Sometimes I want my gadgets to not look like boring pieces of metal that… well leave nothing to the imagination. And I like animals too. So there’s nothing wrong with having an almost safari on my desk, now is it?

First up is Norman Phartephant [ site here ] which once you read its last name out phonetically, you will know exactly what it does. Just imagine this as the non-iPhone version of the iFart app. Priced at $21.95 it’s definitely a pretty inexpensive way to surprise some co-workers.

Next up is Active Media Products Penguin BLU USB Flash Drive. Seriously… who doesn’t want a USB flash drive that looks like Chilly Willy [ Wikipedia ] but cooler? With prices from $11.95 to $42.95 for a straight USB drive or with a bootable Linux partition on it, it’s definitely cooler than your average USB Flash drive. Tweaktown [ site here ] [ review here ] just reviewed them and they agree… this is one cool animal gadget.

It has one eye, more fur than Chewbacca, and serves no purpose other than create conversation that might end as awkwardly as it started. And I want one. Enter Furilla [ site here ], the oddest non-gadget, perhaps non-animal listed here so far. But priced at $25, it’s worth the addition to your cubicle space.

And the final one… I had to do it. It’s a bird that has wings with speakers in it, that connects via USB to your computer… and it has a camera. Seriously… that’s a level of animal + gadget I wasn’t expecting to find all in one. Uxsight’s 3.0 megapixel camera + bird + speakers gadget [ site here ] is priced at $15.69 and definitely makes my desktop safari complete.

If I missed some, let me know.