Tag Archives: Toys
Toy Fair 2010 is Coming – And GeekDad Will Be There
I’m excited to go to the NYC Toy Fair again this year and an thankful that I have more time to plan for it. Rumor is that one or two other GeekDad contributors will be there so a meet-up is hopeful.
The fair is growing this year with over 1200 exhibitors and a reported 7000 never […] Continue reading
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Tagged Everything Else, Gadgets, Games, NYC, Toy Fair, Toys, Toys and Technology
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Retro Japanese Toy Posters Show Us What We Were Missing
When I was a kid, I remember visiting Japantown in San Francisco and drooling over all the cool toys in the shops there. Well, our friend Frankie just posted a great set of scans of classic Japanese toy posters that brought that feeling back again, including the wicked cool-looking videogame above (hey, it has English […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Japan, Japanese Toys, Toys
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Cool Timeline of Consumer Tech is a Scrapbook for Geeks
Online ad company Permuto put up this nifty graphic on their company blog, showing a timeline of consumer technology from Pong forwards. Obviously we GeekDad could have added a few dozen suggestions to the list, but how many of the devices played a part in your formative years? And what will the devices that fill […] Continue reading
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Marble Raceways Are a Perfect Gift, but Which One is Right for Your Geeklet?
Marble raceways are a near perfect Geeklet toy — lots of physics and engineering lessons to be learned, no batteries, etc… Yet, sometimes the frustration factor is just too high. We’ve got a magnetic one that sticks to the dishwasher, for example, that loves to deposit marbles under said dishwasher.
The key is finding the right […] Continue reading
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