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Luxo Lamp

gizno — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:21:42 +0000

The adorable lamp featured in Pixar’s animated shorts is now available as limited edition disk collection holder. The set comes with Pixar’s latest animated feature, Up, that includes DVD, blu-ray and digital formats. The limited edition pack is available for $130 at amazon.com
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Lego 8-bit Video

gizno — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:10:37 +0000

This video was made in an amazing 1500 hours by moving lego bricks and taking still pictures.

Diamond Chess Set

gizno — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:27:35 +0000

This chess set is priced at $224,000. Why? because it has 9900 black and white diamonds encrusted into the board and chess pieces, and it took painstaking 4500 hours of work. Makes you wonder if we’re still in recession.

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Michael Jackson Etch-A-Sketch

gizno — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:51:09 +0000

Artist George Vlosich III used his mastery of the kid’s toy Etch-A-Sketch to pay homage to Michael Jackson. It took 150 hours for the artist to finish this particular piece of work.

[via Boing Boing]

Lego Dynamo Flashlight

gizno — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:55:16 +0000

A giant by Lego standards, this Lego guy stands at 7-inches with LED lights embedded on its right foot. The lights are not powered by batteries. Instead, the left arm servers a crank that powers the lights through a dynamo inside the body. It’s available for $23 at Play.com.

[via OhGizmo!]

Mecha Collectibles

gizno — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:03:44 +0000

Mecha or mechs are usually bipedal machines manned with pilots. In science fiction Mecha robots are used as war machines. In Japan, Mecha is a genre in itself that started with Tetsujin 28-go as the pioneer manga followed by Mazinger Z, Macross, Gundam, Voltes V and many other spin-offs in both print and television as the genre became more popular.

The anime and manga series tie in with toy manufacturers as merchandise and promotional items, and lately these items have become popular collectibles due to their historical and sentimental value. A Tetsujin 28 action figure manufactured in 1981 now goes around $2000 and other toys of this period normally sell for $600.

Popular toy makers of Mecha action figures are Bandai, Popy (merged with Bandai), Bullmark and GoDaikin.

Here is a Mazinger Z tin wind-up toy from ToyTokyo it goes for $45.

Rubik’s 360

gizno — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:06:35 +0000

If you’ve managed to solve the Rubik’s and are searching for something more challenging, Rubik’s has come up with a puzzle. It involves moving around colored beads out from the several cores of the ball into the respectively colored domes in the outer core.

[via CrunchGear]

Gadget That Helps Women Understand The Men

gizno — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:38:30 +0000

Bandai created this gadget for Japanese women who are clueless on men. It is a very small gadget that is loaded with questions like “What type of hairstyle do men usually prefer their girlfriends to have?” Bandai reportedly interviewed 1,000 single men in Japan to come up with the answers for these questions.

[via ShinyShiny]

Wi-Fi Fan

gizno — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:25:58 +0000

A company called Atypyk created this fan that looks like Wi-Fi signal symbols. What a cool fan… heheh

[via Gearfuse]

Scrabble Keyboard

gizno — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:41:31 +0000

A scrabble addict? You might want to get this keyboard with actual scrabble tiles as keys.

[via Geekologie]