The Houdini Automotive Escape Tool and Houdini Pro Emergency Rescue tool are designed to safely extract people who are trapped in vehicles. The Automotive Escape Tool is designed with the DIY escape in mind, it features a safety whistle, LED light, spring loaded glass punch and a seatbelt cutter, and is compact enough to fit on a keyring. The Houdini Pro has the same stuff but with professional specifications aimed at firefighters, police and fantasists alike.
The Houdini Automotive Escape Tool and the Houdini Pro Emergency Rescue Tool will cost $24.95 and $39.95, respectively. [ via Gear Diary]
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For the 3rd year in a row, we bring you the coolest collection of toys on the planet. As we do ever year we add one more number to the list from the year previously which takes us to lucky number 13.
Without further ado, here is the 2008 collection of the coolest toys around. From hand crank locomotives to a dinosaur that gives bouncy rides, these toys are perfect for kids of all ages. Enjoy.
The Hand Crank Locomotives
The hand crank trains makes me wish I was a kid again, or at least a kid with rich parents.
This is the heirloom locomotive reminiscent of the ones encountered at carnivals and fairs in the 1940s that uses the simple pushing and pulling of a child’s arms on a hand-crank to propel it around an outdoor track. Each of the two included locomotives is made from cast aluminum with stainless-steel crank handles, and supports a single child up to 100 lbs. Minimal effort is required of children as they crank, so each train glides easily on precision-crafted, cast-iron wheels with a familiar “click-clack” sound with no slipping. The 30′ diam. 12-gauge circular track is made of welded steel, and sets up in under one hour with the included fasteners and wrenches; Includes two locomotives and track. Includes two nylon covers to protect locomotives. Ages 3-13.
Firing your Snowball Blaster is a simple process, pack the snow into the forming chambers, pull back the slingshot firing mechanism and let rip on targets up to 50 feet away. There are three forming chambers, which make three snowballs that are said to be perfectly spherical. You will always win the snowball fight as long as the snowball blaster is around.
Price: $30
[ via Geek Alerts]
EyeClops Night Vision Goggles
If your looking for a great excuse to buy the night vision goggles, ThinkGeek has you covered:
Here’s the situation: you wake up in the middle of the night and you have to pee. Real bad. But you don’t want to turn on all the lights, for they will burn your eyes with their incandescence. So, you either injure yourself, stumbling in the darkness, or you wet your bed. Neither is fun. If you have some of these awesome Night Vision Goggles next to your bed, you’ll be able to see in the dark and pee in safety and ease.
Ok, so you might think these things are just toys, the type that say “night vision” but really just have a pop out flashlight. Nope. These are the real deal; true infrared night vision, for the price of a toy. You can’t imagine the happy dance we did when we realized these worked really well. Now we can sneak around like the ninjas we know we are, in the dark, watching all - and you won’t be able to see us. Unless you’re a ninja too, and have some EyeClops Night Vision Goggles of your own.
If your kid loves to build stuff, especially 7′ 10′ towers this toy is for them. Plus, any company that starts with the word Uber, you now they must be good.
This complete professional construction kit is for architects, engineers, students and anyone that loves to build! Build representations of existing sky scrapers, bridges, and other structures Create prototypes of your own designs Basic building techniques are provided which show you how to create load-bearing walls, curves, arches, etc. 8 Foundation plans are included Build a sky scraper from real blueprints Learn to build from blueprints. Full scale blueprints are included that teach how to build from plan views, isometric views, detailed views and more. Download and print your building permit and learn about wind loads and seismic loads.
An awesome, prehistoric friend, KOTA The Triceratops Dinosaur from Playskool is ready to accompany your imaginative child on all kinds of adventures. With lots of sound effects, including music, munching, stomping, and roaring, this baby dinosaur is a realistic creation. He even moves his head and tail and blinks his eyes. KOTA is built so that curious kids three and older and up to 60 pounds can enjoy a bouncing ride.
In 2006, it was revealed that NASA had lost some 173 first-generation magnet tapes containing unseen data from the Apollo moon missions. One set of tapes was revealed to be in Australia, by 74-year-old Perth consulting physicist, Brian O’Brien. Dr. O’Brien worked for Houston’s Rice University as a space scientist where he designed a tiny dust detector for the missions, hence his possession. (more…)
My guess is that the Batman costume hoodie won’t be winning regular wearers too many friends. It features just a dash of Adam West era Batman coupled with a whole lot of super-nerd. Read about some of the features of the hoodie and judge for yourself:
This Batman Costume Hooded Sweatshirt is based on the original gray Caped Crusader Bat-suit. The outside of the hood features Batman’s ears. The inside of the hood features a “drop down” mask that can be worn or kept folded under the hood. The cape can be easily taken off with metal snaps.
This really should be a Halloween-only type affair, yet methinks that there will be some sorry souls out there that think it to be the pinnacle of cool.
I like fun keyboards and this one is sure to be a laugh riot at any Frag Party. It is a basic, normally functioning keyboard, but it is pink with humorous labels on the keys. There is the “Totally Useless Key” (Alt), “Oops” (Backspace), “No!” (escape) and quite a few others. Also note that the numpad features dice instead of numbers, cute.
My guess is the joke will start to wear pretty thin after a week or two and you will probably be kicking yourself at blowing $49, but it will at least buy you a little amusement. [Keyboard for Blondes via Inquisitr, Gear Diary]
