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GeekDad Reviews IKEA’s BYGGA Construction Set
These days, I’m always on the lookout for cheap, educational products that cater to my son’s budding engineer’s mind. Seriously, he takes anything and everything apart, and already is asking how...
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Designer Uses LEGO Bricks to Prototype Unique Bicycles
Neal Fegan was busy building kinetic structures that were powered by wind and water when he realized he was in over his head (and his abilities). Frustrated, he turned to his Montana friends who...
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Überstix: An Incredibly Versatile Building System
I was recently given two different sets of Überstix to build and review, the PirateShip and the Überpult. While the kits are designed to build a specific thing, it is highly encouraged to redesign or...
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Funky Writing Shack?
Every once in a while -especially when we have a brilliant spring day- I find myself peeking out the tiny window of my basement office, contemplating a move to the great outdoors. There’s no more space...
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Erector Sets for the Young (and Young at Heart)
Thirty plus years ago, my mom and dad gave me one of the best birthday gifts ever — a bright yellow ABS plastic toolbox filled with metal beams, screws and nuts, pulleys, a motor, and a variety of...
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Angry Birds: Knock on Wood Is Ridiculously Fun
Overview: Based on the juggernaut app, Angry Birds: Knock on Wood is a physical recreation of the game, allowing you to build structures with “wood” girders and pigs, and then knock them down by...
View ArticleSilly Girls; Pink Is for Boys,Too!
Lego, Lego, Lego. This whole “Friends” line of yours sure has feminists in an uproar. Pink, purple, and teal pieces? Figurines that the New York Daily News calls “bosomy”? (I think the Daily News needs...
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Living With Lego Friends
It’s been two months now since Lego unleashed the new Friends line into its apparently male-dominated range and by all accounts it’s flying off the shelves. One member of the Lego staff at their London...
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Bad Piggies for iOS Is Frustrating (in a Good Way)
Have the past three years left you or your kids bored of tossing birds around on your screen? The latest offering from Rovio of Bad Piggies may be more intellectually challenging than you expect.
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