Sugru is an air-curing rubber that can be formed and shaped by hand, sticks to most surfaces, cures to a tough flexible silicon overnight, and is stable at -60°C to + 180°C. Strong, flexible, waterproof and durable, it can be used for a multitude of purposes to adapt, modify and repair. Its uses are really only limited [...]
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While maybe not as versatile as a Leatherman or similar multi-tool on your keyring, you’ve got to admit that this is pretty cute. The Tool Tank from Spinning Hat Playful Design includes three heads ( large and small phillips and flat ) cleverly disguised in its tracks. Each head magnetically fixes into the turret and it’s [...]
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Warning: If you like robots, DO NOT READ this article. Don’t.do.it… If you decide not to heed my advice, it won’t be my fault if your productivity goes down the drain for the next 8hrs and your credit card starts to complain. You’ve been warned.
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Would you like to teach your child about internal combustion engines – or learn about them yourself? With the Internal Combustion Engine Kit from Hammacher Schlemmer, you can build a working 1/10 scale model from more than 100 ABS plastic parts. The kit comes complete with tools and a Haynes Manual, the definitive auto repair [...]
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The PowerUp Electric Powered Paper Airplane Conversion Kit from TailorToys will turn a homemade folded paper airplane into an electric powered propeller driven plane. It comes with one propeller module and a charger module which runs on 3 AA batteries. You will need to supply your own paper to fold your plane. Once folded, clip [...]
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If you just can’t find the right belt buckle, you should try the Scrolling LED Belt Buckle from Gadgets and Gear. You’ll be able to type in six of your own messages; the first can have 512 characters, but the other five are limited to 256 characters each. The buckles are available with either red [...]
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For those of you show-offs who find a regular Rubik’s Cube too easy, there’s the Simplicity Cubic 3x3x7 Uneven IQ Brick from Brando’s toy selection. Brando says this toy offers left and right brain training, and IQ & EQ training. They also say that it will provide fun in your home and at your office. [...]
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A couple of years ago, Julie told us about the Mindflex game from Mattel. It’s a “a mental acuity game where you use your thoughts to move a ball through an obstacle course.” Now Mattel is offering the Mindflex Duel so you can go head-to-head (pardon the expression) against your friends. There are five game [...]
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Lots of companies will print your custom design on a shirt for you, but that’s so static! No one but ThinkGeek lets you design on your shirt as you’re wearing it. You’ll use the included UV laser to draw any design on your Lazer Shirt Interactive Tee. When you go into the dark, your shirt [...]
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Forget the candles and greenery centerpieces for your holiday table. This year, you can decorate with candlesticks that are scale replicas of Darth Vader’s lightsaber. Of course, the Star Wars Lightsaber Candlestick is from ThinkGeek. The detailed candlesticks are molded in chrome-plated zinc alloy, and they stand 8.5″ tall. They come with 3 10″-long dripless, [...]
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The Twine is created by Supermechanical , a pair of graduates from MIT Media Lab, and is currently seeking ( well, they’ve actually already exceeded ) funding on Kickstarter. The Twine is a durable 2.5″ square that provides in-built wifi connectivity, internal on-board temperature and accelerometer, as well as an external expansion jack for other sensors ( [...]
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Sivlerlit did well when they named this toy the 3D Twister because my play (err…I mean precise testing methodology) mostly involved watching the car skitter around our home and later our concrete driveway literally flipping, spinning, hopping and jumping around. At full throttle the car looks more like a frenetic animal than a toy car, [...]
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I saw this on BookOfJoe and thought it could be fun to exercise some literary talent while waiting for my bagel to thaw out in the micro. This could be a fun thing for the office fridge too. As we run to the magical mystical appliance this weekend looking for gobble left overs, why not [...]
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Hammacher Schlemmer has released the Bionic Bopper. The Bopper allows each driver to battle it out to deliver the round winning, chin-lifting uppercut. The driver sits inside the Bopper’s protective steel cage cockpit and use two independent joysticks to maneuver while the thumb triggers activate two pneumatic powered , tire-treaded-fisted arms. Powered by a Honda gas [...]
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First seen at CES 2011, Sony Websites around the world are now showing the HMZT1 Personal 3D View Head Mounted Display for preorder. Using dual OLED HD screens , virtual 5.1 Surround Sound and TruBlack displays, the headset’s designed to immerse you into movies and games in the intimacy of your own personal cinema. “Get the equivalent of [...]
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Even though I’m a big fan of eBooks, I still love browsing through honest to goodness physical books. I find that there are some types of books that I prefer to be of the dead tree variety. One of these types is the large format, picture rich, coffee table book. I have a great example [...]
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If you’re like me you love 360° panoramic pictures, but trying to get a good one is hampered by having to be very precise with overlapping, lighting and other factors. Using 36 fixed focus 2 megapixel Camera modules and an accelerometer used to measure launch acceleration, the Panoramic Ball captures a full spherical panoramic view at [...]
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