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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?
Guess I won't be seeing that anytime soon. Too bad so many home pages are a flash only portal
These pictures don't look any better than the images I took with my old Intel digital scope, which has been gathering dust for about 5 years now.
Probably same or similar guts.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Yeah and on top of that, the coolest toy you could give a kid for Christmas is a simple computer and teach them to do a Linux build. Imagine the shock on the faces of friends and teachers when your kid tells them what he/she did over Christmas break.
Microscopes, eh.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
The ultimate gift of this season: OLPC.
Not only are you giving a great educational device, but you're also helping some child in the developing world. Perhaps a good time to introduce your nephew to philanthropy, too.
Bah. For my thirteenth birthday, I got money towards a microscope. Not any old microscope, mind - but one sold by a local scientific supplies outlet. (The vast, thousand-page catalogue was also great - full of proper laboratory supplies of every possible description!)
;-)
It was made in the Soviet Union. Unpacking it from its elastic bands, crinkly yellow-brown paper and unprocessed cotton wool was a fantastic experience.
I've still got it, too - and only realised a month or two back that its LOMO manufacturer is that LOMO - all I can say is that its optics are way better than the cameras...
Five or six years ago, I strapped a tiny composite video camera to it with an intriguing assembly created out of Lego. I got some half-decent results, too. Having said that, I'd still love one of these modern toy efforts. Lugging around a huge box filled with cast-iron optics isn't so much fun nowadays...
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
I got a "real" stereo microscope for my 12th birthday. Similar story, my parents went to a microscope store(I have no idea how they found a microscope store), and picked up a big hunk of steel and glass. The stereo microscope was nice because I could put things I found in the back yard under it, or stuff I took apart in the house without needing to prepare slides. I still use it to this day.
A chemistry set likely doesn't inspire a kid to take up football as a career. Lawn darts might.
; )
Jesus, why does everything have to be labeled an ad? My GF's daughter got one for her birthday, and I freaked and I wrote TFA. Now you know everything there is to know about it. It's Slashdot, remember? The site where we, i dunno, talk and stuff about nerdy things like cool toys. Are we *not* supposed to submit stories because it might contaminate the lofty standards imposed on it by the NPOV gestapo?
I used the EyeClops Bionic Eye to get a close-up of the Linux kernel. It was amazing. I could clearly see the 235 Microsoft patents embedded in it.
Actually a case of Canadian **resellers** getting screwed mostly.
Most people have figured out by now that one needs to web/phone order stuff from the US so as to get a proper price.
When a Canadian seller has the "proper" price, they will be bypassed by customers, who assume the price will be "too high"
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