Mmm, is it just me or does this video creep you out a bit? The Clothbot was designed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. As a proof of concept model, the Clothbot uses a pair of wheels to grip wrinkles to enable itself to climb around on pieces [...]
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It’s Summer time, the weather’s hot, you’re working away and your butt’s getting hotter and stickier with every key stroke. Worry no longer, Thanko’s USB Cool Cushion plugs into your PC’s USB port and the inbuilt fan keeps your derrière cool, calm and collected. It’s not going to be a Marilyn Monroe moment, but hopefully the small luxury [...]
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The Dragon Grip from Dragon Grip Interactive is not a gaming controller. This hand-held, special-effects toy is a Kickstarter project, and it is “based on a character from a creative world called Legend City.” It “allows the user to make sound effects styled from 70′s Kung Fu movies in a choreographed sequence by the users [...]
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I’m not a gun person, but I can’t help but be impressed by Jack Streat’s LEGO Heavy Weapons book from No Starch Press. First of all, he’s only 17 years old! Secondly, he offers plans for replicas of 4 guns: a Desert Eagle handgun, AKS-74U assault rifle, Lee Enfield sniper rifle and a SPAS combat shotgun. The plans don’t [...]
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Got a Napoleon complex? Want to re enact the Civil War? The Mini Cannon from Pocket Artillery is precision machined, muzzled loaded and is capable of firing a .177″ BB using a fireworks fuse. Range is up to 100 yards with this cannon. It also looks like soon they’ll be producing trebuchets, catapults, ballistas and guillotines [...]
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The RC Toy Robot is a concept toy from designer Jaehong Eric Han. The robot can be controlled from smart devices or across the internet, and multiple robots will be able to interact with each other. Amongst other capabilities are the ability to be used as a baby monitor, to give you alerts from your [...]
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Fellow Star Wars fangirls/boys, we are one step closer to finally getting ourselves an actual lightsaber! Wicked Lasers has given us the very first “lasersaber” (cough, lightsaber, cough). The saber attachment is compatible and fits around any of their Spyder-3 model lasers. It’s comprised of an aircraft-grade aluminum hilt and 32″ polycarbonate blade. When the saber [...]
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Sigh. I love remote control stuff, especially helicopters, but I may well be the worst RC ‘copter pilot ever. I got the cool looking YD-711 2.4GHz 4-channel Avatar licensed RC helicopter from Attop, and broke one of the blades within about 10 minutes of actual flight time. More on that later.
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A couple weeks ago, The Gadgeteer had a news post about Brick Brites, clear plastic LEGO-like building blocks. They’re different from regular LEGO blocks because they have motion-activated blinking lights built-in to add some excitement to your LEGO constructions. How do you improve upon the LEGO brick? I had to see what this was all about. [...]
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If you are bored with your current collection of office toys, you might want to check out a set of Tegu Prism Pocket blocks. We’ve told you about these wooden Tegu magnetic blocks before, but now they are offering smaller sets that store in a heavy felted pouch. The Prism set shown here has 6 [...]
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Sure, there are LEGO bricks that light up, but do they blink in different colors? Brick Brites are motion activated pieces that work “with major toy brick brands” and blink when tapped, which helps conserve battery life. That’s good, because I don’t see a way to change the batteries. Comes in White/Red, White/Green and White/Blue for $9.99 [...]
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To prevent getting taken by one of their April Fool’s jokes again this year, I’ve stayed away from ThinkGeek for several days. (Dang it, I wanted light saber popsicles!) I was checking them out yesterday, and I found a product that they swear is a real product. The Star Trek Inflatable Captain’s Chair is an [...]
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This Crossbow Water Balloon Launcher won’t make you as cool as Daryl Dixon, but you’ll have a lot more fun shooting the Walking Dead than he does. This crossbow toy from The Sharper Image comes with 50 biodegradable water balloons, a balloon tie maker, and a plastic target. It’s made of brightly colored plastic, and [...]
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From cerriousdesign on Etsy, this mini USB flash drive guitar is a nice little piece for that musician in your life. It’s made from pine with copper strings that you can even change the tension on, and it also comes with its own soft lined hard case. Available in 8GB for $75 or 16GB for $90, plus shipping.
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They’re not as big as the Robots in Real Steel, they’re more advanced than the robots in The Big Bang Theory, but they’re not toys and they’re playing for a $12,000 pot. Started in 2002, the ROBO-ONE championship is an annual competition held in Japan where bipedal humanoid robots fight it out to the end. [...]
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When I was a kid, there were no iPads, video games, or the Internet. When I wasn’t reading books or taking apart broken appliances to salvage magnets, I was playing with yo-yos and gyroscopes. I hadn’t thought about gyroscopes in years till I happened upon an entire site dedicated to selling them. Gyroscope.com offers several gyroscopes, [...]
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You build with LEGOs and you build with Tinkertoys, but you can’t build with LEGOs and Tinkertoys – until now! F.A.T. Lab and Sy-Lab have created a set of 80 universal connectors that “enable complete interoperability between ten popular children’s construction toys.” (See the F.A.T. Lab site for a complete list.) You can’t buy the [...]
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I know lots of us Gadgeteers love stuff like creating and building things with LEGO. Well Nathan Sawaya is a New York based artist who’s taken things to another level. He builds with LEGO for a career As a full-time freelance artist Nathan accepts commissions to design and build custom creations. His work has graced photoshoots, conferences [...]
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