Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 3:17pm
If you've thought about it, seen it or own it, someone else has gone and stuck a USB cord to it. You can pretty much get anything in the world as a USB gadget, from fun office games to foot...
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Monday, March 30, 2009 - 6:24am
Swedish dog trainer Nina Ottosson has turned product designer for a series of toys she claims will educate your pet as well as improving his or her brainpower. As the owner of a crazy dog called Mr. Jones — believe...
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 2:59am
If you're reading this site you're probably more likely than most to have a real security camera trained on your tech lair. But even the most authentic geeks sometimes fall upon financial hard times, in which case devices like the...
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 1:03pm
Oh, to be a kid again. Back in my day, a Nerf gun consisted simply of a foam rocket and a pump-action tube. Rhode Island-based Weston Boeges' weapons are on the other end of the spectrum, taking on the shape...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 12:58pm
The Fly Goodbye is a shotgun-like apparatus for ridding your general vicinity of pesky insects. Rather than firing bullets, when you pull the trigger the Fly Goodbye will suck air in, including any bugs that happen to inhabit said air....
Friday, March 13, 2009 - 10:35am
Regular pogo sticks are fun, I guess, but they don't bounce you up all that high. The Flybar, on the other hand, makes pogo sticks a bit more extreme. Think of the Flybar as a pogo stick on steroids. It...
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 9:16am
Sega has created some of the best and most iconic arcade games ever. From the motorcycle setup for Hang-On to the car setup for Out Run, these are the games that kids swarmed towards in arcades in their heyday. And...
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 1:03pm
The Delorean from the Back to the Future films is one of the coolest, most unique, and most iconic cars ever made. Unfortunately, a real Delorean is expensive and impractical and also will not travel through time. But what if...
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 1:08pm
Among all the cool stuff at New York's Toy Fair were no fewer than 10 Star Trek toys, which our friends at SCI FI Wire dutifully found. Our favorite: this remote-control Enterprise. Trek fans have been able to build models...
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 6:10am
The Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories website introduced the Bristlebot to the world in December 2007. We were excited about these little robots, made from toothbrush heads with directional bristles, cellphone-vibrator motors and small batteries. We weren't the only ones:...
