Toys

Think you’re a hard nut? Want to show off to your mates after a night out? Then this potential Darwin award game could be for you, the Breakboard Challenge.

The Breakboard challenge lets you chop pieces of wood with your bare hands, feet or nut. The kit consists of six sturdy blocks of wood which slot together using plywood to form the “breakboards”, you then rest these on the supplied bases and try to break them inflicting the minimum amount of pain. You only need to snap the plywood (rather than the actual thick bits of wood) so even the relatively untrained piss martial artist should hear the sound of snapping wood.

Available from iwoot, pain guaranteed. If you’re a serious and not drunk board breaker you probably want to check out these breaking boards.

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I really enjoy making things with my daughter, in the past we’ve made a hot air balloon, Viking ship, countless paper mache creations and the obligatory mess (neither of us are famed for our tidiness). I’ve just come across this kit which shows you how to make a car powered by hydrogen extracted from plain old water, this could very well be our project for the summer holidays.
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If you find Sudoku puzzles a bit too easy, and find solving the Rubiks cube a piece of cake you might want to give this puzzle a go, The Sudoku Cube.

It’s a combination of Sudoku and the Rubiks cube where upon you need to twist it in such a way that all digits from 1-9 appear once and only once on each side of the cube.

I never could do the Rubiks cube so this just looks impossible, but I reckon if you show it to people really quickly and yell I’ve solved it nobody will be able to tell the difference :).

[Available from toys.brando found via i4u]

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Not sure how “useful” this is but it sure looks fun. The LighTalk II is a scanner and electronic LED wand combined.

To use you simply doodle on a piece of paper, scan it with you LighTalk, you then wave it and to the amazement of your friends an LED image of your doodle will appear in the air.

With version 2 of the LighTalk you can store up to 8 messages or doodles and use it’s IR feature to transmit message to your fellow wand wagglers. It’s available for under $40 from Think Geek, let the geeky doodling begin :).

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This is a cool looking toy the “Shadow Magic Kit”, it actually pauses your shadow whilst you keep moving.

To use it you need to hang the supplied Phosphorescent screen on a door or wall, get an over energetic child to jump up and down in front of it whilst you take a snapshot with the supplied light gun thingie and voila a static image of the shadow is now on the screen. You also get a light pen which lets you doodle with the shadow.

This is the sort of gadget I can see keeping kids entertained for ages and it only costs $25 from Discovery Shopping a bargain IMO.

[Shadow Magic found via Red Ferret ]

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Spring and summer have got to be one of my favorite times of year, woman wear less clothes and us blokes have to wear sunglasses to protect our eyes from those harmful UV rays It’s also the season for BBQs and water fights which brings me round to this post, reporting on the Aqua Master Krypton the mother of all water pistols.

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This is a sweet little gadget that will no doubt thrill children of all ages – myself included!

Let me introduce you to Gupi the intelligent robotic guinea pig. I remember we had a real pet guinea pig when I was a child. It never came out of its box and only moved around when we poked the poor little creature, usually trying to bite us.

I remember the childhood thrill have having such as sweet, cuddly rodent in the home, but these days I could never bring myself to keep a caged pet. But as you’ll see, with a robotic guinea pig you can have something a lot better than the real thing, and be animal-friendly too!

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This has got to be on every spoilt youngsters birthday list, the Power Paddler Lagoon Water Park for the kid who has everything.

For your thousand dollars you get an inflatable 225 square foot lagoon which holds 1,015 gallons of water, on top of which your child can sail their very own unsinkable paddle boat, though knowing kids (and a famous movie) I don’t think a boat should ever be called unsinkable. If you can afford to have 2 children (which if you’re seriously considering this you must be) then you can buy an extra *unsinkable* boat for a paltry $259.

So for $1,259 you can start developing you children’s competitive streak. Lagoon and boats available from here.

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