Category: Toys
You're getting a Rubik's Revolution for Christmas
Whether you like it or not.
The Revolution is more of a gimmicky remix of the old Cube than a new lifelong challenge, with loads of flashing lights and pre-programmed sounds giving the goldfish-brained youths of today something to stare gormlessly at…
Remote-Controlled Beverage Buggy :(
This is absolutely ridiculous. It’s a remote-controlled car for drink cans. When do drink cans ever need to be driven about?
And don’t go saying it’s a labour saving device, as the simple act of putting cans…
Halo 3 'Mistress Chief' female action figure!
Wow. Sexy. Confusing, but sexy. What if… what if Master Chief was actually a HOT CHICK underneath? Artist David Johnson has made this fantasy real, creating an 8″ female spartan figure for Halo fans the world over to adore. He’s whacked it up on eBay – it’s currently going to $2000.
Shiny Video Preview: I Want One Of Those (IWOOT) Christmas goodies
Wednesday night saw one of the first Christmas parties of the year. In September. Yes, September. But hey, any excuse to quaff wine and check out some of the gadgets and gizmos we’ll all be buying for our friends’ Christmas stockings in a few months’ time.
Susi had a look at a couple of the products I Want One Of Those are touting to be big Christmas gifts, the…
WowWee has done it again, with the Barry B. Benson bee
WowWee, those ever-inventive chaps behind the Robosapien, FlyTech Dragonfly and Robopanda amongst a whole other menagerie of animals, have just added another critter to the collection. They’ve teamed up with DreamWorks to produce a piece of merchandise bound to be on every kiddywink’s Christmas want-list this year, Barry B. Benson from the upcoming Bee Movie.
Using the same technology…
Under the rainbow lurks the Discovery Rainbow In My Room
Obviously with all good things in life, moderation is key. If you have chocolates often, and get given flowers everyday, you’ll inevitably become desensitised to it, until the scary day when receiving a gift doesn’t mean anything at all.
Surely the same notion works with rainbows too? That’s why I’m sceptical about the Discovery Rainbow In My Room, which splashes a prismatic rainbow arc of colour onto walls or ceilings, created by LED lights…
The 19th Century got Impressionism, we get Suck UK graffiti trains at Firebox
And politicians wonder why this country is going to the dogs! When companies like Suck UK and Firebox are flogging trains you can graffiti yourself, there’s little wonder kids do this to trains nowadays. I just realised how much I’m beginning to sound like Jack Thompson, argh.
Still, even if they are possibly encouraging kids to vandalise public transport, these graffiti trains from Firebox do look like fun, and will allow you to live out the life of Banksy in your very own house. Each train is like a blank canvas…
Wicked Lasers' wicked Photonic Disruptor laser is, well, wicked. Innit.
Fancy a LASER BEAM with your, err, laser?
The Photonic Disruptor from Wicked Lasers must be aimed at serious laserphiles, as I can’t imagine too many hooligan kids standing on street corners, or your average Fabric nightclub goer would be willing to cough up the $599.99 they’re asking for one. The latest in their line-up, it’s actually being sold to law…
This iPhone's a brick – a pile of LEGO bricks
Nathan Sawaya is a LEGO artist who has constructed a replica of the iPhone from a pile of plastic bricks. He obviously thinks fairly highly of his work, too, as he's charging $399 for the model – the same…
Boomerang with LED lights? Bet the Aborigines wish they'd thought of that!
I’d love to see the faces of some Aboriginal elders when they watch this LED boomerang in action for the first time – I wonder if they’d be like proud fathers watching their kid learn to walk, or shaking their head in disgust at what was once a way of catching prey for survival turn into a form of entertainment for the 21st Century.
American Eric Darnell has recently shown off his latest invention, a foam boomerang called the ‘Scimitar’ which has been affixed with LED lights. As you can tell from the picture, when thrown, the boomerang is tracked…
