People-watching, window-shopping, obsessive reading of subway ads about hair regrowth. “We do so many things to take us out of our own heads,” said Katherine Isbister, an engineering professor at the ...

Magnets aren’t magic, but sometimes you can do things with them to fool the uninitiated — like levitating. [Jonathan Lock] does that with his new maglev desk toy, that looks like at least a level 2 ...

Robert Spillner has returned once again to Kickstarter to launch a second project in the form of the second generation Cosmic Eye kinetic desk toy. The new design features a disk-shaped case that ...

Let’s be real, nobody needs a tiny motorized escalator for their desk. But now that you’ve seen it, can you really say you don’t want one of your own? The design comes our way from [AlexY], and is ...

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The days are long and the work is tiring. It’s not always possible to get away from it all in order to just relax or to switch your brain off completely. And that’s where desk gadgets come in! Whether ...