Social networking has already taken the Internet by storm, with virtually everyone these days having their own MySpace and Friendster accounts. I suppose this is but a natural evolution of our friends list on instant messaging programs back in the mid 90s, but to see social networking move away from computers and enter the corporeal world can be a pretty unnerving experience. Ganz has manufactured these plush toys which aim to usher elementary-level children into the world of Web 2.0 in a cute and non-invasive manner.

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Now begins the greening of your toys!

Power your RC cars with Hydrogen, (for $1500) with the new RC fuel cell kit from Horizon Fuel Cells.

Sure, it says that its for RC cars, and the specs beat the snot out of the regular 7.2volt battery pack in your regular RC car, here’s what their site says..　　　　　　　

The H-cell power unit offers:
•High performance accelerations
　　　　　　　　•Speeds of up to 30km/h (20 m.p.h.)
•65-70 minutes of runtime on a single charge
•Futuristic body shell design
•Possible use in other vehicles or robots

At the speeds and powers they list, this looks like a great little kit for those of deep pockets (no, I wasn’t kidding $1500!!!) Check the online .pdf brochure, then head over to their online store, and get yourself all setup! Read the rest of this entry »

The third movie of the Spiderman saga is bringing up all sorts of spider gadgets and toys to the market, but none of them come close to this Origins Spiderman Web Blaster, a toy that throws out a triple-stream web fluid so your kids can spin their own web and feel just like Peter Parker.
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Sick of the little rascals expressing their inner Van Gogh all over you freshly painted walls? Tired of the little tyke eating more paint and crayons than they actually get on the paper? Well Coolpaint for kids might be the product for you! For three cents shy of $15.00 kids can learn drawing and image editing with more than 40 realistic painting tools and a vast picture gallery containing 1000 pictures.
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Babies cry for many reasons and indeed one of those reasons is that they have wet diapers. Well cry no more as we wonder what parents are thinking when they attach a CMOS chip alarm to their babies diapers. When junior answers the call of nature – your nursery will be filled with the sound and joy of a musical alarm which will let you know that your baby has wet the aforementioned diaper.
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This is one of those gadgets that my 9 year old daughter would absolutely love (and I wouldn’t borrow), the Girl Tech Digi Makeover, a way to test how make up looks on your face on your TV.

To use you take a photo of your face using the built-in digital camera, connect it to the TV and then try out different hair and make up styles to see which suits you best (or to see how stupid you’d look in Goth make up and pic tails (if you’re a Goth with pig tails reading this then I’m sorry about that)).

If I was the kind of person that starts my Christmas shopping early this would be on order now but as I’m not I’ll just wait for the Christmas eve jostle. You can get the Girl Tech Digi Makeover in the UK from Argos for £59.99.

If you haven’t seen the Eepybird guys do their thing with Mentos and Diet Coke. First, I’d like to welcome you back from your Oceanic Airlines flight 815 and tell you we’re glad you made it back from “The Island“. Second,, you can click here and watch it, Captain Out of Touch!

Third, and most importantly, now you can put together your own Eepybird style show with the Soda Geyser!

Just like the Eepybird guys (only I think they’re manufacturing them, rather than having to make them all from scratch).

Thanks Uncrate!!!

Get it at Firebox!

The cars from the legendary Italian scuderia from Maranello have always inspired passion all over the world. Almost the same thing can be said about Lego, the small plastic bricks that were first introduced more than fifty years ago in Denmark, and have conquered the world ever since. So why not combine both of them? That’s what the Lego Ferrari collection is all about. I admit that these are not gadgets at all, but how can you resist to Ferraris made from Lego bricks?

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