Christmas Shopping For Your Nephew

colenski writes "My vote for the coolest toy of the decade so far has to lie with the EyeClops Bionic Eye. As one reviewer noted, simply, "Microscopes never worked this well or looked this good when I was a kid." An ingeniously simple and brilliantly designed product, the EyeClops plugs into your TV and magnifies anything you put it on 200 times. Brain dead simple to use, EyeClops is a cheap $40 US / $60 Cdn gift that your nephew or nerdy niece would probably freak over. Here's some cool and disturbing pictures I got after about 20 minutes playing with it. Check out the money shot." I always struggled to focus through a microscope as a kid, and this looks like a great inexpensive present for a little kid since every cool chemistry kit is totally nerfed now. Any other fun ideas?

Comments

Great present.

[ta bu shi da yu]

Pity kids can no longer get chemistry sets. How many genius chemists are we going to lose due to that again? Still, at least they can see the disease they might have cured. I suppose that is something.

Re:Great present.

[deniable]

It was all the sub-genius chemists that got rid of chemistry sets. It's a balance between some kids learning how stuff works and a larger number learning how stuff maims and kills. Can you imagine them trying to sell an old-school chemistry set now. The thing would come wrapped in warning labels.

Advertising

[mulhollandj]

Since when does Slashdot do ads?

Re:Advertising

[phasm42]

Compared to other seemingly ad articles, this isn't bad. Most take the form "Product X is awesome, discuss". This is more like "Product X is awesome; what other products are awesome?", which can include direct competitors and replacements for X. Provided enough good comments get in, I think this is a useful question. To be fair, the EyeClops shouldn't have been in the summary, but it probably provides a good starting point for discussion.

Hey!

[Anonymous Coward]

Another example of how Canadian customers get screwed: by charging 33% more for the same product (Our looney is at par with the greenback these days, or worth even more!)

Re:Hey!

[fbjon]

No, $40 is 33% less, but $60 is 50% more. Yes, percentages annoy me too. Tools of evil manipulation, they are.

or nerdy niece???

[rukidding]

...your nephew or nerdy niece would probably freak over

Can we stop this! We need more women in high-tech. Girls can be interested in tech without being nerdy. Innovation requires diverse backgrounds, please reword this.

Even: "...nerdy nephew or nerdy niece..." would be better. At least its equal.

Re:OLPC

[ackthpt]

The ultimate gift is to give time to your kids, neices, nephews. Take them somewhere they want to go, help them do something they want to do. Yeah, the OLPC is pretty good, too.

Currency

[ArchieBunker]

Odd that its $60 CDN when the currency is equal now.

Re:Stupid American Kids

[sumdumass]

I think it is a little ignorant blaming this on the bush administration. The castration of the chemestry set has been going on a lot longer then since he has been in office and the "in 20 years" leads us to believe the problem will last long after he is gone.

Give credit where credit is due. But don't blame everything on Clinton or Bush just because it is fun to show your ignorant hate. We need a little more of the being able to think for yourself then kneejerk blame being pushed around. That is how we got the chemestry sets we have today. Be part of the solution not the problem.

Price disparity

[Beerden]

I am boycotting stores like Toys-R-Us because they advertise openly that they cheat their customers. They have not adjusted their Canadian and US prices to reflect the current dollar values. How is it that a toy that sells for $40 US is also sold for $60 Canadian, when the Canadian dollar is currently worth $1.02 US? Corporate sociopathic greed, and this from a toystore!