A Canadian farmer named Joe has built a basement that costs him almost 7 years…That’s really a long time, but why? The answer lies in the fact that the basement was finished using merely R/C tractors and trucks. You see, these toy vehicles are so mini-sized that they surely would take some time…
“Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you”, the classic “Happy Birthday” is now played by this mechanical music box that comes with three blank paper strips, a hole puncher, an instruction manual, and a pre-punched “Happy Birthday” song strip. Because it’s completely different from other regular music boxes, it’s supposed to be “one of the best ways to celebrate a birthday”.
Hey, what’s that up in the sky? Is it a superman? Not really, as it is RcSuperhero flying mechanism indeed. Measuring 78-inches tall and weighing just 3.3 pounds, the RcSuperhero looks very eye-catching in the sky, making it one of the most-wanted gifts this year. So would you like one too?
Quite surprisingly we’re informed that in the Bronx Zoo there’re several animals seldom moving or eating but keeping in merely one single posture. Why and what happened? The truth is bit of interesting, as all those animals mentioned above are actually life-like statues made out of LEGO. So how do you like them? If you’d like a tour to the Bronx Zoo, you can ask for a LEGO Zoofari Passport along with your ticket for a comprehensive guide to the installation’s whereabouts, and collect 6 different stamps for souvenir-like proof of your visit there.
What’s this, a huge cube? Of course it is, but it’s exactly also a three dimensional kite formed by 1,700 3D printed connected segments. It seems extremely bulky, but can actually levitate steadily due to its lightweight composition of carbon fiber rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric.
Stuffed animals used to be inanimate toys that can only get moved by the humans; but now they can successfully move on their own, with the aid of the Pinoky—a small, ring-like device that wirelessly brings stuffed animals to “life”. It uses a micro controller, a Zigbee input device and a servo motor system to move an animal’s hands and legs, also with a set of photo sensors designed to measure the angle at which it bends. Thus simply pin the Pinoky onto your stuffed animals, and you will then see them move and dance automatically. Really funny, huh? You can get it as a Christmas gift for your kids.
Hello little chefs before the screens, we’ve gotten some amazing toys for you: the Cardboard Cocorico Cooker. It looks the same as a real cooker, with tiny time knobs and temperature knobs. Of course it cannot be used to bake cakes, and is actually made for the kids to practice their cooking ability. But who cares? The play kitchen set is cute enough for kids.
No doubt you’re the one who can control the weather, but merely the snowy weather at the moment. With this magic can, anyone could easily create white snow even in the hot summer days. Really great, right? Now I’m quite looking forward to something that allows me to create rainbows…
Your little kitten now can play its favorite “chasing” game with the Frolicat Bolt Laser Cat Toy. For hours, the device projects a red dot, manually or automatically, for your kitty to track until it realizes that the red dots wouldn’t be destroyed. Isn’t that funny? [Read the rest of this entry...]
This Mini Desktop Computer must have tricked your eyes, as it looks like small toys on the picture. But it is “announced” to be real computer available for use in the video below. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Usually adults and children are believed to view one same thing from totally different points. To adults, these items designed by Shahaf Ben Abu are merely clips. But to kids, wow, they’re also parts of their toys. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Foosball, ping pong, backgammon, chess and pool – you can play all those five games with merely one game kit. It is constructed of a wooden box with wood and plastic pieces and measures 20″ X 12″ X 6″. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Shine up your 2011summer with these Mini Inflatables! Here Mini convertibles are changed into inflatable beach toys that are suitable for both kids and adults. Like real MINI Cooper cars, these toys still feature a cool shape, bright colors and no doubt they’ll catch everybody’s attention when you’re riding them along the beach. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Hello you camera fans in front of the screen, it is time for you to play with your cameras, after you have worked with them for so many years. Available in Canon 50mm, Nikon 35mm, and Canon 24-105mm f/4, these camera lenses are all made out of fleece and felt and therefore you’ll find them soft and safe enough for a camera pillow fight. [Read the rest of this entry...]
LEGO again. This time the world famous toy company launches these hand cast concrete building blocks resembling standard 2×4 LEGO building blocks. Best gifts for architects or builders. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Tomm Velthius has successfully blurred the line between furniture and toys. He built many railway lines in a wooden table, let small electric trains run through them and therefore changed tables into toys. Great work! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Do not take these puffy cat ears as merely ornaments or toys… as you may find they keep moving if the feeling of the person wearing them changes. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Will the futuristic world be only for Apple? Already in these days, almost all we adults have gotten crazy for the elegantly designed Apple goodies, from MacBook, to iPhone, to iPod, to iPad. And now the Apple is beginning its way to introduce children to its magic, with the Playmobil Apple Store Playset. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Get one Salt Water Fuel Cell Car Kit for your children and then let them know batteries are not the only thing to drive their toy cars to move. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Since almost all kids love to draw pictures on tables, why not just make a table that shall be used exclusively for them to write or draw on? Possibly inspired by that idea, designer Tiang Tiang has come up with such a paper table, something that features a pile of drawing paper as its tabletop so that your kids can conveniently draw on them. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Angry Birds are almost everywhere, and till now we can see them on cups, hats, cakes, toys, refrigerator magnets and many other items. There are 14 kinds of Angry Birds, and I can’t even tell the best – you see, they all look so nice!
Use your brain to rebuild this brain! Designed by Jason Freeny, the Rubik’s Brain Sculpt will undoubtedly bring you with more joy. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Already fed up with remote-controlled aircrafts? Have a try with the Air Swimmers then. They’re balloon fishes that can swim in the air—filled with helium and controlled by a remoter. As the Air Swimmers are lightweight and recommended only for indoor use, they’ll be quite suitable for the kids to play with. Here you’ll see two molds, a flying shark and a flying clown fish, and both of them will be available on July 2011 at a retail of $39.99. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Ji Ga Zo is not an ordinary puzzle as what it looks. It can present anything you’d like to arrange after you upload digital images with the Ji Ga Zo software, and thus you can create any face including even your own! Isn’t that interesting? I even couldn’t wait to try that. [Read the rest of this entry...]
My little nephew Tony owns much interest in toy cars, and his cars used to lie around everywhere whenever we came to his place. But recently his place becomes quite neat and clean, after he has gotten this smart rack built with magnets. If you have any kids that love cars or other metal toys, you may get them such a Toy Rack too: easy rack, easy use.
The theory is that we usually need clever design and careful work if we’d like to successfully have many domino blocks fall down one after another. But the Esper Domino can “feel” each other and automatically fall down after we push down the first one with our fingers. And please see the picture more carefully: none of the domino blocks is placed close to one another and they cannot push others down while acting. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Have a try with this huge magic cube that consists of 17 layers and 1539 components, and you’ll know why the toy is so charming. Simply to assemble it, the designer has spent more than 15 hours, and we really couldn’t figure out how much time you’ll need to manage the game. Just try it and let us know. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Lego is here again and this time these classic toys come with a new look as those characters in well-known movies like “127 Hours”, “Black Swan”, “Inception” and many others. Movies of Lego, still impressive. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The Tama-Robo Ball Robot is recently quite popular in Japan and we bet it would soon find some new fans in America. Tama-Robo comes with four light sensors and as a result it will move toward the light whenever the robot “feels” the light. But before you play with the Tama-Robo, you’ll firstly need to put him together. So have you gotten ready for that? The Tama-Robo is soon coming! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Creature Industry’s Soft Gang is a new series of toys that would satisfy both the kids and their parents. It is made of light foam, ensuring the kids safe while playing; it also features eco-friendly leatherette, which is easy to for moms to clean and wash. Plus, these toys are multifunctional and you can easily shift them between an animal, a storage device and a sleeping bag. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Fascinated by Chinese characters and Rubik’s Cube, as many of us are, Taiwan artist Shaun Chung combines aesthetics with movement for a new cube that forms verses from a traditional children’s poem. Each character was laser-etched from wood coz the designer believed it still be fun to go back to the old technology even though it is much easier to print something from computer nowadays. [Read the rest of this entry...]
This 3D Drawing Pad offers you a unique painting experience, however it is not what you draw on the pad changes but the stereographic background changes. Whatever you draw on it with black ink, you’ll always see the paintings float and move in the front. Really interesting. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Although we’ve always been thinking that it is much easier to get money than to keep it, the so-called Rubik’s Cube Bank proves getting a coin is almost as difficult as keeping one. Designed by Tokyo-based MegaHouse, the new piggy bank asks you to solve the yellow side to put into a coin and get the green side to have the center tile pop out when you need one. You see, just as CrunchGear said “it requires brain power to save and get out money”. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Those who used to have a fun time with Rubik’s Cubes may have to go through a difficult phase before they conquer the Gear Wheel IQ Cube. Just as shown in the pictures, the new cube features some gears that will cause other pieces to rotate when you simply twist one single piece, so you’ll need to think twice before you start playing with it. But if you’d like to challenge yourself, then challenge the Gear Wheel IQ Cube. [Read the rest of this entry...]
It is not merely a toy for fun, but also a teaching appliance that may tell you how a car runs on water. When assembled, the mini car will then separate hydrogen and oxygen and use the gas to power the vehicle. So with the car, kids can also find entertainment in teaching too. [Read the rest of this entry...]
A LEGO way to say “Yes, I do”. And the Lego wedding ring is unique enough to make your wedding ceremony a special one, particularly when the ring is topped with an elegant girl and a cute boy. So awesome! [Read the rest of this entry...]
One, two, three, four, well, I can see clearly how many teeth you have with the help of the weird communication prosthesis designed by Sascha Nordmeyer. But according to the designer, the unique red circle is actually created to hold one’s mouth open and therefore help him/her to form strange expressions just like those shown in the pictures. So do you love it? [Read the rest of this entry...]
Everyone has a secret, and so do the kids. They’re growing up, learning something new from their parents and teachers every day, and at the same time they’re experiencing the growing pains. To help children aged between 6 and 9 effectively cope with stress and fears, Emi Schenkelbach has designed the cute toy named as Echo. It has an acoustic pipe running from its ear to the belly, so as to record and repeat the words that the kids have said to it. Since the voice will be modified in the belly, no one else would know clearly what Echo is saying so that the kids can keep their secrets. Besides, the voice from Echo will also create unique sound effects to make the children laugh heartily. [Read the rest of this entry...]
I always thought of slingshot as a toy especially created for naughty boys, as we often saw young boys sending stones or balls onto girls. But the SMS Slingshot designed by Berlin based VR/URBAN has changed my opinion. It is a handheld digital slingshot device that can send color splashes and text messages onto public screens. There’s a mobile built in the wooden device to store messages and a laser to blast those contents onto nearby screens via a projector. So just as what you can see from the video below, the user keys in the messages, shoots the slingshot, and then he/she can find a color splash appear on the screen with the text inside. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Many things can conspire against parents when they try to ready their kids for the future, so one can often see the kids and their parents argue over trivial matters like how to deal with the toys. Fortunately, the Kale furniture has come to mediate that dispute. It’s a toy for kids and a sofa for the adults, so you can easily turn piles of building blocks into a comfortable sofa after your kids have played with them. [Read the rest of this entry...]
