Guide · 2026
Best Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets (2026)
The 10 most complete weird tech & useless gadgets listings on Crazy Useless, ranked by how much verified public information each publishes: description, services, pricing, and a live website. 31 are listed in this category. Order is not a quality rating, and no listing pays for its rank.
- 1
Firebox
A British gift retailer and own-brand developer that made its name on outlandish presents, boozy gadgets and irreverent personalised items. It mixes licensed pop-culture goods with its own limited-run oddities.
- Listed under Gag Gifts & Prank Mail, Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets
- 4 services listed, including novelty gifts, personalised gifts, drinking gadgets
- 2
Flipper Zero
A pocket multi-tool for exploring radio protocols and access-control systems, shaped like a toy dolphin with a virtual pet on the screen. It is fully open source and became a cult object among hardware tinkerers.
- 4 services listed, including portable hacking multi-tool, rfid and nfc, sub-ghz radio
- Serves the whole US
- 3
Hammacher Schlemmer
In business since 1848 and still selling what it calls the best, the unique and the unexpected. It is the catalogue famous for oversized, faintly ridiculous luxury gadgets, backed by a lifetime guarantee.
- Listed under Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets, Gag Gifts & Prank Mail
- 4 services listed, including unusual gadgets, luxury novelties, outdoor oddities
- Serves the whole US
- 4
IWOOT (I Want One Of Those)
A long-running British gift site built around quirky gadgets, licensed merchandise and unusual presents. It is one of the original UK homes for the sort of gift that exists mainly to be shown to people.
- Listed under Gag Gifts & Prank Mail, Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets
- 4 services listed, including gadget gifts, licensed merchandise, novelty gifts
- 5
Paladone
A licensed consumer-goods maker that turns gaming and entertainment properties into lamps, mugs, desk gadgets and novelty homeware. If a franchise has a glowing icon, Paladone has probably made a lamp of it.
- Listed under Party Novelties, Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets
- 4 services listed, including licensed novelty goods, light-up decor, drinkware
- 6
Playdate (Panic)
A small bright-yellow handheld game console from software company Panic, with a black-and-white screen and a physical crank on the side. It ships with two dozen games delivered season-by-season over Wi-Fi.
- Listed under Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets, Desk Toys & Fidgets
- 4 services listed, including handheld console, season game delivery, developer sdk
- Serves the whole US
- 7
Sharper Image
The long-running gadget brand behind massage chairs, air purifiers and an endless run of slightly unnecessary consumer electronics. It is the other half, with Hammacher Schlemmer, of the classic airline-catalogue gadget genre.
- Listed under Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets, Gag Gifts & Prank Mail
- 4 services listed, including consumer gadgets, massage products, novelty electronics
- Serves the whole US
- 8
Solarbotics
A Calgary electronics outfit selling DIY kits and robot parts, including the Useless Machine kit whose only function is to switch itself off. The catalogue mixes serious components with deliberately pointless builds.
- Listed under Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets, Indie Makers & Small Studios
- 4 services listed, including electronics kits, useless machine kit, robot parts
- Serves the whole US
- 9
teenage engineering
A Swedish design company making unusually styled electronic instruments and audio gadgets, including the calculator-sized Pocket Operator synths. Its products look like toys and work like serious instruments.
- Listed under Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets, Desk Toys & Fidgets
- 4 services listed, including pocket synthesizers, audio gadgets, speakers
- 10
TinyCircuits
An Ohio maker of absurdly small open-source electronics, including working TinyTVs, miniature arcade cabinets and thumb-sized game consoles. The products are functional gadgets that are mostly funny because of their scale.
- Listed under Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets, Desk Toys & Fidgets
- 4 services listed, including miniature electronics, tinytv, mini arcade cabinets
- Serves the whole US