Put Cardboard Tubes To Good Use With Toobalink!

Recycle cardboard tubes into toys with Toobalink!Why waste a perfectly good cardboard tube in the recycle bin when you
can make a sword, abstract models and other cool stuff with Toobalink
construction sets?

Swedish Kids Say their Parents Are Too Tech-Obsessed

Swedish Kids Say their Parents Are Too Tech-Obsessed

In a recent study, 33% of Swedish parents surveyed (521 total) admitted that their phone and tablet use was a sore point with their kids. The children said that their parents spend too much time on the devices. And experts are weighing in about the developmental damage this could cause.

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Meet Illumivors: The Ghastly Glowing Predatory Fish Robots You’ve Always Wanted!

Your cat will need therapy after meeting Electro-Piranha!They’re growling, chomping, shining, fishy robots that glide across your floors for chills, fun and to scare the wits out of your poor cat: Check out the Illumivors!

Design A “Smart Baby Lunch” & Win €2,000 From Chicco!

Help make the best baby dining kit ever, and win 2,000 Euros!Internationally recognized baby goods brand Chicco is looking for
designers from all around the planet to create innovative mealtime kits
for parents and their hungry little kiddos for a big cash prize!Chicco,
the biggest baby brand in Europe, hopes to receive a wealth of new
designs for what they call a “Smart Baby Lunch.” Such a kit would
include the following components:

Medical Intervention Successful In Rats With Gambling Addictions

Rat Pack Slot MachineRats who are compulsive gamblers have reason to celebrate today as
researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) announced the
first successful drug to inhibit this compulsive behavior in its test group.  The test of 32
laboratory rats over a 16-month period involved the development and
deployment of the only slot machine-style rat casino in North America, a
casino built by the UBC Laboratory of Molecular and Behavioral
Neuroscience.

Meet Massbricks: My First Construction Toy

Massbricks is eaily the best name for this toy....They’re huge, colorful, strong, your kids can’t choke on them, and they won’t hurt if you step on them a fraction as much as their smaller and more popular cousin, making Massbricks a great introduction to the wild world of construction toys!

Design Our Home Among The Stars For The 2014 NASA Space Settlement Contest!

Ever since 1994, NASA has looked to grade school students from around
the world to dream up potentially viable orbital settlements that
humanity could thrive in for a chance to win $5,000, and this year is no
different!

Original, Innovative & Fun: The Top 5 Specialty Toys

Meet the top 5 unique toys of the past 5 years!Here’s the latest list of the most unique “Toy of the Year”
industry-leading specialty toys that were originally available through
select retailers from the past five years. These one-of-a-kind toys
offer new entertainment experiences, and they’re all together in one
handy guide:

An Introduction To Skylanders: When Toys Meet Videogames

What are Skylanders Toys?If you’ve walked past the toy or videogame isles in a department store recently, you might’ve seen some of the new Skylanders gaming/toy hybrids on the shelves. But what exactly are these neat little figures anyway?

Top Ten Baby Halloween Costumes

Halloween costumes for babies are their first initiation into the one
holiday of the year that requires them to be someone else.  Yes, even though
your baby don’t even ‘what’ they are, let alone ‘who’ they are, this
doesn’t stop parents from wanting to confuse them even more, by dressing them up in a
clever disguise.