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Tag Archives: Toys

Is This The Best Sex Toy Ever?

By David Ponce on 01/16/13 • Leave a comment!

I think we can be mature enough to talk about sex toys without offending anyone, right? So let’s get to it. The Hello Touch is a pair of tiny but powerful vibrators that are meant to be attached to your fingertips. Unlike regular, crap-o finger vibrators, these are allegedly as powerful as regular vibrators. And the way you use them is, well , pretty straightforward. We’re not going to start giving you a primer on the birds and the bees, but suffice it to say that they’ve been designed to go on (or in) just about every pleasure zone. And yes, they can be easily washed afterwards.

It’s $65 and available now. Hit the jump for a bunch of SFW pictures, plus links.

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Is A Ball-Dropping Ability Enough To Make This RC Heli-Drone Stand Out?

By David Ponce on 10/30/12 • Leave a comment!

It looks like over the last couple of years the technology for self-stabilizing RC helicopters has reached a point of maturity. Or at the very least, a cost that makes it so that it starts appearing everywhere. The latest entrant in this field is hoping to stand out from the others by including the ability to drop a payload on your enemies. The iOS-controlled coaxial-rotor helicopter iStrike Shuttle features a compartment in its base that is able to lift a ping-pong ball and drop it at the touch of a button. Included gyro stabilizers mean that you should be able to bring it over a co-worker’s head fairly easily and “attack” them when the most suspect it (they’d have to be deaf not to hear the thing coming, after all…). Flight time is around 8 minutes on one charge and a little bit more if you remove the landing stabilizer and ping pong ball. Of course if you do that, you’re left with yet another RC heli drone.

At $85, is it worth it? We’re not sure, though it could make an interesting Holiday present. It’s on Kickstarter now, so it’s not even sure to take off, but if it does, delivery would be in December of this year.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Geeky Gadgets ]

It’s Come To This: Baby Doll Is Pregnant

By David Ponce on 10/18/12 • 1 Comment

So you’re looking at the above doll and hopefully have some kind of frown on. What on earth is this? Well, it’s a doll alright, but fortunately it’s not going to be in any store. It’s the art of one Darren Cullen, and will be on display at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland, UK, from the 26 October – 12 January 2013 as part of a group show called “Moral Holiday.” So the next question is “WHY??!” Well, some media have speculated that the doll represents a comment Darren is making on TV shows exploiting teen pregnancies, or even about those shows glamorizing infant sexuality, like Toddlers & Tiaras. And to be honest, it very well could symbolize any of those things. However Darren himself has gone on record with his own explanation: “It’s about the way these toys intrinsically train girls to have and care for children while they are still only children themselves.” Oh, ok, Darren is making a comment on gender characterization and heteronormative socialization. Or, in other words, that dolls are BS in the first place. We get it. It’s just that, well, it’s still pretty creepy. But hey, that’s good art we suppose…

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Fancy a Round or Two of Klingon Monopoly? jAH!

By Hazel Chua on 09/12/12 • 1 Comment

Klingon Monopoly

nuqneH pa’! (That’s Klingon for ‘Hello there!’) Monopoly has been around for so long that it’s starting to get monotonous. But it’s so classic that it wouldn’t make sense for the Parker Brothers to discontinue it, either, so what they did was reinvent it to make it cool and current. The latest one of these is Klingon Monopoly.

If you’re familiar with the Star Trek universe, then you’ll know that Klingons are actually a fictional race featured on the series who happen to have their own language. Star Trek has amassed a huge cult following over the last few decades, so it’s not really a huge surprise to see Monopoly finally go Klingon. This collector’s edition combines English and Klingon and features familiar Star Trek elements on the board. Instead of the usual game pieces, you’ll get Combat cards, Honor Cards, Outposts, Capitals, and a pack full of Klingon forces to get your game on.

Hit the jump for a closer look at the game and links on where you can get the game!

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Wooden Toy Tablet Teaches Kids About Tech

By David Ponce on 09/06/12 • Leave a comment!

Depending on how spoiled your child is, this will either be appreciated and used as a fun teaching toy, as it’s intended, or just be thrown right back in your face for not being “the real thing”. We’re hoping your three year old doesn’t fall in the latter category. The Tinker Tablet is a wooden tablet, made to look like an iPad or something, but with no electronic components. Instead, there’s a wooden puzzle inside that looks like a circuit board, and whose pieces represent different components of a mobile device. What’s interesting is that these pieces can be assembled into a “cellphone”, teaching your tot from a very early age that objects like mobile phones aren’t magical pieces of plastic, but are instead a collection of separate parts that work together to form a functioning device.

When not assembled into a cellphone, the pieces fit into the tablet base, and a dry erase board slides over them to not only secure them in place, but allow the kid to draw… kind of like what people do with actual tablets. It could be a fun, interactive teaching tool that will get the little one’s tech appetite sharpened from a very early age. Currently on Kickstarter, the Tinker Tablet can be yours with a $50 pledge.

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The WeeRoll Is A Transforming 7 Toys In 1

By David Ponce on 08/28/12 • 2 Comments

Having a kid is likely the most important decision you’ll ever take. The things that change in your life are so numerous, we can’t even begin to talk about them here. That’s a big reason I’m never getting one. Or at least… not for a while. But for those who’ve either recently taken the plunge or are about to, you might want to look into the WeeRoll. “[It] is a modern, re-configurable, customizable, natural, active toy platform designed to grow with your child as they develop.” Made from renewable birch laminate, BPA free thermoplastic rubber treads, Water based finishes and ultra-low formaldehyde adhesives, the WeeRoll starts out as a walker/stroller for your baby and eventually develops into a wheelbarrow or train. In between those two forms you can make a riding toy, a rocking horse, and a “shopping” cart, all simply by re-organising the different parts into alternate configurations, with minimal effort and with the use of no tools. It looks like it’s pretty solid and should last the little tyke quite a few years, and even be handed down to the next kin without too much trouble.

Currently on pre-order on Kickstarter, the WeeRoll starts out at $84 and starts shipping in November, hopefully in time for the Holidays.

Hit the jump for a bunch more pictures and a couple videos that should make a better case for why this product is pretty cool.

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Tiny RC Quad-Copter Costs Less Than A Parrot Drone

By Muna Breitem on 08/14/12 • Leave a comment!

Seems like quad-rotor copters are popping up everywhere: as taxidermied cats, as flying DeLoreans, as scary flying formations from hell and as an expensive attraction at the last two CESes. That last one refers to Parrot’s A.R. 2 Drone. Admittedly, it’s pretty high tech and fancy. But it’s also $300+. For $49 you can instead get the version from Brando which does pretty much the same things, only with less cowbell. The 6 AXES GYRO RC Somersault UFO even does flips, although it’s controlled through a traditional remote rather than with the iPhone (like the AR Drone). There’s no foam protection like there is on Parrot’s offering and there are quite a few buttons on that remote, which makes it not look quite as intuitive; a crash seems inevitable. But we don’t know. It does have gyro stabilization so hey, let’s not rush to judgement. Seeing as it’s $40, if you break it after 15 minutes, you won’t spend as much time crying about it.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Techcrunch Gadgets ]

RPG7 PET Bottle Launcher Looks Awesome

By David Ponce on 07/31/12 • 1 Comment

We’re sorely lacking in details on this product because the website is Japanese and all the text is in an image, making it almost impossible to use Google Translate. We do think we know this much: it’s a toy designed to launch water bottles as if they were rocket propelled grenades. They are… water propelled bottles? With a 35º angle, you can launch a 600cc bottle up to 35meters away. That’s… not very far! But it’s still cool because it looks like an RPG launcher and if you were to use it in Pakistan to play a prank on the locals, you’d be guaranteed a swift bombing by a drone. Or you can just, you know, play with this safely in your backyard like a normal person.

Well… a normal person with lots of disposable income because the RPG7 is going for ¥28,350 (~$361 USD). That’s one expensive toy.

Incidentally if any of our Japanese speaking readers wants to help us out and dig some details from the links below, that’d be pretty cool.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ LikeCool ]

Conjoined Rubik’s Cube Adds Another Variant To A Classic Puzzle

By David Ponce on 07/09/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

We’ve covered Rubik’s Cubes pretty extensively over the years. You might not know this, but they come in innumerable flavours, from 3X3X9 mindbenders to touchscreen based versions. You can add to that list the above “2 in 1 Conjoined 3x3x3 Rubik’s Magic Cube.” The goal of this puzzle is clearly still the same so there really isn’t much else to explain. Folks who like the challenge of a freshly minted puzzle, know that this particular toy/challenge will set you back a very modest $14.

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