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Bad day? Curl up in the pajamas from “Where the Wild Things Are”

Most people I’ve talked to really can’t explain it, but there’s something about the trailers for “Where the Wild Things Are” that instantly takes you back to being a kid. You wake up in your comfy pajamas being carried somewhere, and someone says “I didn’t want to wake you up, but I really wanna show you something”… It’s just… Ahem.. excuse me, there’s something in my eye…

::walks away:: honk! sniffle… ::walks back::

Okay, sure, you can’t ever really go back to being a kid, but maybe you can capture a little of that memory of comfort, imagination, and wonder that was childhood by curling up in Max’s monster pajamas from Where The Wild Things Are.

I have a feeling we’ll be seeing a lot of these this Halloween…

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Another Couture Max Suit (Only $150!)

Another Couture Max Suit (Only $150!)

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Forget RC Planes - make your own Drone

Wired Editor Chris Anderson has started a site and community around making your own UAVs. Most of the projects are Arduino powered, which means these designs are open source, and tweaking the program should be pretty easy. Awesome!

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This is a site for all things about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): How-to’s, videos, discussion and more. You can read more about us here.
These are our Arduino-based open source autopilot projects:
* ArduPilot, a very low-cost ($24.95!) autopilot with great expansion capabilities
* BlimpDuino, an autonomous blimp with both infrared and ultrasonic guidance
Read more at diydrones.com
 

Toy Hacking: Over-powered powerwheels

This is such a great hack and looks like way too much fun. If you’ve ever been in a go-kart you know you feel like you’re flying when you’re that low to the ground. Especially with the plastic wheels and drifting in the snow, I bet they had a blast.

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Awesome physical lunar lander game

It took me a few seconds to figure out what this was - instead of designing a lunar lander simulation as a 3d computer game, this game actually moves the lander you see below around inside a diorama based on your input. Check out the video!

Amplify’d from hackedgadgets.com via Google Reader

If you want to test your hand eye coordination this Lunar Lander Game is sure to help you out. Best of all it isn’t like all the games that we see today where you are staring at a screen. This game allows you to see a real object moving around based on your talent.

See more at hackedgadgets.com
 

Go 8-bit on your Fridge with pixel-magnets

It’s like lego for your fridge, or a pixel version of magnetic poetry. Well, whatever you compare it to, I want it for our new lockers at NYC Resistor!

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Each Superhero Pixelated Fridge Magnet Set comes with 1400 pixel magnets (each one a half inch of color).
best thing about the Superhero Pixelated Fridge Magnet Set is that you now have a whole box of pixel magnets - so you can make any pixelicious picture you desire. Mario, maybe? Or Donkey Kong? Or maybe Q*bert? How retro you wanna go is up to you
On Fridge
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Turn a cordless drill into a badass RC car

I’ve always loved RC stuff, but never really wanted to spend the money to get into the hobby. This is a great hack for taking a used cordless drill and using that beefy motor and power pack to power a serious RC car. With an arduino, a servo, and some 3D printed parts, we might even be able to make the rest of it…

Amplify’d from hackedgadgets.com via Google Reader

Instead of spending big bucks on one of those high power RC car motors Rabbithazen was thinking outside the box and used a Ryobi drill motor in his RC car. It wouldn’t make sense to go and buy a new drill just to harvest the motor but there are lots of ways to pick these up cheap. For example, most cities have a warranty depot where non-repairable drills with perfectly good motors are going into the trash.

Read more at hackedgadgets.com
 

Give the gift of bacteria (no, really!)

I have to admit, just seeing the title of this kit made me think it was a bad idea, but the more I read about it the more interesting it got. I remember some of the science experiments we did in middle school with bacteria and molds, and it really is fun to learn about the microorganisms that live all around us.

Kudos to ThinkGeek for putting this one in their catalog!

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With the Bacteria Growth Science Kit, your kids will not only learn how to grow bacteria, but they’ll learn how to experiment on the microscopic monsters. Maybe they’ll test how temperature affects bacteria growth - or maybe UV light or antibiotics. Maybe they’ll decide not to experiment and just learn about how bacteria get busy with their bad selves. Whichever path they choose, the Bacteria Growth Science Kit will lead them towards knowledge. Because knowledge is power - even if it’s knowledge about stinky bacteria. Read more at www.thinkgeek.com
 

The Labyrinth Lock

So, aside from the fact that this would rightly freak out anyone remotely claustrophobic, I love the insertion of play into a mundane object.

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This Defendius Labyrinth Security Lock would be so much fun (except in case of fire).
“This innovative lock is designed by Art Lebedev Studio… responsible for the amazing Optimus Maximus keyboard with a tiny screen on each key.Read more at hackedgadgets.com