Category — Toys

“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)

A genuine Vespa scooter transformed into a playful rocker by an Italian grandfather for his grandson, Diego. Vespa should seriously consider marketing these things – I’d buy one immediately.

UPDATE: Could this be the greatest ‘Mod’ of all time? Sorry.

Vespa scooter transformed into rocking horse! (via Inhabitots)

What’s most disturbing here (and this might surprise you) is not actually the dead white cat with its guts hanging out… it’s the little boy’s gleeful little face on the packaging. That aside, and despite Geekologie’s ‘it teaches kids about life and death’ reasoning, you’ve got to be pretty sick to want one. But I still want one.

Road kill toy (via Boing Boing)

Some animals eat their placenta after giving birth because it’s full of nutrients. So do some humans. Designer Alex Green, on the other hand, has come up with an alternative: the Placenta Teddy Bear. If you don’t fancy tucking in to a plate of after birth, Alex Green’s Twin Teddy Kit provides everything you need to turn your placenta into a cuddly toy. And doesn’t it look lovely?

“The placenta must be cut in half and rubbed with sea salt to cure it. After it is dried out, it is treated with an emulsifying mixture of tannin and egg yolk to make it soft and pliable. Then, you craft it into a teddy bear.”

(Placenta Teddy Bear via Inhabitots)