15 Black Friday Gadgets For People on the Naughty List15 Black Friday Gadgets For People on the Naughty List

Check out these oddball gifts for the oddballs on your shopping list.

Rob Spiegel

November 20, 2015

2 Min Read
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You can’t get much weirder than this bunch of strange gadgets. How about three clocks, one for the hour hand, one for the minute hand, and one for seconds? Or try soap that smells like bacon -- a perfect companion to bacon-flavored breath mints. Some of these gifts actually make sense, like a robo-lawnmower that works like a Roomba.

In the spirit of the upcoming holidays, we present 15 gifts that were made for people on the naughty list.

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This Mr. Potato Head toy is made to look like Walter White (AKA Werner Heisenberg) from the AMC television show, Breaking Bad. It comes with eight removable parts, including Heisenberg's iconic pork pie hat, his goatee, a duffel bag, and more. Only $25.
(Source: odditymall.com)

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Rob Spiegel has covered automation and control for 15 years, 12 of them for Design News. Other topics he has covered include supply chain technology, alternative energy, and cyber security. For 10 years he was owner and publisher of the food magazine Chile Pepper.

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About the Author

Rob Spiegel

Rob Spiegel serves as a senior editor for Design News. He started with Design News in 2002 as a freelancer covering sustainability issues, including the transistion in electronic components to RoHS compliance. Rob was hired by Design News as senior editor in 2011 to cover automation, manufacturing, 3D printing, robotics, AI, and more.

Prior to his work with Design News, Rob worked as a senior editor for Electronic News and Ecommerce Business. He served as contributing editolr to Automation World for eight years, and he has contributed to Supply Chain Management Review, Logistics Management, Ecommerce Times, and many other trade publications. He is the author of six books on small business and internet commerce, inclluding Net Strategy: Charting the Digital Course for Your Company's Growth.

He has been published in magazines that range from Rolling Stone to True Confessions.

Rob has won a number of awards for his technolloghy coverage, including a Maggy Award for a Design News article on the Jeep Cherokee hacking, and a Launch Team award for Ecommerce Business. Rob has also won awards for his leadership postions in the American Marketing Association and SouthWest Writers.

Before covering technology, Rob spent 10 years as publisher and owner of Chile Pepper Magazine, a national consumer food publication. He has published hundreds of poems and scores of short stories in national publications.

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