We Tested Some of the WEIRDEST Products We Could Find

I recently teamed up with fellow YouTube reviewer Barry Lewis to try several of the strangest products I’ve come across in a while. This batch included an optical-illusion tube, a lollipop that plays music through your teeth, and a couple of products designed to turn the world upside down.

Where to Purchase

• The Experience Tube
• Bone Conduction Suckers
• Upside Down Glasses
• Upside Down Wine Glass

Meow Wolf Experience Tube

The first product was The Experience Tube by Meow Wolf, which might be one of the strangest things I’ve ever tested. It’s essentially a long black-and-white striped fabric tube that two people put over their heads from opposite ends.

Meow Wolf describes it as an analog device that removes peripheral distractions and creates a shared visual experience. Once Barry and I got inside, I understood what they meant. The striped pattern surrounds your entire field of view, and when the fabric moves or twists, the effect becomes surprisingly intense.

It was much more interesting than I expected. The stripes seemed to merge and move around us, almost like being inside a low-tech version of virtual reality. Turning my head made the effect even stronger, and at times it was actually a little dizzying.

There really isn’t much practical purpose to The Experience Tube, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun. Barry and I both ended up enjoying it quite a bit. It’s one of those products where the experience itself is really the entire point.

Lollipop Star Bone Conduction Suckers

Next we tried Lollipop Stars, which are suckers that supposedly play music through bone conduction. I paid about $18 for a two-pack, making each sucker roughly $9.

Each one has a small electronic unit in the handle. After removing the battery tab and turning it on, the sucker begins vibrating. When I put it in my mouth, I could actually hear music even though there was no audible speaker playing into the room.

The effect became much stronger when I pressed the sucker against the roof of my mouth or bit down on it with my back teeth. At that point, the vibrations transferred through my teeth and the music became noticeably louder.

The music itself was fairly quiet and reminded us of mellow elevator or hold music. In a noisy environment, I think it would be difficult to hear, but in a quiet room the effect definitely works.

The candy was less impressive. The flavor wasn’t especially strong and had a somewhat chalky aftertaste. Since the sucker is essentially a one-time-use product, $9 also feels pretty expensive for what you’re getting.

Still, I have to give it credit for originality. I’ve tested a lot of unusual gadgets over the years, and I had never tried anything quite like a lollipop that sends music through your teeth.

Upside Down Glasses and Upside Down Wine Glass

The final portion of the test involved two products that seemed perfect to combine: a pair of upside-down glasses and an upside-down wine glass.

The glasses flip your entire field of vision. As soon as I put them on, Barry appeared completely upside down. Moving around was surprisingly difficult because every instinct suddenly felt wrong. Looking down meant moving my head in a direction that didn’t feel natural, and even simple tasks became confusing.

We first tried writing our names while wearing the glasses. That turned out to be much harder than expected. I eventually managed to write mine mostly through muscle memory, while Barry produced something that looked more like a completely new alphabet.

Then we brought out the upside-down wine glass. It looks a normal wine glass, except the liquid goes into what normally appears to be the bottom and you drink from the stem.

On its own, the glass is already visually confusing. Combining it with glasses that flip your vision made the experience much stranger. When I poured water into it, the liquid appeared to be moving upward. Even reaching for the glass became difficult because my eyes were telling me the stem was somewhere other than where it actually was. Holding the glass up while wearing the upside-down glasses resulted in the appearance that the liquid was all floating at the top of the glass.

Drinking from it while wearing the upside-down glasses was probably the hardest part of the entire test. Barry struggled with it just as much as I did. Neither product is particularly useful, but together they created one of the funniest and most disorienting gadget tests I’ve done in quite a while.

Video Review

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