This gift would pretty much set the bar for coolest cubicle in the whole office. It’s a functioning Venus fly trap. Crazy stuff!
The pod has a motion detector that will close when it senses a bug (or finger I suppose) and snaps shut. It’s cupped so that the bug won’t be squished. That means you can check the little dude out before you do whatever else it is you’d like to do with the prisoner.
At first I thought this was just a little toy, but it’s pretty good sized. It weighs a full pound and is 9 inches tall. This is a pretty serious bug catcher, and it’s pretty cheap too! So give this as a gift to somebody who likes to play a little while they’re at work. They’ll be the popular person for the week at work for sure!
Trap some bugs here.
What every office space needs is a slew of flying pigs. Maybe a monkey or two soaring through the air. And why not top it all off with a chicken to boot?
Now that dream of flying pigs is a reality! This trio of flying animals will not only fly into a desk 6 cubicles away, but make plenty of noise on the trip. As the image so colorfully displays, each animal makes a different sound of glee whilst soaring through the air.
The way it works is simple. The arms (or chicken’s neck) have elastic bands in them and a little place to put your fingers as anchors. Pull the animal back and let her rip!
Oh, and I suppose kids would love these airborne animals as well…not just bored office workers!
Send an animal into the air here.
Just what everybody needs at work, a panic button! Slap this puppy on your keyboard and have some fun with your fellow employees.
The button doesn’t do anything of course, and I’m not sure if it even depresses at all, but boy it sure looks good! One tip in the comments on the product’s page is that it’s not too great of an idea to put it on a laptop computer…it won’t shut thereafter.
Need to get a cheap gift for everybody in the office? Give them a bag of panic buttons!
Hit that panic button here.
Digital photo frames are a great way to go if you don’t want to have the same old photo sitting on your desk for years. They keep it interesting, and make it very easy to change photos.
You can use just about any kind of memory card loaded with pictures to insert into the frame. Once it’s in there, you can have a nice slideshow of all the pictures on there. You can also hook this up to an external hard drive, so really, there isn’t a limit on how many photos this thing will show. The cool thing about this one is that it’s a whopping 15″ frame! It’s called the Gigantor, great name. Digital frames are kind of expensive, but this one is priced very reasonably for such a large one. They’ve got other sizes over at ThinkGeek too, as in 10.4″ and 8″.
Frame some digital photos here.
Here’s another one of those things that just looks cool. It’s a big glass prism. The description on the site is not only informative, but educational as well. I’ve learned now that before electricity, ships relied on kerosene lamps and candles for light. Of course, fire housed beneath the deck isn’t always a good idea. Enter the prism. These puppies threw light all around the underside of the deck, taking advantage of the sun’s rays.
So benefit #1 is right there, it’s a great conversation piece. Benefit #2 is the fact that it’s totally awesome! Just look at it. It’s 4″ wide and 5″ tall. It makes me think of Emerald City in Oz. Yeah? I think so.
Bring in the green light here.
This thing looks pretty cool. I like mind benders and puzzles. I think this would go nicely with the Rubik’s Cube. I am a little thrown off by it however.
It’s a 3D puzzle (I’m not sure why it’s called a 4D game, maybe because it will take so much of your time away) where you try to get a metal ring out of the cubic labyrinth. I’ve searched for videos to see it in action, but to no avail. Apparently there’s a little metal ring, it looks like it may be around an inch in diameter, and you slide it around the edges of the cube in search of a way to get it detached from the cube. Word is that once you start, it’s very hard to put the thing down.
So maybe if you know someone who thinks they’re a master of puzzle solving, you can throw this new one at them.
Ring around the labyrinth here.
The things those kids are doing today, sheesh! These little cube stick figures have quite the little lives going on for themselves. The fellow in the blue box is Chief, and the one in the red box is Sparky. Chief is a policeman and Sparky is a fireman. Each stick figure goes about their own business and have some games you can play with them. I suppose that’s what the buttons on the front are for. One cool thing is that if you shake the cube, the little dude falls down, neat!
Now it gets much better. You can connect the two cubes and the two guys will interact with each other! As you can see there in the picture, they like to play pranks on one another. There are two other cube people you can get as well - Toner, a corporate desk jockey, and Dash, a delivery man. Apparently if you have all four connected, they will all interact with each other in a glorious meeting of stick figures. Crazy stuff.
Help stick people become friends here.
The world is a violent place. It’s time to fight back. What could be more damaging emotionally than any physical bullet? How about being hit by a nice, soft marshmallow? Okay, maybe it won’t do one bit of damage, but that’s why it’s so much fun!
Office habitants can protect their cubicle with this marshmallow blaster. Or maybe when it’s time for hot chocolate around the campfire, the wielder of the gun can bring white fluffy joy to the mugs of chocolaty goodness! I think I’d see how far away me and a friend could be and still catch the fired marshmallows with our mouths. Always a worthy challenge. ThinkGeek was also kind enough to offer their own marshmallow ammunition.
Fight crime the soft way here.
A ball of whacks, get it? Not only is this a neat red ball shaped thing, it comes with a 90 page guide book. So what exactly is it? It’s a 30-sided rhombic triacontahedron. What can you do with a 30-sided rhombic triacontahedron? Just about anything!
Well, it probably won’t make you lunch or tie your shoes, but it can shape shift with the best of them. Now, the reason this is in the corporate gift category is because this ball of whacks stimulated the creative right side of the brain. Pretty good excuse for playing around with something in the office huh? Not unlike some other things I’ve blogged about on here, the individual pieces are magnetic, which is always a bonus.
Just think of the magnetic origami that could be created with these. And if you also got the Magz Construction Set, you could make quite the magnetic wonderland.
Be creative with a rhombic triacontahedron here.
Yet another thing to fidget with and throw at your neighbor. The Boing Ball changes color each time it gets squeezed. I don’t imagine they bounce too well, but they sure do look pretty cool.
The ball has all kinds of uses. You can throw it at your friends’ faces, use it to play red light/green light, scatter them around your room at night to set the mood, and the list goes on. There are a few settings for the changing of the ball’s color. You can have it steadily changing, change each time you squeeze the life out of it, or have it remain a constant color.
Imagine getting a gift with a few of these and a few Mushroom Lamps! That would be the brightest, most colorful box of swell gifts one could possibly receive. Now the picture up here shows some different sizes. I’m not sure what’s going on there, because there’s one size available, and that’s a ball with a three inch diameter. We can slowly light up the world with colorful gifts one by one!
Squeeze to change color here.
