Tag: Toy
Remote-Controlled Beverage Buggy :(
This is absolutely ridiculous. It’s a remote-controlled car for drink cans. When do drink cans ever need to be driven about?
And don’t go saying it’s a labour saving device, as the simple act of putting cans…
Video Preview: Voice-activated Dalek for Doctor Who fans
Proper daleks don't respond to voice controls very well. You say 'don't zap me!', they ignore you and shout 'Exterminate!', and basically it's all a bit of a shambles. Ah well.
Shiny Shiny's Susi has found a dalek that's more polite, however. It's a voice-controlled dalek, which can react to movement, answer questions, and generally behave more like a decent, upstanding member of society. Check it out below:
Guitar Hero unplugged – the Power Tour Guitar
The Power Tour Guitar is a giant leap forward in guitar evolution. It replaces strings with buttons, so you can learn how to play without requiring lessons from some old hippy who was in a marginally famous 70s prog-rock band.
It comes pre-loaded with some of the most annoying amateur guitar favourites, including Smoke on the Water and…
This iPhone's a brick – a pile of LEGO bricks
Nathan Sawaya is a LEGO artist who has constructed a replica of the iPhone from a pile of plastic bricks. He obviously thinks fairly highly of his work, too, as he's charging $399 for the model – the same…
Destroy the world, or just plug in four USB gadgets, with the Self Destruction USB hub
Let's face it, if you're all set to destroy the world, then you probably aren't too concerned about plugging your digital camera, memory stick, humping dog, and USB cup warmer, into your PC. So it's a good thing that…
Artificial Intelligence meets remote-control cars and lasers. Fun-and-a-half
Watch out, for these are not your every day remote control mini cars. For one, they're fitted with infrared laser technology, and for the other, they're not only remote controlled, but can be switched into Artificial Intelligence mode. These…
Eyeclops Bionic Eye turns your TV into a (funky) microscope
Vivid Imaginations has launched the Eyeclops bionic eye, an amazingly cool gadget (both in looks and function) which lets you view objects at up to 200x magnification through your TV set.
LEGO TECHNIC Motorised Bulldozer: remote-control plastic bobbly goodness
LEGO TECHNIC has launched this cool Motorised Bulldozer, a realistic model fitted with an infrared receiver, and powered by a remote control unit.
It features four individual motors and one battery box, which work together to enable the bulldozer to be driven, turned on the spot through 360 degrees, its blade and piston engine to be operated, and driven on its realistic caterpillar tracks.
All geek demographics catered for with the Transformer Deluxe Death Star
And this isn’t just some 35-year-old man’s dream – it’s an official product you can buy on Amazon. To celebrate the true glory of this toy, we’ll bust out the rarely-used full-width image code:
Computer proves Rubik's Cube solvable in 26 moves or less — that's 26 years too late for me
A computer has calculated that any configuration of the classic 3×3 Rubik’s Cube can be solved in a maximum of 26 moves.
This astounding news comes just weeks after scientists programmed a computer played the perfect game of draughts. Haven’t these computers got anything better to be doing with their CPUs?
The Rubik’s Cube has 43 quintillion (43,000,000,000,000,000,000) possible combinations, so the scientists had to simplify the problem by figuring out which arrangements of the Cube are equivalent, identifying special arrangements of the Cube, and not analysing combinations already solvable in under 26 moves.
