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Pin Pres Children’s Shelf Uses Push Pins For Unlimited Design Options

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I know the Pin Pres is designed as a reconfigurable children’s shelf. It makes a great space to stash their toys, it’s easy to rearrange, and it makes for endless hours of kiddie fun. Still, I want one for myself. Created by OOO My Design, the children’s furniture is comprised of a board packed with built-in push pins that go through to the other side. Kids can line up the shelves themselves or, more likely, they can just push [...]

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Kids Rule Is The Giant Wooden Ruler Of My Childhood Fantasies

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Want a giant ruler? Of course you do. Who doesn’t want a giant ruler? If you have little kids, you can use that as the perfect excuse to get the Kids Rule. Made by Lovestruck Interiors, it’s a growth chart for measuring how tall your young ones are getting, just like those cardboard, canvas and plastic charts you can get from children’s supplies stores. Instead of sporting cute kiddie graphics, it’s done up like a giant vintage wooden ruler — [...]

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Mazooka Is A Bazooka For Firing Marshmallows

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Back when you went through a Hunger Games phase, the Bow and Mallow grew to become your favorite way to annoy family and friends. Now that you’ve gotten over it, you want a new way to fling marshmallows: we recommend getting one of these Mazookas. One-upping your standard handheld marshmallow shooter, the toy takes on the form of a shoulder-fired mallow launcher, allowing you to pelt enemies with sugary treats Rambo-style. It’s got power to spare, too, hurling mallows at [...]

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Volta Racer Toy Cars Use Flexible Solar Panels For Power

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Buying a small child a toy with an integrated solar panel for power is like flushing money down the drain. You just know they’re going to wreck that photovoltaic slab shortly down the line. While these Solar Foam Racers’ flexible solar panel isn’t damage-proof, it will probably last a heck of a lot longer than the rigid ones other toy cars use. Made by Toy Labs, the cars use a flexible polycrystalline silicon solar panel for its sun-gathering purposes — [...]

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Putter Pool Looks Ridiculously Fun

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You enjoy a round of golf with business acquaintances as much as you enjoy drunken pool with the buddies, but neither is really that fun to play with your kids. We’re not sure how you’ll enjoy Putter Pool, but the chance of entertainment is always high when games are this ridiculous. Basically, it’s a putting game played on a mat with a pool table layout, along with numbered golf balls instead of those blank dimpled thingies. That way, you can [...]

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Apptivity Fortress For iPad Brings Real-World Play And Apps Together

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Fisher-Price has a bunch of toys at this year’s CES that attempt to bridge the gap between digital and physical play. Our favorite of the lot has to be this Imaginext Apptivity Fortress, a toy castle with an integrated iPad slot that allows for some truly engaging play. Designed for kids, the toy combines a real-world playset with a virtual app that all revolve around a fortress theme. To use, you need to download the similarly-named game from the App [...]

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Griffin And Crayola Introduce Light Marker Electronic Crayon For iPad

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Kids love crayons. Always have, always will. Except them crayons are just messy — having them color and draw on an iPad is so much less trying on your patience. But what if they insist on grabbing onto one of those colored sticks, though? Well, that’s what the Crayola Light Marker is for. Made in collaboration with accessories-maker Griffin Technology, it’s an electronic crayon that lets kids color on an iPad the same way they would on a real crayon [...]

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Froc High Chair Grows With Your Child

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Buying a high chair for your toddler is always a tricky purchase. Chances are, they’ll outgrow it pretty quickly, requiring you to purchase a new one within a short time. If you’re going to buy your child a high chair, might as well get them one they can use throughout their childhood, right? That’s exactly what the Froc gets you. Designed by Slovenian outfit Gigodesign, it’s a high chair that can be adjusted and modified to be usable for all [...]

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IceHuggy: Coozies For Ice Pops

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Beer coozies are great for keeping your hands dry while keeping your beer chilled. So why not provide the same kind of convenience for your kids this summer. Not for beer silly, but for their icy treats. That’s exactly the idea with the IceHuggy, a coozie for wrapping around freeze pops, yogurt sticks and other similar icy treats. Just like regular beer coozies, these sleeves protect you from the torture of having to wrap your bare hands around frozen ice [...]

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BluTrack Is A Two-Lane Derby Track With Unlimited Configuration Options

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That die-cast derby track you set up in the basement made for some fun races. But it’s the exact same track every single time you play, so it didn’t take you long to get bored with the thing. That shouldn’tt be a problem with BluTrack, a free-form race track that you can reconfigure as many times as you want. Instead of kits that have you putting together segments to build a predesigned track, this track consists of just one continuous [...]

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Gummy Bear Light Squishy Night Lamp Looks Good Enough To Eat

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This is a blown-up Gummy Bear. Like that 12,600-calorie giant Gummy Bear you got for Christmas last year, you can stuff your face with it. But only if you eat lamps and plastics and electric wires, too. Yeah, that will be nasty because this edible-looking thing is the Gummy Bear Light, a nightlight clad in the oversized shape of the popular stretchy candy. Squishy just like a real Gummy, the lamp is turned on and off by squeezing on its [...]

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c-Jump Board Game Entertains Kids With Programming Logic, Flowcharts

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You love your kids. But as much as you want them to enjoy their youth, you’d rather they spend their most precocious days learning the skills that will make them gobs of money some day. You know, like rapping. Or playing NBA ball. Or, if they’re neither skilled on the mic nor athletic, coding software. Those guys make good bank, too. And here’s how you steer them in that direction: the c-Jump Computer Programming Board Game. Designed for kids 11 [...]

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Pancake Plate Maximizes Syrup Access

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You love your pancakes. So much so that you’ve asked your boss for a loan to buy a Chefstack Pancake Machine (it was denied). But you love your flapjacks better when they’re dripping in gobs of syrup. Problem is, you have to keep pouring before every bite to maximize the “soaking in syrupy goodness” effect. Not with the Pancake Plate, which adds a reservoir on one side for collecting all that runaway syrup so you can just dip in before [...]

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Children’s DJ Station For Your Little Mix Master

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Your kid has tried it all — guitar lessons, piano lessons, making sounds with your armpit lessons. He sucked at all of them. Maybe being a musician really isn’t in the cards. Maybe he can make a living being a club DJ instead. You can get him started with this Children’s DJ Station. Don’t be sad. Being a DJ isn’t so bad. They get girls, too. And some people actually look up to them like real musicians. Heck, some of [...]

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Ready, Aim, Fire On The Hotdog: The Condiment Gun

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While the Condiment Gun probably doesn’t work any better than your regular ketchup and mustard dispenser, it definitely makes lacing your hotdogs with sauces and spices way more entertaining. Plus, it’s a wicked way to get back much worse at someone who squirts you with a water pistol. The bad news? The ketchup-shooting contraption can only squirt its load in very close range (just like a regular sauce dispenser), so you can’t exactly use it as a gross and messy [...]

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Doodle Tablecloth Is A Drawing-Friendly Cover Spread For The Dinner Table

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Kids and crayons at the dinner table makes for a disastrous recipe. But it also makes for quiet kids who actually sit through dinner in peace. The Doodle Tablecloth removes the disaster part from the equation. A doodle-friendly tablecloth, the covering spread is printed with lines, holes, and red margins that make it look like a giant graphing paper. That makes it perfect for playing tic-tac-toe, drawing pixel art and other pen-to-paper tomfoolery children are likely to enjoy. The Doodle [...]

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Don’t You Think Your Fish Deserve Their Own Labyrinth Aquarium?

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You can dress your aquarium with as many marine decorations as you want. But it’s still just a glass box that will fade in the background of this eye-catching Labyrinth Aquarium. Clad in a unique design, the freshwater fish tank features individually-decorated bowls that are interconnected by glass tubes, so your guppies and tetras can swim to a different hang-out once they get bored of their usual bowl. Plus, it looks like you built an aquarium out of oversized bongs, [...]

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Build Your Own Solar Powered Infinitely-Bobbing Papercraft Bobbleheads

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I can’t remember the last time bobbleheads were cool. They’re still not cool, but these DIY Solar-Powered Papercraft Bobbleheads sure look fun. Unlike many bobbleheads you’ve had over the years, these ones don’t just shake their skulls for a little while after you give them a tap. Instead, they’ll rock their noggins continuously, courtesy of solar-powered machinery that makes them shake their heads over and over. The DIY Solar-Powered Bobbleheads comes as a papercraft kit, with sheets of pre-printed and [...]

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Treintafel Table Comes With Model Train Tracks Carved In

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Who needs a model railroad system? Just buy the Treintafel (Train Table), an erstwhile regular-looking table with a set of railroad tracks carved right on the top. Introduced by Woet, a collaboration between Destino and Furniture Design by Tomm Velthius, the playtime furnishing is a fully functional table, too, provided you don’t mind a desk with multiple lines carved onto it. Of course, you’ll probably want to shelve the trains before plopping the laptop down, lest end up with a [...]

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