Cool Gift of the Day
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
What it is:
A true-blue fingerprint lab, for dusting crimescenes and printing suspects.
Why we love it:
We love watching all those "Crime Show: The Spin-Off" style dramas, with their pensive, thoughtful heroes and the criminals who always, always crack and confess their sins in the last 10 minutes. The shows have become so popular that they're even effecting the real world of investigation, with savvy juries demanding better forensic evidence for a conviction, not to mention some serious scientific investigations of mysteries like "who drank the last of the milk?" Yes, forensic investigation is cropping up everywhere. If you happen to know a methodical, scientifically minded person with a love for solving mysteries and catching criminals, then perhaps they'd enjoy the proper tools. In the past a fingerprint lab would have been considered a gift suitable for teens and children only, but consider your coworker, hunched over their little lab, solving the question of "who stole my jelly donut?", not to mention the other friends and family members who might delight in the chance to play at crime scene investigation. Yes, it is a real, working fingerprint kit, with all the supplies needed for lifting latent prints and fingerprinting suspects. This gift goes great when paired with one of those "How to Host a Murder" games, which allows your recipient to be the mastermind of a brilliant criminal enterprise, as well as the intrepid detective.
Who we'd give it to:
Amateur detectives and scientists, kids and teens, hard-boiled private dicks and other cliches.