From the future · No. 25
Tensegrity Stand
A small wooden platform that hangs in the air on chains, tense enough to hold a plant, with no post underneath it.
Oddity 
Gift for: designers, desk dwellers, gardeners
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Has everything · No. 26
Marble Night City
A wooden machine you build from 294 pieces, then crank. Ten steel marbles climb the gears and race a night-city track.
Oddity
Gift for: makers, engineers, fidgeters
Has everything · No. 27
Laser Chess
A two-player chess set in which the pieces are mirrors. You win by bouncing a laser onto the other player's king.
Oddity
Gift for: scientists, coworkers, fidgeters
Has everything · No. 28
Shashibo Puzzle Cube
A palm-sized magnetic cube that folds into more than seventy shapes. This one is the Solar finish, yellow and red and holographic.
Oddity
Gift for: fidgeters, designers, desk dwellers
Under $25 · No. 29
Color-Mixing Cube
A two-inch acrylic cube with cyan, magenta, and yellow faces. Turn it and the overlaps become red, green, and blue.
Oddity
Gift for: designers, scientists, desk dwellers
Never search for · No. 30
Tim Bird
A rubber-band ornithopter with a 15.5-inch wingspan. Wind it, toss it, and the wings flap hard enough to fly.
Oddity
Gift for: makers, scientists, partners
From the future · No. 31
MicroKits Theremin
A solderless kit for an instrument you play by moving your hands through an electric field. Breadboard, parts, batteries, and a booklet are in the box.
Oddity
Gift for: makers, scientists, fidgeters
Has everything · No. 32
Gecko Run
A marble run with flexible tracks that stick to a window, a fridge, or a door. The wall is the support.
Oddity
Gift for: makers, engineers, fidgeters
Under $25 · No. 33
Scribbling Machine
A motor, markers, a battery, and cardstock for a machine that draws by wobbling. The body is something from the recycling bin.
Oddity
Gift for: makers, designers, partners
Never search for · No. 34
Science Tarot
A 78-card tarot deck whose pictures are scientists, discoveries, and the odd habits of the physical world.
Oddity
Gift for: readers, scientists, writers
Has everything · No. 35
Speks Geode
Twelve reversible triangles with rotating magnets, transparent on one side and pink-orange on the other. They click into a pyramid, a star, or something less obedient.
Oddity
Gift for: fidgeters, designers, desk dwellers
Never search for · No. 36
Spinballs
Two soft lighted poi, with a flame look, a fade, and a strobe among the modes, for learning to spin light in circles.
Oddity
Gift for: fidgeters, partners, travelers