Pop Culture Nod of the Week

Meccano's Meccanoids brings the "mechanics made easy" philosophy of the construction toy and applies it to customizable personal robots.

Spirography gets an upgrade with the Spirograph Die-Cast Collector's Set from Kahootz Toys.

Elite Innovations of Australia ushers in a new era of cuesports with their wifi-enabled glass pool tables.

Tiny Arcade from TinyCircuits provides DIYers and video-game enthusiasts with the chance to build their own working miniature arcade cabinet.

Kinetic Sand from Spin Master provides a new twist to the children’s summer pastime of playing in the sand.

For those who do their best thinking while distracted, ThinkGeek offers a Tetris-shaped desk lamp capable of providing the necessary diversion for whatever task is at hand.

Solving crimes since 1930, fictional super sleuth Nancy Drew has been turned into a 1000-piece puzzle by Canada-based Cobble Hill Puzzle Company.

Fans of Doctor Who will rejoice at the hand-crafted items created by Jessica Miller in her North Carolina studio.

Constellation blocks from ThinkGeek are a classic take on the venerable construction toy with a celestial twist.

If you could make an electronic origami creation, what would you create? With Papertonics, Sparkle Labs has reinterpreted origami into lunar landers with personality.