items Big Mouth Billy Bass Bobblehead Bubble pipe BunaB Chattering teeth Cheesehead Chinese finger trap Crookes radiometer Deely bobber Drinking bird Dehydrated water Expandable water toy Garden gnome Groucho glasses Horse head mask Joy buzzer Kit-Cat Klock Lava lamp Magic 8-Ball Mexican jumping bean New Year's glasses Newton's cradle Novelty lighter Pet Rock Plasma globe Plastic flamingo Propeller beanie Radio hat, while a practical item, was a novelty when it first appeared Silly Putty Slime Slinky Snow globe Squirmle Talking clock Toffee hammer Trammel of Archimedes Umbrella hat Useless machine Viking helmets Whoopee cushion X-Ray specs See also Bric-à-brac Chindōgu, Japanese neologism for an "unuseless" invention Ephemera Notion (accessory) Practical joke device Souvenir Further reading Mark Newgarden, Cheap Laffs: The Art of the Novelty Item, Abrams Books/PictureBox, 2004. Society-related lists