Rowett
I am very fond of magnetic toys and I have quite a number of them in my collection. Only very occasionally, in fact only twice I think, I have come across magnetic toys which have a completely new...
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The Euler's Disc, you place it in the middle of a mirror and set it running, it goes on for some time. This extraordinary toy I came across about 10 years ago in New York and I've...
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Zero Blaster. Why Zero? Well it is going to make rings, rings of smoke. It is a large substantial plastic piece, it has got batteries in the base, it has got some special fluid in here, and when I...
One of the all-time favourite discoveries I made at the Nuremberg Toy Fair a few years ago are Hurricane Balls as we call it, which is just two ball bearings, they're half inch ball bearings...
Here's a Hyman flash tube, I think one of my favourite physics toys I've come across. It shows a wonderful demonstration of the gas law, what's called Charles' Law; as...
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A nicely made box with the word birds on it. What can it be? And sure enough there's a bird there, and a flock of birds here. So, take the lid open and let's see what we can find....
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The Gaussian Gun which I came across some ten years ago. Initially it reminded me of a Newton's Cradle with ball bearings which are going to move. But this is something quite different, there...
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This is a hypnocube, something I've never come across until very, very recently. It's got 64 LEDs, very hi-tech ones, which create an extraordinary number of colours. And all the...
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Here's the most interesting scientific curiosity that I came across originally in the 1960s, an article that Martin Gardner featured in Scientific American. It was a French model. This was...
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Here's a real oddity that I picked up at the New York Toy Fair. It's an ice-heart maker. Extraordinary idea. This is heavy block of aluminium, here's another one underneath....
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