September 16, 2007
December 09, 2006
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins is one of my all time favorite books--in the top 5! The illustrations are intricate and inspiring...some of the most wonderful science illustration I've ever seen. It's just beautiful! The book is about Waterhouse Hawkins, a scultpor and artist who worked with paleontologists in Victorian England. Very few fossils were known at the time, and certainly not complete. With comparative anatomy, he and his collegues visualized what they thought dinosaurs may have looked like. Some of it was right, and some wrong...but the important thing was the process, and the show!
December 03, 2006
Teaposy
These are really neat! A special treat for the tea-lovers out there! The Teaposy teapot is clear, so that you can see the tea "bloom".
December 02, 2006
Genius = QTPi Baby Set
How cute is this? Math puns and baby gear! Genius = QTPi
Color Splash Camera
The Color Splash Camera looks like a lot of fun. Retro and techy, at the same time.
Pop Art Plates
These Pop Art Plates make me think "Abstract Art meets Biology". The colors are vibrant, and the patterns look wonderfully organic. Just beautiful!
Molecular & DNA Jewelry
This jewelry is based on molecular forms: DNA, Serotonin, and Dopamine
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Gift Certificates!
Gift certificates are great! Especially as gifts for kids' teachers!
Science & Tech:
Edmund Scientifics Gift Certificates
For the kitchen:
Sur La Table Gift Certificates
The Perfect Gift - A CHEFS Catalog Gift Card
Family:
Leaps & Bounds Gift Certificates
December 01, 2006
Kaleidoscope Kit
Kaleidoscopes are cool. Building your own is very cool.
Authentic Models Seeing Stars Kaleidoscope Kit kaleidoscope kit
Travel Spin Doodles
Very handy for road trips, or any other time a kid (young or old) needs something distracting. It's all inside the travel box: gears, pens, paper. Nice and compact.
Curiosity Kits Travel Spin Doodles Travel Spin Doodles
November 28, 2006
Bead Snowflakes Kit
Crystal Formation Domes
This is a really cool alternative to a snow globe. The crystals continually dissolve and reform, and you can direct their growth by positioning it upside-down, sideways, and more.
Modeling Clay and Tools
This is a great kit. It comes with all kinds of tools for working the clay, including rollers and hammers. I've used this kit with my kids and we all like it. The clay is more like modeling clay, but lasts longer than most. You could use the same tools with playdough.
Kaleidoscope Kit
We're very fond of kaleidoscopes, of all kinds, here at GalaxyGoo. With this kit, you can build your own tangible kaleidoscope. Cool!
November 26, 2006
3D Digi-Draw
3D Digi-Draw looks like a really fun toy! I've always found drawing to be a challenge, and something like this might have been helpful when I was a kid. The product description says it can be used for 3-d objects, but I wonder what it does with perspective. I might get one just to try it out myself :-)
Mechanically, it looks nice and simple, with no batteries or power requirements. Nice!
New Designs: fossils on dark shirts
We've added new designs, and long-sleeved shirts, to our CafePress shop. My favorite is the blue deinonychus fossils on brown for women, and on navy for men.
November 11, 2006
Hand Boilers
Hand Boilers are looped and twisted glass sculptures containing a colored liquid that will "boil" as heat is transferred from your bare hand. Very cool!
Window Mosaics
The cool thing about these window mosaic kits is that you're not limited to the template they give you. You can reuse the tiles over and over again, creating your own designs.
One Night in the Coral Sea
Robin Brickman steals the show with her illustrations of One Night in the Coral Sea. She creates intricate textures and forms with paper cutting, paint, and glue. Just stunning!
Tufte and Visualization
Edward Tufte is famous for his self-published books on visual communication and information design.
His titles include
Math-terpieces!
Math-terpieces, by Greg Tang, combines Art and Math in charming rhymes and puzzles. How could I not love it!? The puzzles are based around some of my favorite modern art pieces including April Showers (by Renoir) and The Starry Night (by van Gogh).
If you're looking gifts for a grade-shooler, you could get a few of Mr Tang's math-picture books. They're all fantastic!
November 01, 2006
Canon Powershot SD900 digital camera
The new Canon Powershot is at the very top of my wishlist!
PowerShot SD900 Digital Camera - New!
October 01, 2006
Plesiosaur T-shirt
Plesiosaurs aren't actually dinosaurs; they lived in the Jurassic seas. Mary Anning, discovered the first complete plesiosaur fossil in the early 1820s.
I designed this specially for my daughter, who dressed up as Mary Anning for halloween one year.
Deinonychus T-shirts
These Deinonychus fossils look like they're chasing each other around in a circle. Ah, the beauty of geometry and radial symmetry!
Stegosaurus T-shirt
Stegosaurus was one of my favorite dinosaurs, as a kid. So I had to include one in our new line of Dinosaur t-shirts.
September 26, 2006
Flash 8
We use Flash extensively at GalaxyGoo. The current version is the best yet, and a Flash 8 license allows you to download the public beta of Flash 9 Action Script 3 preview.
September 19, 2006
Ernst Haeckel - Art Forms in Nature
The scientific illustrations of Ernst Haeckel are remarkable, and works of art in themselves. When I need some inspiration, I often pull down one of these books, curl up in a comfy chair, and enjoy the work of a genius.
September 06, 2006
Lava Lamps
I love my lava lamp! I can't imagine my office without it. This updated version has a metallic sheen to them, with the original hypnotic-organic-blobby movement.
Magnetic Design Kits
Pattern Play