Strange gadgets

He expected to love the keyboard feel, but the keys turn out to be glued on and non-functional.

A realistic crab-shaped case that he finds more strange than appealing.

Cute, nicely built for the price, but it only has a car charger so it did not work in the room.

Cheap foam inside but the fluffy outside feels nice and the cat took to it.

A very good idea with simple execution, just a reflective piece of plastic.

The $1 bubble machine did a passable job but could not put out the fire.

The Gatling-style bubble gun felt powerful and came very close to putting out the fire.

The $40 machine has 128 bubble holes instead of five and made large bubbles, but narrowly failed to put out the fire.

The $10 machine has a bottle that clips in like a magazine and can run for ten minutes, but it still failed to put out the fire.

A $6,000 food 3D printer that never worked: messy, explosive and unable to hold structure.

A cat-shaped grip that pulls out and can also work as a phone stand.

A donut-shaped grip that surprisingly smells like donuts.

A grip with double mirrors for checking yourself out.

A beans-on-toast grip he questions anyone wanting on their phone.

A massive gummy bear grip, part of a run of food-shaped designs he finds puzzling.

A dog-shaped phone grip with a body that hangs down, shown as a novelty.

A tongue-shaped grip he found grim and strange.

A biscuit-shaped grip that he found very realistic, to the point of dunking it.

A 155mph RC car that does exactly what it promises, expensive but a straight 10.

Used to show how absurdly the complexity of Rubik's Cubes scales, ending with a 13x13 he left a colleague to solve.

Gamifies water fights with a display and pressurised water bullets, but is inaccurate past about five metres; he gives it a 7.

The coolest toy he has ever used, marked down slightly by the $549 price and the need to buy two; he gives it a 9.

The most powerful Nerf gun, but accuracy lags behind the power and it feels like a 3D printed product, so he wouldn't recommend it to most.

Impressive at precise drawing, but calibration is fiddly and the wall-drawing focus is niche.