Weird & wonderful

Smooth, quiet, even coat from a proper bit of industrial kit, scoring seven out of ten.

Tiny mint-like tablets that expand into towels quickly, which impressed him as a feat of engineering.

Not a better clock, but the levitating ball hand is wild and the customisable timer is a feature he loves, if pricey.

Pricey vacuum former that is fun to watch and makes a mould of any object, though it ruined his mouse's buttons.

Precise and almost silent, it printed a chess rook and Bulbasaur sizes with a few hiccups, and he found the layered texture fun.

An electromagnet platform that levitates objects, and a spinning fidget spinner on it was a highlight.

Gave perfect slices and scored an easy eight out of ten.

Fluffy, moist sand that was satisfying to cut and shape, though he did not give a score.

The roughly $100 fake iPhone has a plastic body that scuffs easily and bends under pressure.

An app-controlled electric ab belt used for a pain-tolerance showdown; he found it very weird.

Surprisingly tasteful and beautifully made, but it is just a normal iPhone at its core.

Surprisingly cool, reacting to speech and gestures, but a bit scary and impractical.

A realistic-looking novelty USB drive that he found captivating.

Stupidly expensive and far less cool than expected, with a strange sleeveless design.

Looks homemade and unsafe, though the spinning lasers felt like a superpower.

Voice-reactive and mind-bending, he called it the coolest gadget ever to enter the building.

Smaller and plasticky for the price, but mesmerising to look at.

A cheap-feeling toy gun that is very weak and pointless.

He expected to hate them but was oddly won over, and they made him want to dance.

Bought as a joke, but he plans to use it for its motion sensor, scent and UV sanitising.

Cheap egg lights that make you very noticeable on the road.

It worked, showing a full battery as 100 and his remote battery at about 90.

A strange singing instrument he found baffling and a bit inappropriate to play.

A well-built, fun gun that fires table salt at pests and has real impact.