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Archive for the ‘Toys & Games’ Category

January 18th, 2008

Bobby Fischer Dead - Checkmate!

The Chess playing genius Bobby Fischer died today after a long battle with kidney disease and failure.
Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion from Russia, said Fischer’s ascent in the chess world in the 1960s and his promotion of chess worldwide was “a revolutionary breakthrough” for the game.

I knew who Bobby Fischer was, but […]

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January 17th, 2008

Disintegrator - Gatling Rubber-band Gun

Very impressive!!!
I’m not sure we needed more than 5 minutes of video to get the idea though.
What would be really impressive is if it could somehow reload itself. I’m sure reloading this would make it look like the old gunpowder muskets were rapid firing!
Technorati Tags: rubber band machine guns, rubber bands, rubber band guns, gatling […]

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December 24th, 2007

Life-size Tetris Building

Here’s a couple of janitors and a friend with a video camera that have too much time on their hands. A friend is fairly positive that this was photo-shopped.

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December 10th, 2007

Online Spirographs

Remember the old drawing toy the Spirograph? I loved that thing! I’d spend hours playing with it varying my designs ever so slightly and changing the colors.
I uncovered the Spirograph website as I kept clicking through a variety of sites and links. The images above are from their gallery of images.
You can modify […]

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November 16th, 2007

Marching Band Video Games

This is the coolest for all of us that were band AND video game geeks growing up!

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November 12th, 2007

Escapa - Just Avoid the Blue Squares

Here’s a truly addictive game for you! Visit the website and all you have to do is avoid the blue squares. Supposedly the Air Force uses it as a hand-eye-coordination training tool. If that’s true they’re expected to go two minutes.
As the site suggests, you’ll be doing great if you can last over 15 […]

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October 27th, 2007

Halloween Hangman Game

In case you’re not already in the Halloween mood, here’s a modern Halloween twist to an old classic.

Uncover some online fun and play Halloween Hangman.
Technorati Tags: games, Halloween, hangman, skeleton, ghosts, goblins, online games

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October 27th, 2007

Unique Gifts for Christmas

I was over at a friends house last night and they had two different catalogs that were selling interesting items, hilarious shirts and other odds and ends. After flipping through the catalogs I had to order one for myself so started looking for a website address.
The Wireless Catalog

As you can see from the […]

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October 12th, 2007

Lego Stop-Motion Build: Millenium Falcon

Makes me want to take a break and get out the kid’s Legos. The only problem is that I know the “break” would turn into the day.
Technorati Tags: Lego, Star Wars, Millenium Falcon, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Chewie, stop-motion, animation, YouTube

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August 28th, 2007

One-Handed Rubik’s Cube Master

The only way I could solve this puzzle was by taking the stickers off or completely taking it apart and putting it back together.
This guy does it the right way, and one-handed at that! Oh, and SUPER FAST!

Technorati Tags: games, Rubik’s cube, puzzles, fun, toys

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