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Nintendo DSi LL Supersizes Your Screen, Picks Your Pocket


Nintendo DSi LL Supersizes Your Screen, Picks Your Pocket
Nintendo just can't enough of a good thing and either can buyers of its popular DS-series portable gaming consoles. The answer, in the form of the big-screen DSi LL, arrives in Japan this November 21 but Americans will have to wait until 2010.

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Look Out! Wearable Eyeball Robot Ads New Level of Gaming for iPhone


"Hey, Bill?  What's that on your arm?"

"What?"

"That.  The eyeball."

"Oh, that!  It's my new robot interface."

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Mini Pig Keychain LED Light v2.0 Lets the Swine Shine


Mini Pig Keychain LED Light v2.0 Lets the Swine Shine
The Mini Pig Keychain Light v2.0 is a welcome update on the cute Pig LED Keychain Light featured here a couple years back. Oink if you want one!

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Air Board Is Your Personal Hovercraft


Combining a lawn mower and hovercraft, the Air Board is the next great personal mobility device for the rich and tasteless.

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Transformers Tigatron and Jaguar USB Memory Flash Drives Guard Your Data


Transformers Tigatron and Jaguar USB Memory Flash Drives Guard Your Data
First came Transformers the action figures, then came Transformers the movie, now comes Transformers the USB flash drive. Let Tigatron or Jaguar store your precious data, then transform into fearsome guardians few evildoers will want to mess with!

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Roadkill Cat By Shintaro Kago Is One Flattened Faux Feline


Roadkill Cat By Shintaro Kago Is One Flat Faux Feline
Inspired by Neko Funjyatta, or "I Stepped On A Cat", as the piano favorite Flea Waltz is called in Japan, this delightfully disgusting roadkill cat toy promises loads of faux feline-fatale fun for the whole family - if you're the Addams Family.

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Anatomically Correct Hello Kitty... Not What You're Thinking


Anatomically Correct Hello Kitty... Not What You're Thinking
A ghoulish collaboration between Japan's Sanrio, designer Dr Romanelli and trendy toymaker MediCom has given the first anatomically correct Hello Kitty to a world that really wasn't asking for one.

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Clockman, Blood Type Alarm Clock With A Bloody Annoying Personality


Clockman Adds A Little Creepiness To Your Day, All Day, Every Day
Hate your alarm clock? Wanna hate it even more? Clockman has got loads of personality but what it really needs is a digital display - and a Mute button.

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The Mono-copter: Unconventional, Ungainly, and the Future of Flight Design?


Flight has always been an obsession with some inventors.  Around 1914 two gentlemen, Alphonse Papin and Didier Rouilly, came up with this crazy flying device with a single blade of 130 square feet in area that rotated around the device's center of gravity.  During initial testing it became unstable and was abandoned in the water.

Yet inventors keep striving for this odd, single bladed flying machine...

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Warplane Models Come Cheaper On The Installment Plan


Buying & Building Warplane Models On The Installment Plan
Building an exceedingly complex 1/16 replica of one of Japan's historic World War II warplanes won't cost you an arm and a leg when you buy weekly parts kits on the installment plan.

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Spending Big Bucks On The Zhu Zhu Pet Hamster -- And It's Just A TOY!


Supposedly the hottest toy for Christmas will be the Zhu Zhu Pet Hamsters. Get them now if you want them, or you'll end up in the dog house like my family did the year we couldn't find a Cabbage Patch Doll for the kids' Christmas.   Zhu Zhu Pet Hamsters are cuter than the Cabbage Patch Doll, but you're going to end up in the poor house if you buy them.

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The Perfect Natural/Unnatural Teddy Bear Gift Leads to More Sustainable Toys


In a recent skim through of environmentally friendly e-newsletters in my inbox I came across one headline that I could not skim past. What in the world is a Placenta Teddy Bear? I had to click through.

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Zero-G Remote Controlled Car Tracks Laser Beam


Want a laser-guided wall-climbing R/C car?  If so, here ya go:

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5 Extremely Creepy Toys


Look at that picture.  Imagine that chasing you around the room.  'Nuff said.

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Top Ten Massive Multiplayer Online Games on Facebook


Top Ten Massive Multiplayer Online Games on Facebook
So why are they called "Massive Multiplayer Online" Games, or MMOs for short? Because the popularity of social media gaming has gone through roof and the numbers of players now engaged have skyrocketed into the millions. While many MMOs can be played on stand-alone systems like Play Station, Nintendo and Xbox game players, the latest trend is registering for the online versions of these games on the world's largest social network...Facebook!

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What Are BuckyBalls?


What are BuckyBalls?  Possibly the coolest educational toy (and best use of technology as a frivolous time-killer) that I've seen in a while...

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Tiny Flying Saucer Makes Me Fear Alien Invasion


They're here! They're tiny! And their technology is far more advanced than our own! One look at their tiny flying vehicle has me convinced: the alien invasion has begun...

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Healthy Or Not? Independent Group Tests Pet Products!


When you buy a bed or food bowls or toys for your pets, you believe that they are safe.  Or maybe you just hope they are not harmful, depending on how skeptical you are.  Perhaps you assume that the government would have recalled a product if it were not healthy for your pet.  Maybe it would, if the government tested all products, but it doesn't.  Who will?  Who does?

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YO2 - Delta: A New Kind of Yo-Yo


The Yo-yo has been around since roughly 500BC.  In all that time I have yet to figure out how to get the stupid thing to glide back up the string.  But... the Yo-yo enters a new era with the advent of the YO2-Delta - a new take on an old toy.

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Clone Wars Ultimate Lightsaber Brings Out the Jedi in You!


If you happen to see a crazy, naked guy running around in public swinging one of these things, it'll probably be me...

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