Ken and I spent the afternoon at the Orange County Marketplace. We found this handy little "robot arm" grabber, and thought it would be great to retrieve cat toys and other small things from behind furniture, etc.:
For $2, it was quite the bargain, but it became priceless upon further inspection of the packaging:
Feel free to insert jokes here. (Pun most definitely intended.
) The really scary thing - this contraption is about 3 feet long.