Toys
Toys
Second Generation Pet Rock Is USB-Powered, Still Does Nothing
2:20PM Rosa Golijan | Maybe I’m just not a good pet owner, but I never understood the original Pet Rock. Mine just sat there holding down papers on my desk and refused to eat. Looks like this USB-powered one doesn’t do much either. More »
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Get Your Hands On A Non-Functioning WETA Ray Gun
1:20PM Adam Frucci | WETA, the special-effects studio behind movies such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, has a new line of prop ray guns, and they’re actually sort of affordable this time. More »
Games
12:00PM Chris Jacob | There’s a great read over at Cheap Talk about how digital pinball machines changed the industry, back when there still was an industry. They were big tables where you flick a ball around, but they were smarter than you think. More »
Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think
12:00PM Chris Jacob | There’s a great read over at Cheap Talk about how digital pinball machines changed the industry, back when there still was an industry. They were big tables where you flick a ball around, but they were smarter than you think. More »
Science
Gifts For Science Nerds Who Love To Tinker
11:00AM Rosa Golijan | Meteorites, microscopes or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist or engineer in your life. More »
Games
Unnecessary Upgrades: Accelerometer-Controlled Marble Maze
3:40AM Sean Fallon | Some old-fashioned games simply don’t need a 21st century makeover — like the wooden marble maze. Adding accelerometer control seems like a pointless endeavour. More »
Sports
Baseball King Balls Throw The Curveball For You
1:00AM Mark Wilson | I wasn’t blessed with a modicum of sports talent, but I can get behind this idea: cheating. More »
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Once Upon A Time, A Book And An iPhone Met…
3:20PM Rosa Golijan | If I ever have kids, odds are that they’ll turn out to be gadget-obsessed bookworms. But even if they don’t, we’d probably spend a few afternoons flipping through these interactive iPhone-powered books together, giggling in delight at the stories. More »
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Rejoice! Colour Tamagochi Will Make The World Go Round
12:00PM Jesus Diaz | You know we have arrived to The Future when Bandai manbirths a Tamagochi with a colour LCD screen. Because the future is really like the ’90s, but in colour. Fortunately, the Tamagochi ID only exists in Japan for $US56. More »
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Knocking Down 117 Toys Balanced On Single Lego Brick
11:00AM Jesus Diaz
How can you make 117 toys stand balanced over one single 4×2 Lego brick? I don’t know, but artist Walter Wick has the answer and he’s made this really cute video about it. [Boing Boing]
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