Toys

9 wholly unnecessary licensed children’s products

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Just because kids are idiots who’ll buy anything with their favorite character’s face slapped on the box doesn’t mean that toy companies should take advantage of them. Here’s some of the most odious licensed crap to have ever been hawked as “fun” or “worth buying”. Read more

Talkapella: An app that turns your speech into a cappella music and annoys others

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Or maybe a better way of saying this is “an app to make annoying people even more annoying than they already are.” Read more

VIDEO: Doll in toy store curses, calls you a ‘crazy bitch’

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Every year, there are some news stories about a kids’ toy that curses or masturbates or whatever. This year shall be no exception. In this video, a baby doll seems to say, “Hey you crazy bitch.” Why? Who knows! Read more

Finally, life-sized rock’em sock’em robots

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Just in time for nerds to spend far too much money on them and use them to pretend to be a robot from “Real Steel”, Hammacher Schlemmer (slogan: “You’ll never know if you spelled our name correctly until you triple-check it”) have introduced…uh…bumper cars that punch each other, basically. Read more

VIDEO: Baby gets scared, cries, and his fear brings me great joy

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We recently discussed my dislike of Internet baby videos (spoiler alert: they’re often only funny to housewives and people still using an AOL.com email address). But this baby video works for me because it features a baby being terrified and a blue toy with googley eyes. Everything is better with googley eyes. Read more

VIDEO: Paul Allen has way more toys than you

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Paul Allen’s got a pile of money. After all, he did start Microsoft. But because he’s such a rich, serious tech guy, we always just assume that he only does very important things (like take a private helicopter and land onto a a business meeting about acquiring Yahoo! or something ) with his money. Or ... Read more

The 11 most amazing toys of the 1990s

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The 1990s were a great decade for toys. While kids these days are increasingly playing with high-tech electronics like iPods and iPhones, us kids of the 90s happily made do with devices that were much less technologically advanced. Read more

The 6 most problematic Barbie situations in history

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I’m a guy but I think Barbie’s pretty awesome. Blond hair, doesn’t need to eat, nice boobs, she seems like a great deal. But having been around penetrating girls’ sanity for like a century, Mattel has made some missteps with the doll. Here are the big (absurd) ones. Read more

VIDEO: The toy frog programmed to recite Hitler your kids wanted

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There are no feelings quite as good as getting someone the gift they wanted more than anything this Christmas. The bad news: You didn’t do that. The person in your life wanted the toy in this video, a singing frog plushie reprogrammed to recite one of Adolf Hitler’s speeches. Read more

The 10 most dangerous toys of your childhood

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I’m surprised I survived the 1980’s. I was small and fragile and looking back at the toys…I can’t believe that at some point someone didn’t need my dental records and an eyewitness account to identify me. I was young and naïve and bleeding a good portion of the time. Yeah, mostly bleeding. Read more

8 toys and activities of your childhood that you can still enjoy as an adult

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Look, I know it probably isn’t normal, but the same things that made me excited when I was younger still entertain me today. I guess that some activities and people in life just never get old. Read more