
Spin this spindle and watch it turn in perpetuity!! Well, for a long time anyway. Inside the 5-1/2" long colored plastic spindle are magnets which are repelled by magnets in the 5" x 3" black plastic base. The variously colored spindle floats in the air above the base thus virtually free of normal friction. It also has red lights to light up its way as it spins, giving it almost a strobing effect. Nifty desk toy named "Revolution".
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91664 LIGHTED REVOLUTION |
It could have been called an Alabama Buzzer after Alabama Vest, the man who invented it. Or a Clegghorn, after Thaddeus Von Clegg, the clock master who fabricated the first one. But the hand-crafted 4-3/4" long steel instrument was a simple amusement, and the 1840s were a simple time. So it's simply a kazoo.
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92395 KAZOO |
Amaze and delight your science class! Pour this red sand into water. As you scoop it out and it breaks through the surface of the water, you can see that the sand isn't wet. The spoon is wet. Your fingers, if you used them, are wet. The sand is dry! The hydrophobic granules created with trimethylhydroxysilane are always dry. They call it Space Sand". We would, too, if we had to write trimethylhydroxysilane very often. See the back of the 2-oz pack for information about it and suggestions for experiments.
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92506 SPACE SAND |
For the kid with secret messages to pass, or the doorman at a SOHO club-a gel pen that writes in invisible ink that shows up fluorescent orange under the ultraviolet light from the LED that's attached to the top of the pen on a bendable wire. Runs on (3) button cell batteries, included. The pen is 7-3/8" long, plus the light wire, which is approx 12" when unfurled. Includes a cap and pocket clip.
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93351 BLK LIGHT GEL PEN |
You say you're a kick-butt, edgy nonconformist thumbing your nose at middle-class hypocrisy, but you've got a job interview on Tuesday? Try our "my mother won't let me be a rock star" selection of temporary tattoos to dress up your weekend. In packs of (8) to (12) assorted appliqués from scrollwork to emblems approx 1" or 2" high. Pick from the even-more-temporary than temporary henna designs from the subcontinent (and in henna color); the semi-gothic scroll patterns and cross with green circles; the Grateful Dead collection of skeletons and bears; the wizardish stars, hearts and crescent moons in red, gold and black; the black and white celtic knot group; or the tatts-a-palooza pack of (1) of each of the above.
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37957 TATT-O-RAMA | |
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37727 CELTIC TATTS | |
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37725 DEAD TATTS | |
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37722 HENNA TATTS | |
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37726 SEMI-GOTH TATTS | |
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37723 WIZARDISH TATTS |
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