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Amazon Unveils Home Robot Named ‘Astro

Introducing Amazon Astro, household robot for home monitoring

Keep home closer with Astro, the household robot for home monitoring, with Alexa. When you’re away, use the Astro app to see a live view of your home, check in on specific rooms and viewpoints, and get activity alerts. When you’re home, Astro can follow you from room to room playing your favorite music, podcasts, or shows, and find you to deliver calls, reminders, alarms, and timers set with Alexa.

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Tapedeck: The Audio Tape Cassette Collection

Tapedeck.org is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette. There’s an amazing range of designs, starting from the early 60’s functional cassette designs, moving through the colorful playfulness of the 70’s audio tapes to amazing shape variations during the ’80s and ’90s.

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Remember Leisure Ball

Kick it, throw it, hit it. Made to be used anywhere, the Remember Leisure Ball is a volleyball-sized design that’s made from robust and resistant neoprene and features vivid and dynamic color-blocking. Made to get wet, this ball is ready for the beach, in your garden or backyard, in or by the pool or sea, and trips to the park. Use it to play volleyball, kickball, catch and more. The Remember Leisure Ball measures 8.5″ diam. and arrives deflated. 

LEGO Bass

LEGO Bass

YouTuber Burls Art built an insane bass out of 2,000 LEGO pieces with an epoxy resin fingerboard and bridge-concealed piezo pickup.

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Iron Giant Bolt Replica

The Iron Giant Bolt is a life-sized replica of the wayward flashing piece of The Iron Giant, as seen in the film. 6″ in length, with a flashing light feature, and authentic details from the film, it’s the perfect-sized piece to display at home and to show that there’s always hope in the end.

LEGO Ideas Typewriter Box

New LEGO Ideas Typewriter

The LEGO Group has revealed the new LEGO® Ideas Typewriter set which is set to delight the most seasoned wordsmiths and fans of all things vintage. Designed by LEGO fan, Steve Guinness from Chester, UK, as part of the LEGO® Ideas platform, the LEGO Ideas Typewriter is based on a contemporary typewriter model of a bygone era, including the one used by LEGO Group founder Ole Kirk Christiansen.

a real time map of the space junk thats floating around earth

Real-time Map of Space Junk

The world may be my oyster but it is littered with space junk around it. Here is a real-time map of the space junk that’s floating around Earth from AsriaGraph. There are nearly 6,000 satellites circling the Earth, but only 40% are operational. Who knew that there was so much crap up there.

Polaroid Go

Polaroid Go Starter Set

Create big, smaller, with the new Polaroid Go camera and film. The tiniest new member of the Polaroid family is your portable, wearable, partner in creativity. With classic film Polaroid film, but much smaller—cute, huh? Pre-order now exclusively on polaroid.com to get it in the palm of your hand, first.

atari vcs

Coming Soon Atari VCS 800

I have not bought a game console for myself in ages, I can honestly say I might be buying the Atari VCS 800. The more I read about it, the more I am itching to buy it. It is perfect for old folks like me. I am excited about the old-school controller. It looks sharp and slimmer. Can’t wait till this gets released.

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Fred’s Dumpster-Fire Desk Caddy

Has your desk job got you in the dumps? Fret not my friend, Fred’s new desk caddy will set your desk ablaze with co-worker curiosity. This dumpster-fire desk caddy will get all the attention that you are craving from your mundane job.