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Papertronics LED Desktop Toys

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Papertronics LED Origami High-techify your cube and light up your origami with LEDs using this Papertronics LED Desktop toys. While origami is very cool and is an art form allowing you to turn a sheet of paper into an object such as a butterfly or crane.

Papertronics are paper toys with paper electronic circuits in them. The Lunar Landers come in a pack of three: Spaceboy, Alien Girl and Tabula Rasa. Tabula Rasa is blank and can be designed by you. Turn them into cool night lights, party lights or fun additions to your room or cube at work. When the spaceships are put in their landers one way, they light up. Turn them another way and they turn off. They come pre-cut so you can fold them all by yourself for a fun DIY electronic origami project!

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Price: $14.99
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Geek Salt and Pepper Shakers

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Chemistry Salt and Pepper Shakers Earn your geek cred at your next dinner party with these scientific salt and pepper shakers. The salt pepper (known as Sodium Chloride) includes the formula of NaCl while the pepper would have to be represented by over 100 volatile compounds so the inventors of the shakers decided to go with Pe + (Pe)r.

If the chemistry formula’s on the salt and pepper shakers don’t catch your fancy, perhaps one of these other geek salt and pepper shakers will:

Salt and Pepper Shaker in the shape of a human brain.

Shakers that look like hand grenades.

Rubik’s Cube Salt and Pepper Shaker.

Salt and Pepper Robot Shakers.

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Price: $14.99
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Make Your Own Lightsaber

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Make Your Own Lightsaber Kit Even though a GE Engineer says we lack the force to create a Star Wars Lightsaber, this kit from ThinkGeek says otherwise!

The kit has 12 parts (small parts so Jedi’s over 6 years old) that fosters a fun building experience between geek kids and geek mom and dads. While this kit does teach important Star Wars trivia like which Jedi and Sith use certain lightsaber colors, it also goes into the principles of optics. When they bring this puppy in for show and tell, they can be more than your average fanboy and wax on about lasers, plasma, and convex and concave lenses. This 12-piece set is guaranteed to be a hit with your aspiring Jedi and their science teachers!


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Price: $14.99
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Mr. Bento Stainless Lunch Jar

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Mr. Bento Stainless Lunch Jar Has dad started taking his lunch to work to sacrifice for the family? That seems to be the trend lately. If so, the Geeks think we found a great man’s lunchbox for him called the Mr. Bento Stainless Lunch Jar. This isn’t your kids Bento box made of butterflys but a stainless steel bento-style lunch jar that holds four microwavable bowls including a main bowl, soup bowl, large side bowl and small side bowl. A change from the traditional bento box, a spork and not chopsticks are included in the package.

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Price: $54.99
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Star Wars™ Pancake Molds

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Star Wars™ Pancake Molds Combining two things I love, Star Wars and Pancakes, these pancake molds are the perfect tool to create the perfect Father’s Day breakfast-in-bed (hint – hint Mrs. Gizmateer).

Become a Jedi Kitchen Master by creating an entertaining breakfast with these three nonstick steel pancake molds of Yoda, Darth Vader and a stormtrooper. The pancake molds use the Force to provide a non-stick surface to separate the batter from the molds. Place the handles up on a heated pan then pour in the batter until the first side has set then remove the molds and flip the pancakes. Finally, extract the completed pancake, add butter and syrup then consume!

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Price: $19.99
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Grow Your Own Beer Garden

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Build your own Beer Garden Grow your own beer garden using this kit from ThinkGeek that easily grows hops, barley and wheat for brewing your perfect mug of beer.

Homebrewing is all the craze as more and more folks create their own beer. This kit takes homebrewing to the extreme by helping you grow your own ingredients to homebrew.

You will find it fun, rewarding, and tasty to grow your own beer making plants. With the Grow Your Own Beer Garden kit, the plants sprout and grow quickly and easily. You’ll get the magic three: hops – the flavoring and stability agent of beer; barley – integral in making beer and able to regulate blood sugar levels for up to ten hours after consumption; and wheat – used to aid in fermentation and is the second most produced food in the world. All three of these plants fuse together to make great beer!

By the way, this kit is rated for ages 4 and up! While I’m sure the manufacturer meant this for the growing part, I found this funny nonetheless.

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Price: $24.99
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Spider and Insect Catch and Release Tool

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Spider and Insect Catch and Release Tool Do you believe all living things have a right to live including spiders and other insects or are you sick of smashing bugs only to leave a smudge behind? This tool works cleanly, quickly and without harming the insect. It has an easy-squeeze hand trigger which opens the specially designed bristle head to gently collect the insect for capture. Once you have successfully grabbed the insect, you can transport it to your desired location and release it without harm. There is no need to smash unwanted insects, leaving a horrible mess behind!

The tool is nearly 26 inches long which keeps you a safe distance from the insect you are attempting to collect even those hairy jumping wolf-spider mixed breeds. The handle allows you to reach pests in awkward corners or on the ceiling.

Finally, to help you practice and prepare for your first battle with a pest, the product includes an imitation spider to practice your capture techniques.

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Price: $14.99

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Klingon Corkscrew

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Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam! If you speak Klingon, you know what I’m saying right?

You can get your drink on using this Bird of Prey shaped corkscrew. I can’t think of a better way to down some Bloodwine or Chech’tluth and this corkscrew will be the envy of all your other Trekkie Geek friends, granted… if you are a die hard Trekkie, you probably only have one or two friends but you will make them jealous. At less than $20 credits, you don’t have to be a Captain either. You can even afford this on an Ensign salary.

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Price: $19.99
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Gadget Gifts – Ideas, Recommendations, Suggestions

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We’ve put together a list of gadget gifts for the gizmo-lover in your life. These aren’t just great for the Christmas holiday season but any time of year. For the most part, we’ve tried to stay away from the usual and obvious electronic gadgets like MP3 players, phones and cameras, but instead bring you a variety of neat electronic gift ideas and in most cases useful items that are still worth their salt as far as gadgets go.

Perplexus

Let’s start with some toys/puzzles/games. Perplexus is a spherical 3-D maze with a ball bearing that you to need to navigate around a maze. Simply to learn, hard to solve and master!
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