Category: Toys
Pop on some Kraftwerk, and check out these yodelling lederhosen r/c toys from IWOOT
We’ve been wanting a pair of mechanical trousers ever since we saw the Wallace and Gromit film, The Wrong Trousers. Now, these r/c lederhosen from IWOOT may not be able to transport evil penguins, but really, why’d you want to meet an evil penguin anyway?
They hop, yodel, and even the…
Scalextric launches Powerlaps – Top Gear-themed racing
Unless you happen to be a lower league celebrity, chances are that you’ll not be invited to race a car round a track for the BBC’s Top Gear programme. But you will soon be able to do it in your living room with the Scalextric Powerlaps set.
Shiny Video Review: Ugobe's Pleo dinosaur robot
It’s the Pleo! The Pleo! The Pleo from Ugobe! I don’t think I need to say anything else, to be honest. It’s the Pleo, after all!…
Shiny Video Review: Lego Indiana Jones playset
As you and every Google user should know by now, Monday marked Lego’s 50th birthday! To celebrate, I got busy in the office playing with one of their latest playsets, the Indiana Jones Race For The Stolen Treasure, which is available now for £24.99. I managed to rope Gary in for this video, who was quite ashamed of me for taking over an hour to build…
Kiddie version of Guitar Hero: Tomy's Guitar Rockstar toy
Kids getting jealous of you not letting them play Guitar Hero II or the Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker? I suggest you lock them in their bedrooms until March, when this Guitar Rockstar from Tomy is released, then let them run wild with the rockin’ riffs.
Spied at the London Toy Fair today…
Forget Pokemon, gotta collect all these Kaomoji-kun!
We’ve just been alerted to a new Japanese trend! Culture vultures and Western World otaku, take note!
The above little toy-things are called Kaomoji-kun, whose faces are made from Shift-JIS/ascii/emoticon style characters. There are various…
Lego's special edition 50th anniversary 'golden brick' set
Another Lego story for today, you ask? Well, it *is* their 50th birthday, and we’re usually in the habit of being nice to OAPs, so here’s your chance to hear about their limited edition anniversary set….
Everyone's favourite geek plaything, Lego, celebrates 50th birthday today
It’s true, Google’s logo says so!
The date marks the day the Lego company filed the patent for the plastic brick, and since then they’ve produced…
The best Lego spaceship you'll ever see…
…is above. That is all.
CES 2008: All your singing Mr Clock Radio robots are belong to us
Meet Mr Clock Radio. Made by Geewiz Entertainment, he claims to be the world's first "animated robotic alarm clock radio". And that just about describes all you need to know. He has 30 different ways of waking you up, some of which involve singing. Watch the video above for a taster.
