The Awesomer
Reviews
- Carrooka The step between carrom and snooker that history never got round to taking
- Ayscrim Studios Pinball Clocks A pinball restorer built desk clocks out of the score reels, and the flipper buttons set the time
- Giant D20 Kit Twenty foam triangles and two bevel cutters, no glue
- Ants on a Turntable A phenakistoscope drawn one ant at a time
- Marbles on Piano Strings What a grand piano sounds like full of glass
Finds
- Carrooka Pool played with a fingertip, on a board that spins
- LEGO Ideas Wallace & Gromit The Close Shave motorbike and sidecar, with the diamond hidden under the seat
- LTT Nuclear Ratcheting Screwdriver A see-through driver that glows once you've had it under a lamp
- Aulumu B01 Urban Transit Gear Sling A sling bag with a magnetic phone mount riding outside the main compartment
- Cordless Firmcase A sunglasses case molded like an '80s brick phone
- Vosteed CheesePirates Porcupine A pocket knife with a handle molded like a wedge of Swiss cheese
- Fulton's Black Cat Playing Cards Witches and unlucky cats hidden in the line work
- Kent Nishimura plays "Peg" Steely Dan's most-produced song, on one acoustic guitar
- Xeric x Worn & Wound Sector Retrograde Two hands that sweep an arc and snap back
- Touch-Sensitive Light-Up Table Ten feet of epoxy with hundreds of sensors under the surface
- Pac & Ghost Ultem Lanyard Beads Amber-translucent arcade sprites for the end of a knife lanyard
- If All the Water on Earth Disappeared The ships are the part you had not thought about
- Dice Hoarder A shop that sells one thing, and it is all over the floor
- Kizer Drop Bear PEI An amber handle you can watch the lock work through
- Ten Thousand A short film that measures a life in four-minute units
- The Saga of Rex Fourteen years, one animator, one fox on the wrong planet
- Ali Hill's Embroidered Buildings Architecture drawn once by hand, then again by sewing machine
- Arcade2TV-XR Max It has a plunger, and it can feel you nudging the table
- CIVIVI Ti-Bar 1.7 inches of titanium that opens the box and the can
- A Duck Made of Horseshoes Rusted shoes and worn-out files, bent into a bird taking off
- Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdoes Fifty years of punk, assembled from the flyers up
- The Wavy Window Paradox Why office glass ripples from outside and not from inside
- Josh Gluckstein A life-sized manta ray, made of the boxes it shipped in
- R2-D2 Toaster It beeps at you while it browns the bread
- Zhang Yulin One sheet, folded to a wedge, cut through every layer at once
- Chrome Micro Kadet 3L Sling Three litres, and one of them is shaped like a U-lock
- Chronova's Impossible Scribe It gets longer, and the tip comes out the other way
- Douk Audio VU9 Mini Two glass tubes on the desk that climb with whatever is playing
- Alternative Accordion Radiohead, Blur and Tame Impala, played on a squeezebox
- ASCII City A walkable neon cyberpunk city where every texture is a character
- Ayscrim Studios Pinball Clocks Real score reels tell the time, and flipper buttons set it
- Blizwheel F0.5 A folding electric scooter light enough to carry up the stairs
- Hedley & Bennett Bob's Burgers Essentials Apron The apron half of professional kitchens already wears, with the Belchers along the hem
- If You Rode a Ship's Anchor to the Mariana Trench The drop to Challenger Deep, in real time, on the Titanic's anchor
- McLaren McL 6GT The first McLaren with a manual gearbox since the F1
- Damascus Glass Knife The folding technique that patterns steel, applied to molten blue and white glass
- Hide & Drink Leather First Aid Bag The pouch you'll actually keep where you can find it
- Piorama Trinity Pencil Case Eight inches that unrolls into twelve pens and still has room for a charger
- The Popsicle Stick House Two years of hot glue, compressed into sixteen minutes
- A Windows PC in a Walnut Hollow out the shell, fit an IPS display in the lid, boot XP
- 8BitDo Retro 87 The N64's Ice Blue, thirty years on, as a keyboard
- Apollo Program Slate Coasters Thirteen mission badges, and magnets so they live on the fridge instead
- Painting Inside a Crystal Ball Every stroke applied backwards, through a hole the width of a pencil
- V8 Engine-Powered Blender Four horsepower, eight cylinders, one smoothie
- Titaner Zephyra A spinning top with a scent chamber, so the spin has a smell
- Bamboo Tool Organizer 53 cutouts, angled so you can see what you're reaching for
- The Halo Theme, Sung in an Oil Tank Monastic chant returned to a room with a monastery's reverb
- Maratac Clip Brick Wave at it with greasy hands and it turns on
- Tactica O.200 Catch-All Mat A valet tray that rolls up and goes in the bag
- Bradley Mountain Courier Briefcase 14 oz waxed canvas, 10 oz harness leather, brass and copper
- The Simpsons Springfield Model Three years, 76 buildings, one very small Kwik-E-Mart
- CountyComm X-Pac Diplomat 3 EDC Pouch XL A 25% roomier EDC pouch in waterproof X-Pac
- Franklin Sensors Light Level, 12-inch A torpedo level that glows red until it's exactly level
- Otamatone Melody: PAC-MAN The squeezable synth, shrunk to keychain size and given a ghost
- Balmuda The Brew Pour-over, minus the hand
- Syitren RM1 A CD suspended in acrylic, spinning in the open
- Fulton Presents Steamboat Willie Playing Cards The 1928 Mickey, out of copyright and onto the court cards
- Giant D20 Kit Twenty foam triangles and two bevel cutters, no glue
- Maratac Deep Cover Clip Pouch A ten-dollar wallet with the clip stitched into it
- Ants on a Turntable A phenakistoscope drawn one ant at a time
- Pay Phone Charger A 3D-printed phone booth that charges the phone inside it
- Rampage Trail Can A toolbox shaped exactly like a jerry can
- Marbles on Piano Strings What a grand piano sounds like full of glass
- CURVD Keychain Pill Case A screw-top aluminum pill case with a swappable silicone sleeve
- Oboro Glow Carabiners Carabiners that store daylight and glow after dark
- CRKT HangPry A one-piece titanium EDC pry bar under an ounce
- Field Notes Paletas Pocket notebooks dressed as Mexican paleta wrappers
- Cling Mag Grab Mini A pocket-sized magnetic tray for flies, screws, and anything metal
- HyperLink & HyperLink Micro Titanium Carabiners A second clip built in, so it rides flat instead of dangling
- Nocs Provisions Zero Tube 8x25 Monocular Pocket optics tuned for close, fast subjects, not the far ridge
- King Jim Kerita Folding Cutting Mat A cutting mat sized to fold into a notebook
- Sushi Chess Set A 3D-printed chess set where the pawns are wasabi and the rooks are tuna rolls
- Transformers Scooby-Doo: Mysterious Prime & Automutt A Mystery Machine that transforms into an Autobot, with swappable Scooby-gang heads
- Braun Analog-Digital Watch with Step Counter A step counter hidden inside a classic analog face
- King Jim Kerita Folding Cutting Mat A cutting mat that folds down to notebook size
- Shark Blade Mini EDC Knife A titanium folding knife shaped like a shark's tooth
- Ant Design Apex Pocket Screwdriver A titanium pocket screwdriver with swappable bit trays
- Aulumu G05 Phone Stand A magnetic phone stand that's secretly a protractor
- RayCue Time Capsule G3 A candy-colored iMac G3 clock that teaches computing history
- RTIC Ultra Dry Duffle Pack A 60-liter duffle that's watertight down to the zippers
- Snow Peak Micro Hozuki A keychain-size version of Snow Peak's festival lantern
- STILL Titanium Brush Pen One refillable pen for ordinary lines and full brushstrokes
- Etenwolf Air 3 A rechargeable pump that inflates, deflates, and lights the campsite
- Maxpedition Tactical Can Case A round ballistic-nylon pouch sized for a food can
- Go-Bag Micro A 2.2L sling sized for pocket tools, cables, and a Kindle
- pen-metheus An aluminum pen that hides a ferro rod, striker, and tinder inside
- Tacray Titanium Whistle A square titanium whistle built not to roll off the table
- Evergreen 56 Dry Box An IP67 hardshell box that floats with your phone, wallet, and keys inside
- Fatty Snap Wallet A ripstop bi-fold wallet that closes with an interlocking-pin snap, not velcro or a magnet
- UCO Stormproof Match Kit Matches that stay lit in wind, rain, and underwater
- Bell & Ross BR-03 Helipad A watch dial styled as a rotating helipad
- IUMIUN Emergency Whistle & Lighter A titanium pendant that whistles, lights, and hides a pill
- Heytrip Folding Camping Table A camp table that hides its own gear
- Claymore 3Face Mini A pocketable area light that throws 800 lumens in every direction at once
- Roxon MBT3 BBQ Tool A folding grill multitool that fits six tools into 11 inches
- Maratac Titan War Claw Multitool A 0.35oz titanium keychain tool with six functions