AK47 Aqua Fire! There, I’ve got your attention in the first three words – awesome! It’s a battery powered, fully automatic water pistol. Dead cool – in the street- jive talking sense, and dead cool in the endless-stream-of- freezing-water-in- yo-face sense. This relatively small transparent plastic water pistol shoots four bullets of water a second from, get this, a changeable


magazine!! It’ll shoot water eight metres and if my test- drive session was anything to go by, will reduce fully grown adults who really should know better, let alone kids, to fits of water-battle-induced giggles.


Now, here is something for all you budding engineers and artists: Makedo is a connection system, a bit like a flat, skinny version of


Our resident gadget tester is none other than TV Gadget Guru and Puffin author Jason Bradbury! How cool is that?!


Lego. But, what’s clever about Makedo’s little plastic


connectors


is that they enable you to make stuff – models, toys, contraptions – out of the cardboard and paper objects you find lying around your house. That box that the groceries came in could be fastened to a smaller box and a few toilet rolls to make a really cool robot! Get it? Just a tube


full of connectors is all you’ll need to assemble that cardboard skateboard you’ve always wanted.


I’m going to end this edition’s collection of gadget goodness on a cracker –Walkie Talkie Watches! Excited? Well, if you plan on going out and about with a pal and need to keep in touch, James Bond stylee, these tiny wrist-


mounted radio communicators are the business. They have eight channels, so you’re assured of interference-free chats and they’ll last you up to ten hours on one charge. They feature a stopwatch and time- telling function and can even be voice activated for when your adventuring is so intense you can’t even use your fingers!


Great tech? Check! Awesome gadgets? Roger that! That’s another Dot.Gadget round-up in the bag. Better get back to my lab and start testing for the next edition. Over and out!


The mascots for the 2012 London Olympics, Wenlock and Mandeville, were inspired by a short story written by Michael Morpurgo.


They’re


cool – but I still think Phinn the Olympic Puffin would be a better mascot!


To find out more visit www.jasonbradbury.com or


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