At the other end of the price spectrum on novelty Tuesday is a device that, we fear, is not a novelty at all. This rather ugly tie is worth over $1000. And why? The hi-res spy camera hidden inside it.

Including a cigarette-pack-sized monitor and recorder with remote control, the pinhole camera woven into this tie shoots plasma-busting 768×492 pixel video (or 768×582 in PAL) with audio.

So now those of us catching public transport in Melbourne, Australia will have to be suspicious not only of the large-footed, but now also shifty characters in ugly business attire?

Tie Camera wired to Miniature Digital Video recorder/Monitor [ Spycatcher of Knightsbridge via The Red Ferret Journal]

Novelty Tuesday is really just a slow news day with a theme – assorted novelty stuff that gets a quick chortle and not much more.

But we recognize that some of you will giggle at this stuff long enough to buy it, and thus we provide this crap both for your amusement and, hopefully, your consumption.

This chrome match-shaped lighter, for example, isn’t really the most convenient size or shape (7in. x ¼in. x ¼in.), but as a piece of party kitsch costing only £3 ($US6), why not?

Match shaped lighter [Dwell via Coolest Gadgets via Crib Candy]

Any product listing for a bin that begins with…

…the “Claremont” is an accurately rendered, medieval sculpture…

…wins points from us right away.

Obviously, a majority of those who’ll eventually own this will just think of it as the vaguely amusing piece of crap that it is.

However, we’ve all met the kind of obsessive medieval revivalist collectors who’d be bitterly disappointed if, even though it’s just a novelty wastepaper basket, they discovered even the slightest historical inaccuracy.

Hence the cleverness in all that detail.

But it’s $60 and it’s a wastepaper basket. We’re not going to tell you not to buy it, because it is kind of cool. But we’re going to let you weigh up your priorities and decide for yourselves.

“The Claremont Helmet” Lidded Bin [Toscano via Neat-o-rama]