In Icons, the company responsible for the freaky-awesome Steve Jobs action figure, is stopping production because of legal threats from Apple and Jobs’s family. More »
Apple has threatened to sue In Icons, the manufacturer of the 12-inch-tall freaky!/awesome!/freaky!/awesome! Steve Jobs action figure. At least that’s what the UK Telegraph is saying, specifying no sources whatsoever. More »
One weird thing about Toy Fair is all of the stringent gender norms that are pushed in marketing-speak. Trucks are for boys. Transformers are for boys. Nerf is for boys. So what do girls get? This exceedingly creepy robo-baby, designed to train them to be mothers. Seriously. More »
Kham Tran from AndroidBlog.com.au has a wonderful girlfriend. You see, she crochets 12cm high Android Amigurami dolls for him in her spare time. More »
This is actually wonderful. Barbie’s had 124 careers since 1959, ranging from Stewardess to Paratrooper. Today she gets her 125th: computer engineer. You can tell she’s smart ’cause she’s got glasses and reads nothing but binary. More »
How might one repair a cyborg’s eye in the future? Why, with this handy eyeball-removing tool. How does one forget what’s seen in this image? Macallan 12 years, neat, that’s how. [Bloomers and Bows via Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
Oh, Michael, the world misses you. And as Billie Jean plays for the 152,345,160,433rd f–king time—yes, I’ve counted them all—what other better way to remember you than to play with this morphing Thriller action figure. More »
