LeadCheck – lead check for toys kit
If you’re giving toys to kids over the holidays you might want to consider getting this LeadCheck kit, one quick swap and you’ll know if you’ll see that toy on the recall list later – Link.
Toys and Games
Tengu keeps you company, sings your tracks
Tengu is a simple USB peripheral that illuminates and lip-syncs to your favorite tunes or any other sound in the local vicinity. If there’s no sound, he’ll fall asleep and wake up again when things get noisy. Pretty nice companion for those lonely nights in front of your laptop. I guess the next step would […]
Film can cannon, binge-drinking snacks on bbtv
Today on bbtv, Mark shows you how to make a film can cannon. He builds one from a kit, but you can easily make your own from household items. Followed by a claymation video of snacks at a kegger? Film Can Cannon / Snack Mansion – Link
Fixing a Rock Band Strat
How to fix the dreaded “downstrum has stopped registering intermittently” problem. Rock Band: My strummer broke… AND I FIXED IT – Link
First-Person View hobby site
In response to the virtual pilot video item we posted several weeks back, a reader sent a link to this site, a portal related to “video piloting in the newly growing and exciting hobby of First Person View (FPV or RPV) that has become popular with Radio Controlled airplanes, R/C helicopters, cars and boats.” Who […]
Funny robot press conference
From the Japanese anime series S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex), a Tachikoma Mark 2 robot comes to life. It looks like a four-legged toilet and cackles away like an over-caffeinated schoolkid. According to Boing Boing Gadgets, Audiocubes is going to be importing it to the US first-quarter ’08 and it’ll sell for $199. SAC (Stand Alone […]
Scrabble Board made from LEGO
Eric writes – I recently began playing competitive Scrabble again. Years ago I played at Scrabble tournaments and got quite good at it (peaking at 47th among the thoasands of rated players in the United States). I stopped playing in late 2004, but during the run I was at the height of my LEGO building […]
