Spectrum Scientifics now carries HexBugs! These are fit-in-the-palm-of-your-hand sized robots that do a number of tricks. Each model has different features. The inchworm for example is remote controlled by you and can skitters along under your control!
The controls are simple and easy to use, and making the little inchworm go is easy! Just watch the […]
Spectrum now carries the Bubble Thing for making some of the world’s biggest bubbles!
The Bubble Thing is actually a complete set consisting of the 22″ Bubble Thing bubble maker, and some of the specialized bubble powder you need to make such huge bubbles! You get enough bubble powder to make 2.7 gallons of super bubble […]
Spectrum Scientifics has added 3 new Giant Microbes to its line.
First up is the giant version of the Waterbear!
Next up, the Blue Amoeba
And finally, the helpful vaccine HPV!
Giant Microbes are great sellers and fun gifts for your friend the biologist, or as a gift for anyone with a sense of humor!
If you enjoyed this […]
Enjoy a nifty ‘walk-thru’ (OK, float & fly thru) the ISS. Not for the claustrophobic!
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
Now here is a versatile bit of solar education fun, its the 6-in-1 solar kit!
The kit comes with a solar panel and motorized gear box. As well has many parts to build 6 different solar powered models. You can build this propeller driven boat:
Or this nifty solar-powered car:
The popular propeller driven puppy!
Or the model we […]
Hydroponics is the science of growing plants without using soil. By using water, or an otherwise inert medium (rocks, gravel, wool), nutrients are added through water and the plant roots absorb them as if they were in soil.
Spectrum Scientifics now carries Dunecraft’s new Hydro-Dome, an educational hydroponics system that can fit on a windowsill. […]
Introducing: BrainString! From Recent Toys.
The concept of BrainString is simple: You have a clear acrylic ummmm…well it’s not a cube, so we’ll call it a polyhedron even though that probably isn’t accurate either. In any case there are various colored stretchy strings that go through the polyhedron to the opposite side. Each of the strings […]
Spectrum Scientifics has now added the Knight Double-Sided Planisphere to its astronomy line-up!
The Knight planisphere is a vast improvement over previous planispheres that were either made of laminated cardboard, or were too large, or too small to be of use. The Knight planisphere is made of plastic, and has is double sided: one side for […]
