All novelty brands

Desk Toys & Fidgets

A Connecticut artist who has been making wooden kinetic sculptures since 1975, wound by hand and running for hours on stored spring energy. Each design is a numbered limited edition.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

The official home of the Rubik's Cube and its family of twisty puzzles, with solution guides for each size. Still the most recognisable desk object in the category by a wide margin.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Builds handcrafted Nixie tube clocks and sells the tubes themselves, including ZIN18, ZIN70 and IN-14 designs. The clocks put orange glowing numerals on a desk and ship worldwide.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Builds kinetic sand tables where a magnet drags a steel ball through sand to trace endless patterns, sold as furniture-grade art objects. Sizes run from coffee table down to desk.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

A small wood-framed LED display that shows transit times, weather and other glanceable feeds so you can leave your phone in your pocket. The app catalogue is community-extensible.

Subscription Boxes

The original fun sock-of-the-month club, shipping a surprise pair of loud socks on a subscription since 2012 and featured on Shark Tank. More than a million pairs have gone out.

Subscription Boxes

Sends a monthly box of snacks from a different country each time, with the contents kept secret until it arrives. Box sizes scale from a small sampler to a heavily loaded crate.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

Flushable wipes marketed with relentless bathroom humour, started from an apartment and now assembled in the USA at enormous volume. The branding is the product's main novelty.

Subscription Boxes

A monthly mystery-puzzle box that sends a new country's culture and history wrapped around a cooperative case to solve. It plays solo or as a team and runs on a subscription.

Subscription Boxes

A monthly subscription for LEGO-compatible builds and brick accessories, including custom kits and lighting. Subscribers can follow a themed city that grows month by month.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A Colorado Springs letterpress studio making greeting cards and paper goods with a stated stand-up-and-give-back streak. Designs mix sincerity with a sharp sense of humour.

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.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Handcrafts moving sand art pictures in the USA, sealed frames of coloured sand and liquid that form a new landscape every time you flip them. Each piece is made by hand.

Subscription Boxes

A monthly box of Japanese candy, snacks and drinks shipped from Tokyo, heavy on limited-edition and seasonal flavours that do not reach Western shelves. Ships worldwide.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A Portland, Oregon greeting card company, design studio and working letterpress print shop. Cards are printed on their own presses and lean warm rather than crude.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A woman-owned letterpress shop in New Mexico specialising in what it calls bad cards for good people. Everything is printed in-house on vintage presses.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

An anonymous prank-shipping outfit that sends a package of animal droppings to a recipient of your choice. Sizes and animal sources vary, and the sender's identity is kept off the parcel.