This new stress reliever has an incredibly unfortunate appearance

Right, let's get this out the way early on.

There's nothing shameful in admitting that sometimes, when you're on your own, there's something incredibly relaxing about cupping a certain body part. It seems that somebody has realised this, and is now trying to profit from it with the invention of a new stress ball that gives everyone the experience of cupping a pair of balls without having to go anywhere near a hairy pair of them. Honestly, it's tempting to order a bunch of these for the JOE office. They're from a Spanish company called Offbeat Estudio, and the appearance of them is somewhat offputting, but apparently there's a sound scientific reason for the design... "Its suspension rate generates an Euclidean curve [which] relaxes and provides those seconds of escape that we all need from time to time," say the inventors.