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Who’s Up for Some Bloody Brains and Gooey Eyeballs?

Candy, that is. Perfect for grossing out trick-or-treaters or simply delighting your own little monsters, each tube features either gummy eyes or brain bits floating in one of several bodily fluids (read: liquid candy). Choose fruit-flavor eyeballs...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Oct 14th, 2009, 9:30 am
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Shrinky Dinks Still Here, Now in Robot Form

Shrinky Dinks — just the name conjures images of a more innocent time, before video games and before hovering parents. Well, the toys haven’t changed since then, but count us among those who are glad for a little bit of hovering, as you...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Sep 22nd, 2009, 8:00 am
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Grow Your Own Bacteria — Well, More of It

If you have kids, you already have ample starter material for this Bacteria Growth Science Kit. And, while growing the icky creatures is fun enough (growing bacteria isn’t bad, either), you can also use the kit to perform experiments, watching...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Sep 4th, 2009, 1:30 pm
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Tag: <you’re it> Tee

It’s doubtful that anyone on the playground will get the coding geek’s in-joke behind this “Tag: <you’re it>” kids’ T-shirt, but the sentiment inside the tags is universal enough that anyone can figure it out. ...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Aug 20th, 2009, 9:30 am
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Dagobah Frog Habitat for Young Jedis

The force is strong with young tadpoles — or at least it will be when your kids raise them in this Dagobah Frog Habitat, modeled after the swampy home planet of Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back. Send in the included order form for a tadpole of...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Aug 18th, 2009, 9:00 am
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DIY Dinosaur Lamps

Keep the image of this awesome-looking T. Rex in your mind when your DIY Dinosaur Lamp kit arrives in the mail. Estimated to take between 30 and 40 minutes to set up, each of these Jurassic-sized lamps (Diplodocus and Triceratops are also available)...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Aug 14th, 2009, 9:00 am
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OLLO Kids Robotic Action Kit

Everything in the OLLO Kids Robotic Action Kit starts with the motor, but from there you’re pretty much unlimited in the kinds of motorized robotic creatures you can build. If the kids’ engineering vision hasn’t yet caught up to their...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Jul 17th, 2009, 9:30 am
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Levitron Anti-Gravity Top: It’s Magic!

Okay, it’s not technically magic — more like a clever use of magnetic repulsion — but this anti-gravity top from Levitron is still a wonder to behold. After some adjusting to the included top weights (a somewhat tricky feat that Mom...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Jul 16th, 2009, 9:30 am
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Tauntaun Sleeping Bags No Joke Anymore

Like a lot of Star Wars nerds, we went bonkers back in April when ThinkGeek announced it was releasing a sleeping bag modeled after the tauntaun from The Empire Strikes Back. Too bad the date was April 1, and the company was just pulling one of its...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Jul 9th, 2009, 5:22 pm
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Mr. Robot Head a Puzzling Sensation

Electric but battery-free, Mr. Robot Head gets his sizzle from a wind-up handle behind his robotic cranium. Once he’s charged, your challenge is to guide the looped wand from one side of the wires atop Mr. Robot’s head to the other without...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Jun 22nd, 2009, 7:30 am
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Old or Young, Fish Can Learn New Tricks

So the kids just got their first pet goldfish, and a week into things, both kids and Goldie are feeling the ennui of their new life together. What better way to recharge both parties than with a goldfish training kit? No, we’re not making this...
Continue reading » Posted by Aaron Burgess on Jun 15th, 2009, 9:00 am

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