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Curiously awesome products sold through absurd demonstration videos, most of which are more entertaining than the item itself.
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Vat19 sits in Weird Shops under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Bizarre product galleries and gift catalogues. Browsing is free and considerably wiser than buying.
Yes. Vat19 is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Vat19 without signing up for anything.
Yes. Vat19 works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Genuinely baffling real product listings pulled from the big marketplaces and presented with almost no commentary.
Genuine industrial surplus sold with the best product copy on the internet: lab glassware, small motors, and 400 unexplained springs.
Seattle's novelty institution: rubber chickens, emergency moustaches and an unreasonable number of items shaped like tinned meat.
Obsessive gallery of what strangers keep in their pockets, photographed from above and argued over at remarkable length.
Well over a hundred thousand scanned advertisements sorted by decade and subject. A very direct record of what people were told to want.
Home of a long list of absurd browser games and quizzes, several of which have quietly consumed entire office afternoons.
New York Magazine's pop-culture desk, where the recaps and power rankings are better written than the shows deserve.
Very long illustrated essays on artificial intelligence, procrastination and the Fermi paradox, drawn in deliberately bad stick figures.
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