So What's Going On Inside an Etch A Sketch?
Unless being covered in impossible-to-clean metal shavings is your idea of a good time, leave this experiment to the…
DIY Etch A Sketch Creates Tiny Zen Gardens Instead of Crappy Drawings
Using the Etch A Sketch for drawing or doodling is exactly what the toy was designed for—and it's also what it's…
A Stop-Motion Etch A Sketch Made of Dominoes Is Even Harder To Draw With
To help promote its online store that sells nothing but tiny plastic bricks, Bulk Dominoes enlisted the help of the…
Drawing On an Etch-A-Sketch Notebook Is Easier With a Pencil
As long as it's existed the Etch-A-Sketch has been sold as a drawing toy, but in reality that couldn't be a more…
You Haven't Seen Firefly Until You've Seen It On An Etch A Sketch
How much love does Firefly inspire? Enough to make cartoonist Boulet sit down with his Etch A Sketch and draw this…
An Etch A Sketch Laser Cutter Makes Your Crappy Drawings Permanent
A useful hack can be a wonderful lifesaver, but sometimes an utterly pointless hack can be just as great. For no other…
Watch This Etch A Sketch Tell the Story of Its Inventor
Drawing on an Etch A Sketch is hard. Well, it is if you want to do more than just make a horrible mess of angularity.…
How to Make Your Own DIY Etch A Sketch
It's human nature to immediately pick up and play with an Etch A Sketch whenever you see one. It's in the Hall of Fame…
Why Etch-A-Sketch Alone? Collaborate With Connect-A-Sketch
The Etch-A-Sketch has endured for years as a beloved drawing toy for children and adults alike. It's even been taken…
World's First Single-Electron Transistor Works Like a Teeny, Tiny Etch-A-Sketch
It's amazing what an electron can do. Researchers, lead by a team from the University of Pittsburgh, have built the…
Shake Those iPads Clean and Make Way For the $3 Etch A Sketch HD App
Considering the iPad is the perfect size for creating artwork your Mummy would've stuck on the fridge 20 years ago,…
This Bizarre Music Video Breathes Creepy New Life Into All Your Favorite Old Toys
How can a music video made exclusively OF shots of classic toys like Etch-a-Sketch and Play-Doh be the most strange,…
Official Etch-A-Sketch iPad Case Makes "Shake To Undo" More Obvious
Remember when the iPad first came out there were all those Etch-A-Sketch jokes? Now you can own the punchline for only…
Toys That Inspired Scientific Breakthroughs
Anyone who reads Giz with any sort of regularity knows that we don't try to hide our affinity for toys. But for some…
Splayed, Splendid
Photographer Adam Vorhees has a new hobby he'd like to share with everybody! It involves dismantling everyday objects…
DIY Laptop Etch-A-Sketch is Almost Worth Destroying a Hard Drive
I think my hard drive flinched in fear when I pulled up these instructions for turning a laptop into an Etch-A-Sketch.…
Etch-A-Sketch Freestyle Seems Like Cheating
The Etch-A-Sketch Freestyle aims to eliminate those wobbly, pixel-edged circles that occur on the original. It's…
Etch-a-Sketch iPhone Case Is Almost Too Adorable
I don't know why, but I'm such a sucker for handcrafted iPhone cases that look like other gadgets. First the Playstation…
What in the Hell Is This Thing? A Skateboard Etch-A-Sketch?
I suppose it could be used as an inexact Etch-A-Sketch, using three skateboards for linear movement, but it seems like…
I Want to Trip With this Wondrous 3D Etch-a-Sketch
I love me Wacoms as much as I love me bacons, but this Sketch3D—which you can use to draw in three dimensions using…