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If a Rubik’s Cube is Bruce Banner, This Thing’s the Hulk
Solving a regular Rubik’s Cube is already a daunting task for most of us, and that’s just 54 coloured squares you have to rearrange. Can you imagine if someone dropped this monstrosity into your lap?...
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Sushi Transformers are More Than Meets Your Tastebuds
If you’re trying to eat healthier, it’s a good idea to know exactly what goes into the food you consume. And while that’s not exactly the goal Bandai had in mind when it created these sushi...
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Watch This Etch A Sketch Tell the Story of Its Inventor
Drawning on an Etch A Sketch is hard. Well, it is if you want to do more than just make a horrible mess of angularity. But the squarish beauty of the line drawing toy is put to great use in this clever...
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Parrot’s New Drones Fly the Mini Skies and Bite Your Ankles
Parrot’s AR Drone 2.0 won a place in our hearts for flying high yet being easily controllable from our favourite iOS and Android devices. The company’s just taken that concept and then miniaturised it,...
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Here’s a Sneak Peek at The Simpsons LEGO set — Updated
We want LEGO everything these days, from Star Wars to Minecraft, Superman to the Taj Mahal. With the user-generated Cuusoo community proving to license holders that there’s an audience for any old...
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These Tiny Ozobots are the Scalextric For the iPad Generation
If you attempted to convince a kid that electric cars on a plastic track were once a great way to pass a rainy afternoon, they’d just stare at you for a few seconds, and then go back to playing with...
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Laser Tag is Back With a Slightly More Fashionable Uniform
The original Laser Tag game was a huge hit back in the 1980s, though the campy ray guns, clunky helmet, and embarrassing sensor vest just aren’t fashion forward these days. But it’s still fun—which is...
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This Rubber Band Gatling Gun Fires 14 Rounds Per Second
Rubber band gatling guns are not a new invention, but good God, they keep getting better. The latest and greatest iteration from 18-year-old Ukranian design student Alex Shpetniy fires a startling 14...
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Make Stars Fall With These Five-Pointed Dominoes
Vegas is going wild this week in an all-out consumer electronics bacchanal, but sometimes it’s nice to tool around with an old-time, offline distraction. Like these Japanese dominoes, which are are...
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Hands On the MOSS Robotic Building Toy: A Kickstarter That Delivers
If the phrase ‘caveat emptor’ (aka buyer beware) applies to anything, it’s Kickstarter and other crowdfunded products. Wonderful things are promised by optimistic designers, inventors, and marketers,...
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19 People Tasting Edible Play Dough for the Very First Time
The makers of Play-Doh and its off-brand variants know that children (and if we’re being honest, adults) are going to want to stick every sort of semi-fluorescent goo they can get their hands on...
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Mattel’s Ghostbusters Neutrino Wand Prop Makes Us Wish Ghosts Were Real
Despite being a comedy, Ghostbusters packed a lot of convincing pseudo-science into its story, and the movie was chock full of wonderful—and incredibly desirable—props. And in the same way we don’t...
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Mr. Potato Head Homer: Let’s Play D’oh
What better way is there to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Simpsons than by immortalising the characters as plastic toy potatoes? Homer Simpson is the first of the family to be turned into an...
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Do Kids Really Need a Smartwatch?
At the London Toy Fair 2014, VTech has decided that the recent trend in wearable electronics should apply to kids too. So the company’s new Kidizoom Smartwatch straps a 1.4-inch colour touchscreen...
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*Reminder Klaxon* Enter Our Latest Shooting Challenge, and Bag an Awesome...
Hey everyone! Look over here! Can you hear that? It’s our Gizmodo klaxon blaring out to remind you that you can enter our Shooting Challenge for the chance to win a pair of fancy Grado Headphones. All...
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Giant Spherical Wheels Let This Ride-On Toy Move In Any Direction
If You’ve Been Framed taught us anything, it’s that traditional bike wheels will put amateur cyclists on a direct collision course with whatever’s directly in front of them. The Sperovelo Rider seems...
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Someone Turned a Quadcopter into a Flying Missile Launcher
Forget concerns over surveillance and privacy when it comes to quadcopters and drones filling the skies. A member of Flite Test—a site dedicated to custom flying creations—built a quadcopter with a...
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The World’s Largest Toy Car Collection Has Over 30,000 Tiny Vehicles
The fact that Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys are so cheap means that countless kids have giant collections of tiny cars. But the world’s largest? With over 30,000 scale vehicles in his collection,...
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Who We Gonna Call to Get This Ghostbusters Lego Set?
It may not include the amazing firehouse HQ that designer Brent Waller originally included in his 30th Anniversary Ghostbusters Lego Cuusoo submission, but blimey, has this inspired child-like...
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The Simpsons Lego House Goes on the Market for £179
If you have a spoilt child, a Lego-packed man-cave, or fancy making an investment for the future, that amazing The Simpsons Lego house is now on sale in the UK. You may need to take out a small...
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