Archive for the 'The Toy Box' Category

Psychedelic Ant Farm

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Ooooooh! Check out the glowing ant farm from AntWorks, all your busy little buddies illuminated with just a hint of tripped out psychedlica. The basic ant farm kit retails at £13.95 and the must have illuminations are a further £11.95, it should be noted that the ants are not included but for a mere £5.00 […]

Home Cinema Glasses

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

I found these at K J Global, they may look like a reject from some sci-fi movie but what they do is really cool. They are multimedia glasses that supply an image equivalent of a 30″ screen viewed from 2m away and feature built in stereo earphones. The garb on the website says that you […]

Pool clearing kit

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Just the thing to scare the bejesus out the kids in the pool! A 2′ long remote control shark from Hammacher Schlemmer. The great thing is the remote control unit, it works from 40 feet away but is also submersible so you can don the snorkel and chase the unsuspecting souls with the shark. Bring […]

Tactile Rubik Cube

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

In a flashback to the Eighties and hours of frustration, Rubik’s have a brand new cube! This time it features Metal, wood, textile, rubber, plastic and stone instead of the coloured tiles. What this does is make the hours of frustration accessible to the visually impaired which is only fair in this world of equal […]

Rubber Band Firing Gatling Gun!

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Oh yes! The folks at Backyard Artillery specialize in non-maiming weapons for all occasions. This is one of my favourites so far, a rubber band firing Gatling gun. It’s priced at $400 but for your hard earned cash you get a fine piece of crafted timber that has 12 barrels, fires 144 rubber bands as […]

Stainless Steel Playing Cards

Friday, December 16th, 2005

These 2mm thick stainless steel playing cards will add a certain panche to a game of poker and double as a formidable weapon in the wrong hands! What more could you ask for?

Avaiable from I Want One Of Those for the mere snip of £195

R2 has a message

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

OMG! You want R2 D2 to whistle and bleep around your house, maybe show the odd temper tantrum? Maybe you would like him to guard the house whilst you are out? Maybe even a little game or dance every now and again? Well you can!!! Hammacher Schlemmer have a 15″ high R2 replica available for […]

Three Sided Air Hockey

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Who says three’s crowd? It’s certainly not when you have one of the ingenious three sided air hockey games from Hammacher Schlemmer. Designed for three players, it adds another dimension to air hockey. The advertisers blurb promises unpredictable ricochets due to there being three curved sides. Retails at $499.95, go get one!

Robot football!

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Right folks, get yourselves off to Firebox.com and pick up a Mr Soccer Robot Football. Then get your friends to do the same and you will find that life will change for the better! Look at these things, they’re amazing!

They’re released onto the world on the 24th of October and will cost £34.95 for a […]

X2 PSP Battery Pack

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

This is not that new and in truth, not that interesting, but if you’ve just got to one of the upper levels of whatever game you happen to be playing (such as the 9th hole on Hot Shots Golf with a 3 under par) and the bloody battery runs out on your PSP and the […]