Category — Toys

As if that little collage of grubby finger prints on your French doors wasn’t enough, for about £60 Tokyo designers Rezon will carve an engraved rubber stamp of your little one’s hand and foot prints.

Otete & Anyo (Japanese for hand & foot) (via Notcot)

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There’s a post on Kottke.org today titled The SiM&Mpsons which links back to (and has reminded of) Brock Davis’s ‘Make Something Cool Every Day [in] 2009′ lifework. This entry from 20th February, Decowpitation, is a personal favourite thanks to the child-like milk-for-blood philosophy (and my own penchant for inappropriate toys, probably), but there are many more gems to discover.

Just when you thought your kids had run out of excuses to play with their food, some bright spark invents the Lunch Punch. Great.

Lunch Punch Sandwich Cutters Make Mealtime Fun (via Inhabitots)

“At first glance it looks like an ordinary table. But for the one who knows its secret, it can be transformed into a shelter where one can hide from scary sounds, ghosts or family members.”

Daily Shelter by Ingrid Brandth (via Inhabitots)

You know, the best thing about this rainbow-coloured xylophone-shaped coffee table isn’t that it’s a rainbow-coloured xylophone-shaped coffee table. It’s a ‘playable’ rainbow-coloured xylophone-shaped coffee table.

Music Table $950 by Jellio

Anyone who’s ever played Subbuteo (table football) on a flimsy felt pitch will know that this 80×160 cm rug could change lives. Yours for £148.55 from the Scandinavian Design Center.

Football Field Rug (via Cribcandy)

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Is this the greatest dummy pacifier in the world?

UPDATE: Yes it is.

Mute Button (via Boing Boing)

On one hand, these designer cardboard dividers are the epitome of recycled playtime chic. On the other hand, they cost $88 (or $110 for non Museum Of Contemporary Art members), which kind of defeats the object.

Enzo Mari’s Cardboard Divider Offers Plenty of Scope for Imaginative Play (via Inhabitots)

Baby And Me is a Nintendo Wii ‘child-rearing sim’ game featuring such realistic playable features as: “motion sensitive baby-rocking, Balance Board support for teaching the child avatar to walk, and the sound of gurgles and burps output through the Wiimote’s built-in speaker.” For added realism, you can ‘attach’ your Wiimote to a doll or grab yourself one of these limited edition releases with added doll peripheral.

Remember, kids, real babies don’t come with an on/off switch. Always use protection.

‘Baby and Me’ special edition includes Wiimote-ready doll (via Engadget)

This is a working Z scale model (1:220) of an N scale (1:160) train layout, which is – as its maker David Smith points out – “the equivalent of modeling at 1:35,200″ (that’s 35,200 times smaller than a real one). The whole thing measures 0.2 inches wide with a five-car passenger train running around the track and through a tunnel. It’s not actually a working train (nano technology isn’t commercialy available yet!) – instead the train is cut into the edge of a plastic tube connected to a geared motor.

Planet’s smallest model train set revealed to macro lenses, microscopes (video) (via Engadget)