Gadgets & Gizmos is a special issue of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts. While it is not a part of the regular subscription, it is available from your favorite retailer or from Fox Chapel Publishing, www.foxchapelpublishing.com, 1-800-457-9112.
Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets Download (1993 Educational Game) The object of this game is to defeat Morty Maxwell, the Master of Mischief by beating him in fifteen races. 5 of them in Automobiles, 5 in Alternate Energy vehicles, and 5 in Airplanes. Players have some leeway during the first races, but as the number of races they win climbs. Gizmos & Gadgets. 519 likes 2 talking about this. Freeport hottest election store! Unusual Gadgets and Odd Gizmos This Combination Bottle Lock Lets You Secure Wine and Liquor Bottles With a Password Picture this, you have a bottle of vintage red wine that you treasure the most, and your friends or family are the sticky fingers type.
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Toys
Multigenerational Woodworking
By Abigail Brubaker
After learning woodworking from his father, Bob Gilsdorf shares the fun with kids everywhere. Click here to read more about Bob.
Gator Snap
By Bob Gilsdorf
Watch your fingers! This bean bag toss game is ready to bite! Click here to see this gator’s jaws snap shut.
Toulouse the Talkative Toucan
By David Wakefield
Follow the nose–this active push toy is fun wherever it goes. Click here to see him talk as he walks.
Wooden Ratchet Noisemaker
By Eric Hart
Raise the roof with this super-loud but super-simple toy. Click here to get a preview of how loud it can be.
Rapid-Fire Rubber Band Gun
By Mark Stevenson
Clever mechanism lets you shoot as many rubber bands as you can load. Click here to watch the rubber bands fly AND see how to reload the gun.
Making a Labyrinth Game
By Troy Hawkins
Make a game of skill for as little as $1.50. Click here and watch the balls roll.
Gizmos
Ride-able Art
By Abigail Brubaker
Jay Kinsinger’s wooden bicycles are anything but old fashioned. Read more about Jay’s work here.
Double-Slider Pillbox
By Niklas Oberfeld
Small-scale puzzle box is great for cash, mints, or even pills. Check our wood toxicity chart before you cut to make sure you’re using food-safe wood.
Two-Track Marble Racer
By Art Mulder
You’ll love making this marble racer, kids will love playing with it: win-win!
Frankenswitch Cover Plate
By Mike Ryan
Transform your home into a mad scientist’s lair with this gear-driven switch. Click here to see the Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts’s mad scientist exert control over the lights.
Easy-to-Make Electromagnetic Gear Clock
By Alfred Mifsud and Rolf Beuttenmuller
Add an electronic circuit to simplify this wooden gear clock. Click here to see the pendulum swing and gears move without a weight or spring.
Automata
Whimsical Wooden Worlds
By Abigail Brubaker
Dug North’s automata are complex machines–and yet, the opposite of today’s technology. Click here to read more about Dug and his machines.
Katz & Maus Wooden Automaton
By Christopher Blasius
A determined mouse endlessly chases a mouse in this simple project.
Cowboy Automaton
By Chris Fitch
Simple gears make this cowboy and horse come to life. Click here to see the pair race away into the sunset.
Dancing Ballerinas
By John Hutchinson
Up for a challenge? This gadget with gears and cams will keep you on your toes! Click here to see the synchronized dancers in action.
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What are Gadgets and Gizmos? Or for that matter what is a contraption - a thingamabob - a wachamacallit - jigger - widget - gimmick - device - or doodad?
Webster's unabridged defines a gadget as: n. 1. Any small mechanical contrivance or device- 2. Any small object, especially something relatively useless or superfluous- 3. In glassmaking, a spring clip.
Where it came from is unclear but according to Webster's, and A Dictionary of the Scots Language: Gage, Gadge, n.2 [e.m.E. and ME. gage, gauge, gawge (c 1450), ONF. gauge. Cf. Jadge n.] A standard of measure or quantity. (a)
Gadge and then gadget seems to have come to America through early sailors using the term for their tools.
Gizmo appears to have started in WWII, with sailors and other servicemen using the term.
An interesting sidebar - the term Gremlin also started in WWII, with the British RAF flyers - when their planes would develop problems with no known reason. the Yank flyers picked it up, and it became part of our language.Which leads to Gizmo Gremlin - a mean little movie star and cuddly plush doll. How’s that for a roundabout to talk about a doll?
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If you really want get off subject - a gadge to a gypsy is anyone who is NOT a gypsy - and modernly, a gadge in Britain is a bloke, or man, or woman. How things change - and isn’t it fun?
To get a bit scholarly - some in academia have given the name kadigans (or cadigans) to this whole class of words. Enough trivia?
First thought for this site was to follow an interest in mechanical gadgets and gizmos, but with the drive for technology in the world, one has to follow modern civilization - so we’ll discuss the new world of 'G & G' - meaning electrical and electronic items. Some gizmos apply to computers and their attachments. We’ll talk about them too.
I’ll tell you now that I am a MAC user, so there is a built-in bias against MS. But there are a lot of gadgets and gizmos in the MAC community. Not much software, but lots of gimmick stuff.
Look for pages as we develop to cover different categories as we grow, such as gadgets for:
• Gifts
• Cool new gadgets
• Electronics
• Digital
• Computers
• Kitchens
• Spys
• Infomercials
• And more
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Another great source with a long history is at Hammacher-Schlemmer.com - Unique Gifts - Guaranteed for Life at Hammacher Schlemmer for 157 years.
And - if you are one who likes the weird, the wacky, the off-beat, if you have a strong stomach, and a sense of humor, You have to go to: Gadgets at Stupid.com
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