NEW STUFF

And dicer and strainer. Call it the salad monkey, your very own sous chef. The (2)-piece plastic 60 Second Salad Maker™ set has a 6” dia x 3-1/2” deep bowl with slats for a knife, and locks onto a plastic cutting board. Fill it with salad fixings, run it under the faucet to wash the greens, invert it onto the cutting-board bottom and slice away. Turn it 90 degrees and chop the fixings smaller. Includes a tab with a hole for hanging it up to dry. You’ll get (2) of them, (1) for you and (1) for someone you like. Dishwasher safe and BPA free HDPE. Photos show a few colors but your 2-pack will be all green. Makes a great gift!

You work hard, just like we do, and you also like to relax—again, like us. Of course you know that sometimes bending over, or even reaching for something, is just not in the cards. In times like those we grab the dinosaur grabber. This plastic, handheld extending grabber has a triceratops head on the end. Squeeze the handle and the mouth closes as the neck extends. Measures 3" x 10" closed, 3" x 12" extended, and it’s kind of addictive.

Gooduns, too. From Loew-Cornell ™, this (25)-piece set of artist's brushes includes white and gold nylon, sable, bristle, camel hair and foam brushes. Widths range from tiny points to 1” wide, and each brush is around 8” long. This a quality set of art tools for the price of a bagel and coffee.

If anyone at NPR ever needs a lamp for a concert, this is it. It’s about the cutest thing we’ve seen all year, a super-mini version of a swing-arm drafting table lamp that stands approx 4-1/2” tall when fully extended and 3-1/2” when folded down. Base is approx 2” dia and can be removed for the clip-on option. Has a power button on the dome and an extra bright light. Battery included. Great for microscopes with mirrors or inspection microscopes. Also great just to delight anyone who’s looking at it.

It's an author! It's an NPR correspondent! It's Nancy Pearl, the librarian with the super-power to start the “One City, One Book” program. She fights a never-ending battle against censorship, anti-intellectualism and ignorance. We don't know how tall the real Nancy is, but her action figure is a petite 4” tall, and she’s wearing a red cape. Packaging includes the Librarian Code.

It’s not the whiskey playing tricks on your head—it’s the glass. The vintage glasses in this (2)-pack look like they were once square but got twisted clockwise. Gold accents run along the glasses’ twisty ridges and bases, which are still square. Glasses are 4" tall with a 2-1/4" square base and a 3-1/2" dia top, and hold (8) oz. This is a gift set, in a fabulously vintage cardboard box, but you can buy them for yourself, too. You deserve it.

From Badger Gear™ this bag’s official name is the Universal Bottomless Travel and Hiking Backpack, and you could fit a tent in it, or hike from Copenhagen to Calabria without doing laundry. Measures 36” long x 13” wide x 6” thick with a foam-padded back and adjustable straps, and top and bottom zippered pockets. A flap secured with molle buckles covers the open top. Pat took his camping and says the extra length was a game-changer. In water-resistant black nylon. Sells for nearly 3X this price where non-Surpies shop.

Our 3D Pixel Puzzles may be light and breezy in subject matter, but that doesn’t mean they lack depth. They’ve got depth, and also width and height, and when they’re done, they’re perfect for displaying. That is, if you’re into whimsy and vibrant pixel pieces. These are for accomplished puzzlers, level 2 or above. You pick: The Unicorn, with more than (270) pieces; or the Flamingo, with more than (210) pieces. Illustrated instructions included. Ages 12+.

None of the above. Our collection of Xtreme Air Chargers are little race cars that run on air, which your house is full of. Pump them up with the included little air pump/launcher, and let 'em loose. Cars measure 4" x 2-1/2" in assorted colors, and go by the model names Taz, Phoenix, Whitehawk, Hornet and Sonic. There's a track available, but we don't have it (surplus!) and they run just fine on any smooth surface, including ugly linoleum office floors. They're fun and fast—manufacturer says scale speed in 500 mph. Ages 5+.

Using a word like “beautiful” to describe our newly arrived First Aid Kits seems wrong. But it’s right. They’re beautiful, and useful. Come in (3) sizes, with a sturdy, lightweight red nylon case that proclaims them “Paramedic Approved.”

You pick: the Small kit, which measures 6” x 8” x 3”, with (19) different items and (53) pieces total;

the Medium kit, 7-1/2” x 9” x 3”, including (28) items and (103) pieces total; or

the Large kit, 8-1/2” x 10-1/2” x 5”, including (37) items and (156) pieces total.

All contain the requisite First Aid booklet, bandages, cotton, antiseptic wipe, tape, shears, tweezers, gloves, saline, splinter probes and an emergency blanket (among other essentials), but the Medium and Large kits contain more specialized items, such as burn gel and fever scan strips. The Large also includes things like iodine swabs, high elastic bandages, wound dressings and an ice pack. Any size is great to have at home, and anywhere you’re on

Hey, nothing wrong with a big ol’ flashlight, but sometimes you need one that you can easily carry in your pocket or slip into a bag and still have room for a bunch of other stuff. This mini LED flashlight is approx 4” long, with an on-off push button on the end, and a knurled metal handle. Comes in silver for the most part, but a small amount of our stock is actually blue. You’ll get the one that comes out when we reach into the box, and it won’t matter because you’ll be using it in the dark anyway. Takes (3) “AAA” batteries, included.

A Syracuse interior lineman with an umbrella. Also, this (20)-liter orange dry sack, big enough to keep a week's worth of camping clothes and French bread dry. Measures 23” long with a 13-1/2” dia top tapering down to a 9” dia bottom. Fill 'er up, fold the top down three times, and snap the molle buckle for maximum water resistance.

That's Nyoh-kee to you if you didn't have an Italian nonna. If you did, she probably got her grooves on with a fork. Unless she was a stylish, latter-day nonna, in which case she made her little grooved potato dumplings with something like this board, made of beech wood with a grooved surface 4-3/4” long x 2-3/8" wide on a 3-1/4” long handle. Faster than a speeding grandmother with a floured fork.

From the Smithsonian, you could say this (1000)-piece Dinosaurs jigsaw puzzle was over 70 million years in the making. Measures 28" x 20" when completed, and each piece is approx 1" x 3/4". Features 36 herbivores, carnivores and omnivores in both skeletal and living art, with details on each dino. You'll gain an appreciation for the incredible size range of the creatures, as each image is drawn to the same scale. Ages 14+. ! WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD–Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

This black canvas pouch has belt loops and a cornucopia of compact construction tools inside, including a small combo hatchet/hammer/tent-stake puller; entrenching tool (that’s a shovel to you) with a compass in the handle, and pickaxe and saw attachments for the shovel handle. Belt measures 9-3/4” x 4” x 1-1/4” overall. Don't go into the woods without it. Also, take snacks.

Our classic (16)-oz heavy-duty pint glass from Barbuzzo® has the molecular structure of Ethanol printed on it. Get it? As the box says, Ethanol gives beer its buzz! Oh, and the symbols are chemist-approved in case you were wondering if some bartender just drew them up on a napkin in his spare time.

It's a puzzle. It's a game. It's a puzzle game! Called QuarterMaster, it features sailors and pirates in a game of wits for 2-4 players, although it also includes a solitaire game for hermit pirates. From Smart Brain, the brainteaser specialists. Includes (70) tiles and instructions. For ages 8+.

Genuine Velcro® brand self-adhesive Velcro. Our each is a 5-foot roll of peel-and-stick hook tape and, unsurprisingly, an equal 5-foot roll of self-adhesive loopy stuff. All 3/4” wide in white, and rated for general purpose with a 5-lb strength