Weird & wonderful

Explained as strobing lights making falling water appear to rise, with no verdict given.

A box opener with a nice retracting blade, but it fails its no-cuts claim and struggles with angles and nooks.

A genuinely new instrument that is therapeutic and delivers what it promised, though he is not the target market.

The most comfortable sliders he has found, though a little noisy and pricey.

Heavily delayed and then asked backers for more money, so he pulled out.

The lattice structure flexes underfoot and feels therapeutic, though it dug into his wide feet.

A $1,399 home gym bench that arrived but would not power on, felt homemade and was missing the rowing extension.

A desktop robot pet that is late and may eventually be released.

Natural airflow wasn't enough in a hot room, and the $60,000 bed gave less deep sleep than the Eight Sleep setup.

The tiny leaf blower is almost useful and clears leaves reasonably well.

A cute tiny CD that starts music playing on your phone via NFC.

A tiny microscope with a built-in LED that is far from the best he has used but still magnifies usefully.

The small plasma ball works surprisingly like a full-size one.

A tiny replica of the Henry Hoover that is grim-looking but has surprisingly good suction.

The tiny blender works but would take a long time to blend anything.

Produces only a tiny white speck of light, used as the baseline in the brightness comparison.

The world's brightest flashlight is huge, heavily cooled and gets hot immediately, though he found the engineering impressive.

Significantly brighter than the 10 lumen torch and enough to light up much of a room.

A torch at one end and softer lantern at the other, with a very large step up in power.

Uses six bulbs, is built to light up the ocean depths and is bright enough to damage eyes.

A properly made, genuinely cool miniature lightsaber blowtorch; he gave it the first 9/10, though the colour inserts are pricey.

A sharp, well-built and cheap utility knife handle, marred by an awkward closing mechanism; 6.5/10.

Basically a good marinara with slightly misleading marketing and a high price; he gave it 7/10.

An elite-tier YouTuber product that smartly builds on MegaPro's design; he scored it 9.5/10.