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needle-felted jabba the hutt: awwwwwww

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How do you make a disgusting alien cute? Easy: just replace his slimy skin with wool. Oh and give him a “squezzly bunnybear.”

Flickr pro/proud mom/Jedi Grand Needle Felter Kit Lane imagined that as a child, Zorba’s offspring wasn’t really an evil Hutt. Unfortunately “the unmerciless(?) taunting by his slime mates over his compulsion for plushies” pushed him over the…

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July 5th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys geek art + craft just plain fun retro

robonova biped robot: more entertaining than transformers 2

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I apologize to anyone who has seen Revenge of the Fallen and liked it, but personally I think I got ripped off on that one. My sentiments – and then some – have been represented elsewhere, so I’ll just leave it at that. So let’s look at here’s Robonova instead. Robonova is a programmable, fully articulating 12-in robot powered by 16…

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July 3rd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys gadgets just plain fun mobile tech robotics technology

mydeskfriend penguin robot toy wants you to be alone so it can keep you company

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The quest to keep people indoors and separated from each other continues with the mydeskfriend robot toy penguin. The web-connected mydeskfriend will be able to connect to your Facebook account and read your messages and your feeds, in a robotic voice I assume. Your friends will also be able to interact with it via Facebook, thereby avoiding interacting with you.…

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

filed under: cool toys gadgets interactive just plain fun robotics strange + wonderful technology

pink gundam: cute or stupid?

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Here we go again. Pink Gundam with garish embellishments: cute or stupid? Does the existence of this no doubt unofficial model embarrass Giant Gundam? Or is it what the statue is looking for, the reason for his incessant head movements?

Is this Gundam with a taste for lace a noble ally? or could it be a fearsome foe? Is it…

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June 23rd, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys geek art + craft strange + wonderful

klingon cradle for badass babies

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I’m not a particularly huge Star Trek fan–not the dressing-up kind, just the appreciating, occasionally-watching kind–but even I have to say that this is probably the most awesome crib in the history of cribs. If Cribs was about cribs instead of cribs, this would have its own show, even though it’s a cradle.

Not enough for you? How about the Klingon…

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June 21st, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: design geek art + craft just plain fun strange + wonderful

mini r2-d2 drives around your desktop, where’s c-3po?

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Is that a lightsaber unit in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? That’s the question your friends will be asking when you whip out this tiny little motorized R2-D2 and he starts tooling around your desk between your coffee mug and your iPod dock.

The miniature R2-D2 doesn’t just sit there. Nope, it can tool around…

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June 18th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys just plain fun retro robotics

trouble with tribbles? well these certainly won’t help [star trek]

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Sure, you may have loved J.J. Abrams updated take on Star Trek, but it just didn’t have enough tribbles for my taste. Thankfully, there’s a solution for the recent tribble shortage.

Now you can be the proud owner of your own roomful of the little purring furrballs.

These interactive replicas of the original TV critters not only look just like…

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June 18th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys interactive just plain fun retro

3.5-inch floppy disks get new life as jacob’s ladder toy

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Remember those wooden Jacob’s Ladder toys you played with when you were a kid? You know, the kind where you flip the top block over, and then all of the other clacky blocks flip over on themselves?  Here’s a clever modern take on the old wooden toy.

Created by artist ZacharyBear, this Jacob’s Ladder is made from a bunch of…

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June 12th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys geek art + craft just plain fun retro

giant remote controlled rms titanic: hopefully there are no tiny icebergs around

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First we had the watch, and now we have a model. The 6-foot long remote-controlled RMS Titanic is a faithfully reproduced 1:150 scale model. It took 400 man-hours (that’s about 1600 dog-hours, or 879,592 mosquito-hours) to assemble. It has over 300 handmade parts, which include the fiberglass hull, stained white maple planks, and mahogany parts for the ship’s superstructure. The…

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June 9th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys just plain fun retro

fading out led soft cushion: wow. just… wow.

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If I ever have kids, I’ll be sure to pass on to them everything that I know about anything. Like the joys of reading, or the merits of moderation. And thanks to all of the fascinating things I’ve read about since I started writing here, if someday my kids come to me and ask, “Dad, where can I find some…

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

filed under: cool toys just plain fun strange + wonderful

technabob quickpix: when a picture is worth 1000 words

optimash prime and bumblespud: potatoes in disguise [transformers]

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Yeah, yeah, I know that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is coming out in a couple of weeks, and a million and one of you are going to run out on the first day to go see it. But this sort of shameless movie tie-in really needs to stop. First we had Terminator Salvation bobbleheads, and now we get these…

Yep,Hasbro…

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June 7th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys just plain fun quickpix

perfect petzzz: cute or stupid?

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Welcome to another edition of Cute or Stupid?, where we examine stuff and mull over their existence, whether they are useless but cute or just plain useless and therefore stupid. Today we have Perfect Petzzz, “life like” puppies and kittens that do nothing but sleep. And they’re battery-powered.

Perhaps you’re wondering: what’s the battery for, to power its dreams?  I…

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June 2nd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys just plain fun strange + wonderful

terminator salvation bobble-head almost as bad an idea as a 4th terminator movie

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You know the Terminator franchise has officially jumped the shark when 1) Terminator: Salvation can get trounced at the box office by a Ben Stiller movie and 2) they start making bobble-head versions of the deadly T-600.

I really don’t care that its eyes glow with red LEDs just like a real Terminator. There’s just something so NOT imposing about this wacky…

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May 27th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys strange + wonderful

air-trekkers jumping stilts: unleash the tigger in you

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Ever wondered if there was a way to turn any surface into a trampoline? Me neither. But there is an answer to that non-existent question that doesn’t involve taking illegal substances: wear Air-Trekkers. They’re 3-foot long jumping stilts with an aluminum frame & carbon-fiber springs. Just put them on, and, as they say, the world is your trampoline.

The company…

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

filed under: cool toys just plain fun technology

steam-powered dragon tin toy will vaporize your money

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German toy company Tucher + Walther’s tin toy-making methods have remained unchanged, going as far back to 1880. Want to know their secret? They have vampire craftsmen; the ones around now were the exact same workers that they had in 1880. Seriously though, Tucher+Walther are very proud of their techniques and their products, such as this steam-powered tin dragon.

Each handmade dragon…

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May 18th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys just plain fun retro

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