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Fully Automatic Nerf Stampede ECS-50 Shoots 18 Darts Per Minute
Want to shoot evil people in your office with a rapid barrage of Nerf darts? Sure, you’ll probably be fired after such an episode, but the Nerf Stampede ECS-50 should sufficiently equip you with the hardware to do just that.
Billed as the “first fully automatic NERF Clip System blaster to date,” the gun spews ammunition at a rate of 18 darts per second – a volume of violence that’s bound to satiate even Rambo’s unquenchable bloodlust. The company calls it one of the most “exciting N-STRIKE developments released in over 40 years of NERF brand history” and it’s a tough claim to disagree with.
The Nerf Stampede ECS-50 blaster is huge at 29.9 x 14.8 x 4.4 inch dimensions and a full 6.2 lbs of weight. It comes with a pop-out bipod that doubles as a handle, along with a removable shield to help keep enemy shots at bay. The gun [...]
Miniature Accidents Waiting To Happen: Intersecting Slot Car And Train Set
Slot car racing is fun. Slot car racing with the risk of having your model run over by a larger vehicle is even more entertaining. That’s the kind of action you’ll get with the Intersecting Slot Car and Train Set, which has one section of the racing track crossing paths with a model railroad.
Great for fans of slot car racers, model trains and epic accidents, the toy set is made up of two tracks – one for the slot cars and another for the locomotive. The designs for both are rather basic, although the decision to have them cut off each other’s paths is definitely inspired.
When fully assembled, the Intersecting Slot Car and Train Set requires 51 x 57 inches of open space. The race track is made up of 15 pieces that lock in to form seven curves (including a 180-degree hairpin turn), while the 11 railroad parts tack [...]
Roboscooper Can Pick Up Litter, Whack Everything In Its Way
Robots really need to start doing more of our stuff. I mean, they’re going to be our overlords soon enough, so we might as well enjoy their servitude while we can. Beef up your roster of robot slaves with the Roboscooper, an autonomous robot that can collect stuff strewn around your floors and stow them on his back.
Created by WowWee, the wheeled automaton delivers both playful robot looks and excellent utility, scooping up scattered objects that are too big for your Roomba to haul. Unfortunately, it’s got limited strength and is only able to take on objects weighing one ounce or less. Not bad, since that means it can pick up light objects, such as plastic toys, dirty socks and dropped food, all while taking laps around your joint without supervision.
The Roboscooper is a 13 x 8.5 x 8 inch (l x w x h) autonomous collector robot, equipped with [...]
Water Wars Will Turn Your Water Pistol Battles Into A “Bloody” Affair
How do you make a water gun battle more fun? Bring blood into the equation. Since real blood is gross (unless you’re a vampire), you can make do with Water Wars, which equips each participant with a target vest that turns bloody red when it’s hit with water.
Don’t worry, it’s not voodoo. Instead, the vests use a layer of hydrochromatic ink. When dry, the special ink is virtually invisible to the naked eye. Once it comes in contact with water, it reacts by turning bloody red.
Each Water Wars kit comes with two water pistols and two vests. Each vest is marked with a round target area in the front torso, covered with the hydrochromatic material. The idea is to turn the target on your opponent’s body completely red in order to win.
As far as I know, the red will disappear as soon as the area dries up, so stalling your [...]
GearBox Ball: A Smartphone-Controlled Robot Platform
Robots controlled by your smartphone – that’s the concept GearBox is promoting. More importantly, though, the robots themselves will be flexible, such that people can write their own apps to control it. Their first prototype for such a platform is called the GearBox Ball, a wireless robotic sphere with a hardware suite designed to interface with smartphones.
They’re calling it a “smart toy” and the name makes perfect sense. Leveraging the hardware and software capabilities of smartphones, you can’t only control the robots, you can build entire games around them.
Each GearBox Ball, for instance, once tethered wirelessly to your phone (via their software), can be controlled by tilting the handset in the direction you want it to roll. While that sounds fun on its own, they’re also writing a game called Sumo, which pits two balls on a head-to-head battle. The idea is to put the balls on a platform, control [...]
Like Your Own Midget Superhero: 1/2-Scale Iron Man Maquette
Judging from the lack of bourbon in your breath and the dearth of action in your sex life, we know you’re no Tony Stark. There’s absolutely nothing stopping you, however, from designing your own invincible exo-suit. But before you do, you will need a scale model to base your weaponized armor from and that’s where the Sideshow Iron Man 1:2 Mark III Maquette Figure comes in handy.
Created to painstaking detail, the half-scale model captures every tiny detail of the superhero armor as seen in the original movie. Sourced directly from Iron Man costume creator Legacy Effects, the handcrafted maquettes are an exact replica of the one that the company used as basis to build the full-size prop, which adorned Robert Downey, Jr on the big screen.
The Sideshow Iron Man Mark III Maquette Figure is a full 40-inches tall, making it possible to outfit your Leprechaun best friend as a Marvel [...]
Russian Nesting Dolls, Now In Robot And Ninja Form
How do you make Matryoshka dolls cool again? Dress them up for the modern age, of course, just like they did with these Robot and Ninja Russian Nesting Dolls.
If you’re not familiar with Matryoshka dolls, they’re basically a set of hollow dolls of decreasing sizes, placed inside each other. That means opening up one doll gets you a smaller doll, which, in turn, contains another doll and so on.
Every set of Ninja and Robot Nesting Dolls contains six dolls each, ranging in height from 30mm (slightly over an inch) to 114mm (about 4.5 inches). Unlike your grandma’s wooden babushkas, these modern interpretations are built out of hard ABS plastic and finished to a glossy shine. Each of the six dolls feature a slightly varying design from the rest of their crew, just like the classic Matryoshkas of old.
I remember seeing a few Matryoshkas in our attic [...]
WTF…An Obama Action Figure
While nothing on the packaging says it outright, we all know who the skull of the African American Advanced TTM-15 action figure has been modeled from. It’s the true leader of the free world. If you guessed Oprah Winfrey, you’re right. Congratulate yourself.
Complete with 38 points of articulation, you can now put The President in play any way you wish. Have him walking through your Lego replica of New York City, destroying infrastructure and climbing towers. Pit him in a UFC octagon against a Brock Lesnar model and find out who truly is the baddest man alive. Sit him next to Barbie and watch him charm that blonde faster than Ken can flex a muscle like his life depended on it.
The African American Advanced TTM-15 is a 1/6th-scale TrueType Male Body that appropriates Obama’s likeness for its sculpted head. We don’t know how this [...]
In This Corner, Weighing 62Lbs, The EC280MG RC Excavator
The Despe EC280MG isn’t likely to win you any race down the local tracks, but if you want to dig a hole those nitro-powered RC spitfires can fall in, you aren’t gonna find anything better. A 1:14.5 scale replica of a real-life heavy-duty excavator, the radio-controlled behemoth is both adorably genius and downright ridiculous.
Why would you buy one? Maybe you want to dig a hole in the garden but don’t particularly favor getting your hands dirty; maybe you want to show your kids the finer points of construction work; or maybe you just want to smash those $1,000 pimped-out model nitro trucks that keep beating your ass in the dirt. Well, this is the model for you.
As durable as the monstrous vehicle it is based from, the Despe EC280MG is built from powder-coated steel, a far cry from the predominantly plastic crap everybody else is driving down [...]
AK47 Aqua Fire Blasts Enemies With Four Water Bullets Per Second
You’ve never had a water-pistol fight until you’ve traded stinging wetness like they exchange bullets in a battlefield. Enjoy fast-paced drenching battles with the AK47 Aqua Fire, a battery-powered automatic water gun delivering payloads at a rate of four liquid bullets per second. Ratatatat.
Unlike other heavy-duty water guns, this one doesn’t require you to waste time pumping air. Just put in the clip, aim and fire at will at your hapless coworkers. Once you’re out of ammo, simply run to the nearest drinking fountain and reload. You’ll have enemy combatants (and the entire office) soaked in no time. Even the threat of a two-week suspension can’t stop you.
The AK47 Aqua Fire is a 33 x 23 x 4.5 cm water pistol, modeled after the original Kalashnikov. Clad in a uncolored, transparent plastic body, it’s every bit as good-looking as it is powerful. How much power does this pack? Unloading four [...]
Chip Shotz Golfer Puts A Golf Game In Your Office Cubicle
If this were the 80s, the Chip Shotz Golfer is how we’d play golf indoors, not with Tiger Woods on the Xbox 360. Since it’s 2010, this is how we’d play golf inside the office, where video games aren’t allowed.
Yes, it’s a tabletop golf course that looks stupid enough to be entertaining. A perfect fare for cubicle-dwellers who want to kill some time while the supervisor isn’t looking, you can play one hole or 100 holes – just rearrange the course to your liking.
The Chip Shotz Golfer is a complete miniature desktop golf set, complete with a player holding a club, three balls and various course elements (one green, two trees, one pin, one sand trap, one water hazard). You arrange the pieces to roll out your own dream hole, even adding your own obstacles as you see fit. Then, you pull the lever mechanism on your mini-golfer to unleash [...]
Forget Cops And Robbers, Get Your Kids Playing Sellers And Suckers With The Kaufladen
Want your kids to grow up filthy rich? Get them started early with the Kaufladen, a mobile kiosk stand marketed to German kids. That way, they can steal stuff from your fridge and sell it back to you for a profit. Clever.
Anywhere you go in the world, it’s always the business owners raking all the money. Forget having your children play cops and robbers – nobody makes real coin from that deal. If they’re going to roleplay, they might as well do seller and sucker because that’s where all the money is. Five hundred percent markup, baby.
The Kaufladen is a mobile stand, consisting of a kiosk with wheels, storage compartments and a removable cotton cover with awning. It’s made up of three main sections – a wheeled base (with two rows of shelves and pull-out display areas), a tabletop (with the sunshade attached) and a middle section consisting of one [...]
Kettler Kettquad Brings Quad Racing To Kids
How do you trick your Wife into letting you buy an ATV or a Quad for that matter? Rather than reason your way into getting one, go the irresistible route: get your kids hooked to the hobby. How? By buying them the new Kettler Kettquad, a pedal-powered quad racer made specially for kids, aged 5 to 12 years old.
Once your five year old’s off hitting the rocky mountains, sandy deserts and dusty trails all by his lonesome, just wait till the wife begins to worry and begins thinking up a solution. Voila! You can now get your own badass, motorized quad – so you can bond and look after your precious little outdoorsman.
The Kettquad isn’t just a quad-like kid’s toy designed to run on asphalt. Instead, it’s a real quad racer, propped up on four pneumatic tires with lug tread for taking on difficult terrain. Boasting a sporty and durable [...]
Flexdex Photon Light Board Confirms It – Everything Looks Cooler With LEDs
If you were a kid in the 80s, the Flexdex Photon Light Board is probably how you’d imagined skateboards to look like in 2010 – riddled with plenty of electronic lights. Except they’re supposed to be hovering in the air, instead of just rolling on small wheels like they always did.
Where’s the jet motor, the vertical take off and all that? Well, that will have to stay in your imagined future for now. Instead, you’ll have to console yourself with a gorgeous bevy of UFO-style lights shining under your feet. Slide quickly down the street and, with a lot of imagination, you could look like you’re floating on air anyway.
Like the rest of the Flexdex longboard line, the Photon Light Board boasts the same improved engineering that sees you accelerate through turns (carving transmits 30% more power to the wheels) and absorb road vibrations. It’s made from a clear plastic [...]
Paper Jamz Crams Working Electronic Instruments Into Cardboard-Like Frames
When I started playing drums, my home practice was accomplished by laying down a line of notebooks and pounding out beats with plenty of imagination. Your own budding rockstar won’t have to be so downtrodden with Paper Jamz, a set of cardboard-like electronic instruments that let them crank out real music.
So, how are cardboards going to be better than my old drum kit built out of school supplies? Well, for one, it comes with embedded electronics that let it play realistic-sounding tunes. Yes, your cymbals will actually sound like a crashing heap of tin, instead of a stack of paper.
Created by WowWee Toys, the Paper Jamz line will have six guitars and six drums to choose from, along with one similarly flat amplifier (albeit with a thicker base, so it can stand). They’re not really cardboards, although each piece is approximately one inch thick (the guitar’s a little thinner, while [...]
The Tomy Ene Bio-Engine RC Car Runs On Juice…Orange Juice
My RC car runs on juice – orange juice. That’s the spiel you’re going to make when you’re driving the Tomy Ene Bio-Engine pocket car, a remote-controlled vehicle that runs on sugar power.
Your soda, iced tea and orange juice literally substitutes for fuel, as the toy uses Sony’s Bio Battery to draw power. If you’re not familiar with that, it’s a liquid battery technology that uses enzymes to digest glucose, converting it into usable energy (the last demos Sony showed had each cell putting out 50mW) that can then be fed to small electronic items.
The Tomy Ene Bio-Engine is currently in the prototype stage but was shown off a couple weeks ago at the Toy Forum 2010. A working model of the vehicle was available, which they showed off running on nothing but Coca-Cola (wow, sponsorship opportunities). Both the speed and driving range of the model car will depend on [...]
