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Your Name Lionel?
Or do you just like trains? Either way, you'll love this little polyresin train station/perpetual calendar from Lionel Trains. The Victorian station is green, white and beige and it's the "Lionelville" stop, with a steam locomotive and coal car waiting in front. Measures 5-3/4" long OA x 4" high x 3-3/8" deep, with a 3-piece month/day set of blocks that sit on the roof.
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37743 LIONEL® CALENDAR |
UFO On A Rail
Roto-fun for the desktop. The flashing flying saucer defies gravity as it runs around and upside down on the Möbius-like chrome rails, which tilt and turn atop a 5-1/2" dia black-plastic base. Rails come off for hand-held amazement, and the base has other possibilities for DIYers. You add a "C" battery.
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93451 RAIL SAUCER |
Like Sands Through An Hourglass
Exactly like that, in fact. This attractive brass-frame sand timer stands 3-1/2" tall x 1-15/16" dia with a real glass shell. The sand runs through in approx (2) minutes, give or take, but plenty close enough for an egg. Nice desk-top item, too, for people who budget their time.
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93286 SAND TIMER |
Swinging Balls
The classic swinging balls, to amuse you on slow days in the office or physics lab, and to demonstrate Newton's Third Law. Drop one of the five hanging balls, one flies out from the other end; drop two and two fly out; drop three and it's amazing. The balls are set in a 7" x 9" x 9" high wooden frame. Isaac didn't invent these mesmerizing toys, by the way. That took Simon Prebble (whom some of you may remember as the evil Martin Chedwyn on "As the World Turns") who had an energy transference inspiration in 1967. (Where else can one learn these things?)
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33739 WOOD FRAME BALLS |
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Runs Like A Top
Actually, it runs like an electromagnetic top, which is to say for a week or so, or however long the 9V battery lasts, so the manufacturer says. As we type, the one on the desk has been spinning for a touch over (5) hours and doesn't look tired. The black-plastic base is 3-1/2" dia x 1-1/4" high, with a secret compartment for the battery - so you can lie to people about the mysterious physics of spinning tops. The 1" tall top itself is silver and oil-can shaped.
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92938 TOP SECRET |
Photo Stand
Or note-holder. For when you need something to sit up and be noticed. The cube version is a 1-3/8" clear acrylic base filled with blue and clear glycerin and oil, holding a silver-colored wire with a fat paper clip at the top. Stands 4-1/4" tall OA. The globe version is the same, but with a bell-shaped base that has a little model of the planet earth suspended in the gloop.
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37969 PHOTO CLIP, CUBE |
Magnetic Geometry Made Fun
Now comes this ball of geometric possibilities, from creativity guru Roger von Oech. Perfect for anyone with a 3-dimensional mind, from a precocious child to a bored nonagenarian, including your favorite artist, mathematician, designer, engineer, or whatever. The little red ball, 3-1/4" dia, comprises (30) magnetized right golden rhombic pyramids that will fit together in endless shapes, from a rhombic triacontahedron (see the pic), to stars, wreaths, animals, sunbursts, and endless others. Comes with a 96pp booklet on geometric possibilities and creativity. Plenty of desktop noodling fun, but a lot more than just a toy.
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93333 BALL OF WHACKS |
A Heavenly Light
Here's a desk toy or a night-light that gravitates, levitates, illuminates and fascinates. The gold-colored electromagnetic device with a 15VDC adapter floats, and can gently spin, a delicately colored planet or moon between its top and base. The Galileo Gravitator is 8-5/8" dia x 11-1/2" tall OA. The (3) purple LEDs in the top are always lit, (3) more light when your sphere is in place. Float a 3-3/8" dia moon, Mars or Jupiter, or Saturn with 5-3/4" dia rings (all included), as the mood strikes you. Truly fascinating
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92503 GALILEO GRAVITATOR |
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