We won't say magic, what with Science being our middle name, but these cut-resistant, composite-yarn technology gloves are pretty mystifying. In cobalt blue or bright white, our each is either a pair or single glove (see description above), and since you only wear one on your non-slicing hand it's a great deal.  Lengths are from wrist to middle fingertip. They're not puncture-proof, of course, so no stabbing please, but Barb, our Director of Accounting & High-Speed Fish Gutting, was unable to slice into them. Made in the USA by Best®.

Twist the barrel of this green laser pointer and watch the diffraction lens multiply the dots and spin them in fascinating kaleidoscopic patterns. Perfect for rave parties, DIY discos, or getting kicked out of movie theaters. Guaranteed to make a cat at least schizophrenic. Measures just over 6" long and requires (2) "AAA" batteries which you will have to supply because your cat hasn't learned how to drive yet. 

This little 5/8" dia, 5X acrylic lens is mounted in a 4-1/4" long acrylic base/handle. Good for really close work. Comes in a little storage pouch, too.

It's easy. All you do is close your eyes and order one of our Easy Magic Sets conveniently marked #1, #2 or #3. Set #1 has the cups and balls trick, plus three coin tricks and a set of computer-age cards to tell someone's age; set #2 has a disappearing ball, escaping coin, ring and rope trick, and fortune cards. For ages 6+.

Pistol-grip spotlight from iZoom® has an ultra-bright 3W LED rated at 120 lumen, which basically turns night into day in your immediate area. Comes with AA batteries! Three of 'em, and they should last for a continuous (4) hours. Includes high/low/flash modes and is marked weatherproof. Measures 6-1/2" x 3-3/8" dia with a 4-3/8" long handle.

Welcome to AS&SDOT, the better department of transportation. We provide all the highway, driveway, hallway, deck or bathroom crossing signs that the government neglects to post because they don't know what's really crossing your path. Mount your very own well-made indoor/outdoor critter-crossing sign. Each is metal, 12" square with a graphic depiction of the critter(s), realistic or otherwise, and each hangs diagonally from a pre-drilled 1/4" hole.

Yes, we have your childhood right here. Call us Shrinky Dinks® Central, where we have DIY Shrinky Dinks® material to the rafters. You pick: the Crystal Clear Creative pack has (10) 8” x 10” clear sheets that you cut and color to your heart’s content or the Ink Jet Dinky pack has (6) 8-1/2” x 11” sheets ready for you to print any image you like, which means yes, you can shrink the kids!

A whole bunch of science and scientific learning happens outside of the school lab. These 144-page books by Liz Lee Heinecke have a year’s worth (that’d be 52) of experiments. You pick: Outdoor Science Lab for Kids with (52) experiments in (12) units covering biology, gardening, botany, physics, earth science and chemistry, all with common household items; or Kitchen Science Labs for Kids, with experiments in biology, physics and chemistry using the ever-popular common household materials.

"Gardening Lab For Kids" is a 136-page, year-long lesson plan to teach kids how to make a garden, and garden accessories, and to plant, grow and harvest. From the Cleveland Botanical Garden, it has (52) experiments organized in (6) units, including beginning gardening, theme and green gardening, garden art and personalized gardens. If you’ve got a plot, you’ve got a classroom.

The digital boonies call for a digital boonie hat. Ours is cotton with adjustable chin straps and a headband divided into a dozen sections so you can clip stuff onto it.  New, from Mil-Spec™. We’ll pick one in a size from 7 to 7-3/4.

Time was, you could easily hold a phone on your shoulder and have both hands free to make notes and hold your drink. Those days are back with this handset that mimics the Bell System's model 500, in use 1950 to 1984 and designed by the venerable Henry Dreyfuss. Stick the standard 1/8" mini-plug into your cell phone, tablet or PC and you're a mad man on the phone. Includes answer button, volume control and a coiled cord longer than you need. Now just choose a retro color that suits you!

This bright headlamp has a 45-lumen LED (which is bright!), and comes with an elastic strap to put it on your noggin when you’re biking, spelunking, mining coal or fixing that leaky pipe under the sink. Measures 3” x 2-1/2” x 2-1/4” with a pivoting mount. In orange and black plastic, and you add (3) “AAA” batteries.

And you need to know how to stay alive on them. We recommend that you choose one of these books to help with that: the U.S. Army 1976 training circular Military Mountaineering, a 139-page paperback guide to survival and combat on glaciers, mountains and alpine paths; or the Department of the Army Map Reading and Land Navigation, a 113-page field manual originally published in 1993.

The Smithsonian knows dinosaurs, and now we’ve got dinosaur puzzles from them. Our 100-piece, 8” x 10” puzzles feature various images of the prehistoric beasts, including a dilophosaurus, stegosaurus, rebbachisaurus, mamenchisaurus and diabloceratops, or multiple dinos. We’ll pick (1) for you, because all dinosaurs are awesome. For ages 6+.

you’d hammer in tent pegs, all over this land. That’s what this bright yellow plastic mallet was made for, and it has those notches in the handle to help pull out recalcitrant pegs when the camping’s done. Measures 12-1/2" long with a 1-7/8" dia x 3-5/16" head, and at a mere 1/3-pound, it’s perfect for camping.

Our cutest-ever ratchet set. Includes a 5-5/8" long driver with a 1/4” square lug on one side to drive the (6) included 5, 6, 8,10, 11 & 13mm sockets; and a 1/4” hex port on the reverse to drive the (10) flathead, Torx and Philips bits. Box says it’s an “assorted tools life assistant” and a “good family helper,” and where can you get that for under six bucks?

Thick (.030”) black plastic (polyethylene) hi-tack tape by Polyken™ for wrapping pipes. 2” wide on a 50-foot roll. This is some serious tape and is good for in-ground or above-ground use, it’s chemical and electrolytic corrosion resistant, impervious to oxygen and moisture, with butyl rubber adhesive backing.

BOOM! is a terrific, if mis-titled, science book with 50 science experiments to try at home with the kiddies. No explosions, but plenty of great stuff, many involving food, including measuring the speed of light with margarine, finding the iron in breakfast cereals and making fizzy candy. Lots of other basic chemistry, optics and magnetism, among other things, along with excellent explanations. Total of 144 pages of heuristic fun.