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Afi 2017 Football Holiday Supported Toys

Toys for Tots is partnering with the Green Bay Packers right in time for the holidays

sudshr47 November 30, 2017

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In 1947, a group of Marine Reservists lead by Major Bill Hendricks collected around 5,000 toys and handed them out to underprivileged children in Los Angeles. This charitable act was inspired in part by Hendricks’ wife, Diane, who felt frustration after being unable to find an organization that would accept and donate her homemade doll. 

Thus began Toys for Tots, a program now run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve that has given out roughly 512 million toys to hundreds of millions of needy children. 

On December 3, the organization is taking up temporary residency in an unlikely spot: The parking lot of Wisconsin’s Lambeau Field. Capitalizing on the love of Wisconsin’s love of football, The Green Bay Packers’ Toys for Tots collection will take place at the historic stadium prior to the Green Bay Packers-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game.  Read more…

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Someone combined a Furby and Alexa to create a Frankenstein horror show

sudshr47 November 29, 2017

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A mad scientist decided to fuse a Furby and Amazon’s Alexa, which ended up working out impressively well. 

YouTuber Howchoo uploaded a video on Sunday hosted by Zach from howchoo.com explaining how the Furby and Alexa idea came together.

“I thought I’d make Furby a little less annoying and give him an upgrade with a real brain,” wrote Zach, and he renamed the Furby Frankenstein creation, Furlexa.

Zach went into great detail about how he modified this little nightmare. He had to combine a Raspberry Pi Zero W and replace it with the original Furby CPU. By combining Amazon’s Echo’s voice software with the Furby motor every time Alexa speaks the toy moves as well. Read more…

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Gift Gifts Stem Toy Toys

This invention kit is on sale and can turn almost anything into a touchpad or video game controller

sudshr47 November 23, 2017

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Have you ever seen the experiment that uses an orange to conduct electricity and think “man, I wish I could use fruit to control objects in my life…

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Netflix Netflix Original Stranger Things Stranger Things Season 2 Toys

Funko has created a pretty adorable version of ‘Stranger Things’ Dart

sudshr47 November 20, 2017

We’re sure you’ve seen the second season of Stranger Things by now, and enough time has passed that you’re probably missing that little scamp Dart. 
Lots of things happened during in Hawkins, Indiana. Steve Harrington transformed from the haples…

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Amazon’s long-legged teddy bear is not only odd, but will probably creep you out

sudshr47 November 10, 2017

It’s no secret that we’ve all possessed and cherished a stuffed animal growing up and most of us have probably never seen a cuddly toy we didn’t want to squeeze – until now. 
Introducing: Amazon’s longest-legged teddy bear. And yes, it’s as ever…

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