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Welcome to the ultimate squishy collection, featuring everything from adorable food and kawaii animals to weird, funny, jumbo, and irresistibly satisfying squishies. Whether you’re looking for a fun stress-relief toy, a cute desk companion, a gift for someone who loves squishies, or simply something you can’t stop squeezing, this collection brings together the softest, cutest, and most satisfying squishy finds in one place.

I went looking for robot pets expecting to find gimmicks, and instead found a whole category of small machines that people get genuinely attached to. Some are furry and just want to be held. Some are robot animals that walk, sulk and come when called. Some are little desk creatures with big opinions about being ignored. They are grouped that way below, so you can find the kind of company you are actually after. Everything here is in production and buyable today — the ones that were sold out, Japan-only or quietly discontinued did not make the cut. Prices run from about $140 to eye-watering, and I have flagged which is which.

Cheap tech is usually a false economy, but a handful of things under fifty dollars are so good they make the expensive version look silly.

The sun starts setting at 5pm and suddenly the whole evening needs a different setup. This is the gear I keep coming back to for that: warm light that makes a dark room feel deliberate instead of gloomy, an alarm that wakes you with a sunrise rather than a siren, proper kit for hot drinks, and several very sincere solutions to cold hands. Everything links straight to Amazon so you can see current prices and reviews, and I have noted roughly what each costs because the range here is wide. The heated throw is the cheapest joy per dollar on the whole list.

Not one thing on this list will make you more productive, and that is the entire point. It is handhelds with a crank instead of a second stick, samplers the size of a calculator, a camera with no screen so you have to wait to see the photo, a robot that just wants to be held, and a bird feeder that texts you when a cardinal shows up. Everything here is in production and buyable right now — I checked, and dropped the ones that were sold out or quietly dead. Sorted by flavour of fun so you can find your particular weakness. What did I miss?

Everything here is small enough to hang off a keyring or disappear into a coin pocket, and every one of them punches way above its size. It starts practical — the 20-gram flashlight, the bladeless multitool that clears airport security, the titanium driver that takes real screwdriver bits — and ends somewhere stranger: keyring digital pets with their own moods, a playable arcade cabinet the size of a key fob, a film-style camera sold in blind boxes. If you have ever emptied your pockets and thought "how is that a whole computer", this list is for you. Tell me what is on your keys!

I have a soft spot for phone gear that is quietly hiding a second job — a card wallet that unfolds into a whiteboard, a pad that takes a real ECG, a credit card that is secretly a tracker, an ultrasound probe that plugs into a phone. These are the 30 best I have found, grouped by vibe so you can jump straight to the medical ones, the camera ones, or the just-plain-fun ones. Everything here is still being made and sold — I cut a pile of beloved-but-discontinued gadgets while putting this together. If you know something that belongs on this list, drop it in the comments!