There is an undeniable joy found in taking part in the same activities we enjoyed as kids, but as an adult—and with a bit of an adult twist. In the latest iteration of this nostalgia-driven trend, ...

The basic idea behind Shrinky Dinks hasn’t really changed in the 38 years they’ve been around: The flexible sheets of shrinkable plastic can still be cut, colored and popped into an oven to shrink one ...

Introduced in 1973, Shrinky Dinks had kids (and crafty adults) creating artwork on flexible sheets of plastic that, when popped in the oven, would magically shrink down to approximately 1/3 their ...

The basic idea behind Shrinky Dinks hasn’t really changed in the 38 years they’ve been around: The flexible sheets of shrinkable plastic can still be cut, colored and popped into an oven to shrink one ...

Electronic circuits are not the only objects that engineers are scaling down to ever smaller sizes these days. They're also creating devices to work with fluid samples of just a few nanoliters (a ...

If you haven’t kept up with novelties from the 1970s, you might be surprised to learn that Shrinky Dinks, plastic cutouts that shrink and harden into three-dimensional trinkets when baked in an oven, ...

The development of ultra-fast, ultra-cheap manufacturing technologies has become a national priority, so much so that DARPA, the Defense Department’s premier advanced research agency, has put out the ...

Todd Barricklow has made a career re-creating established mediums to suit his aesthetic. A Penngrove artist chiefly known for his large ceramic tiles laden with iconic imagery that evince both ...

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The first time artist Heather Bauer played with Shrinky Dinks, a craft toy popular in the 1970s, she was a kid. “I loved them,” she says. “You watched them bake and it was cool.” Now, adult Heather is ...