Samurai Sword Kitchen Knife Set lets you be a kitchen warrior

samurai-sword-kitchenDo you love spending time in the kitchen, slicing and dicing your way to a wonderful lunch or dinner for the whole family? If you have answered in the affirmative, then I am quite sure that you know how important having the right tools are, and a sharp knife is a chef’s best friend. Here is the $59.99 Samurai Sword Kitchen Knife Set which would make you wonder whether samurais of yore actually did not need to carry a kitchen knife with them, as their weapons of choice could chop off heads and stab through sinew and bone, as well as dice some garlic and ginger on the side while they’re preparing some ramen.

Talk about introducing some feudal Japanese culture into your kitchen, as the Samurai Sword Kitchen Knife Set comprises of a quartet of knives – namely paring, utility, bread, and chef’s knife. It is the ideal tool for fans of samurai movies or ninjas, although I am quite sure that there is a distinct difference between the two for purists. Not only that, you need not tote these around in your waistband, as they would arrive in a convenient display stand. The blades of these kitchen knives are made out of tempered stainless steel, while the saya (scabbards) are aluminum, with wood being the material of choice for the presentation stand.
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A Blanket With a Built-in Dining Table Will Revolutionize Picnics

A Blanket With a Built-in Dining Table Will Revolutionize Picnics

The romanticized image of a picnic in a beautiful park on a sunny afternoon never seems to come to fruition once you actually have to deal with the logistics of dining on an uneven blanket. But all hope’s not lost; a creation awkwardly called the Tablanket—a compact folding table with a blanket built-in—could potentially save your romantic outing.

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SeV Alpha Jacket ensures that pickpockets would find you a difficult ‘project’

sev-alphaThere is always an air of mystery around those who play the role of spies, and no matter how tight a situation that they have gotten themselves into, somehow or rather, they would have figured out an alternative way to overcome the precarious scenario – all the while looking so good that not a single strand of hair is out of place. Well, spies dress well, too, since they tend to be on the government’s payroll. If you want to be one of them spies with a cool looking jacket, you might want to check out the $199.99 SeV Alpha Jacket and see what it has in store.

The SeV Alpha Jacket is a super spy jacket which is capable of concealing whatever you’re carrying, thanks to a grand total of (drumroll, please) 35 pockets. Yes sir, you read that right, 35 freakin’ pockets! I guess we are talking about having both form and function in this case, where the SeV Alpha Jacket will even boast of a Personal Area Network (PAN) that would enable you to run wires through and to many of the pockets invisibly, including earbud loops, sleeve microphone loops, and an RFID-blocking pocket. The only problem is, you might just forget where you have placed a particular item in your pocket during those moments of emergency.
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Wall Torch Sconce Turns Anyone into Indiana Jones, Cave Not Included

Turn your home into a dungeon, a castle, an ancient pyramid or an olympic stadium with this cool wall sconce that looks like a torch. This is a perfect night light, because everyone knows that monsters fear torch light more than they fear light from modern light bulbs. And snakes. Snakes hate torches.

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The torch light even flickers. The best part is that it doesn’t stay on the wall. It instantly switches from wall-mounted to hand-held, for impromptu adventures, since it runs on two AA batteries (not included). It even turns off automatically after 10 minutes to prevent battery drain.

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Kids and adults will love this torch. So spelunk on over to ThinkGeek, where you can buy one for just $19.99(USD).

Iron Man ArtFX Statue does more than just stand pretty on your desk

iron-man-artfxIron Man is one superhero who is nothing but flesh and bone underneath that high tech suit, but he is also one of the coolest thanks to the brilliant mind of Tony Stark hiding behind the mask. Well, here we are with the $129.99 Iron Man ArtFX Statue that would arrive in the form of an extremely detailed Mark XLII armor, sporting LED lighting in the Arc Reactor/Unibeam, eyes, and repulsor areas. Of course, it goes without saying that this is an officially licensed Marvel collectible, so do not fret and wonder whether you are handing over good money for a bootlegged product.

Since it is the Mark XLII that we are talking about, it would make perfect sense (some might even call it, paying homage) that you would piece this particular Iron Man together from separate pieces. If you do not have any experience at all when it comes to building models, fret not, since it will not require such a skill set in the first place, and neither does it require you to implant computer chips into your forearms. All in all, there are just half a dozen pieces which have been pre-painted, and they would snap together in a rather satisfying manner. Hence, this is a “statue” and not a “model,” although you can be sure that it does straddle the lines on both territories at once. A trio of LR44 batteries are required to juice this puppy to have it looking nice on your mantel.
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Mega Stomp Battle Motion-Activated Sound Effects: Faux Foley

Kids love to play fight. Just give them a few seconds of idle time and their minds will transform them into all sorts of characters. Soon enough you’ll hear them making sound effects for their movements and weapons. But the problem with being their own foley artist is that they can’t pew pew pew and spew killer lines at the same time. The Mega Stomp Battle can help with that.

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The Mega Stomp Battle is composed of a small box and a wand that emit sound effects when you walk, wave the wand or push the wand’s trigger. It has 10 sound banks or character types, such as a knight, a giant monster or a pirate. Each sound bank has at least six sounds for different types of movements like walking, attacking and more.

Someone on YouTube said we should watch the video on mute. I disagree. The guys in the video look stupid even with the sound on. But you might not care about how you look once you’ve tried living a life with sound effects. You can order Mega Stomp Battle from ThinkGeek for $40 (USD).

Space Invaders Bank does its bit to encourage saving money

space-invaders-bankSometimes, one needs a catalyst to get going or started on a particular activity. When it comes to spending money, I am quite sure that most folks do not have any qualms in doing so, and are pretty good at it to boot. However, saving money is another issue altogether that some people find it difficult to do. Why not encourage yourself (as well as the little ones in your home) with the $20.99 Space Invaders Bank? Each time you drop a quarter into the Space Invaders Bank, it will play out retro sounds from the classic arcade game, as long as the pair of AA batteries residing within still have an adequate amount of juice, that is.

Do bear in mind that this is an officially-licensed Space Invaders merchandise, so you do not have to feel ashamed that you have picked up some sort of bootlegged household device. This is one way of saving the earth instead of shooting down aliens – the more money you save, the more you will spend time thinking about maximizing your existing financial resources, which could translate to taking on a greener lifestyle. If you have long been on the lookout for a positive reinforcement tool to save, you would not go wrong with the Space Invaders Bank.
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Electric Paint Pen Lets You Draw Your Own Circuits

As someone who doesn’t know a lot about building electronics, I love learning about products that manage to teach the basics of the field. Bare Conductive’s Paint Pen is one such product. It’s a liquid wire that you can use to make simple circuits or electronic prototypes.

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The ink also works as a solder or adhesive, meaning it can be used to repair circuit boards or attach parts to electronics. Adafruit Industries made a short video that provides a few applications of the pen:

You can buy the pen from ThinkGeek, Amazon, Adafruit Industries or from Bare Conductive itself. Price starts at $10 (USD). MIT also has a great article on conductive paint that also has links to instructions for making your own paint.

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Star Wars Darth Vader ViewMaster

vader-viewfinderIt does seem to me as though there are some franchises that simply cannot exhaust its revenue stream, simply because it is way too big to fail, and there is a new fan that is “born” every single minute. Star Wars is definitely one of them, and who thought that all the way back in 1977 when the movie was first released, it would have made such an impact in many cultures and the world of sci-fi movies? Well, still going strong after all this while thanks to a savvy marketing plan, ThinkGeek has come up with the $19.99 Star Wars Darth Vader ViewMaster which will certainly offer a blast from the past so that today’s kids will be able to enjoy what used to entertain you before for countless hours on end, before the advent of the likes of the Game Boy.

The Star Wars Darth Vader ViewMaster comes with a viewer and 3 reels, and best of all is, just in case someone starts to rib you about purchasing bootleg products, you can proudly tell them off that this is an officially licensed Star Wars merchandise. Despite arriving with just three reels, it will be good enough to convey a story from 21 different images, and to make things all the more foreboding, it comes with a Vader-themed case to stash those reels away. In addition, those reels from the past are also compatible with all View-Master viewers, so assuming you can track them down with a tracker droid, you would be able to show off to the younger generation proudly of your View-Master adventures when you were a wee lad.
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Electric Paint Pen with Conductive Ink helps keep the kids occupied

electric-paint-penKids are easily excitable beings, and it does help if you happen to have something which is able to keep them occupied, especially during those long road trips, or in a particularly lengthy flight. Nowadays, most parents or guardians do from time to time, abdicate their position of being a nanny to the Nintendo 3DS or some other kind of mobile device. Well, whatever happened to being interactive with your own kids, and to have them cultivate other hidden talents such as drawing? This is where the Electric Paint Pen with Conductive Ink might come in handy, as it could unearth the next van Gogh.

Basically, the Electric Paint Pen with Conductive Ink will retail anywhere from $12.99 all the way to $19.99, depending on the kind of model that you choose. Either way, it will allow you to draw a circuit using conductive paint, which is a pretty cool process once you have gotten some experience with it. The Electric Paint happens to be a multipurpose electrically conductive material that is perfect for all of your DIY projects, except that it has been the recipient of the wonders of miniaturization, sized down all the way to being a pen applicator. This basically means you are able to paint circuits on walls, floors, tables, shirts, but do not try it on your skin! This is definitely an electrifying idea which is a radically different way of cultivating the drawing talent, no?
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