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Unique Housewarming Gifts
The standard housewarming present is a thing for the kitchen that the person will already have bought by the time you arrive. A better present is an object that makes one corner of the new place feel like theirs.
A striped glass mushroom. A tank of drifting jellyfish with no animals to feed. A pot that hangs in the air and slowly turns. Bring the practical gift if you must. Bring one of these if you want them to remember who brought it.
Why these
- A housewarming gift should be visible in the new room, not hidden in a drawer.
- Lamps and a floating planter do that job without matching anyone's sofa.
- The plasma globe and the ferrofluid are for the friend whose new place can handle a little spectacle.
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Shouldn't exist · No. 03
Glass Mushroom Lamp
A hand-blown glass toadstool with wavy stripes, dimmable, that glows like something found on a night walk.
Oddity 
Gift for: designers, partners, hosts
Shouldn't exist · No. 02
Jellyfish Lamp
A tabletop tank of imitation jellyfish that drift on a quiet current, with no animals to feed.
Oddity
Gift for: partners, designers, desk dwellers
From the future · No. 14
Levitating Planter
A small pot that hangs in midair and turns, meant for an air plant because you cannot really water a floating pot.
Oddity
Gift for: gardeners, designers, partners
Shouldn't exist · No. 01
Plasma Globe
A palm-sized glass sphere of miniature lightning that leans toward your finger when you touch it.
Oddity
Gift for: scientists, fidgeters, coworkers
Has everything · No. 04
Ferrofluid Sculpture
A sealed bottle of black magnetic liquid that spikes into a tiny landscape when a magnet comes near.
Oddity
Gift for: engineers, scientists, fidgeters
From the future · No. 19
Crookes Radiometer
A glass bulb with black-and-white vanes that spin when light hits them, and sit still in the dark. No battery, no motor.
Oddity
Gift for: scientists, desk dwellers, coworkers
From the future · No. 25
Tensegrity Stand
A small wooden platform that hangs in the air on chains, tense enough to hold a plant, with no post underneath it.
Oddity
Gift for: designers, desk dwellers, gardeners
Has everything · No. 32
Gecko Run
A marble run with flexible tracks that stick to a window, a fridge, or a door. The wall is the support.
Oddity
Gift for: makers, engineers, fidgeters