The eccentric engineer

WITH THE ever-circling year, comes round the time for wondering what on earth to put in the children???s Christmas stockings. Generally I like to give them things with a use or which demonstrate something fun. They get puzzle locks, nitinol wires, polymorph, pseudoscopes, microscope slides, anatomical models ??? let???s face it, I buy things that I???m going to enjoy playing with too. But if it wasn???t for adults secretly buying their children what they want, we wouldn???t have one of the great toys of the modern era.