Things You
Should Not Buy

8 terrible ideas. Ranked by how hard they will make your partner sigh.

Campo del Cielo Meteorite Fragment

A genuine iron meteorite fragment from the Campo del Cielo crater field in Argentina. It fell to Earth approximately 4,5...

A palm-sized Tesla coil that plays music through lightning. Connect via Bluetooth, pick a song, and watch electricity da...

Turn the crank. A tiny brass astronomer raises a telescope to one eye. Gears mesh. A star map rotates above his head. He...

See the M81 galaxy with your own eyes. 203mm aperture, 1200mm focal length. This is not a beginner telescope — this is t...

The only musical instrument you play without touching. Wave your hands in the air — one controls pitch, the other volume...

A fully functional brass astrolabe, hand-engraved by a master craftsman in Toledo, Spain. Used for centuries by sailors,...

A globe that floats in mid-air. Electromagnetic levitation holds it perfectly suspended, rotating slowly. Touch it and i...

Measures ionizing radiation with a satisfying click-click-click. Cold War-era industrial design, modern internals. Will ...

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