Tag Archive for 'toys'
When I was a young whippersnapper, in-between cleaning chimneys and begging for scraps of festering meat and stale bread on street corners (there was food at home, I just enjoyed the human interaction), I used to lust wantonly for Tomy’s Omnibot 2000. They had a few on the top shelf of our local toyshop, and [...]
If the last video of the WowWee Dragonfly Robot got you salivating, how about another from the makers themselves? Taking off from a meeting table and then fluttering around a selection of their other robots, it’s hard to believe that this is going to be a commercially-available toy.
It turns out that credit for the [...]
We’ve been paying a lot of attention lately to RC toys, so here goes another one worth a look. The “Take Off and Landing Flight Trainer Plane” from Hammacher Schlemmer, is a 1/10th scale electric plane that can taxi and take off under the power of its twin engines instead of hand-launching like with other [...]
These would, let me tell you, make the ideal stocking filler for a robot obsessed toy-hound like myself. A friendly little set of co-operative robot buddies, the wind-up pair will happily strut around your desk until you need a pencil sharpened, at which point they’ll get to work with their internal cutting blades.
Hang on, internal [...]
If RC toys get you excited, then take a look at the RC H2 Hummer. This two and a half feet long beast can take on the streets with speeds up to 10-15 mph. Ok, so its not furiously fast compared to some other RCs, but it is a monster-sized 1:6 replica of the real [...]
This item could be a party enhancer, night-light, or main light fixture. The Laser Rod Orb is a table, wall, or ceiling mountable light show that projects three lasers and multiple light in various directions a.k.a. your own personal rave. It’s not DMX 512 compatible and it won’t hookup to your ETC lighting board but [...]
Never before I have I begun typing and subsequently deleted it so many times as I have attempting to put together this post. This, friends and astonished lovelies, is the Dr Laura Action Figure. Yes, that’s right, you can invite the “opinionated” radio talkshow host into your home and be berated via any of 23 [...]
I’ve eyed up these USB cannons before, thinking that they might make funny Christmas gifts, but have always held the poor smoking credit card back due to not exactly knowing how they perform. Well, thanks to The Gadgeteer’s review, I now know! Similar in operation, the USB Circus Cannon fires paper-wrapped foam darts and comes [...]
At first glance I wasn’t convinced by this kit; surely a so-called microcontroller, when it’s enlarged to the size of a VCR tape, loses half of its name and becomes simply a “controller”? Semantics aside, it only took me a few minutes to see the potential for fun. The Microcontroller kit from Thames & Kosmos (I [...]
Do I love this robot puppy more than the amazing robot cat I wrote about a while ago? Hell no. But I’m sure there are some dog-lovers out there who might be interested anyway. $60 gets you a fluffy toy that can respond to 15 different voice commands to do tricks, including sit, bark, shake [...]
