A homemade Airsoft machine gun using a soda bottle. It only costs $15 and requires 4 commonly available parts, plus pellets of course.

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

Kidrobot and Frank Kozik launch his new Choice Cuts Labbit at LA's Lindy & Grundy Butcher shop!

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

Behind the scenes with Takashi Murakami as he and his Kaikai Kiki team prepare to launch his first exhibition in Middle East. Opens 9 Feb 2012 in Doha - Qatar.

A mini arcade cabinet, the iCade Jr. brings the arcade excitement to your iPhone or iPod touch.

Wall Coaster Extreme Stunt Kit - "interchangeable parts so kids can build all sorts of rolling marble runs up to 13 feet" ~ made of ABS plastic and reusable adhesive.

Uncle Goose's Elemental Blocks ~ The entire periodic table of elements on 20 hand-crafted wood cubes. Each block contains six element images with their atomic number, symbol, and name.

Love Me for Reformation ~ a valentine's day sex kit of sorts... a limited edition silk “Love Me” thong, “Never Sleep” silk blindfold, “Fuck Me”, “Hurt Me” and “Love Me” temporary tattoos, “I Hate Myself” matchbook Trojans and a “Love Me” branded Lelo MIA.

The XAPPR gun, a gaming gun with a clip on attachment for your phone.

Racing Cards are pullback toy cars made of ordinary playing cards manufactured in a unique mold using heat and vacuum.

New 2012 woody creatures by Karl Zahn for Areaware - adorable dovetail animals and stackable crocodiles!

Corkers - pushpin like add ons that turn your wine/champagne corks into fun animals!

Antics Ant Blocks! Each set contains images of ant hills, a queen with her eggs, and a spider, the ant's nemesis.

Bandai use Aurasma 3D AR technology to let children play with its Thundercats toys without having to open the box.

This 3D printed record (for Fisher-Price clockwork record player) plays Portal's "Still Alive" ~ made with Processing, printed at Shapeways - video proof it works!

12" Laser cut paper Eiffel Tower model that assembles without glue, tape or fasteners. Design was based on the original plans.

Ron English's Fat Tony ~ Sugar Frosted Fat...

A geometric puzzle/sculpture composed of 30 identical pieces of laser cut acrylic

Cubelets! The modular magnetic robotic construction kit up close... hands on with them over beer... and taking a screwdriver to them to peek inside!

Facemaker, a new line of handprinted wooden blocks from Millergoodman (Zoe Miller and David Goodman).

4" Resin Funghi Friend by TADO in collaboration with Creo Design and Fleet Collective!

A behind-the-scenes look into the Lego factory in Denmark where a Legoland Police Station is created.

Make your own Tyrannosaurus Rex! He may be cut out of cardboard, but he is still a fearsome guy.

Babyloid, Japan's latest therapeutic robot baby, is designed to help ease depression among older people by keeping them company.

CUBELETS! And the video for these robotic building blocks is hilariously awesome. So fun to see how this project has grown out of CMU's Computational Design Lab.

Engadget has an early look at the Parrot AR Drone 2.0! Can't wait to see it at CES ~ 720p video, new body style, "traveling" mode, 3D magnetometer, pressure sensor and more!

Build yourself a cardboard robot. Two sizes are available, the small one is 20" and the large one is 41" tall. So adorable.

The Astronomer's Torch Minty Geek kit. The solder your own kit creates a controllable light source with both red and white light, all packed in a retro mint tin.

5 architects, 5 boxes made out of paper, ready to print and ready to use as pen holders. By Cesar Cheng.

Latest porcelain toy collaboration from K.Olin Tribu and Nathan Jurevicius - Bunniguru!

Amazing custom Munny Set by Huck Gee for a private collector. Introducing the Sushi Chef and Octo Samurai. Makes me think of Andrew Bell's Sushis.

An ABC memory game with beautiful fonts. Play with your kids, and inspire them. No comic sans here!

Dudebox x Pete Fowler & Fiends design contest... and new toy! Peter Fowler and Fiends, the platform style project will feature 3 shapes, each with interchangeable heads + horns/ears.

Raw wood version of the upcoming Wild Heads objects series by Bongo Design.

Mike He creates a Matryoshka doll that combines the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale with the layered Russian doll.

Puxxle, the pixel puzzle by Yoyo.

NaughtyBox is a playful device that represents ambient sound with physical movement. By putting four tiny magnetic cubes inside the box and singing, the cubes dance and bounce in response to the sound.

Handmade beautiful wooden toys and rattles for kids by Noli Noli.

Destroy your own forest with Domino Trees from
Bobby Petersen. 20% of the profit is donated to WWF for forest protection and replanting.

Toby Dutkiewicz (who created Keek The Saddest Devil, and as well works for LEGO) exclusively shares with us exceptional and inspirational imagery – of art toys crossing over with LEGO.

COLOROMY - A giant 3 meter long coloring page! No more just coloring in the lines, now kids can express themselves alone or with friends, without limits!

Tegu now has WHEELS! Their new Mobility series adds magnetic wooden wheels that attach to their standard blocks as well as cute new silhouettes and stylized car pieces.

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