I can't believe someone makes... CPU Wars Top Trumps
This one made me smile - memories of Top Trumps in the playground in the 1970s came flooding back...Sports cars, or ships, or lorries, or tanks were the popular types of topics, if I remember correctly. Well, the kids of today can play the computer processor variety - featuring 30 CPUs "that had an impact on desktop history"...
Of course, it's a bit of fun, and I quite fancy seeing the cards myself. I hope ARM are represented (lowest power, largest sales?...) - from the graphic you can see MIPS are in there (for the RS300). What processors would you expect to see listed as a classics?
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This one made me do a double take. Jeremy Scott has designed these 
We've covered super soaraway luggage before - see 
When the person next to you on the train or the bus insists on talking loudly into a phone about what's for dinner or who was drunkest last night, or you're on an early train home and it coincides with chucking out time for the local sixth form college and dozens of boisterous teenagers have to talk across each other at 90db, wouldn't you just love one of these...
Now this sounds like it might be a really clever piece of kit, and I suppose in a way it is. But it requires no knowledge of electronics whatsoever to assemble it.
Medical students are known for their dark sense of humour, so this one would have proved an ideal Christmas present. It's a toaster with a difference - a defibrillator toaster!
My first reaction to reading about 
Thanks to Steve B for highlighting this one.
Audiophiles can take things to the extreme, but how about this one? A 3.5m high iPod dock that requires its own, built-on step ladder to access the aforementioned iPod device... Welcome to the AreoDreamOne.
When you are photographing people do you want them all to look as if they are crouching, flinching or just have a hunted look in their eye? If so, then the "Sling Shot" camera is for you.
I really can't believe someone makes neolithic-style red laser pointers but I'm glad they do. The fossil-style arrowhead device would nicely complete the caveman-tech concept currently going on in my office. 
Not sure what it is about watches and clock faces, but I'm a sucker for this kind of thing. Let's just say Tag Heuer and Omega probably aren't quaking in their boots about this strangely alluring techy rival.
I can't believe someone makes luggage scooters. But, you know what? I'm glad they do!
Where to file this one? Canny product recycling or cheeky leg pulling? You decide.
Maybe I am just showing my culinary ignorance here, but something about probing food seems wrong, and I am afraid the 
How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways...
You've got to smile at this one - a "sliced" grandfather clock. Maybe your modern flat is too miniscule for the full works. Maybe you like this "modern, minimalist take" on the classic standing clock...
The more I think about this one, the more it actually makes sense. Almost.
It's always nice to get suggestions for the blog from readers and, following Bob's 
I can't believe someone makes AR business cards, but I'm glad they do. I want one! 
This one made me smile. It almost makes sense, sort of. If you had a very long cable... You don't want to be in a position where you can only listen to music lying on the floor, next to a plug socket.
I can't believe someone makes LED benches... but they do. 
It's so wrong it's got to be right. Maybe. It's a lamp made out of its own power cord, the 
An owl with a beating heart and time in its eyes...
Apologies in advance for the poor taste of these products. USB connectors have just gone too far - I can't believe someone makes USB skullhubs... They're 'Scarily fast', says the promo. 
Is that the space fleet's Enterprise, boldly going? Or is it a not inexpensive Pizza Cutter? It's both. 
I can't believe someone makes gunship watches that are designed to chip over time.
I can't believe someone makes three dimensional switchplates, but I am rather glad they do. I quite fancy adding another dimension to light switches! And mains sockets, too, while I am it...
Fancy buying an egg and bacon iPhone case? That's not a sentence I expected to type at work this morning.
Tuna? I like tuna pasta, and it's nice in sandwhiches. I even remember once ordering a lovely tuna stake with rocket salad. But I find it hard to believe someone makes a tuna can alarm clock!
I really can't believe someone makes Rihanna kitchen scales featuring an iPod dock. Cheryl Cole scales, maybe. Rihanna, no. Even if they do feature an iPod dock...
I really can't believe someone makes steering wheel desks, encouraging you to work or type while driving...
The ultimate in decadent convenience? Want to save the effort of pushing a heavy pencil across scratchy unpleasant paper and making your own list? I know I do. Well, here's the device for us: the SmartShopper SS-301 Voice-Recognition Grocery-List Organizer.
What's the collective noun for absurd USB dongles? How about, a plate?! And will a Humping Dog address your data storage needs?...
I can't believe someone would really make cola powered-cell phones, but it sounds a jolly good idea.
The streets of New York, eh? The things you find there. Like discarded cassette tapes. Shame you can't make neck ties out of them...
With a guitar T-shirt, you never know when inspiration will take you. Imagine strumming a little Paul Simon while sitting on a warm Californian beach, maybe, or just practising a few riffs standing in a cold bus-shelter waiting for the number 53 to Ponds End...
There's even a mini guitar amp speaker that clips to your belt and, inevitably, the volume control goes past ten and all the way up to 11...
Back to good old-fashioned 'electronic landfill'
What is the connection between Universal Serial Bus-based devices and... food and drink?
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should... I can't believe someone really needs to catch up on the latest "viral video" while cooking an egg. 
I can't believe someone makes R2-D2 Christmas lights! Don't they know that Astromech Droids[1] should only be used for "repairs and navigational computing"?!
It's the Real Thing. Except it's not. It's a unit for consumer / industrial espionage....
I can't believe someone makes a Wi-Fi Dowsing Rod, enabling us to go twitching for a decent 21st century wireless connection.
It's like something out of the Simpsons. You know the episode, where he is driving a car and also cooking, and watching a telly and doing the washing (before he inevitably drives distractedly off the end of a pier)... Well how about this from the real world.
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