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Sports trading cards go high tech with video

, May 23rd 2011 Discuss [2]

When I was a kid, I used to collect a brand of holographic baseball cards. These where the paper sort with the ribbed plastic on top that you had to turn back and forth to see the image change. I thought they were pretty cool back in the day. My kids will get to collect cards that are much cooler and more interactive than those old holographic cards. The latest new invention for the trading card real is a little card with a small LCD embedded for video. Read The Full Story

Sphero Robotic Ball Debuts Developer Program At Google I/O

, May 10th 2011 Discuss [0]

Since the PlayStation Network is down, have you considered other forms of game play? Well, how about a robotic ball that can be controlled directly from your smartphone to do all kinds of crazy maneuvers in the real physical world? No? But Orbotix has. The company created a robotic ball called Sphero, the first of its kind. Now, they're opening up the API behind what controls this amazing sphere by unveiling their Sphero developer program at Google I/O. Read The Full Story

Connect A Sketch is a networked Etch A Sketch

, Apr 29th 2011 Discuss [2]

I would bet that everyone has used an Etch A Sketch at some point in their life. I remember having one when I was a kid, I was always making stairs on the screen or having dueling light cycle fights after Tron came out. I always wished that you could have another set of knobs on top for some two-player Tron style battles on the toy. A cool new device called the Connect A Sketch will let me do just that. Read The Full Story

Outlaw Toymakers Lampoon Zuckerberg

, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

Those jokers over at M.I.C. Gadget have done it again. You might remember them releasing an action figure of Apple's CEO last year. This time they've chosen to release a figure for FaceBook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. "It is heavier than an iPhone, lighter than an iPad. And it stands 7 inches tall." He comes accessorized with a Like It button, Adidas sandals, and smarmy grin. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 22 2011

, Feb 22nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Well hello there all you morning readers, haven't seen you around for a while! We've been to Barcelona and back and now we're back in the New York Groove to get you all the news you want in the tiny package you love the best - SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up! Have a look at a HTC Inspire 4G Review, the winners of the Android Community Big Fat Android Toy Giveaway #1, and the Motorola XOOM Street Egg Ad that'll swallow you up whole! Don't forget the odd Motorola Roadster [In-Car Bluetooth Speakerphone] Review - talk in your car all day! Have a look at a slew of Lenovo item releases: the ThinkPad W520 quadcore desktop replacement, the Lenovo ThinkPad T420s, T420 and T520, and the Lenovo ThinkPad L420 and L520 entry-level notebooks. All of them very black with a red nose. Then while you're mind is still at it, get the official price of the Verizon released Motorola XOOM. Read The Full Story

Tandar – Interactive Monkey Pet with a USB tail

, Feb 17th 2011 Discuss [4]

Yes, it's furry, it talks, and it is a little bit scary - and it has a USB port on its tail. And it can also be a nightlight. It is the new Tandars Interactive Pet. Beware if you go to the website, you will need to get past a slowly blinking monkey and a talking tree. The Tandar Monkey uses the USB port to recharge, which takes about 15 minutes for quick playtime and 2 hours for a full charge (hint: do this while the kids are sleeping, or you will be in for a major fit). Read The Full Story

Toy Car Rams Ahead at 18mph, Audi Auto Union Type X e-tron Makes it Longest Car Title Ever

, Jan 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

Take a peek this magnificent machine. It's all black with tan interiors, no top, a big fat "1" on the side, and wheels that'll last you just so long as you don't go offroad at all, whatsoever. What the heck is this thing? It's the Audi Auto Union Type C e-tron study, of course. It's got electric drive, a smooth sailing body, and plans on being released into the wild at the International Toy Fair this early February, just so long as it gets its wish. Read The Full Story

Japan Losing Vending Machine Edge?

, Jan 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Believe it or not, Japan was not the first country in the world to come up with the gold vending machine, the first of which was released early this week. Not a machine made of gold, but a machine that allows you to trade money for gold in a vending machine environment. Ron Paul would be proud, as the USA beat Japan to the punch by a month, while Germany and Abu Dhabi beat Japan by almost a year! As reporter Yoree Koh says, "It's enough to make you cry into your ramen." Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: January 19 2011

, Jan 19th 2011 Discuss [0]

First, it's WAR over on Android Community as a Moto PR representative basically tells ROM developers to STAY AWAY. Then come back to SlashGear and swallow a submarine for science! Over on Android Community, see an Android Explode an Apple Logo, a Nexus S clad man get crushed by a vending machine, and take a close peek at the Android Chinese God of Wealth! Back on SlashGear, check out a couple of fabulous new Samsung clickers: Samsung ST95, ST90 and ST65, and Samsung ST30 and ST6500. Finally check out on Android Community one of the most helpful Android apps of all time, now a reality: MasterCard's "ATM Hunter." All this and MORE on The Daily Slash. Read The Full Story

Official Android Designer Toy Line Expanded by God of Wealth, Reviewed by Android Community

, Jan 19th 2011 Discuss [1]

Android has become a big enough platform that they've got an official toy line. When you've got a toy line and an OS under the same brand, you know what you do? You send those toys into outer space with a Nexus S. Then since the brand is a global brand, you make an Asia exclusive Chinese New Year toy and you extend the power of your brand by an exponential amount. Read The Full Story

Star Wars Posters Perfected in Every Way by Artist Tyler Stout

, Jan 18th 2011 Discuss [4]

When it comes to Star Wars, there's only a few ways you can go wrong. You can make life-sized plush animals (barring ewoks,) you can make terrible Christmas ornaments, and you can make a Star Wars Holiday Special. Of all the ways you can go right, it's an extremely difficult market to break into for movie posters. Everyone in the world who wants a poster either already has one or already has a favorite, and why would they grab a new one with more than 30 years of posters already having been released. Surely the craft has been perfected by now. But I say thee nay, perfection was not done in any of the past three decades, it was done now, by illustrator Tyler Stout. Read The Full Story

Daniel Eatock Teaches the World to Compensate with a Cheap Bookshelf

, Jan 18th 2011 Discuss [0]

Take a look at this, a bookshelf that you could potentially purchase from a store for about... oh... $10? So long that when heavy contents are placed along the center, it bends and arcs. Designer / artist Daniel Eatock saw this situation and decided to make the best out of it by grabbing all of his favorite books and placing them along the center in a perfect order, an order so perfect that the arc of the shelf and the height of each of the books perfectly compliment one another in harmony. Read The Full Story
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