Check out this great video about an awesome 9-year-old named Caine.

Caine built an arcade out of cardboard and the filmmaker stumbled upon it and made this film. In the process, he made a few posts that went viral and Caine ended up with a flashmob at his arcade.

After watching the video, check out the Caine’s Arcade website where you can donate to Caine’s scholarship fund.

Via BoingBoing

	Han Solo Crayons

Etsy seller "extramoneyformommy" is selling these awesome Han Solo encased in carbonite crayons.

There was a set of 8 selling for only $4.00, but by the time I checked them out they were sold today. Hopefully there she will make more and they will be available again soon.

Currently she has 5 sets of 8 available for only $20.00. This is an amazing deal for a birthday party favor.

	R2 Crayons

One set consists of 8 crayons in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, and black. They are 1 3/4 inches tall and 3/4 inch wide and are made from 100% re-melted crayola crayons.

Get them quick before George Lucas or Crayola shuts her down!

She has other crayons available such as R2D2, Darth Vadar Heads (sorry, technically they are "Lord Black Helmet" crayons), and Yoda. In addition to crayons she makes sidewalk chalk and bath fizzies.

Via Gizmodo

On February 7th, President Obama hosted the second White House Science Fair. 100 students from 30 teams showed their projects in various rooms in the White House.

The President viewed some of the displays and talked with students about their work, then spoke to all the students and teachers in the East Room.

After viewing the project of a Joey, from Phoenix, Arizona, President Obama wanted to see a demonstration of his air-powered marshmallow launcher, and he and the student, pumped up the gun and launched a marshmallow across the State Dining room.

What a cool president.

You can check out the White House Blog entry for this event here.

Via Gizmodo

Check out this post by a guy named Jamie. He has invented a cool walking robot toy and he’s looking for a name for it. You can leave your suggestions in the comments section of the video on YouTube and if they use your name, you will get a robot.

Jamie is a bit… enthusiastic… and, perhaps disorganized in this video, but it does look like a cool toy. Check it out.

Check out these great videos below. They feature Dicken Schraden and his kids, Mila and Korben covering Depeche Mode songs. Dad is awesome and talented. The kids are adorable and amazing. One comment I read on YouTube sums it up for me, "wait till these kids grow older and finally realize just how cool their dad was."

Via Cubiclebot

Dave’s Cool Toys will be going through some changes and updates in the next month or so. There may be times when our site is not available or the shopping cart may not be available to place an order.

If you find our site is not available, it does not mean we are gone, only that we are currently making updates and upgrades to the site. Check back soon and things should be back to normal (only better)!

Some of the changes to the site will be obvious, and some will be behind-the-scenes and our customers will not notice any changes.

Thank you for your patience while we make these upgrades.

This post will remain at the top of our blog during this time. Scroll down for most recent posts!

	The Wipeout track

There’s a video that caused some uproar online which appeared around Christmas of a very cool racetrack with two levitating cars racing around it. The cars, according to the inventors, are modeled after the vehicles in the video game WipeOut.

There was much discussion on whether or not it was real. It was not.

There are some clues in the video. For one, the inventors claim to be from the Japan Institute of Science and Technology, which doesn’t exists. At 1:15 the smoke trailing from the car overlays the walls of the track (very sloppy). They are never very clear on how they are controlling the cars. They use the name "Wipeout" at the end. And lastly, the credits say "(C) Copyright! All rights reserved belong to Sony Entertainment and SCE Studio Liverpool."

It turns out that the video was a viral ad for the new Sony videogame wipEout 2048.

Of course many folks felt deceived and cheated by the video. Presumably, they were planning on buying it. Not sure where they were planning on getting the liquid nitrogen.

But this video reminded me of an actual video that is in some ways more amazing than the fake one. This one is by the Association of Science-Technology Centers and it features a real quantum levitation track.

Below is the fake game video followed by the real quantum levitation video.

A slinky on an escalator. Nothing more to say.

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