If you would prefer not to have your children use and abuse your iPad you could try and substitute your nice new iPad 2 for a wooden anaPad. But if pulling an iPad from your children’s grasp is not for you. The anaPad also makes a great magnetic white board with matching application magnets to match, made to the exact [...]

We first featured the matchbox creations of Chris Burden back in 2010 when he was building the framework for his artistic Metropolis II Matchbox Car Cityscape which is 10ft tall and 28 ft wide. Burden’s kinetic sculpture Metropolis II is a massive cityscape where more than a 1,000 toy cars racing down 18 lanes of freeways continuously. The Match Box cityscape took artist Chris [...]

September 1 to be specific. Come that date one of the largest Lego sets will go on sale. We’re talking about a 50 inch replica of the Executor, the fearsome Star Destroyer that figured so prominently in the first trilogy of the Star Wars saga. What’s really awesome about this particular Lego model is there’s [...]

I have never played the game Minecraft, but I know it’s one of the more popular games out there for casual gamers. ThinkGeek has teamed up with Minecraft developer Mojang for some cool gear to decorate your home or office. One of the items is an axe is made from foam.

Orre-what? It’s a mechanical device whose resulting motions follow the orbital paths of our solar system’s heavenly bodies. Seen below is the finished project of Make enthusiast Guy Himber who confesses his inspiration was the movie Dark Crystal. (A one of a kind classic, in our opinion.) Of course, anyone who’s ever gazed at a [...]

Sure, this might be a gadget blog, but the degree of sophistication some toys have these days can still surprise us. Seen below is the Xploderz X Stormer 1000, a particularly non-lethal water gun that fires solidified H2O projectiles at a target. It’s a clever hybrid of paint ball technology and traditional water guns, meaning [...]

They’ll start selling for $19 a pop. Featuring every leading Star Wars character from the original trilogy, the new line of action figures is supposed to fire the enthusiasm of the tots. This lovely bit of news comes just weeks after Star Tours re-launched in Disney theme parks, a momentous event that came hand in [...]

I am a big fan of LEGO and over the years the things that geeks can make out of a set of LEGO Technic bricks never cease to amaze me. LEGO has announced a new Technic set that is to celebrate the 60th anniversary of a car I had never heard of called the Mercedes [...]

If you are a Star Wars fan what could be better to keep your drinks ice cold than a couple of Han Solo frozen in carbonite ice cubes? But why stop at ice cubes, a world of possibility beckons with these Star Wars Han Solo moulds, chocolate, jelly or anything else delicious could be used, and the silicon tray is both heat [...]

As the accompanying pic indicates, the USB-It USBs anything its stuck on. It’s a geeky toy that’s good for more than a few pranks and gags. (Push it farther and people might resent you for sticking cable son stuff.) Anyway, the USB-It is nonfuctional so don’t expect to save the contents of your brain (or [...]

H.P. Lovecraft is a unique occurrence in the history of letters. A gifted polymath and eccentric recluse (aren’t they always), his entry into writing came at a point in his life where, to put it bluntly, he had nothing much to do. A funny factoid since dear H.P.’s dalliance with writing had its first spurts [...]

So don’t try to. Anyway, the big deal with this post is some dude who exercised his talents at an event called Brickmagic over at North Carolina built a LEGO bicycle form lots of green ricks. LOTS of green bricks alright. It’s not functional but hey, the effort is worth some praise.