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The gang(s) from Fascinations (wonders created by physicists) & SimerLab (makers of floating things) were @The NYC Toy fair 2008 – I’ve seen the glowing ant farms before (called AntWorks) but seeing this many in one spot is pretty interesting. AntWorks is based on a 2003 NASA Space Shuttle experiment to study animal life in […]
OWI robots was @ The NYC Toy fair 2008, this is another company that I’ve never seen in person but have seen their kits online before. They have a lot of variations of a solar cell with a motor – aerial cable cars, solar cars, viking ships, solar climbing monkeys in addition to nicely machined […]
Matt Mechtley writes: You’re throwing a party for the Game Developers Conference and you think it would be cool to have a custom game. What’s the natural response? How about Pong that adapts its difficulty based on how drunk you are! Matt hacked a breathalyzer by reading the pinouts to the seven-segment LCD with an […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 K’nex had their line up of builder toys (favorites at Instructables) as well as some new efforts. There’s now a line of educational sets, DNA – solar, stuff like that and a new line of carnival rides, very fun. I think K’nex’s new additions are good a direction to go […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 Dunecraft had it’s meat eating plant kits as well as the “grow your own lily pad” products. There are three types of meat eating plant kits, Pitcher Plant Predators and Sundew Savages. It’s fun to imagine lots of people planting harmless seeds and growing them in to vicious bug-eating monsters. […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 Duncan Yo-Yos had a small but fun area, a full time Yo-Yoer on staff and their latest line up. I tend to like tops & gyroscopes, but they also had a new product line called “Tetratops” – these are multi-axis spinners and can be stacked (this was developed by the […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 I think I saw the most dice in one place possible, Koplow has over 1,200 types of standard and polyhedral dice. They have an educational line with math, fraction, decimal, +/-, blank numbered and more. Novelty dice, mini dice, wood dice, dice bones, dice made from wood. Alphabet dice, cat […]
