Cool Gift of the Day
Friday, August 19, 2005
What it is:
A futuristic blue ant farm, designed by NASA
Why we love it:
Ants. You hate to have them show up at a picnic, you'll do anything to keep them out of the kitchen and you certainly don't want them in your pants. Yes, loose in the wild, ants are nothing but an inconvenience, however, in captivity they're a whole different story. Even the boys at NASA thought ants were fascinating, which is why they took them into outer space, to study their behaviors in zero-g. Of-course, you can't take an ordinary ant farm on the shuttle, you'd just end up with sand in your spacesuit and nobody wants that. So, the geniuses (Geniusi? Geniusixes?) at NASA cooked up a special blue goo that would make ants feel right at home no matter which way you turned them. Like dehydrated ice cream and the pen that can write upside-down, this space-farm was judged interesting enough to release to the public at large. So now we have a whole new space age way to observe ants as they go about their busy concerns, digging, burrowing and making complex space tunnels. These are truly the ants of the future, living in a world that os bright, utopian, and filled with nutirtious blue slime. Turst us, to an ant, that sounds pretty good.
Who we'd give it to:
Kids, teen boys, spaceniks, ants.
Where to get it:
From
Spilsbury for a space age $24.95