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Laser X Revolution brings Laser Tag into your home!

Posted on September 21, 2022September 3, 2024 by Dann Sullivan

[Ad- gifted product] When raising our children, we do not have guns or gun games in our household. Not realistic ones anyway; you won’t find Nerf guns or Fortnight on TV. I do not feel that guns are toys and do not want our children to feel that they are. However, we do allow Laser Tag, as they feel like futuristic and made of lasers, much like squirt blasters, and are far from realistic. With that in mind, Kai has had his birthday party at laser tag arenas and was pumped to review the Laser X Revolution!

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KiwiCo Tinker Crate – Color-Mixing LED Crystal | Review

Posted on April 8, 2022October 27, 2024 by Dann Sullivan

[Ad- gifted product] It’s been more than a minute since we last wrote up one of the KiwiCo Tinker Crates, with the last one being the super-cool Glowing Pendulum from last September. However, we had a couple of the boxes around still, mixed in with other science boxes, and so Kai and I decided to open one up during a recent long weekend. This one, box five for us, was the no-nonsense named Color-Mixing LED Crystal kit.

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MEL Science – Lenses | Review

Posted on January 30, 2022September 3, 2024 by Dann Sullivan

[Ad- gifted product] We’re starting to get to those Winter days where it looks nice and sunny outside, but the temperature is still bitingly cold. This definitely limits the number of places that you can get out and about, which in turn gives another brilliant opportunity to dive into a science kit. We’re still subscribed to the MEL Science Physics range, and the Lenses box had recently came through the mail, so we gave it a go.

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Umodzi Gin is the perfect gin for tonics

Posted on December 30, 2021September 3, 2024 by Dann Sullivan

[Ad- gifted product] Gin is definitely the in thing at the moment when it comes to spirits. and unlike the cider fad, there are plenty of new flavours, companies and combinations coming to the table. UMODZI Gin is the latest in that long line of new gins, but it does a few things different than a lot of its contemporaries; For a start, the South African gin pulls its botanicals in from the entire continent, with its 21 botanicals coming in from 12 different countries.

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MEL Science – Polarized Light | Review

Posted on December 19, 2021September 3, 2024 by Dann Sullivan

[Ad- gifted product] It’s been a while since we wrote about the last science kit that we did, the Luminescence kit from MEL. This time we sat down with the MEL Science Polarized Light kit, another box from their MEL Science Physics range, a range that’s designed for a slightly older audience than a lot of the kits out there. As I said previously, the range is really professionally made, with a clean minimalist box design and that carries through to the instructions as well.

We actually use the included instructions and keep them afterwards, but the fact that there’s a well-designed app that goes alongside the range is really cool; not only does it talk you through each experiment but it’s also needed in order to access the extra, complementary experiments that come with each box. It’s worth noting that there’s also some cool VR stuff that you can do with it, extra activities and learning, and also there’s a way to chat to the box creators about the experiments if you wish. It’s really thorough.

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