Pixoo photo frames, Ditoo retro-computer speaker and Timebox. Owners draw their own animations in an app and push them to the LED grid.

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.