Yury Gitman is teaching a course at Parson's this semester called Making Toys: The Insides and Outsides of Electronic Toy Design. The students spent the first part of the semester dissecting Poohs, Boohbahs and a Learning Friend Tad among others. Now they're just beginning to sketch out their own proojects. Check out the class blog for photos and videos of the dissections and continue to tune in to watch their progress thru the Fall.
DESIGN
Pocket Pork
Pocket Pork
by Carol T Chung
Now there's no denying the ultimate power of beady little eyes, (just consider the mass appeal of pug dogs) but when those shining black orbs are supposed to belong to plush versions of yummy chinese steamed or fried dumplings, those little fellas...
DESIGN
Giant Microbes
by Evan Orensten
Giant Microbes is a line of esoteric plushies that explores the scientific rather than the usual adorable or fantasy based toys. What child wouldn't want to see, hold and play with the Ebola virus, a bed bug, a flu virus, or a Giardia microbe...
DESIGN
Friends With You
by Carol T Chung
Check out these sometimes auspicious buddies from Friends With You. They're 100% handmade bundles of quirky love. Most items will set you back by about $15 or $30 green. Featured here is Mr.TTT and mini Mr.TTT. Both of which are said to bring...
DESIGN
Baby-Eating Puppet
by Parker Hutchinson
Teach your child a harsh but ultimately necessary lesson in mortality with this adorably insatiable plush sea mammal. Because of its vague description, we're not exactly sure what's up with the "Eating Whale Puppet," except that...
TECH
Light Fingers
by Ami Kealoha
For your next rave (or early 90s party making fun of raves), this glove-like device features five different colored beams of light, a black light, and strobe light. Twenty different pre-programmed light show patterns make entertainment effortless...
TECH
Mimobot Giveaway!
by Josh Rubin
As a little holiday treat we teamed up with Mimoco to give away full sets of 256MB goSeries Mimobots (Magma, Galaxor, Vera, Jolibear, & Ta2b) to two lucky readers. The rules are simple: - send an email to coolhunting [at] mimoco [dot] com before...
TECH
Home Planetarium
by Jacob Resneck
This portable planetarium projects 10,000 stars onto any ceiling and is not a toy but a genuine educational tool (slash conversation piece). It only needs a projection distance of about 10 feet, so it's quite practical, even in relatively confined...
TECH
Kidrobot Speakers
by Josh Rubin
I'm over my Harman/Kardon desk speakers. They sound nice, but are really nothing special to look at. Time for a replacement. A pair of these little guys from Kid Robot would do just fine. Too bad the orange ones are already sold out. $99 - $249...
TECH
Topobo
by Josh Rubin
Hayes Solos Raffle and Amanda J. Parkes are the creators of Topobo, a building kit with kinetic memory. That means the creations remember and playback the way you push and pull them. Build a creature, teach it how to walk, it walks. Taking the ideas...
TECH
Archimedes: Chia Pet Meets Tamagotchi
by Josh Rubin
Like the Tamagotchi, Archimedes is a little friend from Japan brought to you as a way to care for and consider the meaning of life. Unlike the Tamagotchi, which was digital, Archimedes is analog. You get a little guy in a glass vial with some seeds...
TECH
Mimoco goSeries
by Josh Rubin
The good kids over at Mimoco just announced their new line of USB storage toys and gave us the first peek. The goSeries of mimobots was designed by Yahid Rodriguez who also designed the first run of mimobots, the preorder direct from Mimoco (they...
TECH
Vodafone V501T Cover
by Carol T Chung
This little fella is just one of twelve of the cover costumes for the Vodafone V501T. What could be cuter than turning your cell phone into a little pet monster to keep you company as you sit and drink your morning tea? It sure as hell kicks the non...
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