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New for 2010!This beautiful little wooden trick box is 47 x 47 x 47mm. One face has a little inlaid design. The challenge is to open the box!The Japanese are probably the masters at making these intricate wooden trick boxes, which are always a pleasure to handle and to operate.Opening this box is a two stage process.We provide a solution with the box, but of course don't give the solution here! Each of our Trick Boxes has a completely different mechanism that you need to solve, in order to open the box.
New for 2010!This beautiful little wooden box is 47 x 47 x 47mm. One face has a little inlaid design. The challenge is to open the box!The Japanese are probably the masters at making these intricate wooden trick boxes, which are always a pleasure to handle and to operate.This is a relatively simple box, that can be opened in 2 moves. (Some boxes take 12 or more moves to open!) Nevertheless, not many people will be able to solve it.We provide a solution with the box, but of course don't give the solution here! Each of our Trick Boxes has a completely different mechanism that you need to solve, in order to open the box.
New for 2010!This beautiful little wooden box is 42 x 42 x 60mm. One face has a little inlaid design. The challenge is to open the box!The Japanese are probably the masters at making these intricate wooden trick boxes, which are always a pleasure to handle and to operate. They are quite small, so are easy to carry around in your pocket. When you meet up with friends and colleagues, you can pull out the trick box and challenge them to open it!There are 4 moves needed to open this box.We provide a solution with the box, but of course don't give the solution here! Each of our Trick Boxes has a completely different mechanism that you need to solve, in order to open the box.
This kit allows you to build your own Artificial Horizon. It is designed to be used together the Sextant Kit. If you use the Sextant by itself, then you need to be able to see the horizon. However with the Artificial Horizon Kit, which attaches to the Sextant, you can take accurate readings using the Sextant even when the true horizon is difficult to see.
Invented in China, possibly two and a half thousand years ago, the strange device known variously as a 'Chinese Fish Basin' or 'Spouting Bowl' is a heavy copper/bronze vessel, with two carrying handles welded on the top rim.When filled with water and placed on a wet towel or on grass, the bowl can be made to perform by rhythmically rubbing the two handles with wetted palms of the hand. A deep resonant note grows from the hand action on the handles, and then an extraordinary thing happens.At four points around the rim, the water surface begins to ripple, first lightly, then vigorously. Soon water drops shoot up from these areas of disturbance, quickly becoming continuous streams, like tiny fountain jets. The mixture of water droplets and jets grows and diminishes with each rub of the handle. At a maximum, the spouts are supposed to reach 3 feet above the water surface. As beginners, we can only manage a foot or so! The bowls are normally cast with a design of four fish inside, tails towards the centre of the bowl, mouths pointing towards the rim. Somehow the bowl is cast so that the four spouts emanate from the mouths of the fish.The vibrations set up in the bowl by rubbing the handles are believed to generate the precise frequencies needed to produce standing waves - the spouts of water rise from these waves.The same effect can be achieved by placing the full bowl on a grass lawn, sitting down beside it on a chair, and rubbing the handles with bare feet.Five sizes of Singing Fountain Bowl are made by one foundry in China - from 7 inches in diameter to nearly 2 feet in diameter. Current literature from the foundry claims that frequent play with their bowls will 'improve your health, prolong your life, stimulate circulation of the blood and cause the muscles and joints in your body to relax'. We cannot comment on the health giving properties of the bowl. However they are fun to play with, and that is probably good for you!We have found that the larger bowls perform better, so we have decided to stock the Fish Basin (39cm across) which is the biggest but one. The bowl is too heavy to be sent by Air Mail, as it is over 2kg, so it will be sent by courier.Video coming soon.
This puzzle consists of eight pieces, and the challenge is all about creating squares! You can create a square using just a single piece (this solution is trivial, since that piece is itself a square!), however you can create a square using 2 pieces, or using 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8. This is quite a large puzzle, and if you create the square using all eight pieces, the sides of the square will be 170mm. The puzzle is created from 3mm acrylic sheet, and all the pieces are blue, as shown in the picture. The puzzles comes with the solution!Thanks to Bernard Gisin, who sent us the design for this puzzle. Due to the large size of the puzzle, this will sell for GBP8.99. However as a special introductory offer, you can buy the puzzle for the low price of GBP6.99. However the price will go up to GBP8.99 soon!People who bought this item also bought:
