All novelty brands

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A small independent brand selling irreverent cards, magnets and gift goods, sold direct and through a wholesale catalogue to stockists. Designs are made in-house.

Subscription Boxes

Ships 20-plus artisanal Japanese snacks with tea pairings each month, curated on a seasonal theme and sourced directly from family snack makers in Japan. Also runs an online market for one-off orders.

Party Novelties

The fill-in-the-blank party card game that describes itself as a game for horrible people, plus an ever-growing pile of expansion packs and deliberately ridiculous side projects. The company is known for stunts like selling literal boxes of bull excrement on Black Friday.

Subscription Boxes

A marketplace listing thousands of independent subscription boxes across every conceivable interest, plus the platform many of those box companies run on. It is the usual starting point when you want a box but do not know which.

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.

Subscription Boxes

Ships standalone murder-mystery boxes you solve at the table, available monthly or as one-off cases. Series include Letters from a Ghost Hunter and Letters from a Serial Killer, plus printable versions.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

Mails an anonymous bag of gummy penises with the message "EAT A BAG OF DICKS" printed on the packaging. It is the archetypal internet revenge gift, sold as a one-line joke delivered to someone else's mailbox.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A UK gift retailer organised by occasion and recipient, with a deep novelty and personalised section alongside more conventional presents. It is a general gift shop that keeps a steady supply of silly items.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Combines magnetic levitation with product design to make objects that float and spin in mid-air, including a levitating light bulb and a levitating planter. The whole point is the wow when someone notices.

Subscription Boxes

Immersive murder-mystery games delivered as boxes of realistic evidence: documents, photographs, puzzles and ciphers you work through as the detective. Available as episodic subscriptions or standalone cases.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Makes the LaMetric TIME, a pixel smart clock that also shows weather, countdowns, notifications and internet radio on its LED matrix. It is a desk object that turns data feeds into 8-bit-looking tiles.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

An invention kit that turns any conductive object into a computer key, so a banana becomes a piano and Play-Doh becomes a game controller. It is sold as an education tool but is mostly used to make deliberately ridiculous interfaces.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Makes the award-winning Nanodots magnet spheres that snap into geometric structures on a desk, from Nano Magnetics Ltd. The product has appeared on The Big Bang Theory and in Guinness World Records attempts.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Makes Bittle the robot dog and Nybble the robot cat, palm-sized open-source quadrupeds that walk, and can be programmed in Python or blocks. They are marketed as coding kits but function as very good desk pets.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

Maker of the original toilet stool, a footrest that changes your posture on the loo. The product is genuinely functional but the brand is famous for the unicorn-pooping-rainbow-ice-cream commercial that made it a gag-gift staple.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

The product studio of Simone Giertz, the inventor known online for deliberately terrible robots. Yetch sells the ideas that actually work, described as unique solutions to everyday problems, including the Every Day Calendar.

Party Novelties

A New York publisher of jigsaw puzzles and party games, including licensed puzzle ranges and quick-play party titles. One of the larger American puzzle makers.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

Designs prank greeting cards that never stop: the musical card loops until the battery dies, and tearing it open releases glitter. The company also sells other engineered pranks alongside the cards.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

A modern take on the split-flap departure board, built as a connected wall display that clacks through messages you send from an app. It is an expensive, very satisfying piece of mechanical theatre.

Subscription Boxes

A monthly family activity pack that includes a full board game in every box alongside other group activities. It is built for households that want something to do rather than something to collect.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A UK creator of funny novelty gifts, homewares, games and books, designing its own ranges rather than reselling. Output is aimed at the impulse gift shelf.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Makes globes that rotate continuously using only ambient light and the earth's magnetic field, with no batteries or cords. They sit on a desk turning quietly forever, which is exactly the appeal.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A prank-mail service that ships a real bag of animal manure, anonymously, with a note of your choosing. Horse and elephant varieties are offered, and the company publishes a live feed of orders.

Subscription Boxes

Creates immersive mail-based adventures delivered over weeks in a wooden crate, aimed at someone who has no idea it is coming. The experiences lean toward eerie and elaborate rather than funny.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A gift shop built around profanity-forward mugs, candles, cards and pins. The pitch is simple: unique gifts that will make the recipient laugh out loud.

Subscription Boxes

Monthly hands-on project crates for kids, each built around a science, art or engineering build that arrives with every part included. Lines are split by age from toddler up to teen and adult.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A bidet attachment company whose marketing is built almost entirely on cheerful poop jokes, which makes it a perennial gag-gift-that-is-actually-useful. Products clamp onto an existing toilet.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Makes unapologetically rude greeting cards for birthdays, holidays and anything else, aimed squarely at people who are not easily offended. Everything is illustrated and printed by the studio.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Makes machined desk fidgets that roll, slide and scroll silently, designed for adults who need something to do with their hands during focus work. The finish is closer to a watch than a toy.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

Mails an inflated playground ball with your message written on it, no box required. The Shark Tank-featured greeting arrives as a bouncing surprise with postage stuck straight to the rubber.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Machines precision spinning tops from a range of pure metals, sold as desk objects that spin for an unusually long time. Collectors buy the same shape in tungsten, copper, brass and beyond.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

The US Lava brand, selling lava lamps and related decorative lighting for over fifty years, including a build-your-own-lamp configurator. The classic dorm-room object, still in production.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Makes the gyroscopic wrist exerciser that spins up to enormous speeds as you rotate your hand, sold for grip training and as a desk curiosity. Some models count RPM on a built-in display.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

An online speed cube store running since 2009, offering pro tuning, cuber-staffed support and a wide catalogue of twisty puzzles. Ships worldwide.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Makes soap, candles and bath products whose labels carry long, profane, extremely specific jokes. The product is decent; the label is the point.