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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A new method makes fabricating microfluidic devices almost as easy as child's play. Michelle Khine and her coworkers at the University of California, Merced, and UC Berkeley, use the children's toy ...

Fairfield-based toy company Alex Brands announced Wednesday that it has acquired the Shrinky Dinks line of products.Alex Brands had been licensing the brand for use in its Alex Toys product line, it ...

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 ...

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Parents probably remember the 1970s fad of cutting out plastic shapes, coloring them and shrinking the crafts in the oven. In a bid to revive the trend, Canadian-based Spin Master Toys recently ...

Engineers from Harvard used Shrinky Dinks — the children's activity sheets that shrink when heated — to make a robot that assembles itself within four minutes and walks away without any human ...