Carrooka The step between carrom and snooker that history never got round to taking
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NFC Energy-Harvesting Business Card Twenty-one LEDs, no battery, powered by the phone reading it
Ollee Watch A smartwatch module that hides inside a Casio F-91W
LEGO Icons Arcade Pinball Machine A spring plunger, two flippers, and a ball that really drains
Pushup RPG: Fitness Quest The gear can improve your loot. It cannot do a single rep for you.
Sierra Softlock Analyzer It works out the moment a thirty-year-old adventure game stopped being winnable, then puts a stop sign one step earlier
Ayscrim Studios Pinball Clocks A pinball restorer built desk clocks out of the score reels, and the flipper buttons set the time
IVAN BOHUN A website served from four microcontrollers that vote on which one is in charge
Big Walk You cannot play this one alone — that's the point
morningprint A thermal receipt printer that publishes one edition a day, to an audience of one
The Listening Museum 36 keyboards you can hear by typing on the one you already have
Cycloidal Gearbox A fifteen-year-old's 3D-printed 1:9 drive, published with the version that failed and the numbers that prove it
Giant D20 Kit Twenty foam triangles and two bevel cutters, no glue
LEGO Editions Soccer Ball A size-5 ball that opens into a stadium mid-celebration
Cayin CP6 A portable CD player with real vacuum tubes inside
Kodak EC35 A reloadable 35mm point-and-shoot with a disposable-camera look
Alexander Calder Chess Set Calder's own 1944 chess set, 3D-scanned from the one he kept at home
Microlino A bubble car for the electric age
We Are Rewind WE-001 (Pink Floyd Edition) A Bluetooth cassette player wrapped in Dark Side of the Moon artwork
Tiny Vinyl Player A record player built for records that already play on any turntable you own
Shanling M0 Pura A 35-gram hi-res player with no Wi-Fi, no app store, and nothing to subscribe to
CJRB Pyrite-Light A $40 EDC flipper whose handle changes color with the warmth of your hand
ChompSaw Power Tool for Kids A finger-safe benchtop power tool that nibbles cardboard into 3D builds
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
- Three Pins One three-hole course a day, the same three holes for everybody
- Aulumu B01 Urban Transit Gear Sling A sling bag with a magnetic phone mount riding outside the main compartment
- Lucky Dangle A lucky charm that hangs from the top of your Mac's screen
- Cordless Firmcase A sunglasses case molded like an '80s brick phone
- EP–2350 FX–MIC A handheld mic with 1 MB of onboard sample storage
- Tether A ball on a string that bounces off your actual app windows
- Uranium Glass Marbles Vintage marbles that fluoresce green under a blacklight
- Fulton's Black Cat Playing Cards Witches and unlucky cats hidden in the line work
- NFC Energy-Harvesting Business Card Twenty-one LEDs, no battery, powered by the phone reading it
- Snaketron Competitive multiplayer Snake, revived after fourteen years
- 3D-Printed NPT Thread Checker Five minutes of printing instead of calipers and a lookup table
- Ollee Watch A smartwatch module that hides inside a Casio F-91W
- Chonkcraft Warcraft II off the original disc, on a Mac from this year
- 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
- OpenTIE and OpenXWA TIE Fighter at 240 Hz, with iMUSE intact
- Voronoi Go Go, with the grid taken away
- 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
- Pushup RPG: Fitness Quest The only way to level up is to actually go down
- Dice Hoarder A shop that sells one thing, and it is all over the floor
- Arcade2TV-XR Max It has a plunger, and it can feel you nudging the table
- Octophobia Clear the grid, and never make an eight
- REGOLITH: The Silence at Anaxagoras A lunar rover sim with ground that gives under the wheels
- 97 Copies of an Unreleased Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt Saved from a gold-recovery furnace, graded thirty years later
- Babelio White Noise Machine A golf ball that fixes hotel-room silence
- Casio CRW-H001 A smart ring that kept the tiny LCD watch face
- Dashboard Touch Thirty dollars of parts, and your old Mac gets a fingerprint button
- R2-D2 Toaster It beeps at you while it browns the bread
- 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
- Make: Fun! Forty projects from a man who designed toys at Mattel for a living
- Sierra Softlock Analyzer It finds the moment a Sierra game stopped being winnable, and blocks it
- 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
- HydraLamp A bedside lamp that pours you a filtered glass of water
- Mic Drop You get a word, you buzz in, you sing a real song that contains it
- Blizwheel F0.5 A folding electric scooter light enough to carry up the stairs
- McLaren McL 6GT The first McLaren with a manual gearbox since the F1
- Medieval Castle Murphy Bed A child's bed that folds up into a castle wall
- Porsche 911 Carrera S with MT Package Six speeds, three pedals, and North America only
- Big Walk A co-op-only walking game where sound is the puzzle
- IVAN BOHUN A personal website served from six microcontrollers on a shelf
- Mollie the Hamster's Strava A hamster wheel wired to auto-upload its runs to Strava
- Casio F-B100W The F-91W learns to count steps and never asks to be charged
- Kanto Obi3 (Gen 2) A $200 belt-drive turntable that now watches its own speed
- Millennium A plugin loader and CSS theming layer for the Steam client
- Supersonic Trebuchet A medieval siege engine producing a very small sonic boom
- Timex Marlin Chronograph Snoopy Carrera proportions, acrylic crystal, beagle
- 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
- Fiio Snowsky Nature 50mm drivers and a detachable cable for thirty-nine dollars
- 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
- The Campaign for North Africa 1,500 hours, ten players, and a rule about boiling pasta
- Maratac Clip Brick Wave at it with greasy hands and it turns on
- Seedle One Minecraft seed a day, scored on what's hiding in it
- StratoPi A Raspberry Pi, a weather balloon, and 100,000 feet
- Casio G-SHOCK Gravitymaster GWR-B3000 A watch that corrects its own hands after a hit
- Armchair Cruisers A motorized loveseat with a joystick where the armrest should be
- FiiO Snowsky Echo Nano An iPod Nano body built around a DAC chip
- Franklin Sensors Light Level, 12-inch A torpedo level that glows red until it's exactly level
- pokeemerald-rp2350 Pokémon Emerald recompiled to run natively on a $6 microcontroller
- VirtualApple.org A browser-based Apple II and IIgs emulator with 1,631 playable titles
- morningprint A thermal receipt printer that publishes one edition a day
- Otamatone Melody: PAC-MAN The squeezable synth, shrunk to keychain size and given a ghost
- Banana For Scale Ruler The internet's unit of measurement, standardised
- newold.computer A parts counter for machines that stopped shipping decades ago
- Syitren RM1 A CD suspended in acrylic, spinning in the open
- The Listening Museum 36 keyboards you can hear without owning one
- creakwork12 Your laptop hinge, now a rusty door
- Cycloidal Gearbox A fifteen-year-old's 1:9 gearbox, published with the version that didn't work
- Fulton Presents Steamboat Willie Playing Cards The 1928 Mickey, out of copyright and onto the court cards
- Hurtle An endless descent with ten sliders on the difficulty
- Magnetic Sand Iron filings in a spice shaker, so the field shows up
- Beakdown Joust, in a browser tab, with one control
- Giant D20 Kit Twenty foam triangles and two bevel cutters, no glue
- Kickabout Foosball rules on a touchscreen, two minutes a match
- LEGO Editions Soccer Ball A size-5 ball that opens into a stadium mid-celebration
- The Nostalgia Box A hundred consoles in West Perth, and you can play them
- 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
- Cayin CP6 A portable CD player with real vacuum tubes inside
- discrete6502 A MOS 6502 rebuilt from 4,051 transistors you can see
- CURVD Keychain Pill Case A screw-top aluminum pill case with a swappable silicone sleeve
- Michael Brough A Mac Mini on a low table, shared with his wife's bass and keyboards
- Oboro Glow Carabiners Carabiners that store daylight and glow after dark
- Hyperrealistic Mini Sculptures Palm-sized cult icons, hand-painted in silicone
- SteriPen Adventurer Opti A pen-sized UV wand that purifies water in seconds
- How The Clapper Became a Viral Sensation 70 minutes on a switch that barely worked and sold anyway
- CRKT HangPry A one-piece titanium EDC pry bar under an ounce
- iLive Clear Truly Wireless Open Ear Clip Earbuds Clip-on earbuds that never plug your ear canal
- Cling Mag Grab Mini A pocket-sized magnetic tray for flies, screws, and anything metal
- Elide Fire Ball A ball you throw at a fire to put it out
- Garmin CIRQA Smart Band A screen-free fitness band with no subscription and 10 days of battery
- Kodak EC35 A reloadable 35mm point-and-shoot with a disposable-camera look
- noclip Fly through classic game levels in your browser
- Overflight: Sky Radar Point your phone at the sky and it names the exact flight overhead
- 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
- Bandai Co. Head Office Godzilla, Goku and Shin-chan standing life-sized on the pavement outside an office tower
- 3Doodler Candy 3D Pen A 3D pen that extrudes candy instead of plastic
- Alexander Calder Chess Set Calder's own 1944 chess set, 3D-scanned from the one he kept at home
- DIY Chatter Wireless Communicator Kit 2.0 Build a pair of encrypted texters that work with no cell tower in range
- Synth-a-Sette Pocket Analog Synthesizer DIY Kit An analog synth in a cassette shell that plays doorknobs and houseplants
- Teddy Bear Park A Minnesota park where the teddy bears are bigger than real bears
- Theremin Electronic DIY Kit Solder together the one instrument you play without touching it
- HyperLink & HyperLink Micro Titanium Carabiners A second clip built in, so it rides flat instead of dangling
- Microflow Wire an Arduino by connecting nodes, not writing code
- Nocs Provisions Zero Tube 8x25 Monocular Pocket optics tuned for close, fast subjects, not the far ridge
- Project AirLink Air-Conditioned Pants Pants that plug into your cooling fan jacket
- Firefox in WebAssembly The actual Firefox browser, compiled to run inside a browser tab
- Horror Movie Garden Gnomes Slasher-movie icons, recast as garden statuary
- King Jim Kerita Folding Cutting Mat A cutting mat sized to fold into a notebook
- Microlino A bubble car for the electric age
- Morse Code Bracelet A covert message hidden in beads
- Q3Edit Edit and playtest Quake III Arena maps without leaving the browser
- Ribbie Live MLB games redrawn as 8-bit sprites, pitch by pitch
- Seabreacher A fish-shaped two-seat submersible that dives, rolls, and breaches like the animal it copies
- QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled) The 1991 banana-lobbing artillery game, faithfully remade in the browser
- 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
- UGREEN Airplane Phone Holder A MagSafe clamp that grips a tray table, headrest, or luggage handle
- We Are Rewind WE-001 (Pink Floyd Edition) A Bluetooth cassette player wrapped in Dark Side of the Moon artwork
- Amble One An open-air electric buggy with no doors, roof, or screens
- Braun Analog-Digital Watch with Step Counter A step counter hidden inside a classic analog face
- Codex XBand Watch Strap A watch-strap clasp that quietly adds fitness tracking to any watch
- Firefox in WebAssembly Firefox's actual Gecko engine, compiled to WebAssembly and running inside a browser tab
- Shark Blade Mini EDC Knife A titanium folding knife shaped like a shark's tooth
- TiMate Verolite A titanium pen that reconfigures into a repair kit
- 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
- Comandi TiNexus A keychain-size titanium ratchet with a real 72-tooth mechanism
- Hand-Drawn Game Guides Meticulous hand-drawn maps for classic NES games
- RayCue Time Capsule G3 A candy-colored iMac G3 clock that teaches computing history
- ROKR Dinosaur Lab Pinball A wooden model kit that builds into a playable pinball machine
- Tiny Vinyl Player A shoebox-size turntable built only for 4-inch records
- Anchor Optics Edmund Optics' clearance arm — Fresnel lenses, mirrors, prisms, and laser parts sold as cosmetic seconds
- Shanling M0 Pura A hi-res music player that deliberately can't stream
- Etenwolf Air 3 A rechargeable pump that inflates, deflates, and lights the campsite
- Pixel Skylines The video-game backgrounds you scrolled past and never looked at
- D20 Dice Light A hand-carved wooden d20 lamp lit by an LED tea candle
- MapTap A daily GeoGuessr-style game played by tapping a 3D globe
- Logitech Mobi Fold A pocket-size folding mouse that runs 22 hours on a one-minute charge
- 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
- Golf Wine Aerator Aeration for the nineteenth hole
- Kiko Pounce & Play Laser One rechargeable wand, three lights
- Drop Stop The neoprene wedge that closes the car-seat gap for good
- ToothPaste A hardware BLE dongle that pastes secrets without typing them
- Typocalypse A typing roguelike where your keyboard is the weapon
- AeroStrap A $10 cord that turns wireless earbuds back into a tethered pair
- ChompSaw Power Tool for Kids A finger-safe power tool that turns cardboard into 3D builds
- Inkerie Rechargeable LED Book Light A clip-on reading light that skips the disposable coin cells
- The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book Aeronautically tested folds, including a 226-foot record design
- OtoSet Ear Cleaning System FDA-cleared automated earwax removal, headphone-style
- Portable Manual-Feeding Glue Gun A cordless, manual-feed glue gun for crafting anywhere
- Smart Laser Measure Tool A one-button laser measure with an app that maps whole rooms
- Anbernic RG Rotate Pocket Android handheld whose screen physically rotates
- DIY Doodling Robot Kit Three-armed automaton draws geometric patterns with felt-tip pens
- Axolotl Punch Needle Kit Complete punch needle kit with axolotl motif, bamboo hoop included
- Cappy the Capybara Planter Ceramic capybara carrying your succulent on its back
- Dachshund Trinket Tray Terracotta catch-all tray elongated to match a dachshund's silhouette
- Nightstick Rechargeable Floodlight 600-lumen magnetic work light that charges via AC or DC
- reMarkable Paper Pure Entry-level e-ink writing tablet with no distractions
- RingConn Gen 3 Oura-level health tracking smart ring with no subscription
- Writer Deck Resource List Comprehensive guide to distraction-free writing hardware
- BenQ MA270S 27" 5K Display An affordable 5K Mac-focused alternative to the Apple Studio Display
- Desperate Oasis A two-player card game with 1920s matchbook-art aesthetics
- EdgeFlow Portable Electric Scissors Battery-powered scissors for fabric, paper, leather, plastic
- Sunography Solar-Powered Photography Kit Sun-printed photo cards using cyanotype-style UV-reactive paper
- Marbles Squared A puzzle game playable on web, Game Boy, ZX Spectrum, and Palm Pilot
- Desktop Tower Defense Paul Preece's 2007 Flash-era classic revived for the modern web
- Kodak Charmera Keychain Camera Blind Box A working digital camera the size of a 35mm film canister
- Light Up Pencil A pencil with an LED in the eraser end for writing in the dark
- Teenage Engineering EP-136 K.O. A pocket-sized sidekick sequencer with 16 pads and 14 voices
- Woodpecker Garden Shears Bird-shaped pruning shears
- I (Heart) NY Hoptimist Milton Glaser's logo on a 3-inch desk-spring figurine
- Magnetic Folding Chess & Checkers Set Walnut board with magnetic pieces — bumps don't tip the position
- DIY Wearable Hydraulic Cyborg Hand A 203-piece kit that builds a working hydraulic robotic hand you wear like a glove
- DoodleMate Animate your child's drawings — no generative AI in the output
- Bug Blaster A $8 handheld bug-launcher styled as a galactic ray gun
- Huckleberry Slingshot Beechwood and silicone, comes with five foam balls
- Read or Rest Spinning Decider Bookmark A gold spinner that lands on 'One More Chapter' or 'To Be Continued'
- Chess Peace A pacifist chess puzzle: place the pieces so none can attack each other
- Hidden Patterns Watercoloring Set A blank page that reveals an illustrated scene as soon as a wet brush touches it
- Cat Watering Can A watering can shaped like a sitting cat — the spout is the tail
- "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead" Music Box A hand-crank music box that plays the Munchkin victory anthem from Oz
- Anker 8-in-1 USB-C Hub & Tablet Stand Eight ports plus an angled stand, so an iPad Pro becomes a real workstation
- Luchador Bottle Openers Cast-metal masked-wrestler bottle openers
- Mozart Kitchen Timer A wind-up timer that plays Mozart instead of buzzing
- Synerlogic macOS Keyboard Shortcut Vinyl Sticker A $6 cheat-sheet sticker for the palm rest
- Birdfy AI Smart Bird Feeder Camera feeder that names every visiting species and clips the good takeoffs
- Bridge City Chopstick Master Gen 2 Woodworking jig for making your own chopsticks
- DIY Wearable Hydraulic Cyborg Hand Build-your-own articulated hand powered by water
- Juicy Jingles Bike Bell Fruit-shaped bicycle bell
- Crab Multi-Tool Pocketable multi-tool shaped like an actual crab
- Hedgehog Nail Brush A nail brush you actually want to keep on the sink
- Pill Pod Daily pill case shaped like a pea pod
- Penumbra Magic Postcards Paper postcards that play a video when you scan the QR
- Skull (Card Game) Three roses, one skull, and the pile in the middle that everyone is lying about
- Read or Rest Spinning Decider Bookmark A bookmark that flips a coin for you
- UGREEN Uno MagSafe Power Bank Tiny face on the screen reacts to your phone's battery level
- Unruly Play Archive of 169 unconventional games for unconventional places
- Wearable Retro Mini Camera Pendant-sized camera you actually wear