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 completely terrible at. You might as well be tying your hands behind your back when you trade a pencil for a pair of knobs, but Jonathan Odom has found a way to turn the Etch A Sketch's weaknesses into…
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 extremely patient FlippyCat to build a giant Etch A Sketch that only works through the magic of stop motion. But it's the perfect way to represent just what a pain it is to draw anything recognizable on…
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 inaccurate description. Using two twisty knobs is just about the least intuitive way to draw there is, and while the challenge is obviously part of the toy's long-lasting appeal, these Etch-A-Sketch-themed…
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 single-line Firefly scene, with Serenity sitting in the background.
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 reason than they could (and maybe to celebrate International Arduino Day), the folks at Just Add Sharks hacked a laser cutter to be controlled by an Etch A Sketch.
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. But the squarish beauty of the line-drawing toy is put to great use in this clever little animation that tells the story of André Cassagnes, its inventor.
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 of toys (does that exist?) and almost everyone has struggled making anything more than squiggly lines with its knobs. But did you know that you can actually make an Etch A Sketch toy at home? Yeah.
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 into the third dimension. But it's always been such a solitary activity...until now.
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 world's first operational single-electron transistor, the SketchSET, which could become an essential component of all sorts of futuristic technologies; from super-dense, high-capacity solid-state drives…
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, it's surprising it's taken this long for an official Etch A Sketch HD app. Those wasted Etch A Sketch cases...
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, unsettling thing I've seen today? A whole lot of latent violence, that's how! Don't show this to your kids. [Vimeo]
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 $40. Sadly, the knobs do nothing. Even more sadly, the official Etch-A-Sketch app has iffy reviews. [GetAHeadCase.com]
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 brainiacs, toys like the Etch-a-Sketch aren't just diversions, they're launching pads for important scientific discoveries.
Splayed, Splendid
Photographer Adam Vorhees has a new hobby he'd like to share with everybody! It involves dismantling everyday objects and spreading them apart into lovely dioramas. Everyday objects like miniature Etch a Sketches, semiautomatic handguns, rotary telephones, and plasticized dead frogs.
DIY Laptop Etch-A-Sketch is Almost Worth Destroying a Hard Drive
The shake-to-erase action works because of a hidden mercury switch which detects movement and you don't really need to worry about the hard drive since this project kinda destroys your screen. [Project Lab via Make]
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 cheating.
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 case and now an Etch-a-Sketch. It's just so cute! [Etsy via iPhone Savior via Geeky Gadgets via Nerd Approved]
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 an awful lot of effort (and space—it must take up an entire garage!) for that. So help me out: What could this thing be used for? Should I be scared or excited? [MAKE via Crunchgear]
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 three dials and two-color eyeglasses—has got my heart: