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An America-based lighting designer Marcus Tremonto, who drew his inspiration from science fictions and video games, has designed the ‘Lightbotz’ series for vinyl toy manufacturer Kidrobot. All handmade by using new technologies, these 7 inch tall Munny and Dunny dolls are integrated with various lights to create a cute and distinctive appearance.

Each of the limited edition characters comes in a unique customized box. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You think your workstation presents no creativity? Possibly you need the Stickman Action Figure. Each 3″ tall, the Stickman has several points of articulation, enabling the users to change its poses easily. The whole set also includes a base for the Stickman’s legs (or arms) to place on and a warning sign backdrop for you to create needed warning signs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Still feel excited about the movie ‘Avatar’? Well, here’s something may make you feel more excited. It is the ‘I Am Stuffed Animal’, which aims to turn your images into cute stuffed dolls. Look at the two pictures, isn’t that interesting to see another ‘you’ in the room? At least your girlfriends will be rather glad to be accompanied by so cute a ‘you’! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Launched by Armatix, the $10,000 weapon won’t fire unless the user is wearing a corresponding watch. But the gun still won’t shoot if the watch isn’t close enough. So only when you see the LED lights turn green, you can then use the expensive weapon. I cannot think of a rational reason why I want this gun, but I know clearly that I love the creative concept a lot. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Though balloons cannot do much for you, they at least can ensure you a free chatting time with your friends by amusing the annoying kids. Just give your kids a balloon, they will feel satisfied and have a good time with it. And next time going out for a walk in the night, you can easily amuse your kids by giving them a ‘Light-up Balloon’, an innovative kind of balloon that illuminates in the dark. Available in yellow, red, blue, green, white and other colors, each of the ‘Light-up Balloons’ could be blown up to an amazingly big size with a diameter up to 27 cm and keep that size for 15 hours. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hello, everyone, we’d like to introduce you our new friend, the Nyago Cats, creative robotic toys from Japan’s TakaraTomy. Just keep clapping your hands and these lovely kitties will then start to roll and roll. If you’re considering feeding pets while not planning to spend too much time taking care of them, the Nyago Cats are obviously your best choices. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Certainly most people would like to take the center stage of parties, and you’re one of them? If so, you may need these Party Rats, which are actually finger lights in the same shape of small rats. Just wear these colorful lights on your fingers, waving them in the air and then all the other people will definitely notice your hands and you. These lights could also be used in a more practical way, and that is to act as nightlights when you have to use your computer in the dark. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Want to get a more particular knowledge of dinosaurs? So why not fight alongside with them? You should try that with Mattel’s new Xtractaurs Dinosaur Toys. The whole set includes a sampled dinosaur and an ‘extraction gun’. When playing the toy, you firstly need to connect the gun to your computer and then use it to ‘extract’ the dinosaur’s DNA. After that, the DNA data will be uploaded to the Xtractaurs website from the gun and you could then enter an online game in which the dinosaurs are having a fierce battle against their enemies. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A little boy is piling up his building blocks, and the moment he finished his work, the building collapsed. Bad luck. But you no more have to feel bad about the traditional building blocks that easily collapse. I New Idea here present the Tegu sets, improved wooden building blocks that are built with magnets. Therefore the blocks will stick firmly to one another, allowing the kids to build anything they’d like. Simple but really genius idea!

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Everybody loves to DIY. No matter it is a cake, a book, or merely a toy, we’re all intended to DIY one. And today, I New Idea will show you how to DIY a pencil crossbow, with 4 pencils, a ball pen, tape, wooden skew (used as an ammo), as well as seven rubber bands. All right, you ready? Let’s follow the pictures below to build one then. Come on! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Control a ball with brain? Oh, man, only if I had a super power, or that will never happen. However, in fact, every one wearing a special apparatus presented here is enabled to keep a ball floating in the air.

It has been on the market since October 1st, 2009. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Many parents believe that music benefits to the intellectual development of kids, and they’ve been buying home music boxes, electronic organs, etc, ever since their children are still little babies. And here is another educational music toy they may want, Sound Track by Ricard Seola. As the track is embedded with small bumps to pluck the metal keys on the train, when the train runs on it, songs will then turn on. Moreover, the toy also features track sections so that children could rearrange them to produce different songs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The paper toy is a latest series launched by the Japanese retailer Muji and the famous toy-maker Lego. It includes a collection of bricks, paper and hole punching tools, therefore allowing the kids to combine them together with their own imagination. [Read the rest of this entry...]

“Hello, this is saya, and who’s that?” When we were still kids, most of us had the same experience to call others, not through telephones but two cups attached with a long piece of string. And it is rightly the classic toy that brings us much fun. That’s also why we may feel quite familiar with the “Cup Communicator” presented here. But obviously the new product is based on the digital technology. When you want to talk to your friends, just tune into a certain channel and then a conversation is allowed. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Who is Otamatone? Dressed in either white or black clothes, Otamatone is a cute instrument from Japan that produces weird, monotonous sounds, ahhhhh…and you’ll find its funny performance in the video downside. Otamatone is played in a straight forward way, just slide or press any part of the tail switch, it then starts to sing. And when you squeeze its mouth, a vibrato effect will be created. [Read the rest of this entry...]