Toys are always fun and the older you get the more fun and expensive toys you can buy.
As a child my favorite toys were easily my Legos. There were few other toys that could capture my imagination as those tiny bricks so often did. Then again, it was rare to find something that let you express your creativity as well, either. These days there just isn’t time to sit down and play with them like I used to, however, thanks to this new chess set, I might just have a good excuse to have Legos sitting in my living room.
I was surprised to see that Coolest Gadgets hasn’t covered the Nintendo WiiFit yet, so I feel obligated to spread the good news of the WiiFit release date to all of our readers. Nintendo has officially announced that the WiiFit will be released on May 19th.
For those of you who are not familiar with the WiiFit, it is a pressure sensitive balance board that allows users to exercise with aerobic, toning, and balance activities, all “supervised” by a virtual trainer.
Not only will the WiiFit do exercise-based games like push-ups, but there are other games that are fun for all ages. For example, a user can wiggle to a virtual hula hoop or play a soccer goalie who is blocking shots with his or her head. Click on the jump to see a video of its features.
If you want to teach your kids about saving money, there are a variety of ways to do that. While I won’t pretend to know a lot about banking and investments, but why not get them their own hi-tech safe to get them started?
If defence is needed around your garden then a paintball turret should sort out any problems. This particular Paintball turret has a video relay allowing you to remote control it and see through the eyes of the camera. Each turret is custom built to your specifications. Upgrades are also possible too which will see the gun being able to rotate through 360 degrees of infinite motion, 1000+ round hoppers, upgrades and more. Built from machined polyurethane/delrin assembly, it also features hardened stainless steel shafts with metal gears.
Programming has never been my forte. While I can do enough HTML to put together a very basic website, however, I couldn’t code my way out of a wet paper bag. Now had this board game been out when I was younger, that might be a different story.
I suppose that the military has been looking for more remotely piloted aircrafts since the MQ-1 Predator, and it appears they have been going to colleges for their next one. They have given the University of Michigan a $10 million dollar grant to come up with a “six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat”.
I don’t know if the picture to the left here is their prototype, but you have to admit that it certainly looks neat. Not only is the COM-BAT (it’s official name?) designed for reconnaissance, but the military wants it to “gathers data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to a soldier in real time”.
I’m sure several of you are looking at this and saying: “Just what possessed Hasbro to make a version of the Operation Game with the Hulk?” I wish I could help you. The only answer I can give you is simply “because they can”.
Also, Hasbro wants to cash in on the Hulk franchise that will hopefully receive a major boost with the release of The Incredible Hulk movie this summer. I’m told that this film is not a direct sequel to Ang Lee’s The Hulk (2003). That’s fine by me, because that film was so awful, the Hulk deserves a Batman Begins like reboot.
The Picoz Helicopters seemed to jump start the series of tiny helicopters and planes that we see around these days. The latest is named the Snelflight VTOL which is a Jump Jet RC plane. VTOL means Vertical Take Off and Landing and it allows the plane to take off by just lifting off the ground. The stability of the plane in take off is controlled by a triple axis gyroscope. Power is provided by four pivoting propellers which keep the plane stable and allow it to fly around in a precise manor in full three dimensions.
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