Category Archives: Brent’s Toys

How Old Is It Part 2

For those of you who have been on the edge of your seats waiting for the final date/manufacturer of the landspeeder from a couple days ago, I finally tracked it down.

June 21, 2012 – 8:26 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Brent's Toys, My Life | Tagged , | Comments (3)

How Old Is It?

So anybody want to guess how old this toy is? And the company that made it? UPDATE: The answer revealed

June 18, 2012 – 6:36 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Brent's Toys, My Life | Tagged | Comments (4)

Latest Toy: AT-AT

So this is what my 6yr old recently bought. Pretty cool, eh? He saved up for it for quite a while but unfortunately it was sold out by the time he had the cash. Luckily my wife phoned around, found one on the other side of the country and had it shipped here. I had …

March 18, 2012 – 10:14 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Brent's Toys | Tagged , | Comments (18)

Meat Eater or Plant Eater?

So I was talking with my 3yr old the other day and trying to explain to him that a tauntaun was a herbivore. I was explaining that one way to tell was because it had horns and that predators generally don’t have horns. Which led us to the Wampa. I really don’t think it should …

December 20, 2011 – 11:52 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Brent's Toys, My Life | Tagged , , , | Comments (37)

I Built a Robot

Well, okay, I didn’t really build this so much as snap together the prebuilt pieces. Was delighted to find the final piece in the mail after returning from vacation. Bonus points to those of you who might guess why I’m excited to add this figure to my Star Wars Collection. (p.s. Bonus Points may not …

July 29, 2011 – 12:40 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Brent's Toys, My Life | Tagged , | Comments (10)

Lego Games on iPod and iPad

Our sons (3 and 5 years old) are playing more and more with Lego, which pleases me greatly as I was a Lego kid growing up. Being a hoarder I kept most of my old Lego as well we have bought several newer sets for the kids. In the last couple months the two of …

April 20, 2011 – 1:22 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Apple - iPhone/iPad, Brent's Toys, Game Reviews, Lego | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Sifteo Early Access Program

Sifteo is pre-selling test units of their Sifteo blocks. I was about to shell out the money for this but unfortunately they only ship to the United States. If you like new tech and live in the States go check their site out and if you get the blocks let me know what you think …

January 5, 2011 – 3:58 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Brent's Toys, Technology | Tagged | Comments (0)

iPad + Kobo + Instapaper = Awesome

Longtime readers might remember me ranting about not enjoying the reading experience at online magazines such as Strange Horizons or Clarkesworld. I very much dislike scrolling and prefer a paging experience. This is probably one of the reasons I really like reading eBooks on the iPad as all the book apps use a paging interface. …

December 18, 2010 – 8:36 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Brent's Toys, My Life | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Yet Another iPad Post

Finding myself using the iPad more and more… I’d say about a quarter of my ‘computer time’ is now on the iPad instead of the main computer. This style of device is what I’ve been waiting for, for years. It sucks for content creation but is perfect for keeping up with social networking stuff (which …

November 17, 2010 – 8:28 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Brent's Toys | Comments (0)

Reading PDFs with iBooks on an iPad

With the latest version of iTunes and iBooks I can now read pdfs through the iBooks app on my iPad… this makes me quite happy as the other PDF reader I was using didn’t have bookmark support (and iBooks does). And it means one less app I have cluttering my screen real estate. I do …

June 24, 2010 – 8:49 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Brent's Toys, My Life | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)