• Inventables: For Your Weekend Fun

    John Biggs

    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Friday, May 6th, 2011

    I remember poring over Uncle Milton Catalogs as a wee lad but I doubt old Milt has rubber glass, oil-absorbing polymers, or conductive foam sensors in his bag of tricks. That’s where Inventables comes in. These guys are a one-stop shop for wild materials and scientific tools and I’m kind of salivating just going through the lists of items.

    For example, who doesn’t need a tension indicating bolt or a friction damping pouch? The stuff ranges from a few dollars to a few dozen dollars so you and the kids can churn through a few of these a month and have a blast learning about science and her many splendors.

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