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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?

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  1. Great present. by ta+bu+shi+da+yu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Advertising by mulhollandj · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since when does Slashdot do ads?

  3. Re:OLPC by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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