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roadkill stuffed animals are cute, cuddly, dead

roadkill_plush_racoon

Do your kids scare easily? Are they budding serial killers? Then these plush stuffed animals are probably not for them. On the other hand, if your kids are into gross stuff, and understand the difference between play and real life, these car-flattened stuffed animals might be fun sitting beneath the Christmas tree this year.

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November 6th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys strange + wonderful

ropid jumps and runs and steals your heart

Ropid

Tomotaka Takahashi, creator of the high endurance EVOLTA robot, recently showed off his new robot, ROPID. The name is supposedly a combination of rapid and robot, so it was either ROPID or RABOT. The cute robot is about 15 inches tall and can jump about 3 inches high. It’s twisting torso also makes it an…

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October 29th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys interactive just plain fun mobile tech robots technology

desktop arm wresting involves no actual arms or wrestling

electronic_arm_wrestling

If you’re too much of a girly-man to actually arm wrestle your friends, then here’s something that should let you show off your physical prowess without flexing too much muscle.

I actually think they should have called this desktop game “Thumb WrestleMania”, since your arms aren’t going to be doing much more than keeping your…

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October 16th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys just plain fun

kill time and the undead with the zombie shooting gallery

zombie-shooting-gallery

Video games with zombies are all the rage nowadays, and you’ve probably tried at least one of ‘em. But what if you’re at the office? What if your Xbox 360 RRODs again? What if there’s no electricity? Muuuust plaaaaaaay zooooombiiieeee gaaaaaaame. Then get the Zombie Shooting Gallery, and have a ready supply of undead to…

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October 8th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys just plain fun strange + wonderful

optimized prime: customized revenge of the fallen optimus prime toy on ebay

custom-rotf-optimus-prime-1

Just about the only thing good about the recent Transformers movie are the new versions of our beloved Autobots and Decepticons. Although I’m sure some of you will say that even the new designs suck. Also the movie changes POVs and angles every nanosecond so we hardly got to appreciate the designs anyway. Stupid cinematography. Aaaaaanyway.…

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October 1st, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys design geek art + craft hacks + mods just plain fun

spray cacas: si amigo, caca.

spray_caca

Don’t know what “caca” means? Open up your brain tank ’cause here comes – okay it’s Spanish for poop. So what would a product named “Spray Cacas” be like? Let me tell you: it’s a product that will revolutionize pranks in the same way that the Naked Man revolutionized one night stands. Supposedly anyway. The Spray Cacas…

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September 15th, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys just plain fun strange + wonderful

horsey-version of ‘odin’ summon shows up at japanese toy show

Odin/Sleipnir Prototype

Someone over at Square Enix must be a fan of Transformers. I say this because for some reason, all Final Fantasy’s classic “summons” now have alternate vehicle modes in Final Fantasy XIII. For example, Shiva is now summoned as two ladies who combine to form some sort of lesbian motorcycle. I kid you not. And Odin,…

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September 7th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: chris h.

filed under: cool toys video games

takaratomy micropets-i robots will kill you with cuteness

micropets_i_takaratomy

Cuter than a bowl of kittens covered in marshmallows and sprinkles, these little electronic playthings are enough to make me want to puke a rainbow.

Each of TakaraTomy’s Micropets-i miniature desktop robo-playthings has a tiny little mind of its own.

The little animals can chase after a tiny ball or your hand, stroll around any…

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September 4th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys gadgets just plain fun robots technology

diy toymaking in these our modern times

diy toy light

Once upon a time, making a toy was as simple as whittling a rough shape in a piece of wood, or tying a few rags together. Today? You’ve got to have LEDs and microchips up in that business. And you thought all those batteries were complicated.

Using a hodgepodge of items, like an Altoids tin, and…

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September 2nd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: cool toys hacks + mods just plain fun

decepticon microcassettes: where’s soundwave?

transformers_microcassettes

A robot that turns into a microcassette player seems like an awfully dumb idea – once it transforms it’s so small that even a 10-year old can smash it to bits – but Takara & Hasbro have pulled it off. The robot was originally called – drum roll please – Cassetteman; fortunately his name was…

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August 25th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys just plain fun retro

pass the salt: more like pull back the shaker

pass-the-salt

Isn’t technology awesome? Thanks to technology we can add text to pictures of cats! And then within seconds, we can post that same captioned creation online, allowing us to reach out and annoy millions of people! And now, thanks to technology (kinda), even the simple act of grabbing a condiment can be a hoot: Introducing…

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August 17th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys gadgets just plain fun

japanese rubber gunman shows us how to make rubber band machine guns

diy-rubber-band-machine-gun

I can’t believe this isn’t the first time that a rubber band machine gun has been featured on this blog. Dammit. I wasn’t even aware that rubber band machine guns existed until I read this article at JapanProbe. One day I’ll be better than you boss *sniff*. Meanwhile let’s take a look at this homemade,…

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August 10th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys design gadgets hacks + mods just plain fun strange + wonderful

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