Archive for the ‘Toys’ Category
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10 Of The Coolest Post-It Notes You’ll Ever See
BUY NOW BUY NOW BUY NOW BUY NOW Writing notes on sticky pads of paper is much more fun if the pad of paper is wacky and cool, don’t you think? For this reason, we’d like to celebrate the cool memo note pads and sticky pad papers that we’ve stumbled across over the last little while. From hamburgers will all the fixings to sushi pieces on ...
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Undead Teds: One of a Kind Zombie Teddy Bears
Phillip Blackman is the British illustrator who is responsible for UndeadTeds. UndeadTeds are repurposed soft toys transformed into fluffy, bloody horrors to keep you awake at night.
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Foldable.Me: A Cute Cardboard Version Of You
In March 2012, a renegade team from Mint Digital conceived a plan to let the world create their own cardboard friend. They feared it was an impossible dream… but the first prototype proved just too loveable. After 4 days, locked away in the countryside, they had a crude working version of Foldable.Me. People were excited but there was one problem. Foldable.Me needed hairdos, lots of hairdos. ...
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Moldable Chocolate That Acts Like Modelling Clay
Why anyone in the world would ever need or want a box of flexible, moldable chocolate that can be worked like modelling clay is beyond our comprehension. But, apparently, this hot-ticket item from ThinkGeek promises hours of fun and a delicious chocolate treat at the end of a craft session. The Moldable Magic Chocolate Kit includes milk, dark and white chocolate. But what we are curious ...
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Luggage With Built-In Scooter
Running from one terminal to another with your carry-on luggage just got a lot easier thanks to the awesome Scooter Luggage by Micro. Developed in tandem with Samsonite, this handy little luggage case of 26L capacity features hard-side construction and has a built-in kickboard that folds out to transform the luggage into a mobile pieces of transportation. Rolling around on a luggage scooter seems kind of ...
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Funky Army Man Bottle Opener
Finally, a chance to bring plastic army men back into your life shamelessly after the age of ten. These cute (but equally rugged) army men are big enough to help you tactile the most difficult of missions – opening a bottle cap that is not a twisty. The Army Man Opener is made from die-cast metal and is eager to carry out your orders to pop ...
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Ninja Turtle & Buzz Lightyear Costumes Made From Balloons
The wonderfully talented Jeff Wright of Balloon Distractions are really upping the ante for Halloween 2012. The pressure is on, now, folks. Unlike most of Balloon Distractions’ creations, the Buzz Lightyear and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sculptures are costumes that are meant to be worn. Each balloon is twisted and knotted into a series of smaller pieces that makes each unit independently durable (in other words, ...
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This Australian Children’s Park Could Be The Coolest In The World
The Blaxland Riverside Park in Sydney Olympic Park in Australia was designed by JMD Design and is proving to be one of the coolest children’s entertainment parks in the world. The park was officially opened on June 1st 2012 and makes extensive use of the 300 meters wide of land to house a variety of play experiences and elements that cater to the entire family. The ...
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The Popinator, a Voice Activated Popcorn Shooter
We don’t know anyone who doesn’t love impressing others with the “throw-a-piece-of-popcorn-in-the-air-and-catch-it-in-my-mouth” trick. Do you? Exactly! We love the Popinator – a machine that will launch a kernel of popcorn in your direction once it registers your voice saying the word “pop”. The binaural microphones work together with the computer to “hear” your command and determine the likely location of you mouth before firing a delicious ...
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Dock Converts Your iPad Into a Pinball Machine
Now you can manage to replicate a fairly accurate game of pinball with the Duo Pinball iPad Controller. Duo wants you to experience some pinball wizardry and relive your favourite arcade moments with the app-supported pinball controller for iPad. Flipper button and spring-loaded plunger make pinball gameplay unbelievably real. The Duo Pinball software connects wirelessly with your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch and can be downloaded ...
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Normal Door Flips Down Into Pingpong Table
Berlin-based artist and designer Tobias Franzel has designed a ping pong table that doubles as a door – a great space-saver and a fun way to introduce some activity into a tiny living space. The door-turned-table functions on robust mechanics and transitions without much physical effort into a door or pingpong table – while the table is in door state, simple push the top of the ...
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Funky Jewelry Made From Amputated Barbie Parts
Almost every little girl loved to play with them, and now, girls of all ages can commemorate their childhood friend, Barbie, but wearing parts of her as jewelry. Ok, fine, this sounds creepy, but for some reason, Margaux Lange’s work is not. Her jewelry pieces are made out of Barbie lips, faces, eyes and more, and they are positively unique and awesome. Now you too can ...
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Wicked Jumbo Wall-Mounted Scrabble Board
Mixed media artist John Kahn has come up with the World’s Largest Scrabble Game Board (not to be confused with the World’s Largest Game of Scrabble that was played in Wembley Stadium). Nearly five times larger than the original Scrabble game board, this jumbo-sized game spans over 49 square feet and there are only nine available for purchase. The board itself is made out of Russian ...
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Awesome Toaster Made From An Original Nintendo Console
Artist Mathijs Sterrenburg is our hero today. Why, you ask? Because he came up with this awesome toaster that is made from a refurbished Nintendo NES console. This Netherlands-based artist is known in the DeviantART community as MyBurningEyes, but in this case we had to hunt down his real name so official props could be shared. Sadly, this item is not real – but the well-done ...
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LEGO Versions Of Vehicles From Batman: The Dark Knight Rises
LEGO mastermind, Calin (as noted on his official Flickr site under the username of _Tiler) has created an awesome series of LEGO greatness. Behold, your favourite vehicles from Batman films, including the Batmobile, Bane’s Truck, The Batwing (aka The Bat), the Batpod and the Tumbler from the latest Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises”, part of the Dark Knight Trilogy. These vehicle replicas were built entirely ...
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Cute And Geeky XBOX 360 Controller Jewelry
Imagine our excitement when we stumbled upon Etsy vendor Egyptianruin and her incredible Xbox video game controller-shaped jewelry. From keychains to jewelry, Egyptianruin custom makes geektastic goodies that are hard to resist. This talented artist started her Etsy shop in 2008 but was already making geeky jewelry and keychains to be sold at conventions in 2006. At this point in time, the Egyptianruin shop has become ...
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Dipr: The Smartest Cookie Dunking Device Yet
Fellow cookies-and-milk fiends, behold: the Dipr! The Dipr is a spoon that holds your sandwich cookie (a.k.a. Oreo cookie) while you dip it in milk or other beverages (may we suggest coffee? hot chocolate? tea?) in order to ensure the cookie is saturated with the drink of your choice and ready to be eaten. The dipr cradles the cookie by the cream and prevents the cookie ...
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Nerf-Gun Alarm Clock
Need to hit snooze just one more time before you can bring yourself to wake up? This alarm clock by NERF makes it a little more difficult to get that extra round of sleep (unless you are a sure-shoot sniper). The Shoot to Snooze Alarm Clock by NERF requires users to shoot a NERF projectile at the target in order to engage the snooze button. For ...
