Samsung has decided to to tap into the collectable artist toys market with KidRobot this week at CES 2014, inviting several artists to create unique one-off Samsung Galaxy Gear, S4, … Continue reading
If the phrase ‘caveat emptor’ (aka buyer beware) applies to anything, it’s Kickstarter and other crowdfunded products. Wonderful things are promised by optimistic designers, inventors, and marketers, but rarely are they delivered
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Vegas is going wild this week in an all-out consumer electronics bacchanal, but sometimes it’s nice to tool around with an old-timey, offline distraction. Like these Japanese dominoes, which are are about as no-tech as toys come.
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What would we do without our smartphones and tablets? Walking around these days all you see is people tied up with their electronics and you have to wonder to yourself how anyone got things done before, and how you managed to sit waiting, for anything, without a little handheld entertainment to get you through.
Well things just went to the next level, check out Snakebytes Vyper, the worlds very first, portable, three in one entertainment hub. Thats right, finally the device you’ve been dreaming of, a technological blend of smart TV, tablet and gaming system all in one device, built to travel!
Snakebyte Vyper is designed to let not only let you enjoy your favorite apps on the go, but also on your television via the custom TV dock, and then, two different controllers match every entertainment experience you can find on the Google Play Store.
Housed in a 7 inch display quad core tablet, the Vyper TV dock turns any TV into a smart TV and the Airmouse remote, with built in keyboard allows you to type, play and navigate right from the comfort of your couch, and rounding out the system is the included game controller, just right for the thousands of game options in the Google Play Store including dedicated gaming experiences, like racing games, action, and adventure play.
Snakebyte Vyper launched in Europe today, and here in North America, Vyper will be available at the end of this month, from Amazon.com, with prices starting at under 200 bucks. Please visit the website snakebyte-vyper.com for videos and availability information.
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You may or may not know that a new animated Star Wars series is coming called Star Wars Rebels. Along with the new series come a new bad guy called The Inquisitor. Of course, you can be sure some new action figures are coming along with the series.
Hasbro is offering a peek at The Inquisitor action figure, and he looks quite menacing with his double-ended lightsaber. The toy will fit into the Hasbro Star Wars Rebels Saga Legends line. The action figure is 3.75 inches-tall and features five points of articulation.
The toys aren’t set to hit stores until this fall. A number of other action figures are expected to debut when the Toy Fair comes to New York this February. I wonder if these will be affordable action figures or the more expensive sort aimed at collectors.
[via Nerd Approved]
If you attempted to convince a kid that electric cars on a plastic track were once a great way to pass a rainy afternoon, they’d just stare at you for a few seconds, and then go back to playing with their iPads. Which is exactly why these tiny autonomous Ozobots are designed to work on either an electronic display, or a printed track.
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The original Laser Tag game was a huge hit back in the 1980s, though the campy ray guns, clunky helmet, and embarrassing sensor vest just aren’t fashion forward these days. But it’s still fun—which is why ThinkGeek has resurrected the old game, giving it an updated look that includes a stylish windbreaker jacket, smaller sensors, and an arm-mounted laser blaster.
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Here’s the closest thing we have to a real life Wall-E. Or at least, the wheels of Wall-E. The Sphero 2B is a new robot toy from Orbotix that can move as fast as 14 feet a second. That’s supposedly the equivalent of a 6 minute mile and twice as fast as the Sphero 2.0. The spinning tube has comically rugged tires that allows it to adorably jolt out at breakneck speeds and tackle any surface.
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Parrot’s AR Drone 2.0
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