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Remember the USB Owl from last year who blinks and swivels his head? Now we’d like to introduce you to his distant, eco-friendly cousin, Mr. Solar Powered Owl. Sunny Outlook – Solar Powered Owl (Small) Cute owl desktop toy Solar powered – no batteries needed Owl shakes its head Size: 2-1/2″ x 3-1/2″ x 2-1/2″ (6 cm [...]

Just because your friends are headed south for the tropics doesn’t mean you have to get jealous of them. Instead, with a little help from your imagination, you can make yourself believe that you are on a white sand beach, barefoot, sipping Coronas with limes. All you need is something to focus on like a photo or better yet, the Beach in a Box. [...]

Sometimes adults need toys to play with to keep our hands and minds busy, and toys are great for the occasional boost of inspiration, too. Buckyballs, Buckycubes, Magnetic Thinking Putty and Magformers are excellent toys that use the strength of magnets to allow us to create unlimited numbers of crazy structures and abstract formations. Here’s another toy that uses magnets, but also LED [...]

Interoffice warfare can get pretty extreme and as any good warrior knows, being convert can be the key to a successful mission. You never saw Rambo running and screaming while blindly firing everywhere, ooh wait a minute…Anyway, that wouldn’t go over well in the office setting, but feel free to wrap your tie around your [...]

Owls seem to be popping up everywhere; even as computer accessories. How these creatures love to tug at our heartstrings! Who can resist their big, round eyes, the way they do that rad 360 move with their heads, and their overall pudgy cuteness? We’ve shown you some fancy owls that plug into USB outlets, such as the Owl Flash Drive Keyring, Owl [...]

Christmas trees and motherboards have some things in common. They’re both green and look better when studded with sparkly LED lights. If you’d rather deck the halls with boards and circuits, here’s a 7-inch LED Motherboard Christmas Tree that’ll channel your inner Clark Griswold. Beep boop beep! The traditional Christmas tree gets a technological upgrade with this light-up desktop motherboard version. Simply insert [...]

Desk Pets International (HK) Limited just announced that they are launching a new Special Edition TankBot that will be available exclusively at Brookstone stores. This special edition model comes with a “battle mode” which allows you to battle other tanks via the infrared light. TankBots were named winner of Popular Science’s Best of Toy Fair [...]

It would be great fun to be a spy, except for all the extreme danger, dreadful conditions, and dreary loneliness. Fortunately, you can get the Secret Agent Desktop Decoder and pretend to be a covert operative without risking your life for real. The Secret Agent Decoder is a really cool looking desktop gadget that is [...]

Fishing is a pretty popular pastime and now you can enjoy it at your desk when you feel like you need that 5 minute break from putting coversheets on all the TPS reports. Enjoy the First Strike Fisherman Desktop Fishing Game as you cast away trying to grab those little fish with the magnetic lure. [...]

Robots come in all shapes and sizes. Most of the ones we’ve posted on GA have each offered a gadgety function. Among them were the Desktop Robot Vacuum, Mini Robot Desktop Fan, Robot Kitchen Timer, Yumbots Robot Cupcake Molds, Robot Measuring Cups, Splitterbot Headphone Splitters, and the Echobot. (I’m starting to sound like Forrest Gump rattling off random shrimp dishes.) Here’s [...]

Are you looking for a cool little lamp for your computer desk or workstation?  If so, the USB Light-Sensitive Ghost Lamp may be perfect for you.  With it’s rear mounted light sensor, these little ghostly lamps know when to light up and when to shut off automatically.  Just plug them into a USB port and [...]

If you’re like me, you often eat at your desk, which can mean messy crumbs. Keep things clean with the Desktop Robot Vacuum. It looks like a cute little robot, but works as a vacuum cleaner to suck up the dust, crumbs, and other small specks from your desk.