At least that’s what the creator of this product hopes your child will say when they get these crayons, which are labelled with the actual chemical used to give each coloured wax stick its hue. More »
Here’s an idea I can get behind. Edible crayons! Luxirare created a box of eight colours (flavours?), using household ingredients such as nuts, sesame seeds and melted marshmallow for the white crayon. More »
He’s been working on them for 12 years, but finally John Coker was successful in launching his Crayola crayon rockets. Only four of the eight worked properly, but they managed to soar to 892m in the Nevada desert. More »
What you are looking at here is the very first image ever taken of the surface of Mars. It was acquired by NASA’s Mariner 4 using a television camera, and rendered using crayons. Look closer:
You are familiar with drawing and crayons, but Christian Faur is taking a different approach to the medium. He uses hundreds of thousands of individual crayons to produce a single, pixelated image.
We’ve shown you the amazing-looking iPhone game Crayon Physics before, but here’s a gameplay video. I, for one, cannot wait for this to hit the App Store. It looks like a top 10 contender. [Kotaku]
newVideoPlayer("crayon_deluxe_gawker.flv", 475, 376);The Crayon Physics Deluxe must be one of the coolest touch-screen games ever. The aim is very simple: take a ball to where the start is. The tools to do it are a crayon and your imagination, since whatever you draw will automatically get recognised by the physics engine and put into motion over a piece of paper. Microsoft must buy this game and ship it with every Tablet PC. And somebody should port this to the iPhone. Pronto. [Kloonigames]
Close your eyes, think “Crayon” and the first thing that occurs to you isn’t the bright yellow box but the smell: part puke n’ earwax, part unbridled creativity. Now you can wear that essence, in the form of Demeter’s Crayon Cologne. At $19 an ounce, you better hope the message you’re giving off is Raw Sienna, not Burnt Umber. [Perpetual Kid] More »
