Magformers Walking Robot Set Attracts Attention
Walking robots! With magnets! How do they even WORK? That’s an old meme. Sorry. But still, magnetic robots, y’all–read!
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13 More Geeky Watches for GeekDads
Presenting another collection of geeky watches that may not be smart but will certainly make a bold statement.
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The GeekDad Mother's Day Gift Guide
Presenting the GeekDad Mother’s Day Gift Guide, featuring a selection of items for those very special and geeky ladies in our lives.
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Tegu, Quality Toys to Save for the Grandkids
Tegu blocks and toys are made from high quality, sustainably harvested wood in Honduras. They are beautiful, fun, and functional. You’ll want to save these for your grandkids when your own kids are done with them.
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Nanodots: An Industry In Flux
The state of the small magnet industry is in disarray, but one company is holding on with a line of innovative products. See what’s happening with my favorite desk toy and get a chance at winning a new Nanodots product.
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Kickstarter Alert: The Thinket
David Weinstock, the creator of the great abstract strategy game Zoxso, just launched a Kickstarter campaign for something else entirely: the Thinket. So what is it?
Continue ReadingNanodots Fights Magnet Bans With Bad Taste
With the CPSC threatening a ban or restrictions on magnetic desktop toys, Nanodots is already looking at ways to make their products safer.
Continue ReadingCatching Up With Tegu, 2 Years Later
Tegu is two years old now, and to celebrate they’re introducing a new “pocket pouch” set of their magnetic blocks called the Prism. It’s a little felt pouch with just six pieces: four triangular shapes and two parallelograms. They come …
Continue Reading2 Magnetic Games for Kids
Overview: In Vampires of the Night, the mean ol’ vampire hunter Knobelzobel has scattered garlic all over the old castle ruins. Down below, the vampire children are sleeping. Leo Longtooth the guardian vampire has to clear garlic from the ruins …
Continue ReadingTegu Reinvents the Wheel
Back in April last year, I wrote about a new twist on the wooden block: Tegu blocks, which have magnets embedded in them, allowing you to create some pretty neat constructions. I’ve always loved fiddling around with magnets, and the …
Continue ReadingNow You’re Cooking … With Magnets!
The September issue of Wired magazine has a review of four hot pots—you know, those electric kettles that boil water faster than a kettle on the stove. I had one when I was in college over a decade ago (it …
Continue ReadingTegu: Blocks With a Twist
At first glance, Tegu blocks just look like slightly-fancy wooden blocks: unpainted, smooth with rounded edges, and each adorned with a little logo branded on a corner. There are four different shapes: a cube, a rectangle, and short and long …
Continue ReadingWordSpin for the iPhone: Attractive Even Without Magnets
A couple years ago, I picked up a game called WordSpin at a thrift store. I like word games, and I’ve always loved playing with magnets, and here was a game that combined the two! The game involves rearranging and …
Continue ReadingA Great Magnet Game
Jishaku is a new game that combines magnets with egg-crate foam to create a simple strategy game that relies on both logical placement of pieces and an understanding of magnetism and polarity; not exactly a high-strategy game, but one that does reward both logical play and dexterity, and has more nuance than you might think […]
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