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Gift Idea: Star Trek Pizza Cutter
This officially licensed collectible is a pizza cutter shaped like the starship Enterprise. The blade has a laser etched engraving similar to call letters on the ship– “USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701.” Starfleet has made a surplus of these available for sale since the replicators on the Enterprise are able to produce pre-sliced pizzas. Geeks and Trekkies [...]
Gift Idea: Galileo’s Telescope
This telescope is based upon that used by Galileo in the 1600′s. The relatively simple design is enhanced by modern optics and materials and was designed by European industrial designer Odoardo Fioravanti. This piece is made of wood, features 3 eye pieces and is about 1 meter long. This elegant telescope would make a great [...]
Gift Idea: Bucky Balls
Bucky Balls are addictive magnetic spheres that you can shape into geometric designs and patterns. They are made of rare earths, which are minerals commonly used in cell phones and other devices. Named for a structure made up of carbon atoms, Bucky Balls come in a variety of colors and pack sizes. You can select [...]
Stegosaurus in a Bottle
Japanese artist Akinobu Izumi produces architectural models as a profession. In his spare time, he crafts ridiculously small models and places them in apothecary bottles. His models are detailed, stunning in their complexity given their size, and inspire the imagination. The featured model is a stegosaurus skeleton smaller than a finger nail. He also has [...]
Arctic Tale Cooling Foam
The Japanese are famous around the Internet for their insane, brilliant inventions to repair aspects of every day life that don’t appear to be broken. In this case, something is terribly broken. The earthquake this past spring crippled Japan’s energy production capability because of damaged infrastructure and ruined power plants. The result is that the [...]
Prehistoric Life
In Jurassic Park, a lunatic industrialist used bugs found in amber to resurrect the dinosaurs. That part is fiction. These pieces of amber, however, are not. Edmund’s Scientifics is selling some rare pieces of amber which contain prehistoric life forms preserved for possibly millions of years. Each unit comes with a piece of amber, a [...]
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