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One of the more valid complaints against playing video games is that it sometimes makes us forget how fun it is to play outdoors, or interact with other people directly, not in front of a monitor or TV. The good folks at Swinxs BV were able to come up with a sort of compromise between…
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July 6th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: cool toys gadgets home entertainment interactive technology video games
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Remember playing with ant farms when you were a kid? You know, the type where you’d get sand all over the place and proceed to kill all of your insect friends within a matter of minutes as you tried to fill it up? Or when they’d all escape and start gnawing on your arm? It…
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May 30th, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: cool toys strange + wonderful weird science
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Sure, the iPhone looks good, but can it make a sandwich? Wash the car? Serve as instruments for an entire band? Mark that last item off the list of outrageous demands, because British band The Mentalists have managed to perform an entire song using only the power of several iPhones (and their own voices).
The…
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March 3rd, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: alisha k.
filed under: gadgets just plain fun mobile tech technology
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Get Grandma to work on this hand-knitted Transformers washcloth and you can wipe your face with that lovable logo each night before bed.
You can get the pattern here, although since I don’t understand knitting terminology it might as well be in Japanese, which as we know I also don’t understand too well. The photo is from…
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July 1st, 2008
stumble it! digg it!
author: karen m.
filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun retro
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Are your kids not sedentary enough? This LCD television from Hannspree lets your little ones enjoy all their favorite product-placement-enhanced TV programming, all the while reminding them of what they’ll probably be eating for dinner tonight, junk food.
This insanely surreal television looks like a giant pack of French fries, and is accompanied by a…
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March 25th, 2007
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: home entertainment strange + wonderful
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Moppels are cute little desk lamps, powered by long lasting LED lamp technology. Each lamp provides over 100,000 hours of life, and never needs replacing.
Moppel lights come in a variety of fun designs including dinosaurs, snakes, people and other shapes. Some even feature magnetic or suction cup hands and feet, so they can stick…
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January 25th, 2007
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun
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If I hadn’t seen this with my own two eyes, I would have thought this was a product from a fake commercial on SNL…
The GR8 TaT2 Maker from Spin Master Toys lets tykes aspire to greatness with their own junior tattoo parlor. For just $14.99, little Billy and Bobby can pretend to scar themselves…
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November 20th, 2006
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: cool toys strange + wonderful