New children's design brand LOOODUS, presents their FONT ALPHABET PUZZLE. laser cut and hand finished, the puzzle is 100% made in Italy. Each letter corresponds to the first letter of the font used for that letter.

Chomp, a series of food-chain puzzles from Mirim Seo.

FEATUREDLexus brought us to Las Vegas for some Lexus ISF Drifting Roulette with pro drifter, Ken Gushi behind the wheel. Even though we didn't win, it was quite the site to behold... video, pics, and more.

VIDEOA life sized video game was created for the new Lexus IS Hybrid - From the passenger seat, tablet control the car's path, which is projected in an airplane hangar, then driven by F1 driver, Jarno Trulli.

What has been described as 'typographical orgy' is happening yet again. This time with a whole new face. The Scrabble Typography Edition 2.

'Sur le Fil' Table by Polish designer Pawel Grobelny, presented during the Paris Design Week 2013.

Domino's commissioned Seattle’s graypants studio, to create new items using outdated merchandises. The team paired pizza and Pac-Man for a one-of-a-kind lighting fixture.

'Shelf Lamp' by Norwegian designer Andreas Engesvik.

BMW Group Design developed this breathtaking concept car with all the motorsports pedigree of BMW. And it'll be only a virtual concept, because it's gonna show up in Gran Turismo.

Yes, you might not be Catherine Zeta Jones but you can spy-walk-through-lasers. Istanbul based interaction company Nerdworking has made a real laser room an experience game!

After almost 2 years, the ABC project iPad app is finally here.

'Pick a Hand...' is a clean, simple, exciting and addictive app from Neon Astronauts.

Bring a flavor of bacon to your next poker game with PO(R)KER CHIPS.

Sound Track Wooden Train Set that lets kids compose tunes, by Ricardo Seola and Quirky.

POP LOCK ROBOT - Created by ENESS. He moonwalks down your street, backflips over cars and even does the splits in your grandma's front yard. Free Augmented Reality iPhone App.

King's Game ~ Summer fun! A new take on a classic Scandinavian lawn game (Kubb). The facts: you throw the sticks and knock your opponents blocks over.

District Skates - Beautiful American-made skateboards produced in LA by hand.

Makerbot 2 + Lomography Konstruktor camera = Amazing 3D printed camera accessories, including Macro tubes, and a extra large viewfinder!

Bridge Blocks, six screen printed puzzles that tell the story of building bridges. Each side depicts a different step in the bridge building process, from steel molecules to smelting steel to cranes with girders.

My Little Geek teaches kids the kids the alphabet using holographic ninjas and time traveling zombies. Now the Kickstarter campaign for two more books in the series has passed it's goal and there's still a few days to get your own copy.

Basketball hoop with an iconographical approach, Bucket is a versatile structure – by flipping upside down, it can be used as a stool, a ball storage, and a table base.

Dutch artist Ingrid Siliakus designs and builds “paper architecture,” creating meticulous metropolises that layer paper silhouettes of buildings with their own cut-out negatives and the delicate shadows cast by their fragile facades.

Tall Chess! Cute free chess app for iPhones

Chronicle Books Paper Chess Set ~ just pop out and play!

James De Wulf's Concrete Pool Table

Ogo Bild Pod is 42 piece kid size construction set that lets you build and create geometries... aka forts, tents, huge balls, and whatever you can dream up!

VIDEOGran Turismo 6 is coming... PS3, hopefully by holiday 2013

If you do a Google Image search for Atari Breakout the results turn into the game.

Click That Hood ~ how well do you know the neighborhoods in various cities? (LA is a tough one! Trying it now...)

INCIDENT is a Mac OS X based mind play that emphasizes on practicing concentration skills by involving in conscious and subconscious play experiences.

Fraggle Rock Playing Cards! The Spare Room and Henson have come together to create a limited edition deck of Fraggle Rock playing cards produced by the US Playing Card Company.

Drawnimal ~ adorable mixed media iOS app that encourages kids to put the device on a piece of paper and instructs them what to draw around it... learn the alphabet, 30 animals, 4 languages...

Amazing Pixar themed playing cards. Brilliantly stylised.

DROP - how well can you type? Trippy little game from the creator of minecraft, Notch.

Color Play device that plays music from colors! The pieces can be rearrange to form new composition. Color Play is a project by Louise Foo and Natasha Dzurny from Introduction to Physical Computing at ITP at NYU.

FEATUREDLasered Wooden Poker Chips you can BUILD with! These certainly bring out a more creative twist while playing games... NOTlabs Laser Challenge Experiment #7!

VIDEOThe world's first 1:3 scale production R/C car's promo video! Prototype from Mammuth Works.

Musical Mower is a wooden interactive musical toy for kids handcrafted by Cynthia Poon. Based on the placement of the red pegs, different notes will sound as the mower rolls around.

Fruit leather tangrams: play with your food with these edible puzzles.

Easter = bzzzpeek.com time. Browse through over 500 animal sounds from around the world this Easter. Educational fun for children of all ages. Onomatopoeia as pronounced by native kids.

Grand Theft Auto V is coming... and it looks more amazing than ever... and so much LA... and Los Santos is the largest open world Rockstar has ever created... you can switch between characters with the push of a button...

Ridiculous Fishing is far too fun an iOS app, and adorably ridiculous as well. Fish your way through the different areas - as deep as you can - then shoot them as they are launched in the air. (Played through it this weekend!)

Pentagram partner Daniel Weil with a new design for the chess set, using principles of classical architecture, and making its debut at the World Chess Candidates Tournament in London.

VIDEO3D Printed AR Jigsaw Puzzle is a project that brings together entertainment, 3D printing and augmented reality. The result is an innovative concept and a nice gadget.

Rhino Raid is a free iOS game for good. Help Rad the Rhino stomp poachers, save his lady, and learn the real facts about the rhino situation in South Africa. Produced by Flint Sky and WWF South Africa. Developed by Tasty Poison with artworks by Kronk.

District Skates is a new company from Los Angeles using premium eco friendly materials. The skins are even reclaimed barnwood! Real skateboards with a cool story!

Jackson Willow's Wood Porno: Tangrams in space, parts and wholes, and infinite resolution...

Spinning kits that give daily words of wisdom and positive mantras.

Stick-lets! The Deka Kit will introduce creative minds to the endless possibilities of constructing with sticks. These flexible connectors provide enough modularity and options to get inventors started.

A' Design Award & Competition have announced their last call for submissions. The deadline is on February 28, 2013. There are 80 competition categories, covering all fields of Art, Architecture and Design.

Japanese designers at Mokurukku have created a set of beautiful “knock-off” LEGO bricks that are made from maple and birch. Carefully crafted to be stackable with regular plastic LEGO bricks.

Precision aluminum dice are perfectly balanced by drilling pip holes of different depths on opposite sides of each die to maintain statistical equality in each roll. Available in gold, blue, and black.

Bart De Keyzer is turning his animal ABC Project into an iPad application. Here's the preview.

The lost official ZAMBONI NES game manual for Google's doodle celebrating Frank Zamboni

Rainbow highlighters will color your messages and cheer up your workplace. Ideal for home, office or school use. A colorful way to leave your mark!

NVIDIA presented at 2013 CES in Las Vegas 'Project SHIELD', a gaming portable for open platforms, designed for gamers who yearn to play when, where and how they want.

Muji wooden stacking dog puzzle

FEATUREDStranger & Stranger Ultimate Deck - they've branched out from stunning alcohol packaging quite a bit this year, and to celebrate, you must see this incredibly detailed, gorgeous deck of cards... ambigram, skull seals, and more!

A tribute to Niemeyer in gingerbread: Architizer selects winner of the first annual Gingerbread House Competition!

Alight Designs Bullseye Gameboard ~ perfect for aiming rubberbands, bottle caps, and any other projectiles smaller than a 4" diameter... fun camping game.

VIDEOPortal! Reddit user Builderboy2005 has created the Ti-83/84 calculator version!

VIDEODive into the development of Crysis 3, the newest edition of the hyper-realistic first-person shooter series pushing the bounds of gaming.

RouleTaBille. new marble game for children, 4
years and up. Fun for kids, eco-friendly, natural, made in France.

A look at the International Center for the History of Electronic Games's collection of 250 industrial design drawings of arcade game cabinets dating from 1974 to 1989.

Fredericks & Mae Star Dominoes

VIDEOMozaa is a colourful combination between domino and mosaic. It is the edge matching game that brings out the artist.

These lasercut fabric + wood spinning tops create mesmerizing movements when spun, by Rachel Gant.

Stackable Snowmen by fruitsuper design. Stack the 12 hardwood pieces to make 3 adorable snowmen that are different each and every time!

Redbubble Gaming Luggage Labels by A.J. Hateley - to show off all the places you've digitally traveled to.

Companion Cube + Baby Onesie = Companion baby! Too cute - perfect for portal lovers.

VIDEOCall of Duty: Black Ops 2 "Surprises" trailer by Guy Ritchie featuring Robert Downey Jr. and more!

FEATUREDChris Yates' Baffler puzzles go CLEAR! "Aperture" limited edition multilayered, clear acrylic, hand painted puzzles - laser cut in our NOTCOT NOTlabs! See the making of these stunning art puzzles...

Portal Companion (ice) Cubes!

German designer Hannes Hummel turned this vinyl Qee figure into a retro gaming machine using the guts from a Game Boy Advance and an old NES controller.

Field Frogger brought the old school video game Frogger to real life at IndieCade the independent games festival. Children and adults bounced on balls passing cars and hopping on logs.

At Spirit of 77 sports bar in Portland, OR, a hand-built basketball arcade was made with the repurposed high school gymnasium flooring.

The New York Bakery Co has created the first ever bagel grabber. To give 24/7 Brits a snack on-the-go, the arcade game-like machine was tried out in Shoreditch.

Classic 8bit video game characters inspired these abstract geometric screen prints. Digital-centric design contrasted by completely analog printing methods, and the films hand-cut out of rubylith. By Craig Winslow.

VIDEOSidewalk Tetherball - simply a tetherball attached to a street sign. Passers-by not only take notice but actually engage in this familiar game in an unfamiliar setting.

Saatchi Gallery unveils an extraordinary Collection of Artist-designed Chessboards ~ here's the one from Barbara Kruger, see the collection in the slideshow.

VIDEOStreetpong is a concept about playful urban interactions by Sandro Engel and Holger Michel.

The Mike Tyson's Punch-Out Encyclopedia - a 240-page book all about the classic Nintendo game.

Activision's Call of Duty Black Ops II Care Package comes with a "Remote Controlled Quadrotor Drone and Stand"!!! as well as a bunch of other goodies.

Foundry is a research team at Mint Digital. This year they are all about exploring the value of toys and questioning why so many exist.

The 2012 FIRA RoboWorld Cup in Bristol, UK will host 26 teams from around the world and all the robots that come with them. The 5 day event has a variety of events, but the soccer matches are classic.

Super cool modern Arcade! by Tom Goodfellow.

Igor Chak's Donkey Kong Wall shelving!

The Dallas AIA Emerging Leaders Program has designed a playground (within the confines of an existing loading dock) for CityWalk@Akard, an affordable housing mixed-use building in Downtown Dallas.

The Oculus Rift VR Headset is a wide angle virtual reality display designed specifically for gaming.

8-legged bamboo kinetic sculpture manufactured in Portland, OR.

These awesome new skateboards are illustrated with the likes, dislikes, and bad habits of Enjoi's Professional Skateboarders!

Arcade Aesthetics: A Museum Showcases the Art Behind Iconic Video Games in Melbourne

The Wellcome Trust has launched an initiative - Gamify Your PhD - bringing together researchers and developers to create games that explore the latest developments in biomedicine.

Artist John O'Shea is creating a bio-engineered pig's bladder soccer ball.

OUYA is an Android powered gaming console for your TV. The system will have an open development platform and has a controller from the designer of the Jambox and the OLPC X-01 $100 laptop.

Designers and architects from the Washington, DC metro area were asked to design and construct a mini golf hole as part of the National Building Museum's summer exhibit. Putt-putt, anyone?

'Zoo in my hand', a wonder-book by Sunkyung Kim and publishing house Editions du Livre. Motto: ideas in the shape of books... indeed!!

Game installation at la Gaîté lyrique, Paris. Five suspended, superthin steel walls dotted with organic patterns act as vertical game boards to create the space of play. From Nakworks with game designer Eric Zimmerman.

VIDEOBBC’s animated olympic promo video!

FEATUREDAnimator Jimmy Thompson loves Draw Something and John Mayer and combined both in this video for "Queen of California."

Designed to Win celebrates the ways in which design and sport are combined, pushing the limits of human endeavour to achieve records and victories of increasing significance and wonder.

No ordinary Seesaw by ENESS. A Tilt of Light - now playing at Melbourne's Federation Square.

Sutsu Summer Twelve bamboo skate decks.

Who Do You Know Game. A new fun WebGame that tells you how many of your Facebook friends you actually know.

Real Games are physical games for the physical world. A beautiful new launch with this hand-crafted, solid-wood 'Real Big Top'.

Amanita Design unearths the secret life of plants, with Mr. Lantern, Mr. Twig, Mr. Poppy Head, Mr. Feather and Mrs. Mushroom in a quirky new point-and-click adventure called Botanicula.

UpSwing is super compact and quick to set up; it encourages exploration of your surroundings, and turns it into a giant playground. Enabling spontaneous swing-time anywhere, anytime.

The Lazy Goal Chair (clearly needed in pairs or more) designed by Emanuele Magini

Beautiful backgammon (and checkers) sets from Frederick & Mae.

Amazing xray images of video game controllers

FEATURED"Unexpected Uses for Gaming Controllers" ~ it's amazing how many ways you can hack kinects, wiimotes, balance boards, sony eyes and more for art, music, 3D printing/scanning, flying helicopters, and more...

FEATUREDYou have to see it moving - Ben Jones' installation at Avant/Garde Diaries: Transmission LA: A/V Club is a trip. It's like being sucked into an 8-bit racing game of a room... hard to walk around in!

Visit The Louvre and you can use a Nintendo 3DS to access an exclusive audio-visual tour. In lively and informal on-the-spot interviews, the museum’s curators and lecturers share their expert knowledge of the Louvre and its artworks.

Amazing Advertising video Hunter and Bear's 2012 birthday party by Tipp-Ex (Tippexperience 2). At the end of the first video you can enter any date and you will always find a surprise……try it, very nice!!!

Pixel Scratch Card. Scratch away the gold foil to reveal neon green pixels.

Dyson engineers compete to see who can make the fastest toy car from a Dyson vacuum parts.

Project RE_ by Samuel Bernier. 3D-printed Jar Adapters, a fun way to up-cycle those old containers and cans.

Jack White releases new single Freedom at 21 by launching 1000 balloons with Flexi Disc attached from Nashville.

Incredibox, the fun, music-making application from French design studio So Far So Good, and musician Incredible Polo, is back with a new, more robust version 2.0.

The ARKEG from custom arcade manufacturers, Allstarcade, brings friends together through a retro-look, modern-convenience innovation. Complete draft system integrates pouring cold beers and playing classic games with friends.

Paper Puppets by Héctor Serrano for NPW. Let your fingers do the talking...Just bend a finger to open and close the mouth! Each puppet is printed and pre-cut from card. Easy to assemble.

Hungry Hungry Hippos for iPad? You can never tell with ThinkGeek ~ "The original Hunger Game returns."

OLO (seen as #42252) has been updated! This is a simple and addictive social game of skill and strategy for iPad developed by London-based interactive design studio, Sennep.

SpinUp is a frenetic neo-arcade game for iPad with subtle yet striking dark-humorous take on possible tragic consequences of planned obsolescence and product waste.

Medical illustrator Maya Shoemaker created this Lego kidney cross section as her “first anatomical Lego study.”

Instructions for making your own bubble machine, from almost any material! An easy and fun first electronics project.

Little Fox - A sing-along iphone/ipad app with more than 100 interactive elements! Great for kids between 2 to 6 years old. Nice illustrations.

FEATUREDJourney for PS3 launches today from TGC (thatgamecompany), the company that brought you Flow and Flower, and they continue to show how stunning a simple and beautiful game can be.

VIDEOGame controllers get haptic feedback implanted into their thumbsticks. 5 new feedback sensations promised.

Michaël Harboun’s Transcendenz brings together the ideas of augmented reality, Brain Computer Interface and social networks to live philosophical game-experiences.

SuperUber releases interactive mapped sculpture in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress.

Funnybone toys' card games that foster an appreciation of color: Array, Cubu and Spectrix.

Skatepark and Cultural Center in a former factory in Calais by French team Bang Architects.

FEATUREDToy Fair!!! Here's a look at some of our favorite toys discovered that are perfect for grabbing on the go... magnets, turtles, puzzles, knuclestrutz, moose poppers and more!

The icade 8-bitty is a retro wireless game controlled for your ipad/iphone/android.

Who made that Rubik's Cube? The NYT Magazine solves the puzzle and talks to a kid who manages it in 5.6 seconds.

Modern Architecture Game is the second edition of the architecture game, by Next architects. The first edition was launched on 30 August 1999.

At the Helsinki café Kauko, the coffee is free, but the experience is unpredictable. A Web site with live video lets Internet users raise or lower the seats and tables, dim the lights, or change the music

▲, pronounced Alt-30, is a work that challenges its players to find and test the thresholds of the piece, as well as their own, through playfulness and curiosity.

VIDEOLovely little teaser video for Pebble Universe. Great CG art and compositing.

The Modern Architecture Game is a cheeky trivia game made by architects celebrating some of the most influential buildings of our time. From amsterdam-based Next architects.

SuperUber brings Super Pong to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

VIDEO2ballz, a new android game that is just like the old school pong but way more challenging. Be careful - it is addictive!

Fingle is a cooperative two-player iPad® game about the thrills of touching each other on a multi-touch device. Explore the intimate touch of each others fingers with Fingle's two-player puzzles.