“Hietama-chan” by Takara Tomy Arts is not just a colorful egg. They are 3 brothers and 3 sisters supporting you to save energy from inside of your refrigerator.
When you open your fridge, Hietama-chan starts telling you “You’re wasting of energy!” or “Please close the door soon!” Some people, especially kids and husbands, need these reminders to be quick when the refrigerator door is open!
If multiple egg brothers and sisters get together, they sing …
If you want to jailbreak your real iPhone, you’re going to have to put a little work into it. But if you pick up one of these toys, it’ll come that way straight from the factory floor. More »
The Amazon product page for Maisto International Inc.’s model Predator drones has been inundated with snarky parody reviews mocking the replica, apparently as a means of “protesting” the government’s controversial practice of targeted drone strikes. But rather than dissuade potential customers, the shrill whine of impotent hippy rage has accomplished precisely the opposite—Amazon can barely keep them in stock. More »
The British police officers that raided Ian Driscoll’s Tewkesbury home found the mortar they were looking for. They just didn’t expect it to be plastic. Or a model. More »
Outside of a few close employees, a couple fawning reporters, and his obsequious biographer, few people ever knew Steve Jobs, what with his being an antisocial tyrant. But now, you can own him. Or at least a tiny, unsettlingly realistic miniature computer genius version of him. But should you? Is it moral? Is it good? More »
Check out these new plush Direwolves. They are from a new line of Game of Thrones toys from Factory Entertainment. Aside from Direwolves, they will be offering plush dragon eggs, dragons and shield-shaped throw pillows as well as some prop replicas and sculptural miniatures.
The plush Direwolves are the best though. They are soft and cuddly and not dangerous at all. Ghost has red eyes. But as much as I like these soft Direwolves, I can’t help but want some plush White Walkers. That would be awesome. These wolves are pretty cool though. I would cuddle one if I were a Stark.
They were spotted at the recent New York Toy Fair, and should be available this Summer.
[via The Mary Sue]
This week the folks at Sync Beatz have decided to revive the Tamagotchi craze with a 16th birthday present for the little toy creatures: an officially Bandai-licensed Android app! This app takes on the life of the original pocket toy, with your ability to work with the digital creature from your childhood in one of two modes: one looks like the original toy, the other utilizes your full Android smartphone display. Is it time to jump back in with the pixel-monster babysitting button-pusher once again?
When you are ready to admit you’re curious about the Tamagotchi app, you’ll be ready to start the healing. The original toy (which is still sold today, mind you) consisted of a flattened-out egg-sized plastic keychain device with a display that was able to show off a set of one-color pixels and three rubbery buttons. These buttons activated a series of options in the game, the game consisting of caring for a little smudge of a monster that grew up in real time.
The big draw with this device was that the creature had to be fed, cleaned, played with on a fairly regular basis throughout the day in order to keep it “alive”. The device needed no battery charging because it required so little computing power, and you were able to re-set your game with a holding down of the two outer buttons (of the three). Here in 2013, the story is essentially the same.
It’s quite surprising that Bandai didn’t take the time to develop the game on its own given their involvement in the increasingly mobile world of gaming already. The fact that we see a banner advertisement at the bottom of the display when the game is opened right out of the box is concerning, too – this doesn’t feel as officially representative of the source material as, say, the DIE HARD app also revealed this week.
That said, you do get to raise an electronic pixelated animal on your own, and it does take place in real time. You do get to feed it, play games with it (including a fabulous rock-paper-scissors in mobile mode), and yes, clean it’s poop up as well. You can work with a variety of sharing tools, and you can take comfort in knowing that the app works with the newest version of Android on the Nexus 4 as well.
It’s free, go ahead and grab it if you dare – there are advertisements inside, but they do fade away from time to time, leaving you in Tamagochi peace.
Tamagotchi L.I.F.E. app Review: too cute not to try is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you thought it was intense when Hot Wheels cars zoomed around loops, narrowly missing each other at high speed intersections that would make a civil engineer fall to his knees and cry, Hot Wheel’s new Carcade might give you a heart attack. And if your favorite speed is “10 mph under the limit,” the same applies. More »
At last year’s Toy Fair, Mattel was all about Apptivity. The line of figures that interact with an iPad didn’t exactly revolutionize the industry. But, the company isn’t giving up on the concept. In 2013 it’s evolving and moving from action figures that you drag across a screen, to much more interactive augmented reality concepts. Rather than simply slapping a capacitive pad on the bottom of a toy, this next-gen version focuses first on delivering a solid analog experience, then enhances it by actually using the considerable computing power made available by the iPad. To give the new series the best chance possible at succeeding, three of the biggest brands in the Mattel stable will be first to make the jump: Barbie, Disney and Hot Wheels. So what does 2013 hold for the venerable toy maker? Head on after the break to find out.
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Everybody loves a good paper airplane, but the problem is they only fly straight, and that’s only so much fun. Well, that about to be a problem of the past. Thanks to the Power Up 3.0, you can not only outfit your paper creations with a motor, but steer them directly from your phone. More »
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