Archive for the ‘awesome toys’ Category

Musical Flowerpots - Arduino + Wiimote + Plush

Friday, April 11th, 2008 | No Comments

I picked up the video above from PingMag. Click through and read about the amazing Hybrid Toy Workshop that created the flowerpots (and how they did it).
Below is a little teaser from the Hybrid Toy Workshop page.

This Hybrid Toys laboratory explores design and media making in the context of the increasingly intimate fusion of [...]

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JohnK Wants to Know if You Would Buy Ren and Stimpy Toys

Friday, April 11th, 2008 | No Comments

John is doing a little market research. “Wouldya buy toys like this?”

Yes, and the George Liquor and Goofy Gremlins lines as well. Please, John, make this happen soon.
Click through for more pics of JohnK’s toys. There are several posts about the toys so make sure to go upstream to see more [...]

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Moomin Toys! Fun!

Monday, April 7th, 2008 | No Comments

I’m a sucker for vinyl toys and other plastic doodads. So I was really pleased to stumble across this selection of Moomin toys on A Calm Shop:

Not Familiar with Moomin?
Drop by the Finnish website for Moomin and click around. They have such cute Flash animations (especially the loading sequence on the home page).
Here’s [...]

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Primetime Dancing

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 | No Comments

For a four-year old named Sam…
[Via: Neatorama]

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DIY LED Blaster

Monday, February 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment

This amazing LED blaster comes from Steve over on Finkbuilt.

Interested in building your own? [Steve's Instructables Article]

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Pseudoscope

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 | No Comments

Awesome, mind-bending illusion.

The pseudoscope does to front and back what a mirror does to left and right. This means that foreground becomes background and visible background becomes foreground, or more simply, background advances, foreground recedes.
So when you view objects with this scope, the convex becomes concave. So a brick lying on the ground appears to [...]

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