Hey there True Believer! Start your day feeling like the first Avenger with the officially licensed Captain America terry robe.
It has a hood with eye holes and Cap’s shield embroidered at the back. If you (think) you have a super soldier’s physique, you can remove the belt and let Steve and Roger hang out.
Throw your mighty shield and head to ThinkGeek, where you can get the robe for $70 (USD).
Kids these days tend to spend a whole lot of time in the virtual world, instead of exploring the real world outdoors. Take away smartphones and tablets from a summer camp, and chances are you will see more restless kids than usual who have not gotten used to solitude and quietness in the middle of the woods. Well, how about getting them reacquainted with the real world with the $199.99 Kids’ Zipline? It allows you to place a zipline in your backyard, a campground, a park, or wherever decent enough for it, and is capable of supporting a kid of up to 250 lbs. I guess adults, too, are able to give it a go.
The Kids’ Zipline would feature an easily removable seat to boot, and it targets those who are aged 7 and above. It also boasts of a specially designed hardware bracket that enables both rope and seat length to change in order to make an adjustment for different riders’ height. It is nice to know that it arrives fully assembled, although it will require more than a single person to set it up. Just make sure that it is anchored to a healthy tree that measures at least 12” in diameter. Geronimo!
[ Kids’ Zipline delivers some outdoor fun copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
So, you have a spanking new iPhone 5 that is just waiting impatiently for you to fill it up with its fair share of accessories? Perhaps you have looked all over the place, and figured out that you have gotten the necessary bits and pieces down pat, protective case included. How about the $9.99 PowerCurl Mini Earbud & Power Adapter Organizer? This is a unique tool for your precious new iPhone that ensures the handset’s cables will always remain untangled thanks to the PowerCurl. It will be compatible with the default charger and cable for the iPhone 4, 5, or 5s, and would be received gratefully thanks to those who charge frequently as they move about.
Using the PowerCurl Mini Earbud & Power Adapter Organizer is a snap – since it fits your iPhone 4, 5, or 5S’s 5W power adapter, all that remains for you to do would be to wrap the cable around the spool. Once that is done, flip the silicone cover down over the spool, and barring a catastrophic cataclysmic event, everything there will remain neat and clean and within one tiny 2″ wide x 1″ high bundle, as long as you do not need to juice up anything else.
[ PowerCurl Mini Earbud & Power Adapter Organizer for your iPhone 5 copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Your desk, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the mini starship Enterprise. This Enterprise is the perfect size to display anywhere and it even lights up.
The tiny starship measures just 5″ x 2″ x 2.5″ while on the stand. This awesome mini ship comes with a mini book telling you all about the Enterprise too. You will have to provide the phaser noises yourself though, as you imitate Scotty yelling, “I’m giving you all she’s got Captain!”
The mini Enterprise is perfect for your cubicle or office. It’s only $12.95(USD) from ThinkGeek. It makes a cool little night light too. I would hang it from the ceiling.
You know, I would have figured out that Jedi Knights as well as Sith warriors who have mastered the different ways of the Force would not let anything like the inability to wield eating utensils in their proper manner and decorum would not be too perturbed. After all, they can always cajole some midichlorians within to bring that entire bowl of noodles near their mouth, where they can then slurp to their heart’s content without having to learn how to use a pair of chopsticks in the first place. However, the more sensitive ones out there might find a regular pair of chopsticks to be boring, which is why the $15.99 Star Wars Light Up Chop Sabers was created.
Best described as “an elegant utensil for a more civilized age”, these happen to be not-so-regular chopsticks that will actually light up and look like lightsabers, where you can choose from either Luke (blue) or Vader (red) models. Of course, you can keep them turned off as you eat in order to save battery thanks to the push-button light-up action. As for the sound effects of firing a lightsaber to life, you will just have to provide the hum yourself.
[ Star Wars Light Up Chop Sabers adds some fun to the dining table copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
I know that when we were much younger, we thought that we had the world at our feet, and there was virtually nothing that we could not do or achieve. Having grown up into adulthood, however, one’s perspective would have changed – and this would mean being confined to what our university degrees have decreed us to be, slaving away under a system to get the next generation of humanity grow up, before we pack up our things and fade into the background. Why not keep that flicker of a flame alive your mind with the $12.95 Star Trek Mini Light Up Enterprise if all you ever wanted to do was to be a starship captain?
The word “mini” would definitely give the game away, as this is a tiny light-up U.S.S. Enterprise 1701 that sits prettily on your desk. Apart from that, it will also be accompanied by a mini book that will carry information within that helps expand (or confirm) your Enterprise knowledge. Unfortunately, no phaser noises have been thrown into the mix, so you will just have to make do with the tiny bunch of lights in the saucer section (including the bridge) lighting up whenever you flip the switch. A trio of LR41 are what keeps the Star Trek Mini Light Up Enterprise going.
[ Star Trek Mini Light Up Enterprise for fanboys out there copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Some of my favorite games of all time are the original Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Now you can be reminded of these 16-bit SEGA classics every time you take a sip of your favorite beverage.
These Sonic pint glasses are made from an iridescent blue glass, and are embellished with pixelated images of Sonic, Tails, Dr. Robotnik (aka “Eggman”), and Knuckles.
So roll yourself up into a ball, and spin dash your way over to ThinkGeek, where the set of four will cost you $24.99(USD) – or approximately six Chaos Emeralds. Sonic the Hedgehog energy drink sold separately.
ThinkGeek is blackmailing kindhearted people with its blobfish plush. What’s a blobfish? This poor creature was voted the world’s ugliest animal. To make things even more insulting, blobfish are endangered animals and don’t look hideous when in their natural habitat, thousands of feet underwater. That’s like having an alien take the last human to outer space stark naked, then noting that we look like bloated and sunburned corpses.
On the other hand, the voting was conducted by an organization called the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, which raises awareness for unsightly endangered animals. Many people know about pandas, eagles and tigers, but they’re not the only dying animals. With its title, the blobfish now serves as the mascot of its ilk.
Wipe your browser’s tears and order the blobfish plush from ThinkGeek for $40 (USD).
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A wise man did tell me once before, that anything which you can measure, you are able to improve. Hence, it is not a surprise at all to find out that the folks over at ThinkGeek have come up with a slew of rather interesting devices – which will range anywhere from $24.99 all the way to $149.99 a pop for the NODE+ Wireless Sensor Platform.
Just what is the NODE+ Wireless Sensor Platform all about, anyway? This happens to be a wireless, handheld sensor which allows you to measure plenty of different things. You will be able to choose from an iOS or Android base unit with gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer. Apart from that, just like old school LEGO fun where you can “augment” the original creation with more bricks, you can also pick an add-on such as a color or temperature scanner.
NODE can also be described as a wireless, handheld sensor base unit, where the base unit features a 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer, and 3-axis magnetometer and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, in addition to enough space for another pair of add-on sensors. These add-ons include a Barcode Scanner, a Chroma Color Scanner, a Clima sensor, an I/O, a Luma Light and a Therma Sensor. It is also Arduino-compatible with open API, open firmware, and open source code, virtually allowing you to transform it into anything that you require.
[ NODE+ Wireless Sensor Platform lets you measure plenty copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
I’ve always been a big proponent of making insults and insinuations that are both understandable, and bizarre. You don’t want to insult someone in a normal fashion with something old and boring. At the same time, if you have to explain to the person you insulted just what your insult meant, it takes the sting out of the barb.
A new book has turned up called the Shakespeare Insult Generator that lets you insult people using the words of Shakespearean literature. The downside to the book is that if you aren’t insulting an English Lit major, you will probably need to explain to them what the insult means.
The book has pages that are split into three cards. Each of the sections can be mixed and matched until you form the perfect insult. The back of the cards also tell you what the words mean. You can get the book now for $12.95(USD) on ThinkGeek, you pestiferous, hollow-eyed, malignancy.
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