A full scale Captain America shield blazoned with a blue encased white star and surrounded by the US of A’s red and white stripes can be yours! [Flickr]

Just take your time and pull out a boatload of red, white, and blue Legos like Ken Robichaud did (over at his LEGO themed Flickr account buriedbybrick), and get busy.

Much of the fun that LEGOs offers kids (ages five to one-hundred-five) is that the kits make one thing, and your own devilishly themed architecture experienced mind crafts another.

Unlimited possibilities open doors to recreating the Asgardian god Thor’s own all-powerful war hammer Mjölnir, which is used to brutally strike (and piss off) the Hulk in the recently released Marvel movie The Avengers.

The attention to detail that Robichaud puts into the ingenious life-size props discounts reason and unleashes innumerable possibilities of wearing the token wrist guards of Asgard and then having a brain-washed (via the Cosmic Cube) Hawkeye shatter them with a well-aimed shot from his LEGO bow and arrows.

LEGOs will splatter (or clack like square plastic often does) the wrist guards’ shreds to the ground unless a Captain America look-alike can swoop in and block the blow with his preternatural shield. As cool as the Hawkeye quiverful of customized incendiary LEGO arrows are, surely they cannot make a dent in the Captain’s LEGO shield!

The “Foam Fighters” video game combines two expertly crafted and air-worthy foam airplanes with a realistic and incredibly fun WWII-like flying simulator App.

The package might say ages 9+, but my six-year-old niece craves this game, and I greatly enjoy it (being a bit older than six myself).

AppGear has been combining free Apps – that are adept at their game’s purpose, such as flying and fighting in this case – with props that function as fun add-ons that stick via a suction cup to the tablet or smart phone the players are using.

And I cannot understate this: having a WWII fighter plane on a stand that can be angled to give you a perfect view of the screen and the soaring foam fighter just beyond the game’s horizon is a great illusion that adds to the action; but what I find most intriguing is that the foam fighters actually glide, and are built extremely well to fly better than the old foam plane kits that we all bought from the ice cream man from time to time.

These foam fighters are balanced and shaped to glide amazingly, once the battery of the iPhone dies, because the actual “Foam Fighters” App, which is free, is a ton of fighter plane firing fun.

What catches the player’s attention immediately is the sound: the music and effects are echoing the windy skies and the loud and clunky WWII plane engines. The pitch, yaw, and throttle all play out and train the player as if they were a real pilot, as the tablet is tilted left and right and angled up and down and all around to guide the gorgeous aircraft toward the enemy!

For anyone that has ever loved a realistic flight simulator and even just a pair of foam planes that glide like a champ, AppGear’s “Foam Fighters” package is an excellent buy at ten bucks.

The new 1/7th scale speed demon uses a brushless electric motor and LiPo batteries to get from 0 to 100mph in under 5 seconds! Don’t get too excited yet, at 8.6lbs, this 27inch rocket ship is a $1100 explosion waiting to happen. In other words, this toy isn’t for the inexperienced. Video after the jump…

In an effort to keep the beast under control, Traxxas’s new TQi 2.4GHz Intelligent Radio System is fully programmable with an iPhone or iPod touch, allowing users to fine tune and save profile settings for steering, throttle sensitivity, breaking, servo end points, and more.

The Traxxas link iPhone application also records speed, temperature, RPM’s, and voltage in real time, allowing users to save and record min, max, or average values. The demo video is so impressive, this controller probably deserves it’s own article.

If you have the cash to spend, real estate to race, and the Traxxas “skill level 10” to keep rubber on the road, the XO-1 should be available December 30th.

The iCade brings old school arcade controls and your favorite retro games right to the iPad with the power of bluetooth, all while making the décor of any room or office orders of magnitude awesomer.

Backed by Atari’s greatest hits, gamers will have access to over 100 classic games including hits like, Asteroids, Centipede, Pong, Tempest, and more. What’s even more exciting is that recent popularity of iCade has prompted 25 other iOS developers to support the desktop gaming system so, there will be more titles to follow.

The iCade is the ideal accessory for any iPad owner, and at today’s price of $59, it’s a great gift on the cheap.

An 8 Ball? No, you see very few precognitive methods are as fun as the Magic Geek Ball, and it makes decisions for you!

There is no geek on the planet that can spend an entire lifetime deprived of the fantastically foreshadowing insight of the age-old Magic 8 ball. It has been an affordable means of fortitude for the indecisive or the gambling types for decades.

But there is a new captain of the spaceship in the Magic Geek Ball!

The 3.75 inch (in diameter) Magic Geek eight ball is the standard taser grade size, weight, and appearance of its technologically ancient predecessor.

But in place of the boring “Yes”, “No”, “Maybe” replies of the former shaken ball, the Magic Geek Ball comes at you – for less than eight bucks – with twenty newly coined terms of essential geekitude.

The Magic Geek Ball will tell the consumer that their spoken question is irrevocably a “404 Error” or possibly even a “Fail”.

And the Magic Geek Ball is compatible across all platforms and with all operating systems.

Who could not do with receiving a smiley face, via a text “:)”, answer to a distressingly dumb question?

Shake and ask, “Did she cheat on me?”

Geek Ball:  “Can Has”.

Did that waitress just hit on me?

Geek Ball:  “LOL”.

You might find the Magic Geek Ball a little too smart, but it is certainly a fun endeavor and a great gift idea.

From ages 2 to 82, Air Swimmers had my entire family engaged and smiling for hours. There is something magical, intriguing, and just plain old awesome about watching this giant fish propel itself across the room with a lifelike flick of the tail.

The smooth gliding and steering provided by the back and forth motion of the sharks rudder adds a level of realism to the experience that needs to be been seen in person but, for now, this video will have to do…

Although highly maneuverable (considering its a giant balloon), you are going to need someplace larger than a college dorm room to accommodate this 57” x 36” massive, mylar, man-eater.

Ready to fly? Make sure you set aside 15 minutes of assembly time to stick on the fins, attach the tail, and calibrate the buoyancy with the included putty. Managing the clamoring kids expectations is the difference between a fun little crafts project and utter pandemonium.

Air swimmers also require four AAA batteries and a bit of helium from any local party shop, grocery store, or florist to bring them to life. Warning: Be prepared for some head-turning jealousy as you walk out of the local grocery store with your monstrous shark balloon.

At just under $40, Air Swimmers make the perfect gift or excellent entertainment for any get-together. To find out more, check out AirSwimmers.com

I am not quacking you, folks. The Disco Duck Speaker is here to float to the top of the audio-pond echelon.

Meander into the corporate headquarters, find the corner office, sit down to take a draught of a Colombian brewed java, and prepare to start working vociferously; but wait!

How does one maximize their work output potential?

Open up that desk drawer, break out the yellow duck speaker and plug in the iPhone for extremely resonant music right on the desktop!

Could a boss truly become upset at the vibrant atmosphere, or go against a rubber duck and win? I think not.

This little yellow guy gets LOUD! The bass is deep, the upper registers are soaring, and there is even an LED indicator light to inform you that Mr. Ducky is on.

The Duck Speaker comes with its rechargeable mercury free battery, an audio and a USB plug, which makes powering this little guy extremely easy no matter the setting (even a cable box has a USB output, people).

Head on over to Kikkerland and be heard across the pond and beyond with [their] Disco Duck Speaker.

Get a quacking app, and be amazed at what comes out of his mouth!

The Pencil Sharpener Robot comes alive and walks!

Kikkerland Design has outdone themselves with the ultimate office gadget for the geek in need of sharp pencils at the school or workplace.

The fully functional (if by the Bot functioning you are only talking about walking and sharpening and looking bad-ass, folks) Pencil Sharpener Robot is 4.5 inches tall and invokes all of the lost art of the early twentieth century robot age in its square, technical, and mechanical looking design.

Robbie the Robot would be proud of this Bot!

What desk does not need a pencil sharpener that can only be reached via the secret chest compartment doors of the Bot’s torso? And twisting the pencil within the Bot’s gearing winds it for a walk toward the facilitator! Just keep in mind that the hexagonal shaped pencils wind better than the round shaped ones.

The shavings are stored in the robot’s noggin’ (that is in the bulbously square head, folks), so there is no exhaust being trailed behind the marching soldier.

The Bot’s hands are aptly made to grip writing implements, and perhaps the coolest feature of all here is that the Pencil Sharpening Robot comes with a giant key that can be used to wind him up at any time for a strolling robot desk experience.

Get the Pencil Sharpening Robot at Kikkerland for a little over ten bucks (unless you find the Bot on Amazon for even less samolians).

It seems that the Quadshot has it all and it sure would be hard to find something as cool as this before those Christmas lists are finished. However, don’t fret, The Quadshot team have just raised a whopping $84,000 on Kickstarter (of a $25,000) goal, so these puppies are going into production and soon you should be able to buy either a complete plane or a kit to put together yourself and maybe tinker with some of the software.

The hardware that controls the ‘Brain’ of the aircraft is the very popular Lisa/M (about $250) and has an onboard IMU(Inertial measurement unit). This enables the aircraft to relay movement to Paparazzi, an open source autopilot project, that interprets the signal and can right the plane in any direction, this makes it very hard – but not impossible – to crash the copter. Building it using open source technology is genius, not only will it give the ability for anyone with the slightest bit of interest in RC Aircraft build their own (All the build plans will be released VIA a wiki like site) but it allows those who have worked with the Lisa/M or Paparazzi to contribute to the codebase and continue its development beyond it Alpha release.

The current Airframe, built from EPP Foam can carry up to around 1lb payload, meaning after all the electronics are on-board, there is probably a little space for an on board camera – something that the team have already implemented in their V7 of the craft. It allows Live feedback to a monitor, giving the Pilot the opportunity to fly the craft in First-Person view. It’s possible that you could pile on a nice GoPro HD on the craft and capture some amazing footage.

The team behind the Quadshot are Piotr Esden-Tempski, Chris Forrette, Jeff Gibboney, and Pranay Sinha all of whom have lent a hand in making the Quadshot the first of it’s kind and no doubt will take RC Arial vehicles to a new level and with the help of the open source community will continue to build on the Quadshot and make it the must have tech for all geeks.

You can check out everything on The Quadshot here.

With this remote controlled helicopter, you can finally fly your tech loving curmudgeon flag around the house, office, or a party for all to see.

Much like the silver bullet mini helicopter, the flying fuck plugs directly into the remote, charges in about ten minutes (for every eight minutes of fly time) and is also a two-channel control, which means it always moves forward, can only be controlled up/down/left/right, and is just plain easier to fly.

I don’t know how they can make anything that flies for under $20 but, they did, and now you scan grab your very own flying foam four-letter word today.