Tag: GIFTS

We spent a week at the 2009 New York Toy Fair and came away with a renewed desire to be 10 years old again. This episode of our Toy Fair series showcases some other great toys that defied easy categorization. ...

We spent a week at the 2009 New York Toy Fair and came away with a renewed desire to be 10 years old again. This episode of our Toy Fair series showcases what's new in kids online gaming. Thanks to the phenomenal success of Webkinz, there is a slew of companies trying to catch up and cash in on the retail-to-Web gaming market. Each of the three companies we profile in the video have ...

We spent a week at the 2009 New York Toy Fair last month and came away with a renewed desire to be ten years old again. This episode of our Toy Fair series showcases a new line of Star Wars science toys: Star Wars Science - This new line of toys from Uncle Milton offers educational-ish toys with a 'Star Wars' theme. Aside from the Dagobah frog habitat, the highlight of the line is ...

SHOP HOP: In this new series, the Switched Video crew will be touring shops around the country in search of great gadgets and gear. For the first episode, we show up at AC Gears in New York City to sample some of its newer wares: AC Gears in New York City is one of our favorite shops; this purveyor of gadgets great and small (and outlet for well-known import gear-site ...

Do you need a last minute gift? End of the year office hassles, final exams, NFL playoffs, 'Fallout 3'... excuses abound, but fortunately so do last minute gift options. Here's a quick roundup of 15 late Hail Mary gifts. To make our list, each gift has to be available on December 25, so you ultimate procrastinators out there can hurriedly hobble together something before the turkey hits the ...

Believe it or not there are people out there willing to pay $8 for a box. Seriously, an empty cardboard box. It probably makes more sense when we explain that the boxes are gag gift boxes from our favorite source of satire, The Onion. Though they went on sale in 2006, the GotchaBoxes have soared in popularity. The empty boxes are carefully designed to look like packaging for crappy gadgets that ...

Sledding is an activity usually relegated to the winter months. For the tirelessly persistent among you, however, the SLICER sled is trying to make it a year-round pursuit. On the bottom of the sled sits a set of removable 'ICERs', as well as the accompanying molds; you place the ICERs in the molds, fill them with water, and then put them in the freezer for one to two days. The result is ...

What is it about 8-bit nostalgia that makes everything better? We didn't think it was possible to improve upon the classic hair-puller Jenga. But then again, we never thought to paint the blocks with pink girders and work in plastic Marios and a Donkey Kong. While you can play Donkey Kong Jenga just like the original, the real fun comes when you play the 'Donkey Kong' variation, which has you ...

Okay, we don't know who came up with this idea, but we have to give them some credit for innovation, not to mention (in our opinion) some pretty attractive design sense. Yes, Target's new gift card gimmick this holiday season is that it doubles as a cute, disposable digital camera. The little device runs on two AAA batteries, has a self-timer, and is packaged with a USB cord, driver disc, ...

As winter approaches and office workers start to complain about irritatingly cold work spaces, two things happen: Folks whine about their frozen fingers for all of those typos, and folks who work outside for a living roll their eyes. Thanks to these USB-heated gloves from Perpetual Kid (and GeekSugar.com, for hipping us to them), you can at least take care of the first problem. Each glove -- ...

'Little Big Planet' What it is: 'LittleBigPlanet' is rather unlike anything else you've experienced on a video game console. It's Sony's hope to bring alternative gamers to the PlayStation 3 (PS3) this holiday season, and is a wonderfully charming game to boot. From a purely gameplay perspective, it's an evolution of the fairly standard side-view run-and-jump style games (like the old 'Super ...

If you've been conveniently ignoring all the ins and outs of Blu-ray (BD) while the prices have been out of reach, you may have found yourself feeling a bit behind the times now that the technology is becoming more attainable. No worries, though -- Forbes has hosted up a detailed Blu-ray Holiday Primer that gives you the skinny on BD's advantages over DVD, how it stacks up against digital ...

Smartphones are getting cheaper and cheaper every day, with the simple ones like Palm's Centro available for well under $100 now, and the fancier new ones like the Apple iPhone or Android-toting G1 for well under $200. Yes, that's not exactly loose change for most, but did you know that today's intelligent handsets might just help you save some money in the long run? The idea is that an ...

No clue if HP will be sticking with the Digital Clutch moniker (wouldn't be a bad choice, actually), but one's thing for certain: The computer manufacturer is teaming up with designer Vivienne Tam for a highly decorated netbook. The shot you're looking at above is just about all we have to go on, but obviously this one won't appeal to those who aren't into vivaciousness, vividness and, um, ...

Listen up, Ringo Beatles fans -- your holiday gift has just been located, and it's on aisle 17 in Bloomingdale's. The somewhat janky limited edition collector's box is a dream come true for fanatics of the Fab Four, packing 13 original Beatles' CDs, an engraved guitar pick, two masters and the "Love" CD -- none of which are available via the iTunes Music Store, mind you. Just 2,500 of the $795 ...