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Oh wow, this has got to go on my Christmas list.

Check out this video of the latest toy - “Fly Stick” - and tell me you are not impressed.

All done with static electricity somehow, but sure looks like magic to me

Get the lowdown at ThinkGeek [www.thinkgeek.com]

It’s 30 years since the introduction of the Lego minifigure (the little yellow-faced lego people), and Gizmodo are runnig a competition to celebrate.

Now, sadly, I don’t have the film-making skills, nor the time nor the patience to make a lego-movie to enter the competition with, but what IS cool is that I totally HAD the first prize when I was a kid: the Galaxy Explorer.

Seeing this set brought back so many memories for me, it was really spooky. I can remember it so clearly, building the rockets for the wings, the translucent yellow windows, the little twin guns right on the front, the moon buggy….

Incredible how so many memories can be dragged up from the depths of your mind by just one picture.

[Gizmodo - Giz's Lego Minifig Contest: Win The Best Vintage Sets Ever]

I mentioned the several billion Lego bricks out there in the world today. Well, Gizmodo has today posted about where all these Lego bricks start their life. And would you believe they live in a series of old cathedrals? With a robot flying about, picking up the boxes and collating them as required?

You better believe it! Check out the video here:

[Gizmodo - Giant Lego Storage Buildings: 65-foot-high Lego Cathedrals Store 19 Billion Pieces a Year]

Gizmodo recently went on a pilgrimage to Lego HQ in Denmark. There they got a tour of the factory and got to ask a whole shed load of questions of the Big Lego Bosses.

It makes great reading for any Lego fan (of course I’m not one, it’s all for the kids….. No of course I don’t still have my “Master Lego Builder” certificate from 25 years ago….honest…).

For example, did you know that over 400 billion Lego bricks have been produced since the dawn of time? That’s about 62 bricks for every person on the earth today. Now, I could build you a nice model of the Taj Mahal with 62 bricks back in my day…

[Gizmodo - The Lego Mega-Guide: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lego]

I’ve had a PS3 for about 9 months now and I’m still playing Heavenly Sword and MotorStorm. Not because they’re great games (which they are), but because the games for the PS3 are just so damn expensive. Sadly with 3 kids and a big mortgage, I struggle to justify shelling out €50+ on something that’s just for my entertainment.

But happily it seems that there may be light at the end of the tunnel in the shape of the “Platinum” series for PS3. This was always a good range for the PS2, generally shipping out games that have fallen out of the charts a while back, but are still probably worth having. And now it appears that they may doing the same job for the PS3. Hurrah for Sony and lets hope they stick to the true meaning of the word “budget” when they set the pricing.

[Kotaku - Box Art Time: Europe's PS3 Platinum Range?]