Yet another time killer for cubicle bound folks. I don’t know why I love stuff like this so much. Wait, I think it’s because I’m a fantastic waster of time!
You can get both Mario and Luigi, who come tethered to an old NES style controller. I’m not sure what’s going on with the brown colors, perhaps they’re going for the golf khaki look. Only the A and B buttons do anything, the rest is just cosmetic. Each comes with a couple teeny tiny “golf” balls that will need divine intervention to not get lost in the first week of action. There’s even a tiny little range-quality hole thing that you can aim for. I can’t imagine this is easy, but hey, it looks like a great time waster.
Maybe if you know somebody who can’t get enough Mario golf on their Gamecube. You can help them practice while at work!
Get Mario and/or Luigi at ThinkGeek.com
Baguette? Oui oui! Now I’m not too sure that this is a great gift idea for anybody who is on a diet, or trying to start their diet. I personally think those wrist rest (say that three times fast) things are great toys for tossing around when bored at the desk. As far as wrist rests go though, this is the tastiest looking one I’ve ever seen.
The keyboard wrist rest is, obviously, made to look like a tasty loaf of bread - looks like a nice, somewhat stale, loaf of the local bakery’s French bread, yum. Now, as far as I can tell, this thing is the real deal. It’s made of soft cushioning cell foam and sized just right to keep the wrists in the proper place. So not only is it tasty looking, it’s also nice and ergonomic!
If nothing else, this makes for a great toy to throw around at people, and really, who doesn’t love fake food hanging around?
Get the tasty wrist rest here.
These mushroom lamps are totally awesome. They look like little magic mushrooms that an Italian plumber may use to gain an extra life or perhaps grow to twice his size. I’m not sure how much of a room they would lighten up, but perhaps they could serve as a perfect little night light. They are touch lamps, since you just bonk them on the head to turn them on and off.
Maybe you know someone who needs a nice little (and I do mean little, they’re only a few inches tall) desk lamp, since they aren’t down with the whole lava lamp scene. Or perhaps you’d like to just have some random little mushrooms lit up around your pool at night. No strings (or chords in this case) attached! I love gifts like these, because they are cheap, and you can get one, two, or three if you want. The recipient of the mushroom lamp(s) will be none the wiser if you get them two blue ones even. Lovely!
Obviously, they come in three colors: red, green, and blue. They run on one AA battery, so that’s nice and easy. This is one I know I’ll save for a future Christmas gift idea.
Get the Mushroom Lamps here.
Doh! Know that special someone who sits at their desk all day just wishing they had a great place to keep their snacks away from their fellow employees? Maybe a cubicle resident with the munchies? Give them the gift of Homer.
This cookie jar is a beauty. It’s a foot tall, so it’s a pretty good size. The owner of the Homer cookie jar will have the option to have him say something each time a goodie is taken out of his head. He’ll say some classic Homer phrases, of course including “Doh!” The voice shows up with his pop-top head is lifted by his hair strand handles. It requires 2 AA batteries, which are actually included. Pretty wild in today’s society that batteries would be included with something as insignificant as a cookie jar. That’s top notch work by Perpetual Kid.
Go get the Homer Cookie Jar.
This little dude will crawl anywhere there’s a smooth surface. It doesn’t matter if it’s vertical or horizontal, ceiling or floor. The little REX uses his suction cups to go up walls and upside down on ceilings.
I’d say it would make a great gift for someone who is stuck in an office all day. I’d love to see it in action. It’s pretty cheap, so who knows how well it works. I’m also not sure about how many people have walls that are smooth enough for this guy to climb on. I guess to test it out, you can get a normal suction cup and see if it sticks to your wall or ceiling. It probably only needs to stay there for a few seconds. I’ve got that textured stuff in this room, so I’m not sure it would work in here, but man it would be pretty cool to have a little robot thing just crawling all over the place.
Climb@Tron R.E.X.
