5 Ridiculously Weird Items Sold Through Amazon
These are the top 5 ridiculously weird items sold through Amazon:
5. Ulace No-Tie Laces
Price: $12.99
We've reached a technological precipice where we no longer have to tie shoelaces and no longer have to hear the dreaded rip of velcro to avoid that task.
Fake laces have been around for years and have long been the friend of kids who can't understand why a bunny would go all the way around a tree just to go down a hole and up again. However, as generations of adults aged, they figured out that walking around with decent-looking woven fake laces beats taking a knee in public every so often to lace up. Also, slip-ons are the great guilty pleasure of the adult footwear world: Nobody wants to be caught dead in moccasins, but everybody wishes every pair of shoes he owned came in slip-on form. Now they do.
4. Combat Flip Flops
Price: $49.99
No, this isn't some attempt to make rugged flip flops. This is actually a company run by U.S. combat veterans that makes these flip-flops with spent bullet casings in factories in Bogota, Colombia, uses those factories to push back against drug-financed insurgents and uses proceeds from the sale of those flip-flops to provide schooling for girls in Afghanistan. It's an unorthodox NGO-style business model, but the only thing weird about it is that there aren't many more like it out there.
3. Mr Bacon's Glacier Scented Beard Balm
Price: $25.99
We understand the need for beard balm and various beard oils. Living in the beard-heavy Pacific Northwest, you don't really want to be around a beard that isn't being treated with any of the above. They call it a crumb catcher, but it catches things far more gross than that. Our issue is this: what do you think a glacier smells like? You might guess pine, spruce, fresh snow, newly released oxygen -- and some of that would be right. But if your nasal passages aren't numbed by the cold, there a chance that it smells like wet marmot, bighorn droppings, elk urine and a whole lot of sediment. A glacier looks pristine from a valley away or even from the base of a mountain, but we still wouldn't recommend drinking from a melting one without a decent filter.
2. AlienTech S Clue
Price: $479
It is both weird and wonderful to have this much awesome packed into a little cube.
Yes, it's a 1080p high-definition projector, but that's oversimplifying it. It's a two-inch, nine-ounce cube that projects 10-foot images in HD. It has full Apple and Android support (via adapters), it's capable of projection mapping small to medium-sized objects, it can project holograms and it has about 2.5 hours of pure battery life. It's basically everything you could want in a projector, but in a package smaller than a tissue box.
1. Hose Hooker
Price: $19.95
It's a stick that holds a hose. This escapee from the as-seen-on-TV world pitches itself to people who regularly clean their dog with a garden hose and wash their boat with that same hose. We don't know if there's an Amazon Florida vertical in the works, but this should be the first offering.
