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Book: Geeky Projects for Dads and Kids

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Geek Dad Book Just in time for Father’s Day, if your dad is a Geek, “Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share” is a perfect book to gift that will provide you and him hours of entertainment.

Written by the editor of the incredibly popular GeekDad blog on wired.com, GeekDad (the book) is the ultimate, idea-packed guide guaranteed to help dads and kids alike enjoy the magic of playtime together and tap into the infinite possibility of their imagination. With illustrations throughout, this book offers projects for all ages to suit any timeframe or budget.

Some projects you can work on include creating Ethernet cuff links, a cyborg jack-o’-lantern, customized comic strip, your own board game, working lamp with LEGOs, the “Best Slip n’ Slide Ever”, fly a night-time kite ablaze with lights or launch a video camera with balloons!

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Price: $16.99
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Lego Star Wars Alarm Clock

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This alarm clock marries two of my favorite items together including Star Wars and LEGOs. The clock’s exterior is built from LEGO pieces while the clock features Japanese Quartz movement for the actual timepiece. The LEGO Star Wars Alarm Clock includes a buildable Blaster Turret and 2 minifigs (a Stormtrooper and Chewbacca).

In addition to the geekiness of combining Star Wars and LEGOs, the alarm can actually wake up the sleepy geeks too with a crescendo alarm which gets louder until acknowledged.

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Price: $28.99
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Lego Model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

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As a kid, my favorite thing to build with Lego were houses, believe it or not. So I really wish that Lego had these ‘architecture’ sets back in the day, but now they do. Take the Frank Lloyd Wright house, Fallingwater. Here it is in stunning Lego detail. Fantastic.

This replica comes with a booklet filled with details on its design and history. It measure almost a foot wide.

This isn’t the only architecture set that Lego makes. You can also get models of the Guggenheim Museum, the Taj Mahal, the Empire State Building, the Seattle Space Needle and more.

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Price: $99.99
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TuneUp – clean up your iTunes music collection

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If you’ve got an iPod or an iPhone, then chances are that you use iTunes as well. You’ve spent hours and days ripping your CDs into iTunes, and well, you’ve got a bit of a mess, because all of the song titles, artists and cover art isn’t there. Sometimes, artist names end up with multiple versions. Ugh. So how do you fix this without spending even more hours and days?

Enter TuneUp from TuneUp Media. Not only does it promise those fixes, but it will also keep track of upcoming concerts based on your music collection and let you know, including links to buy tickets; it will also search the Web automatically and bring you YouTube videos, and other material related to your music.

TuneUp integrates into iTunes, and reminds me of Xobni which plugs into Outlook. TuneUp is free, and not sure what their business model is, so grab it before it gets a price tag.

Inside the Lego time machine

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I must agree with Morgan Webb – the Gizmodo venture down into the Lego vault that has every single Lego set ever made is truly amazing, and even though it’s only 2 minutes long, this video totally captures my childhood Lego memories.

What’s even more remarkable is how the author and myself almost have the same single memorable Lego kit – the Lego Space Galaxy Explorer (except mine was the kit with the attached space station – yay me 😉 ).

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