Crayons

A Gloriously Golden Wonder Woman Is the Shiniest Toy of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of all things plastic on the internet lately. This week: Hot Toys soars into action with Wonder Woman 1984 goodness, Lego assembles Earth’s mightiest heroes and perhaps the chonkiest Iron Man around for Avengers playsets, and Godzilla brings the appropriate amount of calm to the game of…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook May 22

Watch This Sculptor Recreate Raiders of the Lost Ark’s Creepiest Scene Using Crayons and a Hair Dryer

If made today, the Raiders of the Lost Ark scene with Major Toht’s grisly demise would undoubtedly be created using a digital stunt double and complex CG fluid simulations. But in the early ‘80s, old-school practical effects were still a Hollywood staple, and using crayons, sculptor Steven Richter demonstrates just how simple it is to…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Oct 31

Leave These Crayons Found to Contain Asbestos Off Your Back-to-School Shopping List

Parents picking up school supplies for their kids this season may want to go for the more expensive crayon brands this time around. A new study found that Playskool’s crayons were the only major brand that contained traces of asbestos. Before you panic and start yanking crayons out of your kids’ hands and burning their…

Health Rhett Jones Aug 8

Logitech’s $49 Crayon Is a Stubbier, Cheaper Apple Pencil

To make it slightly easier for schools to stomach the cost of equipping students with $300 iPads, Apple has partnered with Logitech to create a cheaper stylus alternative called the Crayon that at $49 is almost half the price of the Apple Pencil, which is now being sold to schools for $89. Logitech boasts that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 27

Crayola’s New Pen Writes On Any Surface Using Melted Crayons as Ink

Working in a similar fashion to 3D-printing pens, but without the futile exasperation of actually trying to make 3D objects, Crayola’s new Crayon Melter turns colorful sticks of wax into a thick, goopy, ink that lets kids write on almost any surface imaginable. Can you hear the sound of parents crying in the distance? Although…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Feb 17

Watch Crayons Melt Into Wonderful Blobs of Color

Anything looks cooler in macro. Setting stuff on fire with a blowtorch is rad, for obvious reasons. And even in death, the humble crayon manages to fill us with child-like joy. Namaste.

Sploid Avery Ellis Oct 4

This Website Will Turn Your Photos Into Crayon Mosaic Masterpieces

Looking for a new and unique way to share your Instagram shots with the world? A company called Color.Works now offers a unique alternative to simply having your digital photos printed: it will instead turn them into elaborate mosaics hand-assembled from thousands of colored crayons. Given each crayon represents a single pixel, and crayons are…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 27

Melting Crayons Gets Pretty Psychedelic

There’s a moment, before all the crayons are melted and before it devolves into some sort of poisonous stew that people in the past had to eat because that’s all they had to eat, where some of the crayons have not melted and the crayons that have melted have not completely mixed together that this…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 1

Vase Made of 256 Crayons Must Smell Amazing

A melted brick of crayons on a lathe combines everything I love about craftsmanship with everything I remember enjoying about a spirograph. The toys get bigger, but we never really grow up. And being a kid at heart requires making a mess. In the case of making a vase out of crayons that involves covering…

Sploid Avery Ellis Mar 29

Watching how they make crayons is brain-ticklingly satisfying

This. Is. Oh god. Let’s all pop an Ambien and watch Mr. Rogers explain how the Crayola factory line works, friends: Or,if you are like Mr. Rogers, some acid will work too. This is SPLOID, a blog of delicious brain candy. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Jesus Diaz Nov 12

Connectable Crayons Make It Easy To Draw a Perfect Rainbow

Kids have enough of a challenge trying to keep their coloring inside of those lines, so why not throw them a bone when it comes to something like drawing a rainbow? Not only will these tongue-and-groove crayons never roll off a desk and shatter, they actually all connect together letting young artists draw a perfect…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 12

Watching Crayons Get Made Is Even More Fun Than Using Them

We’re all kind of old. It’s okay! Happens to everyone. And while our collective childlike wonder at the world has been gradually erased by the realities of Life, there are still a few simple things that wield the power to make us go “Ooooh.” Crayons are kind of like that. Turns out, how they’re made…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Sep 4

The Cast of Adventure Time, Carved Out of Crayons

What time is it? Crayon Time! Artist HQ Tran carves fictional characters out of Crayolas, and he’s been working his way through the cast of Adventure Time. If you head over to Tran’s Wax Nostalgic blog, you can see his other crayon sculptures, including of characters from Futurama and Star Wars, and the house sigils…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 28

Watch a Red Hot Nickel Ball Destroy a Box of Crayons

Watching the Red Hot Nickel Ball destroy various materials just never gets old. So here’s a Red Hot Ball of Nickel turning a box of crayons into a rainbow of destruction. https://gizmodo.com/what-happens-when-you-drop-a-hot-ball-of-nickel-into-a-1007593662 The spectacle pretty much speaks for itself, but you have to wonder what that giant pool of wax would look like if left…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 29

This Misbehaving Robot Wants to Scribble All Over Your Walls

There’s still no robot that can successfully fake unconditional love or a child’s innocent laughter. But now, thanks to a team of German tinkerers, there is one that can emulate a child’s uninvited wall art. Vertwalker is a project by the Berlin-based creative studio Sonice Development. Using a series of custom sensors, it darts from…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 19

These Internet-Themed Crayons from the 90s Are Hilariously Dated

A long, long time ago, in a land where people had yet to even ponder words like “Reddit” and “Twitter,” a bright-eyed arts and crafts company decided to embrace this crazy thing called the information superhighway. The year was 1997, and that company was Crayola. The results are absolutely glorious. Dubbed the “Techno Brite” collection,…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Jul 22

Ponies and Pikachu are blown up in the name of art

We’ve been in love with Alan Sailer’s high-speed photographs ever since he first fired a bullet at a strawberry. When he’s not aiming ballistics at fruit, Sailer is blowing up beloved childhood toys, from Play-Dough to Pinkie Pie. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-a-bullet-shatters-a-str-5804488 Sailer sometimes fills his inanimate victims with gelatin to capture the shape of the explosion, but…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 20

Chemical crayon labels teach kids chemistry while they color

Coloring lets kids practice their motor skills and express their creativity, but could it also help them learn chemistry? These ingenious labels, designed especially for crayons, pairs waxy colors with the chemical compounds that make them. Etsy seller Que Interesante makes these labels for crayons and colored pencils. Why pick boring old cerulean from the…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 15

Pixelated Crayons Are Retroriffic In Every Way

Today’s high-resolution displays mean we don’t see pixelated images that often anymore. And let’s face it, once the colored pencil enters your life, you rarely pick up a crayon ever again. Except for nostalgia’s sake, which these pixelated crayons have in spades. For $15 you get a set of six multi-colored crayons which can be…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 9

These Crayons Can Be Used Like Lego Bricks

What is this sorcery? Lego bricks that can draw? It’s like, you know, magic. Colorful sweet magic that I want to lick. Yes, my fellow Lego nerds. These bricks aren’t official Lego products, but they work just the same as the real Lego bricks. It’s a great idea, even when they will get less useful…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 28

Crayons

A Gloriously Golden Wonder Woman Is the Shiniest Toy of the Week

Watch This Sculptor Recreate Raiders of the Lost Ark’s Creepiest Scene Using Crayons and a Hair Dryer

Leave These Crayons Found to Contain Asbestos Off Your Back-to-School Shopping List

Logitech’s $49 Crayon Is a Stubbier, Cheaper Apple Pencil

Crayola’s New Pen Writes On Any Surface Using Melted Crayons as Ink

Watch Crayons Melt Into Wonderful Blobs of Color

This Website Will Turn Your Photos Into Crayon Mosaic Masterpieces

Melting Crayons Gets Pretty Psychedelic

Vase Made of 256 Crayons Must Smell Amazing

Watching how they make crayons is brain-ticklingly satisfying

Connectable Crayons Make It Easy To Draw a Perfect Rainbow

Watching Crayons Get Made Is Even More Fun Than Using Them

The Cast of Adventure Time, Carved Out of Crayons

Watch a Red Hot Nickel Ball Destroy a Box of Crayons

This Misbehaving Robot Wants to Scribble All Over Your Walls

These Internet-Themed Crayons from the 90s Are Hilariously Dated

Ponies and Pikachu are blown up in the name of art

Chemical crayon labels teach kids chemistry while they color

Pixelated Crayons Are Retroriffic In Every Way

These Crayons Can Be Used Like Lego Bricks

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