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Desk Pets launches cool TankBot that can navigate a maze

, Sep 21st 2011 Discuss [2]

I am a sucker for remote controlled toys. I have seen a bunch of RC toys that are controlled by a smartphone recently. Most of that stuff is for the iPhone and I have used a helicopter and an RC truck that you can control from the smartphone. A new toy has turned up from a company called Desk Pets International. The toy is called the TankBot and it's a little gadget that looks like a cross between an army tank and a robot puppy. Read The Full Story

Exo-concept shows off cool carbon fiber jet ski for the rich

, Sep 12th 2011 Discuss [1]

Watersports are a lots of fun no matter how much money you have. If you are loaded, you can have fun on the lakes or oceans in a completely different category from us normal folks though. Take for instance this new green jetski that looks awesome and is very environmentally friendly. The cool water toy is made by Exo-concept and is called the EXO. Read The Full Story

Slingshot slip and slide is awesomely dangerous

, Sep 1st 2011 Discuss [6]

Back in the day, the staple of summer for me and my brother was the Slip and Slide. We would spend hours sliding on that that thing until we were lobster red from friction and sunburns. Some adults still play with the Slip and Slide today, but a lot of those adults go much more extreme than they did in their youth. Read The Full Story

Rent Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Nymph submarine for $2,500 per day

, Aug 30th 2011 Discuss [5]

It would be great to have the kind of money that Sir Richard Branson has at his disposal. The dude has islands, aircraft, ships, and even spacecraft that he toys around with. One of the cooler things that Branson has is his fast Necker Belle luxury catamaran. The catamaran is said to be one of the fastest on the oceans, but the coolest thing about it to me is the Necker Nymph. Read The Full Story

Tron scooter is perfect for tiny Users

, Aug 23rd 2011 Discuss [5]

It's no surprise to me that geeks tend to get their kids geeky toys. When my son was little the rode this red plastic motorcycle everywhere, wearing a motocross jersey that was five sizes too big. He would jump anything the bike and his 3-year-old-legs could make it over. If they had this Tron scooter when he was little you can bet he would have been rocking one. This scooter was apparently created by a designer at the Trek bicycle company. Read The Full Story

Hacked RC car sent to soldier in Afghanistan saved lives

, Aug 8th 2011 Discuss [6]

This is one of the coolest hacks I have ever heard of. A guy named Ernie Fessenden built a cool RC truck to send to his brother serving in Afghanistan named Sergeant Chris Fessenden. Ernie built the hacked RC truck out of an off the shelf Traxxis Stampede RC truck combined with a smallish camera mounted to the hood of the truck. Read The Full Story

KRE-O construction Transformer sets hit stores

, Jul 4th 2011 Discuss [3]

Hasbro is the toy company that was behind some of the toys that shaped my youth. Specifically, I had all the Transformers that my parents would let me have. I often broke them trying to transform them from robot to vehicle or whatever and they were a lot of fun. I also had loads of LEGO as a kid and spent more than a few days grounded thanks to the little blocks and my tendency to leave them laying around for my parents to step on. Read The Full Story

Hasbro Android Robot Toys get I/O video playtime

, May 11th 2011 Discuss [1]

Our new favorite monkey robot, Kibot, may be stuck in Korea, but Hasbro has wider ambitions for its Nexus S powered Robot Toys. On show at Google I/O this week, the Android-bots are basically self-powered motorized cradles into which the Samsung smartphone docks, hooking up via Bluetooth. You can then hold races and use object recognition, just as in the video after the cut.

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Awesome wearable Lego minifig space helmet reads comics

, Apr 25th 2011 Discuss [1]

Lego is perhaps the greatest of all geek toys ever invented. The things you can make out of Lego are limitless and with the right vision and the correct blocks and servos you can make just about anything and have the finished contraption actually work. We talked about a couple really cool Lego devices that some geeks built late last week. I really liked the Lego assembly line setup the best out of those cool offerings last week. Read The Full Story

Geek makes toy motorcycles out of watch parts

, Apr 19th 2011 Discuss [0]

I like seeing people take one device and use it to make other devices. I'm not talking about taking a hammer and making a birdhouse out of wood with some nails. I am talking about taking apart a watch and using the gears and parts to make a sculpture of something else like this guy going by dkart71 did. Read The Full Story

Toys “R” Us Might Stock iPad 2 Next Month

, Apr 7th 2011 Discuss [5]

Before the iPad 2's launch, we had information that Apple was planning a much larger distribution of the iPad 2 than they had with the original iPad, selling it outside of traditional electronics stores. According to a tip received by the site ModMyi.com, Apple may begin selling the iPad 2 at Toys "R" Us next month. A Toys "R" Us employee supplied pictures and training materials to the site. Read The Full Story

Ship in a bottle is made from Lego

, Apr 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

My dad had a ship in a whisky jug sitting on the bar at our house when I was a kid. I looked at that thing more times than I can count trying to figure out how exactly they got the ship inside the bottle. Julie Morley has taken that ship in a bottle and made it a bit geekier by building the ship out of Lego. She even made us a time-lapse video so we can see how she made it. Read The Full Story
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