MAKE Magazine spent the week at the New York City Toy Fair looking for the latest DIY, science and engineering toys. While there was a lot of awful mind-numbing toys amongst the thousands of companies MAKE found some real gems: Wi-Fi VEX robots, 30 sided dice, time rental for large telescopes, wood automatons, 3D viri, triassic triops, space crystals and perhaps the most interesting "toy" that isn't a toy yet - two engineers brought their linear propulsion system in hopes of finding an application for it, all this and more here.
