Long Before Legos, Wood Was Nice and Did Suffice
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The designer Tucker Viemeister is still very attached to a well-worn set of wooden blocks he has had since childhood.
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By Mike Dougherty, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun. 22--thingsthatwere.blogspot.com   I love old stuff, and this blog has scads of pix of old stuff that once was. Some of it is still around. Lots of it isn't or is in a serious state of disrepair. Pretty cool stuff. Check it out.
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The woodworker overcomes margin concerns and builds impressive profits.
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The Mayan tribes of South America would chew chicle, a natural form of rubber. Ancient Greeks used the resin of a mastic shrub, and early American settlers gnawed on a mixture of spruce sap and beeswax.
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PITTSBURGH, June 27  /PRNewswire/ -- Any machinist will tell you that a little grease goes a long way toward making a tool work better. And that may soon hold true for plastic electronics as well.
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From Saturday&#39;s earliest light, they looked to salvage a schoolbook here, a cooking pan there, a dust-choked quilt or a shattered picture frame.
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The blueprint for a tiny, rugged mechanical computer has been inspired by ideas put forward 200 years ago.
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Buildings are getting smarter--and the next generation of building materials is expected to do even more.
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Just as kits of little plastic bricks can be used to make everything from models of the space shuttle to the statue of liberty, comets are looking more and more like one of nature's toolkits for creating life.
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By Lauren Roth, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 13--NORFOLK -- Brick Hill wasn't much of a museum guy. Until a few weeks ago, the 14-year-old freshman would rather dash home to take apart a CB radio or build a boat frame with his dad.
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A supposedly earth-friendly PC is being developed in Britain, featuring wood casing for keyboard, screen, and mouse.
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It's time to play with blocks again. Yes, it's Building Block portfolio time. We're going to see how the building blocks did in 2006.
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Once upon a time, Germany's Christkind darted from house to house with traditional wooden toys for children on Christmas Eve. This year, it will be bringing a very special gift for the grown-ups.
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READING -- The kids cleaned their rooms, put away their toys, and did their homework. Now you have to live up to your end of the bargain and take them furniture shopping.
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The blueprint for a tiny ultra rugged mechanical computer has been inspired by ideas put forward 200 years ago.
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I picked up my 6-year-old son from school last week, and we drove to Wal-Mart to see the future for paper checks. We grabbed a few of life&#39;s staples: some Legos, a pack of 3x5 cards to create
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This one's for well-moneyed executives who loved their race car-shaped beds when they were kids. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.