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Gift Idea: Pandemic
Pandemic is a unique board game that simulates the outbreak of a terrible disease. You and your fellow players play cooperatively to attend to the crisis before it is too late. How you go about that is up to you. This game features a fascinating scenario. The cooperative gameplay allows for a more unique experience [...]
Gift Idea: Sharper Image Crossbow Snow Launcher
Snowball fights are some of the best parts of the winter season. This Sharper Image Crossbow snowball launcher lets you hurl snowballs up to 60 feet with surprising accuracy. It comes with a snowball packer so that you create quality ammunition every time. This would make a great gift for kids, adults, or for people [...]
Handmade Slingshot
These handmade wooden slingshots are made in Thailand by a small group of craftspeople. They feature handle embellishments and rubber cords to help you further your war against the mundane. I’ve seen slingshots for sale in catalogs and on specialty websites for about ten times as much money, making this slingshot a pretty good deal. [...]
LEGO Architecture Fallingwater
Fallingwater is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. The house, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, has been a fixture in American architecture for decades. It’s combination of form and angle, nature and structure, water and stone have been an inspiration for generations. LEGO recently added Fallingwater to its Architecture collection which includes [...]
Mirrorkal Escher Puzzle
Whether you know it or not, you are most likely familiar with the mind-bending work of famed Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher. In his surreal drawings contained unending patterns, impossible figures, and vistas where dimension and infinity had no meaning. This challenging, beautiful puzzle leverages his brilliant and fractured mind to help confound you [...]
Green Lantern Ring & Power Battery
With the Green Lantern coming to movies this summer, you might be interested in picking that as your next job. To be a Green Lantern, you’ll need a strong sense of morality and ethics. You need a skin-tight costume and muscles to show off. You need a rich imagination and an iron-strong force of will. [...]
Zen Blocks
Zen Blocks are some pretty neat little toys. They can be stacked, placed into an arch, balanced, and just handled. They are a perfect desk toy, requiring thought, care, and focus to get them to stack. They are great for kids, or just for screwing around while you consider your next move or are tackling [...]
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Dell Streak 7 Wifi Tablet
Dell’s new Streak tablet is coming in a newer, less expensive, Wifi-only version that ditches T-Mobile 3G service and lets you just anchor the tablet to your home (or cafe, workplace, etc.) wireless internet signals. A less expensive option to Apple’s iPad, the Streak utilizes the very popular Android (Froyo) operating system and unlike the [...]
