Spectrum has recently added TimberKits to our product line. These are impressive wooden models that move at the turn of a crank:
This is the drummer kit, perhaps one of the most impressive, but hardly the only model. Spectrum also carries the Dragon, the T-Rex (or TimberSaur) and Ocean Motion.
You do the model assembly yourself, […]
Frankly, you just aren’t going to have this kind of fun for just $3.99. That’s less than $1 per colorful finger light!
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A couple of popular books we sell are Gallop and the more human oriented Swing. Both of these books use a nifty technology called Scanimation to produce the appearance of motion.
Scanimation is actually a new twist on an old optics technique known as Moire Patterns, where sets of parallel lines placed over each other […]
OK, we admit it, we tried to make out own version of this: The set of 216 magnets known most popularly as BuckyBalls.
There was nothing wrong with our version, but when we go a much better offer to carry the BuckyBalls we decided to go ahead with it from now on. There were several […]
We got a lot of requests for this little item…OK its not so little. In fact it gets pretty darn HUGE. It’s the Hoberman sphere!
The Hoberman Sphere stars off as something resembling a collapsed rainbow star measuring just 9.5″ across:
But pull it out and by a scissoring action it expands and expands several times its […]
The Ooze Tube is a nifty little desktop item that acts like a liquid sandtimer. The thick liquid (probably dyed glycerin) just makes it through the hole separating the upper and lower chambers. As you watch, you can even see an air bubble form in the liquid as air tries to go from the lower […]
Swine flu is in the news: The first pandemic in ages. Swine flu afflicts the able-bodied, unlike regular Flu’s victims most are in their 20-30s. Swine flu is showing up around the US and most disease control centers are concerned.
So naturally, Giant Microbes have made a new Swine Flu Giant Microbe!
Like most Giant Microbes, this […]
Stretch it! Bounce it! Tear it! Shatter it! Discover the amazing and counter-intuitive properties of Thinking Putty in a live demonstration on Saturday, July 11th at 11:30am. Spectrum Scientifics, located at 4403 Main St, will host Philadelphia native and inventor Crazy Aaron as part of Manayunk’s ‘Second Saturday.’ He will be on hand to shatter […]
We’ve shown other folks videos of the Fun Fly Stick in action, but we finally got around to making our own version. It shows a few more tricks the Fun Fly Stick can do, such as lift hair or make a soda can roll!
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Spectrum Scientifics has recently been able to add three great new wood siege weapon models to our product line: A medieval catapult, a working wood trebuchet, and a wood siege tower!. All of these models are made of solid wood and are fully functional. They even include lumps of clay to toss!
First up is the […]
