Express Shop!
Search Our Stuff
View Cart (0)
Sign In/Up! (It's Worth It!)
Blip Blop Color
Executive toy consisting of a translucent plastic container, roughly 4" wide 6-3/4" tall x3/4" thick mounted on a swivel on a stand. The container has (1) clear and (2) colored, translucent immiscible fluids. Flip the container on the swivel and an ever changing series of blips and blops of color drift slowly down from the top to the bottom while bubbles and steams of clear rise from bottom to top. A mix of colors results as the blobs appear singly or overlap: red and blue single colors also yield purple patterns. Fascinating.
 |
89607 COLOR MOTION |
It's A Small World After All
In fact, our etched-glass, desktop globe is just 1-13/16" in diameter. It spins in a gold-plastic-and-metal stand, and while the stand isn't spectacular, the globe itself, which can be easily removed from the stand, is a very good quality. Especially at this price!
|
38016 GLASS GLOBE |
Popular Tags:
Nightingale
thingsilike
plmlist
|
Add Tag 
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?)
|
33739 WOOD FRAME BALLS |
Hula Dancer
Everyone knows A.S.&S. carries science and nature stuff. In this case, we are told the science is how she wiggles, and the nature is her faux grass skirt. A 7" maiden in a bright green grass skirt has a hidden spring at a private location. Press her on to the dashboard of your car (double sided tape included) and she will dance when you cross the railroad tracks. (Don't blame Editorial for this item, we only write up what Purchasing buys.)
|
91270 HULA DANCER |
Popular Tags:
hula
mommo
JoansPicks
|
Add Tag
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
|
92503 GALILEO GRAVITATOR |
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.
|
37969 PHOTO CLIP, CUBE | |
|
37970 PHOTO CLIP, GLOBE |
Popular Tags:
frames
photography
picture
|
Add Tag
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.
|
93286 SAND TIMER |
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.
 |
37743 LIONEL® CALENDAR |
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.
|
92938 TOP SECRET |
Shop by Popular Tags
Click a phrase to shop for products associated with that phrase (AKA "Tag"). More popular tags appear bigger. Learn more »
annswishes
Balls
birdy
BK
calendar
chopchop
Engine
get
globe
gubmentcheez
halloween
hologram
holographic
JasonX
JoansPicks
KidsTravel
levitating
LMM
lotto
magnet
MissusWizard
Nightingale
NMc
omaslist
Optical
plmlist
rail
rjw
SallyB
saucer
SchoolSupplies
signman521
smittex
tebe
thingsilike
tikiman
toys
train
want
willie
