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Hip gifts for kids. Who's the coolest uncle or aunt? Only the kids can decide, but something from this page could tip the balance in your favor.
Light freaks the little guy out, but he's solar-powered—how ironic! details
The hand-painted pieces on this chess board combine old school video gaming with very, very, very old school board gaming. The pieces are pretty trippy, especially the mushroom rooks. details
Draw a line with any black marker and this car uses optical sensor to drive along the line. Check out the
"H" is for Henchmen! "U" is for Underground Lair! "P" is for Peasants with Pitchforks! And "Y" is for You, the mad scientist of tomorrow. details
The aim of the game is to eject your opponents’ passengers by driving into the targets on the side of their car (each number on the car correspond to popping one of the little guys out of the car. First one to eject them all wins! Two cars included, AA batteries not included. details
Very cute, but raises an important question: if you're not old enough to walk, can you qualify among the walking undead? details
This book uses some interesting new technology to animate every page. It looks pretty cool. details
Edited by Art Spiegelman, featuring Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer, David Sedaris, and more. Get it for your favorite strange kid. details
Before there was Robbie, there was Evel—the man who inspired thousands of backyard plywood bicycle jumps, and the occasional broken bone. Send him and his gyro-powered cycle off of one of the two stunt ramps, through the Hoop of Fire, into the breakaway brick wall, or wherever you like. details
1961 was truly the year of the Boodleheimer. Well, it should have been. "Now you have to sing it again or else you will turn into a bathtub." details
It's like training wheels for chopsticks, helping kids learn how to use them. Available in pink and red. details
Custom rubber stamp kit allows you to write your name in Japanese Hiragana characters, then stamp your newfound moniker on everything in sight. Simply remove the appropriate rubber characters from the included sheet and slide them into the stamp, then ink up the pad and start stamping. You get two sheets of 225 characters each, one small font, one large font. details
Look at the cute smiley face! (The shirt, not the kid. The kid's kind of goofy.) details
Build whatever you want around the included motor, like a walking dinosaur. Check out the
This was the excellent car designed by
Remember those Dyno label makers where you would turn a wheel to pick each letter and print raised words on a sticker? This is like that, but for gum instead of stickers! Three gum flavors available. details
3/4 size, also available in black, which may look cooler, but
Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and Marky (the sunglasses suggest Tommy, but it looks more like Marky's hair) as 3.75" tall teddy bears. details
Not just a Kool Kat; an iKool Kat. Connect it to your PC or MP3 players, and in addition to to playing your music, it dances to the beat of the music and lights up with millions of color patterns. Also available as
Is it a plane? Is it a postcard? It's a Postcard Airplane! Address your post card, maybe add some decorations to the plane parts, and mail it. The lucky recipient can then pop out the balsa wood parts, build a flying glider, and have hours of airmail fun. details
"How to start a band, book gigs, and get rolling to rock stardom." Parts of the cover look goofy ("write a rad song") but if Joan Jett endorses it, we can't argue. details
Now the formerly pretend game that a spoonful of pureed sweet potato heading for the baby's mouth is a jet plane coming in for a landing comes that much closer to reality. The airplane-shaped spoon (with a removable spoon part that can be swapped between the three that come with it for easy cleaning) zooms down onto runway 42 with lights guiding its way. details
Just like in the Harry Potter books and movies, you've got your normal flavors such as grape jelly and cherry and your more offbeat flavors such as pickle and ear wax. Flavor chart included for the less brave of you. details