This Is Why I'm Broke
Reviews
- IRL Glasses Sunglasses with the polarizer turned ninety degrees, so LCD televisions go flat black — and phones, pointedly, do not
- CafeCat Marshmallows A hand-drawn marshmallow cat that floats in your coffee, then gradually doesn't
- Retired Landmark Binocular Viewer A decommissioned coin-op tower viewer, sold with its service history
- LEGO Icons Arcade Pinball Machine A spring plunger, two flippers, and a ball that really drains
- Deep Dive Dubai Sixty metres down, past an ATM, a foosball table and a garage full of cars
Finds
- LEGO Donkey Kong Arcade The 1981 cabinet in about 1,370 bricks, with a lever that rolls a barrel down the girders
- Meow-G Board A spirit-board mat whose planchette reads "Summon my human"
- Arcadro Coin Pusher 365 A real fairground coin pusher, scaled down for a tabletop
- Ice Cream Mango Tree A grafted mango variety bred for custardy fruit, shipped live
- Clark Farm Silos Five decommissioned grain silos on a Montana farm, each rebuilt into a one-room stay with its own fire pit
- Ostrichpillow Original A pillow you wear over your whole head, with pockets for your hands
- Monopoly: Longest Game Ever Three of every property, one die, and no way out through bankruptcy
- Zebra DelGuard Two springs, one for pressing too hard and one for holding it wrong
- IRL Glasses Polarized sunglasses that make LCD and LED screens go flat black
- Three-Toed Sloth Costume A padded undersuit, a separate fur bodysuit, and a cast-silicone face
- Copper Wire Bonsai Tree A literati trunk that never needs water
- Couch Potato Body Pillow Correct lumps, correct colour, wrong size
- CafeCat Marshmallows A cat that floats in your coffee, then slowly doesn't
- Metal Venus Flytrap Garden Stake Something in the flowerbed has a mouth
- Retired Landmark Binocular Viewer A decommissioned coin-op tower viewer, sold with its service history
- Uranium Glass Marbles Vintage marbles that fluoresce green under a blacklight
- LEGO Icons Arcade Pinball Machine A spring plunger, two flippers, and a ball that really drains
- The Motor Mixer A wind-up outboard that stirs your coffee
- The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson Same line count as the Greek, and it moves
- Deep Dive Dubai There is an ATM sixty metres down a swimming pool
- Dog Peek Window A porthole in the fence, at dog height
- Casio CRW-H001 A smart ring that kept the tiny LCD watch face
- HydraLamp A bedside lamp that pours you a filtered glass of water
- Medieval Castle Murphy Bed A child's bed that folds up into a castle wall
- Panasonic Japanese Microwave (Genius Sensor 2.0) A microwave that reads the food's temperature instead of guessing at seconds
- Armchair Cruisers A motorized loveseat with a joystick where the armrest should be
- Coodle A bridge for the arm that always falls asleep
- Banana For Scale Ruler The internet's unit of measurement, standardised
- Magnetic Sand Iron filings in a spice shaker, so the field shows up
- Aquarium Bed A working 650-gallon aquarium built into a bed's headboard
- Hyperrealistic Mini Sculptures Palm-sized cult icons, hand-painted in silicone
- SteriPen Adventurer Opti A pen-sized UV wand that purifies water in seconds
- Elide Fire Ball A ball you throw at a fire to put it out
- As Seen Below James Turrell's 100th Skyspace, a domed chamber open to the sky
- Roborock Saros Z70 A robot vacuum with an arm that clears obstacles from its own path
- Spaghetti Donuts Rings of spaghetti twisted into a hand-held donut shape
- Project AirLink Air-Conditioned Pants Pants that plug into your cooling fan jacket
- Horror Movie Garden Gnomes Slasher-movie icons, recast as garden statuary
- Morse Code Bracelet A covert message hidden in beads
- Feel Seating System Deluxe A modular lounger of soft spheres you rearrange into whatever shape you want
- Seabreacher A fish-shaped two-seat submersible that dives, rolls, and breaches like the animal it copies
- ROKR Dinosaur Lab Pinball A wooden model kit that builds into a playable pinball machine
- Stemless Aerating Wine Glasses A built-in fountain that aerates wine as the glass fills
- Transparent Window Bird Feeder A suction-cup feeder that turns any window into a front-row bird blind
- D20 Dice Light A hand-carved wooden d20 lamp lit by an LED tea candle
- DO Your Whisky Making Kit Botanicals and wood chips that 'age' a cheap bottle in days
- McIntosh MA2375 McIntosh's first tube integrated amp in a decade, with glowing blue meters
- Vasco Translator V4 A pocket translator for 112 languages with free lifetime data built in
- Love Is Art Kit A canvas two people make with their bodies
- Drop Stop The neoprene wedge that closes the car-seat gap for good
- OtoSet Ear Cleaning System FDA-cleared automated earwax removal, headphone-style
- Sisyphus Kinetic Sand Art Display A steel ball endlessly redraws its own sand patterns beneath glass