I joke around a lot with you all, but one thing I’m always dead serious about is government warnings, especially those with regard to safety for toys that can hurt your kids. So in that vein, let me give you the unadulterated news on this item: The CPSC has announced a voluntary recall of all [...]
Tag Archives: Toys (Any Age)
Desk Pets Rolls Out New BattleTank at Toy Fair
When I was a new dad, I would sometimes bring my wee ones to the office, just so they could see “where Papa worked”. (Now they see it all the time, seeing as how I work at home. Not much mystery there!) And being little kids, the first thing they wanted to know was, Where [...]
Hawkspy LT-712 Helicopter w/ Spy Camera Review
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s the EGOFLY Hawkspy LT712 RC helicopter with spycam from xenonproject.com! Want to know what’s going on around the corner and need to do some reconnaissance? Xenonproject.com’s Hawkspy RC helicopter is just for you! Sporting a tiny DVD-scale (720×480) video camera with included removable 1GB microSD card, the [...]
La Plata Time Rings Are a Low-Tech Puzzle for these High-Tech Times
You can only sling so many angry birds at chortling pigs before your mind goes numb and you want something … different. Sometimes the simplest things can captivate the imagination; a case in point would be this lovely low-tech and natural puzzle made from a slice of cypress. The puzzle is made from the wood of Cypress [...]
iOS-Enabled Gear Review: iHelicopter Remote Controlled Helicopter
A week before Griffin announced their new Help TC iOS remote-controlled helicopter, I saw the iHelicopter being advertised. For $59 I figured I would order one. It came yesterday and… well… it is fun. As the product page explains, The iHelicopter makes it possible to use your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch as a remote [...]
Seeing Greater Things for New FishEyes Smarter Rod and Reel with Underwater Video Camera
I have to admit that many items I review do not receive much thought after I post their story, but after spending a short time with this new FishEyes Rod and Reel With Underwater Video Camera I realized here was an item with much broader usage. Sure, this is a unique product that every father [...]
Useful Things: The Glow-in-the-Dark Playing Cards Review
July is a month for camping trips and summer camps, and I’ve found an item that you might want to consider packing the next time you send the young ones off — a set of Glow-in-the-Dark Playing Cards from Useful Things. Think about the uses that your kids will find for a set of playing [...]
Review:Swann Flying High with New RC Indoor Helicopter Line
With Father’s Day right around the corner and fuel prices causing many to think perhaps of a “staycation” this summer, those looking for a different sort of gift should check out Swann and their new line of RC Indoor Helicopters. Many ask themselves, “Aren’t remote control helicopters difficult to fly?” Yes they are, or were. [...]
Nanodots Adds Even More Fun to the Cool Magnetic Dots of Fun
Nanodots are fun all by themselves. I love playing with these. It’s almost relaxing. It’s hard to believe that they have figured out yet another way to make them fun with a new product that makes it more fun to build with Nanodots. The Nanopad with FeWeave technology is a nice pad to use when [...]
Your Favorite Geek May Be a “Geeks of the Week” Trading Card
Oh, this is so totally cool! Think Geek is now offering the first of 52 “Geek of the Week” trading cards! The cards are broken into sets of eight — I guess because doing sets of seven didn’t look symmetrical enough(?), but anyway! Seriously! How can you resist Veronica Belmont dressed as a warrior princess? [...]
Arctic Releases Land Rider 300 RC Racing Car Series
Arctic has developed into a company who primarily made cooling solutions for computers to a company who releases high quality products of everything from speakers and keyboards to now hobby items. I have reviewed many items from Arctic and have yet to find something that was not high quality while staying affordable. Their newest line [...]
New Product: Arctic Land Rider RC Toys
The Christmas season brings out the kid in most of us. Luckily I have two little boys to cover my excuse to check out all of the cool toys. One of my long time favorite toys are remote-controlled vehicles. My whole life I have been a sucker for cars, trucks, planes, boats, virtually anything that [...]
Random Cool Stuff: If You Are 30, These Are the Toys You Grew Up With
Over at Milo.com’s Daily Bark, they are featuring a subjective list of the ‘best gifts ever’! It is interesting because it is focused on someone who would have been born in 1980, therefore turning 30 this year. The infograph looks back at what the hot gifts would have been for boys and girls over time. [...]
The WowWee Roboscooper Wants Wall-E’s Job
Show me a person who could watch the Pixar movie Wall-E without getting a little bit misty, and I’ll show you a person with a heart of stone. The premise was that Earth, long inhabited by wasteful humans was eventually rendered unusable, and there was a mass exodus to a fleet of spaceships provided for [...]
EFO’s Solar Toys are Fun and Educational
Solar power has been a promise since I was my son’s age. In the future. we were all supposed to have roofs covered in solar cells and not having to use ugly power lines to power our lives. We were barely able to get to the point of powering calculators. Fast forward 20 years and [...]
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