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Popular Science has a great article up detailing toy-inventor Tim Kehoe’s 11-year quest to create disappearing colored bubbles.
Thanks to Kehoe’s vision, and the chemical dye expertise of Ram Sabnis, children everywhere will be able to buy bottles of bubble solution that will create floating spheres of a single color come this February.
There’s nothing like that first yearly shock in Ohio of waking up and looking out the window to see everything suddenly covered in several inches of early winter snow.
If you like uniquely creative t-shirt designs, but haven’t visited Threadless.com, you’re missing out on one of the more interesting business ideas to hit the clothing market.
Threadless supports ongoing t-shirt design competitions with submissions from the community that’s built up around the product, with the more popular designs printed up on a limited number of t-shirts that are made available for purchase online.
The artwork one can find making its way onto these t-shirts is top notch and the fact that only a limited number of each design are printed each weeks makes for a great piece of clothing that’s extremely unique.
Flickr user scrubbles has posted a small collection of videogame advertisements from 1982 that should bring back a memory or two for those of us who grew up in the age when gaming entertainment consisted mostly of vaguely shaped blobs shooting single pixel bullets at each other.
Hasbro looks for toy gold by combining two of the hottest toy lines of the 1980s with the upcoming January release of four transforming collectibles.
Starwars.com has the full lineup, with photos.