This is a genuine Einstein action figure! He can move his head left and right, he can calculate relative speeds in different frames of reference, and has a beige jumper, what more could you want! Its $9 from
http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/misc.html
Any more cool ideas for gifts?
Intel Play QX3 microscope
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/intelplay/
This would make an excellent present for a girl. Generally, I would discourage anyone from giving a
toy microscope to a child, since they usually produce such poor results that the child is sure to be disappointed and turn off microscopy without having really started
However, the
Intel Play QX3 microscope has been very well received and reviewed in microscopy publications, and is not expensive, so I recommend it here.
There is, of course, just as much very small space (to be examined with a microscope) as any other sort of space, and a microscope is a super way of exploring space without having to go out of the house.
Stella
a kaleidoscope is good too, especially if it's got bright mirrors and real coloured glass pieces - you can watch the patterns for hours
Stella
If you liked the Albert Einstein action figure, you'll love the Stephen Hawking Simpsons action figure! Complete with helicopter blades to carry nerds to safety from angry mobs of NTs, and boxing glove to punch out members of Mensa!
How about crystal garden sets? Those things are just awesome, at least I thought so when I was a kid. Although making crystals out of sugar gets a bit icky.
Boxed set of Serial Experiments Lain. (Enigmatic Oddity, you'll get this one ^_-)
yes wouldn't it be fun to grow some crystals.... really big blue crystals of copper sulphate - one of the loveliest shades of blue I think.
Stella
Personal global positioning system -
http://www.totalgps.com/Holux-GR-230-Blu...eiver.aspx
And it could be used here -
Announcing the 6th FREE PocketGPSWorld.com Event! - November 26th 2005
The PocketGPSWorld.com team invite you to Basingstoke.
Following on from the great success of the last GPS event at the Celtic Manor in Wales, PocketGPSWorld.com are now busily organising the biggest and most exciting meet for GPS enthusiasts and the industry at large - and thanks to the sponsors that collectively make up the cream of our industry ITS FREE!
We received some great feedback from the last event both from our users and the GPS companies. We have taken the many requests and suggestions onboard.
This time the PocketGPSWorld.com GPS Event will be taking place in Basingstoke, Hampshire, home of the Automobile Association. Why have we chosen Basingstoke? Alongside some of the major players in satellite navigation industry, the AA have generously offered to be a premium sponsor of the event, along with TomTom, Garmin and Destinator. Our Mapping sponsor is Teleatlas, who will be bringing along one of their Mobile Mapping vans so that you can see for yourselves how the map data is collected.
Boxed set of Serial Experiments Lain. (Enigmatic Oddity, you'll get this one ^_-)
And a boxed set of Evangelion. Feel the power of my AT field! (an autism reference for those who don't know)
Watermelon tourmaline is really stunning.
Stella, there were some real flea circuses, I saw a programme about them once, they were put into tiny contraptions and would crawl along. Later there were mock flea circuses that simply had little moving parts and it was a joke that fleas were moving the parts.
This is from an article I found -
"On reading the article I decided to investigate more and discovered that flea circuses have a long history originating in England in the 16th century. They had something of a golden age in the 1830's when L. Bertolotto set up his flea exhibitions in London. His exhibitions featured a flea orchestra playing flea music, fleas playing card games, fleas dancing in dresses and even fleas that could pull miniature coaches! Flea circuses later became a regular feature of carnivals and circus side shows in the U.S. and as late as the mid-1950s there was still a flea circus near Times Square in New York.
Training fleas can be very difficult, but there are a few methods that have proven successful. You can limit the height of their jump, if you put a glass ceiling above them, as they don't like to bump their heads. There are also chemicals that they don't like. These can be put on a small ball and put among a group of fleas. The fleas will push the ball away with their legs and give the illusion that they are playing football. Fleas are also very sensitive to heat and light and this can be used to manipulate the fleas to give the appearance that they are well trained performers. It's also believed that the flea orchestras of the past were in fact live fleas that were glued to their seats. The majority of fleas in the flea circus are, however, dead. They can be attached to their circus equipment and manipulated with the use of magnets. This has the added benefit that fleas, which have a very short life, then don't need to be continuously trained and replaced."
I dont know if they are any other Playmobil fans out there, but this set is really nice -
Hi anag, what is a body sock?
Hey Amy....
A body sock is a stretchy fabric w/ velco in the front. Kind of looks like a small sleeping bag, but the opening is in the front. Used a lot in OT sessions. Once you are in it, you just stretch around. It gives deep presures as you do so. Some professionals say it's like being in the womb again....I don't know about that, but what I do know it worked great for my daughter.
Thanks. I had something like that as a child which I really loved.
