Corn popper

This year's finalists also included American Girl Dolls, chalk, Chutes and Ladders, Fisher-Price Corn Popper, Masters of the Universe, sled, tic-tac-toe, Tickle Me Elmo and Tudor Electric Football.

Turn it on and feed it a bushel of walnuts, and it lets out a high-decibel clattering that sounds like a giant corn popper loaded with metal ball bearings instead of corn.

Sounding like he's the existential equivalent to an unpopped kernel in the corn popper from hell, a soft-spoken Reznor tenderly laments his existence shrouded in a claustrophobic mix of muffled pings and pops, as well as sparse keyboard noodlings that convey a sense of deep regret and inconsolable misery.

I roared off and in no time at all landed back at my "farm" with an ornate cast iron table, umbrella, chairs, gas grill, cooler, Hawaiian oil lamps, fire pit, mammoth LP gas corn popper, and a keg of iced tea.

The 2012 finalists included plastic green army men, the board game Clue, the Fisher-Price Corn Popper, Lite-Brite, the Magic 8 Ball, the pogo stick, sidewalk chalk, the electronic game Simon, the tea set and Twister.

Other toys beaten by the action figures included the board game Clue, the Fisher-Price Corn Popper, Lite-Brite, the Magic 8 Ball, the pogo stick, sidewalk chalk, the electronic game Simon, the tea set and Twister, it added.

413A Cinematic ExperienceToastess International"s Cinema Corn Popper was designed to make flavorful "cinema-style" popcorn at home.

zojirushi.com 2 Consumers can make movie-style popcorn right in their own homes with Toastess' Cinema Corn Popper, which includes a butter well that butters popcorn as it pops, toastess.com 3 Versatility is the hallmark of Cuisinart's Single Serve Brewing System, which uses Keurig K-Cup Portion Packs and prepares more than 200 varieties of coffee and tea.

If you're like us and want to avoid popcorn lung (Google it, it's real) then you'll want to try out the 12-cup Nordic Ware Corn Popper ($12, nordicware.com).

And finally, Orville Reddenbacher has nothing over popcorn from Vic's Corn Popper, an Omaha favorite for 25 years.

"NOW THAT--GENTLEMEN--IS WHAT I CALL A CORN POPPER!"

But it was first used to make ceremonial head-dresses, necklaces and ornaments on the statues of gods in the Americas, 5000 years before the first electric corn popper was invented in 1907.