toys on Technabob...

I used to love yo-yos. I played with them all of the time and got pretty good at it. When I saw this little project over at Make:, I thought about buying a yo-yo and completing it. The build looks really easy and the end product is a yo-yo that…

As many of us from a certain generation, I love Star Wars…. While I don’t own that many toys from the movies, I do like these the artistry in these Star Wars toys photos by Gareth Payne.

His most iconic shot is of a stormtrooper doing some moonwalking, which

Artist Stefan Le Dû recently completed this series of photos about the everyday life for a pair of stormtroopers from Star Wars… who find themselves in strange and comical situations.

You can see the whole set here or visit Stefan’s Flickr album. It’s definitely worth checking them out. I like

I took guitar lessons as a kid until the instructor kicked me out because I refused to practice. I fully expected to play an electric guitar the first day without any effort. As close as I get to playing the guitar today is a game of Rock Band….

Believe it or not, Iron Man 2 won’t be in Japan’s theaters until next month. What injustice! A country that loves robots so much, and they haven’t seen it yet?! But the Stark-starved Japanese might be getting something that the rest of us won’t: Medicom’s Iron Man 2… Kubricks. The

I really like this series of photos that shows us what all those Star Wars …toys are up to after hours. Sure, keeping them in their boxes might preserve their resell value, but hey, toys need to have a life too!

These photos are the brainchild of the photographer Marker.

eBay seller fugayzie is selling this neat set of custom-made Donkey Kong action figures, complete with the iconic red steel bar and barrels. As you can see, fugayzie went for a realistic version of these classic video game characters. The results are, shall we say, mixed.

Donkey Kong looks okay,…

Do your kids like to play with bugs? They’d never want to put one in their mouth, would they? Well thanks to Japanese toy-maker Megahouse, they can now make their own gummi bugs and eat ‘em up. Yum.…

I probably couldn’t solve a Rubik’s cube in 25 minutes, let alone under a minute. However, this cool ‘bot can solve it in less than 25 seconds! Now how neat is that? Oh, by the way, it’s made out of LEGOs.

You read right, it takes this contraption 24.02 seconds…

Instead of piecing together individual LEGO bricks to make your own lights, you can now buy some official giant LEGO lights, made by LEGO, and no, there is no assembly required!

These new LEGO lamps come with LEDs are available in two different models, the 2×2 Brick LED Light… and