It’s kind of hard to justify spending $15,000 on a remote control toy truck when you can get a real car for that much money. But there are certain advantages to opting for this 1:3 scale monster from Mammuth Works. You don’t need a license to drive it, you don’t need insurance, it’s easy to park on a sidewalk, and if you roll it doing stupid stunts there’s minimal risk of getting hurt. More »
Transformers. There’s maybe no more iconic toy, especially if you’re a child of the 80s and 90s. And while the memories of making them shapeshift are indelible, the process of actually building one from scratch is far more involved (or exactly as involved, if you spent your entire childhood dreaming of this) as you’d imagine. More »
Have you seen our peek into how Transformers are brought to the world? Well, that’s one way that the design process happens. The other way is a new poll Hasbro’s got, which lets fans decide everything about the new toy. Autobot or Decepticon, what its vehicle mode looks like, or if he’s a jerk robot who everyone hates because all he does at parties is show off how cool being a transforming sentient robo-scooter is. More »
The moulds used to create plastic Lego pieces are engineered with extreme precision so that the bricks stay connected via friction alone. But over time your Lego pieces will wear out with use and eventually stop sticking, and Phillipe Cantin wanted to know exactly when that would happen. More »
There’s nothing wrong with being a kid at heart. You just have to get used to people looking at you suspiciously as you wander through toy stores. And while this gorgeous set of curvaceous rocking horses designed by Next of Kin Creatives are far too small for adults, they’re the perfect justification for finally starting a family. More »
There’s something hypnotically satisfying about drawing the endless circular patterns with a Spirograph machine—unless you’re hopelessly lazy. Then it’s just another form of work you’re trying to avoid, and you’ll probably love PG52’s latest creation. It’s an autonomous Lego Spirograph machine powered by a single motor connected to an impressive four-speed gearbox. Its engineering is as much a piece of art as the spiral patterns it sketches. More »
It might not bring a complete end to your office warfare, but like with nuclear weapons, this marshmallow-blasting Mazooka should bring an uneasy truce for fear of it actually being used. Six AA batteries power a built-in air compressor that generates enough pressure to fire a large marshmallow up to 40 feet—making those manual pump-action mallow shooters seem like nothing but toys. More »
This week it’s time to get goofy with a brand new set of updates to Mimoco’s Uglydoll MIMOBOT Flash Drive collection – Big Toe included! The collection you’re seeing here has the Big Toe character leading the way in this newly massive 128GB USB 3.0 stick set, each of these little monsters working not only as a storage stick on their own, but as a repository for a suite of wallpapers, icons, and avatars right out of the box! That’s so cute it’s sickening!
With the Big Toe you’re going to be bringing this “unstoppable force of knowledge” to your computer the same way you’ve brought him into your heart with the plush he’s been represented in before today. This cute beast joins Babo, Wage, Ice-Bat, and OX in the full Uglydoll collection. This whole collection is now available in 128GB storage stick size as well!
“Mimoco has always had a pretty awesome relationship with David Horvath and UGLYDOLL. We couldn’t be happier to produce yet another character with Pretty Ugly, especially since Big Toe is an original UGLYDOLL character from 2007.” – Mimoco PR gal Jessica Smiley
Each little bot contains its own unique collection of bits and pieces for the greater good of your notebook, smartphone, and tablet the first time you plug them in! You’ll have wallpapers for your machines that tip the greatness of the drive itself, icons so you can be sure you’re seeing the right monster, and icons for the rest of your folders if you like as well. It’s all lit up real cool – and each of them will only cost you a cool $24.94 for starters.
Be sure you’re picking up your Big Toe today or be forever mournful: there’s only 2000 of these limited-edition oddities in the world! Have a peek at the rest of our Mimoco coverage in the timeline below, and be sure to let us know if you’re a proud owner of a MIMOBOT or six already!
MIMOBOTs go massive with Uglydoll Flash Drive family expansion is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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When it comes to geeky building systems enjoyed by children all around the world, Lego typically jumps to mind. We’ve seen plenty of world records set by various builders around the world using Lego bricks. One of the more overlooked geeky building materials that a lot of us played with as children are Lincoln Logs.
You may remember these small wooden logs with little dents in them that allowed you to stack and build all sorts of structures. Over the weekend, a new Guinness World Record was set in Lincoln, Nebraska. The record is for the tallest Lincoln Log structure ever built was set at the Lincoln Children’s Museum.
The massive structure measured 12’4″ when complete. The structure also broke the record for the largest number of logs ever used in a construct requiring 10,036. The previous record was held by a structure built in March of 2010 measured 10’11″ and used 2995 logs. That structure was built in Ottawa, Illinois.
The group of people who built the record-setting Lincoln log structure included a group of architecture students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an architectural group called the DLR Group. The build was challenging and required precision because one piece slightly off could lead to a big problem further up the tower. The entire built took over six hours to complete.
[via Journal Star]
Giant Lincoln Log tower sets a new Guinness World Record is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Flickr user RGB900’s Lego DSLR is far from the first bricked camera we’ve brought you. But damned if it isn’t one of the most detailed. One of its most impressive features is a flexible neck strap, presumably made from tank tread pieces. And the inclusion of an external flash that appears to be connected via an actual Lego hotshoe is the icing on the cake. Bravo. More »
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