You're looking at the world's lightest radio-controlled airplane. Plantraco's Butterfly Plane ($240), which can be piloted in a living room, weighs only 4 grams and features a carbon fiber propeller, Swiss engineered gearbox, and a tiny 4mm coreless motor. It comes "Ready To Fly Right Now" with remote transmitter and an aluminum storage case. [via Gizmodo]
Summer isn't over just yet. To celebrate the remaining sunny days, get yourself a Super Soaker Arctic Shock ($10). This bad boy will annoy your friends and family way more than any other squirt gun available — it comes with an "Ice Core" tank that you freeze and then insert in to the main reservoir so you can shoot super cold water. It's also powerful — you can nail the screaming cowards from up to 35 feet away.
So you want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like your father? This game lets you train with just a wireless lightsaber and your TV. Fight against Emperor Palpatine, Anakin Skywalker and other galactic enemies alongside the likes of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn with the unexpectedly fun Star Wars Saga Edition Lightsaber Battle Game ($50). While the graphics aren't that great, there's not much else that comes close to jumping around your living room with a lightsaber and seeing your moves appear on screen.
Sandalwood plays a key role in many men's fragrances. Panache Santal from Oxford Hill honors this tradition. While the top note is floral, with scents of lilies and rose, the base is a masculine mix of sandalwood, cedar, and vetiver. With a heart of papyrus, cardamom, and amber, this is a versatile scent that goes on easily with roll-on application and lasts for hours.
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Like fine timepieces, quality pens require detailed craftsmanship. That's evident in the perpetual calendar mechanism of the Anytime pen from Paolo Favaretto and Montegrappa. The pen's lid has three notched dials for the date, day, and month that provide haptic feedback when adjusted and lock into place using technology from the company's ratchet piston-fill mechanism. The pen is available in two models: Maestro, with a black resin and Delrin body with stainless steel trim, and Supremo, with a red resin body and yellow gold-plated brass trim. Both rollerball and fountain versions are available; the latter models have 18k gold nibs, and every pen regardless of model is limited to 365 numbered pieces and arrives pre-adjusted to show the date of manufacture.
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We love Star Wars, and we love Legos. Now we can get the best of both worlds with the Lego Ultimate Collector Series Death Star II ($300). This unique Lego collector’s toy uses more than 3400 Lego pieces to recreate the Death Star from Episode VI: Return of the Jedi in amazing detail and scale — it’s 25” high and 19” wide when it’s on its stand. Now if we just had a shrink ray and a little LEGO Millennium Falcon to fly in there…
Just because you're all grown up and quite possibly have little hellions of your own doesn't mean you can't have your own toys. With a range of over 30 feet, the Marshmallow Shooter is perfect for those slow days at the office. It holds up to 20 marshmallows and also shoots foam pellets (20 included) for when that weird dude in the third cubicle down eats all the marshmallows off the floor.
