Balsa wood has long been revered for its strength ... We once saw someone exploit its water retention abilities to make a rain-activated, shape-shifting prototype for roofing shingles.

By 1988, the Atomic Powder Magic was born, becoming the first widely available fat ski. At 115mm underfoot, some taper in the ...

The shapes can allow the resonances for different ... Squares with rounded edges work the best for translating the resonance. Balsa wood is mainly used for low frequencies and styrofoam for ...

Easy Halloween pumpkin carving ideas can look impressive. Get out your carving tools and use our stencils and tutorials to ...

It is actually not the first time that balsa wood has been used for violin-making, but those instruments also had innovative body shapes. Waltham, however, has stuck with the classic Stradivari ...

And then there are all the little surprises -- that P21 can levitate; that P8's sniffing sounds like a DustBuster; that their scales feel like balsa wood ... balloon in the shape of a panda ...

“It’s hard to translate shapes like owls and dogs from 2D to ... but on evenings and weekends he writes sci-fi novels and fashions balsa wood, paper clay, and acrylic paint into tiny copies ...

even Thor Heyerdahl's famed balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki. But the most striking of Oslo's nautical temples is a pointy glass-and-metal structure that rises from the waterline in the shape of an ...

The best gifts and toys for 6 year old boys are gifts that are fun, but also get kids moving and thinking, inventing and ...

And then there are all the little surprises -- that P21 can levitate; that P8's sniffing sounds like a DustBuster; that their scales feel like balsa wood ... balloon in the shape of a panda ...

Hollow each from the bottom, carving out large window-like shapes on the front of each pumpkin. Create a frame for each window using black-painted balsa wood sheets. For the ghosts, bend 12-gauge ...