Considering how many hours we spend tapping away at our computers each day, it’s perhaps no wonder we’re suckers for innovative desk toys. And we’re far from alone in feeling that way. This week, a ...

Back in the ’90s, yuppies had useless desk toys to find some amusement in their daily work lives. Today, your only down time may be when you eat some Seamless in front of your computer—if you are ...

IT'S NOT SURPRISING that the old-school desk toy Newton's Cradle became synonymous with cubicle culture. The noisy mini-sculpture—whose suspended silver spheres hypnotically transfer momentum from one ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a pair of recalls on children's items — one for an activity desk and another for a ride-on toy. The first involves Kidoozie Activity ...

To paraphrase Zoolander, fidget toys are so hot right now. Ever since Fidget Cube took Kickstarter by storm and raised a bajillion dollars (okay, $6.4 million against a stated goal of $15k) it seems ...

In 1994, Weezer famously said that “you take your car to work, I’ll take my board”. Obviously, for the office-bound, surfing is simply out of the question during the working day. That doesn’t mean you ...

Kristoph Krisjans has returned once again to Kickstarter to launch the campaign for his latest kinetic desktop toy, the Mezmocoin. This pocket-sized spinner creates a “mind-bending optical illusion of ...

Brushless motors are fascinating devices that come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but you’ve probably never seen one in the form of a free-spinning shiny metal egg. Created by [David Windestål], ...

Executive desk toys have been around since the 1960s. There is still an exhaustive market for gadgets that relieve stress and office boredom. Research suggests having personal desktop items increases ...

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 ...