Toys

Everyone knows Sesame Street’s Elmo, and that red colored furry creature has seen his fair share of (monster, pardon the pun) sales in the past especially during the holiday seasons of yore where parents were frenzied enough to line up outside toy stores just to pick up a Tickle Me Elmo for their kids. This year, Elmo is back with a vengeance from Fisher-Price, whom the latter touts the former to being the most engaging and entertaining Elmo to day. Known as Elmo Live, this feature plush ups the ante where realistic, interactive play is concerned.

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Every once in a while, somebody takes two of my favorite things and manages to combine them together in happy unity. Case in point: Electric Arts (EA) new advancements in Nerf and Wiimote technology.

EA plans to release this Nerf/Wiimote combo in tandem with a new game called Nerf N-Strike. This contraption that you see to your left doesn’t yet have an official name, but it is a Nerf shooter as well as a Wiimote for first person shooter games.

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We’ve raved about the PicooZ R/C helicopters before, I also bought my self daughter a pair of the battling helicopters for Christmas (they are still very cool), this next release from PicooZ looks to continue the coolest R/C toy tradition, the Tandem Z, a remote control Chinook.

The helicopter has super wide infrared control, a built-in Li-Poly battery, trim control and durable body. It has sophisticated gyroscopic effect for stability and twin rotor blades that work in Tandem. It also has a unique roto-blade system for steady take off and it’s a 3 channel helicopter (forwards, backwards, left, right, up and down).

A normal charge of 20-25 minutes should give you a flight time of around 10 minutes, and this is done directly from the remote control (requires 6xAA batteries).

The only thing lacking is you can’t shoot down other Chinook’s maybe that’s planned for the next release (hopefully), you can buy the PicooZ Tandem Z for £40.00 (~$82) from Red 5.

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According to the coast watchers over at Engadget, Apple Inc. may be getting into the gaming hardware business and then some.

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If you want to rear a dog without having to clean up after it, then you ought to consider the SEGATOY robotic dog which is capable of responding to various stimuli like touch, voice commands and even boasts the ability to track you as you move around it. This robotic pooch can move various parts of its body such as eyes, mouth and head, tail and even shake its paw while responding to voice commands just like a real dog would. Too bad it can’t be trained/programmed to fetch my morning newspaper - maybe future versions will see it come with an LCD display on its body that downloads the latest RSS news feeds via a WiFi network. This nifty little toy retails for $270 a pop.

Source: Technabob

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Learning, when made fun, is one exciting journey, especially for kids who seem to possess brains that are like sponges - absorbing everything around them effortlessly. The Remote Control Morphibian Land Shark is capable of exploring elements on either land or in water without breaking a sweat. Some features are :-

• Runs on land and water
• Full function radio control
• 4 wheel drive
• Features working head lights
• Cool metallic finish
• Power through the backyard, plow through puddles and test your driving skills with this high-powered R/C four-wheel drive

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Every Jedi should know how to make their own lightsaber, but finding a Jedi master to train you is a bit tricky at the moment which is where the Force FC Lightsaber Construction set comes to the rescue.

The kit contains instructions and parts which make it possible to create a 1,000 or so different designs (in any one galaxy no two lightsabers are ever the same (okay I made that bit up)). You can change the color (red, blue or green) of your saber with the flick of a switch and they can’t do that in the films.

The Lightsaber kit is available from Play for £49.99 and Amazon.com for $99.99.

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I hate mowing the lawn. I grew up in the country, which meant there was a lot of grass to be cut. In addition to my parents’ lawn, I also did the mowing for our kind, elderly neighbor. In all, there were about 3 acres worth of grass. I joked with my parents about getting a goat or two, as they would simply eat the grass. I’m going to guess that someone else had a similar childhood, because they’ve created the remote-controlled GOAT lawn mower.

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