It's a crossover clash that could only play out across the tabletop battlefield of a game with seemingly as many franchise skins and custom rules of play as hours players have sunk into vying for bragging rights of strategic military domination. This is RISK: The Star Trek 50th Anniversary Edition. Suppose that the ...
Only so many opportunities come along in our all-too-short lives to romp inside a whale without having to eventually be pulled screaming and stinking of decaying blubber from a beached corpse. Thus, when you can offer a child such a rare gift as this Giant Whale Playhouse designed and exclusively sold by Nod, you ...
We can't help but find that this ThinkGeek-exclusive I Am Vader Short Sleeve Button-Up really illustrates just what a tragically raw deal Anakin Skywalker got with this whole "Sith Lord" gig. The Powers That Be now holding sway over the future of Star Wars can distance themselves from the lore of the Expanded ...
Few feature film creature designs so impressively demonstrate how decisively practical effects and props will almost always trump CGI as the late H.R. Giger's terrifying legendary Xenomorph design for Ridley Scott's "Alien". This Life-Sized Alien Warrior Head is more than a mere prop replica. For devotees to Scott's ...
Darth Vader. Among an entire generation of modern fiction, he has personified the most ruthless, remorseless power of intimidation. For all the fear and villainy he embodies, however, it was hard not to think of his ultimate legacy in a new light after seeing Kylo Ren practically worshiping the defining symbol of the ...
This Magical Unicorn Onesie makes daily wardrobe decisions downright elementary. Why, when you could don the skin of the most magical and majestic beast in all this earthly realm, would you entertain wearing anything else? Look, this singularly stunning beast shed its tears, blood, and very skin for you to have a ...
So..."Fallout 4". Specifically, that extremely limited pre-order package that awarded a select few Wasteland survivors their very own "working" Pip-Boy. You cried. No, it's OK. You're among friends here. You wept when that precious small batch sold out faster than you could say, "I is scientistic!" We felt every ...
The bigger, badder, and deadlier second Death Star bookended the Imperial threat of the legendary first three Star Wars movies. We find it quite appropriate Etsy's MokuShop would cleave the mother of all space stations in two for the sake of bookending our...well, books. These 5"x10"x8.5"" (L x W x H) Death Star ...
Some movies are special, unique in ways that people not only remember them, they become fans. Movies like Ghostbusters, it has become an icon, a running joke – for fun's sake, it has influenced memes, even action figures of the ghostbusting crew have been made, along with the various ghosts. Although it has been ...
It's dawning on us just how many times we've featured products designed to resemble re-purposed Star Wars droids. Now that this BB8 Ice Mould has us pondering chilling our 8 a.m. Whiskey Sours with a little help from a hollowed-out adorable rolling robot friend, we're given pause to really think about this. C-3PO, ...
While most furniture is designed around functionality, and aesthetics that fit with most standard interior design themes, there is one particular exception – the coffee table. Coffee tables are unique, in that the whole purpose of creating them is to accommodate the social interactions among people who share a cup of ...
Do you love cats, or do you 'love' cats? If you are a true cat lover, then anything that even hints of kitty cuteness becomes a must have item. Have you always dreamed of being a cat, with cute kitty ears and a long fluffy tail? Well, bolt down your cat's claw pads, and make room for a new kitty litter box because ...
We could cite a number of reasons we don't have children. Even if most of them didn't require the phrases "500-foot restraining order" or "banned for life from all major dating websites and sex clubs", we would probably voluntarily opt out of parenthood. That's because ordinary teenage "creativity" leads to ...
If you are someone who appreciates very rare, hard-to-find pieces of history, then you will be exhilarated to discover that owning a genuine, prehistoric Tyrannosaurus rex Skeleton is possible. The TE-036 mounted T. rex is nicknamed “Roosevelt” because of where the fossil was found – south of Fort Peck Lake, ...
There are special men in this world, men of character and class, with style that reveals their true bearings in life,… literally. That is exactly what these one-of-a-kind TATEOSSIAN XXV Compass Gunmetal-Tone Cufflinks do, they empower men with sophisticated style that gets them going places, at least in the right ...
Gamers starting getting hyped for the holiday season right around mid-June. It isn't so much that we miss the sweetest feel-good vibes of spending the month of December with our families. Chalk it up to a yearly spectacle and showcase of triple-A video game previews that set us salivating and speculating for 12 months ...
Look, if an annoying little know-it-all prat like Wesley Crusher can set a toe on the bridge of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard's USS Enterprise - and later become the de facto Overlord of Twitter - then there's no good reason your toddler can't don Starfleet colors before he can say, "Shut up, Wesley." If childhood, like ...
There are two things that never fail to turn us on as nerds of exceptional taste: ingenious one-of-a-kind handcrafted products and thoughtfully designed graphs. The Luminous Electronic Bargraph Clock uses a story told through data to rouse our lazy asses from bed, and we've never been a happier bunch of morning ...
Reading minds is wishful thinking, if it were possible then parents would have discovered it a long time ago. Although, there are people throughout history that have displayed 'real' ability in not only reading other people's minds, but influencing the behavior of others by projecting thoughts into a person's mind. ...
There's "good-looking" and then there's going from charming smart-ass of the Fantastic Four to being able to convince anyone you went full-method and actually dosed up on experimental Super Soldier serum to convincingly play Captain America. That's the difference between the sharpest physical condition most human ...
Think about something: 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek", the year the debut episode of the original series starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and George Takei debuted on CBS. Mattel introduced the very first Barbie doll seven years earlier in 1959. When you really ...
Back in the 'day', before modern digital displays, old movies would always highlight the then high-tech digit displays on scientific equipment like counters, voltmeters and on control panels in science fiction televisions series like the original Star Trek episodes. This postmodern Nixie Tube Clock stylishly ...
There are guns, there are badass guns, and then there's an instrument of death fashioned from a 4.5-billion-year-old Gibson meteorite. If you're well-heeled enough to carry around a pair of the world's only "extra-terrestrial pistols", then even if you couldn't hit the broadside of the Normandy SR-2 with a mass ...
Super Mario Bros. is no longer so much a strict "video game" franchise as a palette of worlds and characters that makes damn near anything one could lay it over roughly 10,000 times more fun. From games, TV shows, and movies to refrigerator magnets and now an official edition of Monopoly, the Mushroom Kingdom is ...
It's amazing what children can do, especially if you give them free reign over a box of crayons! Drawing pictures with crayons benefits children in many ways, it lets their imagination flow and stirs their creative juices, and that produces amazing, heart-felt picture art. Because the pictures that children draw ...
At least once a day, we wish we could inspire the sort of urine-soaked fear that scarred our childhood when Eight-Year-Old Us saw "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and had to be reassured for three days straight afterward that Christopher Lloyd couldn't really make his eyes pop forward out of their sockets, that he was just ...
Maintaining an active home isn't easy, especially when there are kids in the house, and sometimes a little help is 'seriously' needed, no matter where it comes from. Meet your new pal, Zendo – a robot that performs as a security guard, as a family photographer, as a kitchen assistant, and as a much-needed friend. ...
We consider it a sort of nerdy alchemy that the power of Funko POP! Vinyls could turn the unintentional bed-yellowing terror of Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal" into a nuclear mushroom cloud of adorable. Seriously, this is tampering with the natural order of our childhood memories. If you've never seen this somewhat ...
This is it, ladies and gentlemen. What just might be this generation's definitive Star Wars merchandise, the toy that serendipitously redefined everything great about being a fan of anything. This is the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Electronic Chewbacca Mask. Cheers, Candace Payne. Seriously. WIth one brief and ...
We've seen The Doctor engage in some incredible exploits over the past half-century-plus in the interest of righting wrongs across all of time and space. There was that time he rode a dinosaur. There was that other time he had to save Earth from a dinosaur. He battled what turned out to be a frightened lost "monster" ...
Many will agree that The Next Generation was the best Star Trek television series because of the bigger Enterprise and the new crew, like Deanna Troi, which many Trekkies had, and still do have, a little crush. There was something about 'the good doctor' that allured the attention of viewers, it was her soft ...
Life is too serious not to have fun, and the folks at Nerf corporation know all about fun, they've built a thriving international business out of it, that's just what they do. Well, now 'they've' gone and done it again – made more fun stuff for kids of all ages to play with. Nerf is rolling out the company's latest ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, feast your eyes upon the most Japanese thing of all Japanese things. Micah Moore and Long Thai of Beatdown Boogie journeyed to Japan, courtesy of "Cloud Riders" publisher Hashtag Comics, and ventured into Robot Restaurant, an establishment that's as much an explosion of sensory overload as it ...
We have to give the ride through the Star Trek universe captained by J.J. Abrams this much: if nothing else, he continues the tradition of every new era making its own impression in its own fashion. Except "Enterprise". We just don't have much to say about it. With two movies under his belt and trifecta ...
Controlled home lighting can be an expensive addition to a new home construction or renovation project, and the controls for the lighting are usually wall-mounted and limited to only a few areas. That was the old way, now there is Socket – an electrical device that turns any light in your home or work into a ...
When life has you down, and you can't seem to find a break, then you know just how Deadpool feels, he is one simi-super hero that most everyone can relate too. So, if you need a little help when things get hot outside, and you want to let people know the kind of outlook on life the owner of your vehicle posses, then ...
Are you on your phone 'a lot', texting, calling and surfing the net? Is your life on a leash as long as the wire on a wall cellphone charger? Do want to free yourself of your wall plug shackles? Then, you definitely need a portable power pack in your life, many people do. There are plenty of power packs available, ...
In the wilds of the Internet of Things, Amazon Dash buttons are like instant cheat codes for nearly instantly replenishing all manner of helpful items from diapers and detergent to Dasani, Doritos, dog food, and useful goods starting with lots more letters of the alphabet. As OP as these Wi-Fi tools for easy ordering ...
There are few companies in the world that have such an impact on humanity in the way that Samsung does. It is one of most innovative and successful companies on the planet because it develops, creates and applies new technologies in ways that benefits everyone, as is clearly seen with its plethora of electronic ...
A home can be a fair representation of the kind of people who dwell inside it, with the front yard and lawn being the first areas people notice as they pass by. For those who are distinguished, confident and proud of the type of people they are, the inside and outside of the home, specifically the lawn becomes a venue ...
The future of fiber optics and data communication is very bright because of recent discoveries by physicists in Ireland. Passing mankind's current understanding of science, even beyond quantum mechanics, new discoveries challenge our very understanding about light and how it works. Until 'very' recently, scientists ...
Well, there is a new electric guitar in town and it is totting to be the future of midi guitars, as it just may be the world's most advanced MIDI guitar system out there. Oh, and it has all real strings and frets, and it produces amazing 'real' guitars sounds, but if you just want to use the MIDI sound modules with ...
Etsy merchant HighNoonCreations brings the world wearable "technology" we at Unique Hunters can enthusiastically adopt immediately: the Snail Shell Helmet. This urethane rubber fashion statement just might be a prototype for a giant leap forward in mankind's communion with Mother Nature. Sure, it's daring fashion ...
Through hovering speculation that Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor may not be long for time and space past 2017's tenth season of "Doctor Who", we can at last revel in the collectible milestone in every Doctor's tenure that doesn't so much flood the BBC with nerdy, sexy money as launch it toward the UK at escape ...
We don't necessarily share Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's optimism for the positive potential for food replication technology. Sure, maybe a shipboard VI could accurately concoct anyone's preferred cuppa on demand, provided it's tea. Earl Grey. Hot. We can't ignore the hunch it was instead Douglas Adams who ...
The satisfying classic "ping" that rewards us when we illuminate this Question Block Light might be the only thing that saves us from the trust issues our time with "Super Mario Maker" has instilled by now. It's a cruel trick you play on our instincts, Mario Makers. Sure, you know we're all conditioned expect those ...
Personalization and effective presentation are keys to retail customer service success, and now, with this Bluetooth Smart Badge, you can successfully delivery these at the same time, every time. Name tags are an important way to introduce people, whether it is at schools, corporate events and social events, ...
There are sometimes when amazing things are built to entertain, amaze and challenge people in a personal way. And, you recognize such special creations as soon as you see one, just like this Three Dimensional Labyrinth Orb, it's huge. It stands at 44” high, and holds a transparent 30” sphere. Inside the orb ...
"Seinfeld" was a true television rarity in a number of ways, but in one particular sense that rarely gets its due: it's at least nearly, if not equally, memorable for a cast of supporting characters arguably as beloved as its main cast. Quite a feat, considering some of them logged barely hours of screen time over the ...
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