Remote-controlled bowling ball
For just $1500 you can have your very own remote controlled bowling ball! Maybe this is worthy of a remake, not sure?
Toys and Games
Hasbro toys Star Wars diorama contest
Hasbro is having a contest to see who can build the best Star Wars diorama using “at least five 3 3/4″ Hasbro Star Wars figures and or vehicles.” Submissions are open until November 16. See the official rules (.pdf). [via Geekologie]
Lego bone dragon
From Flickr user necromancer7. [via The Brothers Brick]
Eight-way toss-and-catch kinetic sculpture
With 8 synchronized catapults, 160 plastic balls per minute are launched, caught, and recirculated. Made mostly of wood, the work is ~36 inches in diameter. On permanent display in the lobby of Lower Merion Elementary School, Merion Station, PA.
Really narrow car
Look, Ma, it’s a motorcycle with four wheels. Not a bike but, um… a “quike,” maybe?
Notebook based on “Jacob’s Ladder” principle
You kind of have to see this thing move to get the point. The brand name is RevolveR and apart from novelty, the “floating spine” binding seems to serve no particular function. Still, it’s pretty delightful, and seems to operate on the same principle as the toy commonly known as a “Jacob’s Ladder”
Alien twins life support system haunt prop
Two aliens contained in suspended animation chambers. A central control unit monitors and sustains life support functions. The control screen is a looping flash animation. Every few minutes, a malfunction state is triggered. Sound and graphics announce the error, and a Make Controller board is used to trigger emergency flasher lights and a fog machine (simulates a cryogenic coolant leak).