C’mon! Your kids will adore you forever if you buy them one of these!

It’s an inflatable water slide, ideal for those summer afternoons when the children get bored too easily. And of course their friends are always welcome too.

Read the rest of this entry »

Kids get all the best toys, if you fancy spoiling yours with this cool looking electric powered wooden space shuttle it will set you back $300 which is actually a bit of a bargain considering it’s reduced from $2,000 (did I sound a bit like a woman in the sales saying that? )

Available from Gadget Universe.

This has got to be the coolest spy toy ever, a remote control car with a built in night vision camera that transmits what it sees back to a pair of LCD glasses.

When I was a kid I used to have a spy cardboard suitcase that contained advanced spy kit stuff like a magnifying glass, fingerprint powder and a Morse code book. I’d of killed for one of these spy cars.

I can imagine this toy getting many a kid brother into trouble, followed by a slap off an older sisters friends.

Available now from Hammacher found via blog.scifi.

These cute little figures could leave you in a quandary, do you keep them or plant them. The eyes on each figure are actually seeds and the body contains nutrients to help it grow. You can get a melon, tomato or pumpkin. Plant them or keep them, you decide

Plant Me Pets found via HippyShopper and Pop Gadget.

Cups is a popular game in the States (or so I’ve read) where players have to stack cups in different arrangements as quickly as possible. It looks like the craze (which is actually a sport believe it or not) is going to being hit the UK shores anytime now, thanks to Firebox’s Racing Cups.

Read the rest of this entry »

If you thought an uncle making a penny appear from behind your ear was magic you’ll be amazed by the Magic Penny Magnet Kit.

The kit combines both science and magic to provide you with some fun experiments (gees you could even say it’s educational).

Read the rest of this entry »

This is one fun looking remote control humvee, not only can it drive around the ground in normal humvee brutish fashion it can also drive up walls!

Read the rest of this entry »

Okay this may be for the kids but it’s football related, inflatable and looks kind of cool. The Inflatable Football Pitch is like a football jail for your kids. I can imagine it now:

• Inflate pitch
• Add kids
• Add ball
• Go inside and watch real football on TV

You can get the perfect pitch from Woolworths (not a store renown for gadgets or quality products to that matter).