Tag: Toys
Swinxs brings out the kid in you and feeds him microchips
This is Swinxs, and it’s sort-of like a games console, but not really. I suppose it’s the logical extension of the Wii’s “getting people active” push. It’s a brightly coloured box, with armbands containing RFID chips, that lets you play a bunch of traditional party games, but with actually-quite-awesome technological extras…
Star Trek Command Chair – Get your little clipboard and come sit on my lap, Uhura
No one understands your needs like Diamond Select Toys understands your needs – which is why the sci-fi toy and replica company has started making some of these. For you. For you to sit on and dream. For us all to sit on and dream. A realistic Star Trek Command Chair.
Based on the original Kirk-housing 1960s Trek captain’s chair, the new model makes sounds. The correct sounds. It even has lights and sampled dialogue. All you need to provide for 100% Trek authenticity is a ruffled quiff, slightly torn uniform and your girlfriend covered in green paint.
The realistically-proportioned Command Chair will go on sale in 2009. You might want to email the…
Dynamic Fishing: cruelty-free fishing practice
Not that many robotic fish come our way at Tech Digest, but this one’s pretty awesome. It’s a kit which simulates the experience of sitting for hours on end by a river getting cold and hungry, all in the comfort of your own home…
Art Lebedev kicks up a Plastinkus
You! You’re bored, right? Do you want to make some silly noises so that the annoyance of others mildly alleviates your own tedium? Of course you do. Here’s an idea then – how about a plastic, credit card sized turntable that you can scratch and, errr, scratch some more. You can probably even freestyle rap over the top of it. Then you’ll be down, yo.
Hack your vinyl toy collection, turn a Munny into a speaker
I can’t believe I haven’t ever seen this before, or even thought of doing it to one of my many Munny, Qee, or Bearbrick vinyl toys. A chap over at Instructables has put up his instructions on how to melt the face off a Munny, and insert a speaker in its place.
He used a pair of 3″ Tang Band bamboo fiber cones, however depending on how big your chosen toy is (I’m eyeing off one of my 9″ Qees currently), you could really choose any size of cone for the job…
Everyone's favourite geek toy just got scarier: Lost characters as Kubricks
Now these are flippin’ scary, and rather expensive too, at ￥14,979 (£74) for the above boxset, which contains seven characters from Lost.
I can see Jack, Sawyer looks dead-realistic, as do Sayid, a trim-looking Hurley, very bald Locke, and ‘ya’ll everybody’-singing Charlie. But please don’t tell me that’s Kate, squeezed in between her two men, Jack and Sawyer? I knew she had butch arms, but jeepers…
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…
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…
CES 2008: Da Vinci inspired remote control miniatures
Airborne Remote Controlled toys are great fun, right up until you take someone’s eye out with your aerial acrobatics. But as technology gets smaller and smaller, so does the size of remote control gizmos and Interactive Toy Concepts has two diminutive offerings that will be great for annoying friends, relatives and pets alike without risking permanent injury. Although that might take the fun out of it I suppose.
The first is the Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) Ornithopter based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous designs. It has a wingspan of less than 5” and has an on-board rechargeable lithium polymer battery, which allows for 7 miuntes of flying time from a 5 minute charge.
